Workshops and Consultations

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

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

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

Do you have any question about your course preparation? Come to this drop-in session where CITL’s instructional staff will be available to discuss and assist you with any issues related to your course design. Feel free to ask us about: the use of Brightspace and other learning tools hosting effective synchronous sessions preparing and sharing recordings ... 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

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

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 to prepare students to write them. This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow the link below ... Read more

Our students come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and remote learning poses more barriers for some students than others. In a remote environment, how do we ensure that we are teaching for ALL students?  Join this coffee-break conversation to share your ideas for how to create an equitable, accessible remote classroom that welcomes students in ... Read more

The Brightspace Quiz tool has a variety of settings to help you ensure academic integrity and provide accommodations to students with approved accommodation requests. It is important to understand how the various settings work so that you don’t inadvertently create a barrier to access a quiz.  This session will review Quiz settings and new features ... Read more

High-impact practices (HIPs) have been widely tested and shown to positively benefit student engagement, learning, and success; however, research also shows that many students do not have opportunities to engage in a host of these activities as they progress through their post-secondary education. This session will introduce several HIPs and explore ways that they can ... Read more