Workshops and Consultations

Relationships are the very basis of teaching and learning, but without face-to-face connection, how can we help build community within our courses? Join this coffee-break conversation to share your ideas ... Read more

The Assignment Tool in Brightspace provides instructors with a consistent location to collect student work. The tool has built in grading features, and can be linked to the gradebook for ... Read more

Join this coffee-break discussion to share your ideas around balancing workload while maintaining instructor presence in your course. The facilitators will share some upfront strategies to build into your course ... Read more

During this session participants will explore various active learning strategies and learn how to choose and adapt an activity for a specific learning need. Special consideration will be given to ... Read more

One of the most common communication tools used in online courses is the discussion board – but rarely are they used in an effective manner. This session will challenge participants ... Read more

This session will explore the principles of student motivation and engagement. We will discuss the social conditions and drivers that foster motivation and engagement, and offer some practical strategies to ... Read more

Rubrics are an effective and efficient way to authentically assess student learning. Articulating specific criteria by which students will be assessed helps them to prepare more thoughtful submissions that are ... Read more

This session is designed for instructors who are both new and experienced in incorporating high impact practices in their teaching. During the session, we will be joined by two faculty ... Read more

This session covers the basic do’s and don’ts for video and audio recordings for online and remote courses.  The session will explore technologies you can use to generate recordings, including ... Read more

During this session we will explore some of the pedagogical concepts behind open book assessments including: when and why they are useful; how to design effective open-book assessments; and how ... Read more