Workshops and Consultations

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 an efficient way to return work and share student grades on their assignments. This session will walk you through the steps of setting up your assignments, ... Read more

Using the Brightspace Grades Tool, including the grade book, allows you to keep all course grades in one place and gives students the opportunity to keep track of their performance. You can link your Brightspace assessments directly to the grade book, and at the end of the course have all the grades ready to transfer ... Read more

Relationships are the very basis of teaching and learning.  Whether we teach in-person, virtually, or completely online, how can we help build community within our courses? Join this coffee-break conversation to share your ideas about how to further students’ learning by helping them connect to one another and with you. This session will be hosted ... Read more

The Brightspace Quiz tool has a variety of settings to help you ensure academic integrity and also to ensure that the quiz is accessible to students with approved accommodation requests. This session will review advanced features of the Quiz tool, highlight best practices for applying Quiz settings, and discuss considerations when using a variety of ... Read more

Regular check-ins are an important part of making connections with your students in the remote learning environment. The Survey Tool in Brightspace allows you to construct simple surveys to learn about how your students are doing while creating a supportive and encouraging learning environment. This session will introduce you to the features of the tool, ... Read more

This second session of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework series builds upon the first session, Embedding the Principles of Universal Design for learning into your Courses. It  explores UDL through the lens of inclusive and culturally responsive teaching with the goal of  helping participants identify pedagogical methods, techniques, and approaches that consider the ... 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 aligned with your expectations. As an added bonus, rubrics provide an objective and systematic method for grading work. Brightspace Rubrics offers a variety of rubric ... Read more

This is an introductory session to active learning. Participants will explore various active learning strategies and how to incorporate active learning into their course. Given the nature of the topic, participants will be ask to actively participate in the session’s learning activities.  This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event ... Read more

Description to come. This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow the link below to register. *REGISTER* You can join the session 10 minutes before the start time. It is recommended that you attend this session using one of the following internet browsers:  Chrome, Microsoft Edge (Chromium) or Firefox.

POSTPONED until further notice 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 to promote higher order thinking; how to prepare students to write these assessments and set student expectations; as well as how to prepare ... Read more