Workshops and Consultations

This session will introduce the principles of Universal Design for learning. It is intended for instructors who are new to Universal Design and are interested in learning how to design and teach their courses in a more accessible and equitable manner. In this session, we will present the principles of Universal Design and offer practical ... Read more

Do you have questions about your course syllabus? Are you wondering how to clearly communicate course expectations, procedures, policies, and available supports to students? Join this session where CITL’s instructional staff will be available to discuss your own course syllabus, share suggestions, and troubleshoot areas of challenge. No registration is required for this event. Simply ... Read more

The Brightspace course setup kit has been designed to provide a starting point to creating a Brightspace course site. The kit includes pre-formatted pages that you can easily download, edit, and adapt to your specific course needs. This workshop will walk you through the template pages and demonstrate how to customize the various components of ... Read more

Whether you are new to Brightspace or just need a refresher, the Brightspace Basics session will walk you through the basic steps of preparing your course site for the start of the term. Topics include: Overview of CITL’s support team Logging into Brightspace and accessing your course site Adding content to a site, including the ... Read more

Knowing when and what to include when talking to your students about academic integrity can, for some, be daunting. This session will cover the pertinent university regulations; the resources available at the university for faculty, staff and students; the INTG 1000 undergraduate course; the role of information literacy and assignment design in promoting integrity; and ... Read more

Do you have questions about your course syllabus? Are you wondering how to clearly communicate course expectations, procedures, policies, and available supports to students? Join this session where CITL’s instructional staff will be available to discuss your own course syllabus, share suggestions, and troubleshoot areas of challenge. No registration is required for this event. Simply ... Read more

You don’t have to start from scratch when preparing your Brightspace course site for a new term. Brightspace has a feature that allows you to copy a complete course (less student data, of course) or just the components you want to reuse. This session will cover how to copy, update due dates, update or hide ... Read more

Whether you are new to Brightspace or just need a refresher, the Brightspace Basics session will walk you through the basic steps of preparing your course site for the start of the term. Topics include: Overview of CITL’s support team Logging into Brightspace and accessing your course site Adding content to a site, including the ... Read more

Online Rooms is a “web-conferencing” application accessible within each Brightspace course site. This tool allows instructors to schedule and host synchronous sessions with students, and the sessions can be recorded for review. Some ways to use this tool include hosting online office hours, review sessions prior to an exam, and guest speaker or student presentations. ... Read more

This session will cover scheduling and hosting a session using Webex, including how to integrate Webex into your Brightspace course site. Demonstrations of content sharing, collaboration tools such as annotation and polls, and ways to leverage the chat tool will also be provided. As this tool is being used to record both synchronous and asynchronous ... Read more