Workshops and Consultations

The Assignments tool in Brightspace provides instructors with a consistent location to collect student work. Instructors can also evaluate and return student submissions directly in Brightspace. The Assignments tool has ... Read more

This session will focus on the options available for assessing student learning using the Quizzes tool in Brightspace. Brightspace quizzes enable asking various types of questions of students, and they ... Read more

The Video Assignment tool, developed by Bongo and available in Brightspace, allows instructors to implement video-based assessments that evaluate students on speeches, presentations, and more. Apart from individual and group ... Read more

The presenters for this session are Dr. Rhonda Joy, Associate Dean, Faculty of Education; Dr. Jennifer Browne, Director, Student Life, Dr. Jeannette Byrne; Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Kinetics and ... Read more

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

Presenting each student in your course with a slightly different version of the same quiz deters academic dishonesty and thus increases the integrity of the assessment. The Quizzes tool in ... Read more

The presenters for this session are Dr. Connie Morrison, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Dr. Lauren Dwyer Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Mount Royal University Originally Literature Circles ... Read more

The presenter for this session is Dr. Andreae Callanan, Per Course Instructor, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Framework Coordinator, Office of Public Engagement Neurodivergence, neurodiversity, ... Read more

Brightspace offers a range of tools that allow instructors to monitor student activity in a course such as their engagement with the course material or participation in discussions. Other Brightspace ... Read more

The presenter for this session is Dr. Christine Helen Arnold, Interim Associate Vice-President (Academic) and Dean of Students and Associate Professor and Chair of the Adult Education/Post-Secondary Studies program in ... Read more