Workshops and Consultations

Whether you are new to teaching in Brightspace or just need a refresher, this session will walk you through the most commonly used features of the Brightspace environment. The topics ... Read more

This workshop is designed for administrative staff who support the Promotion and Tenure process within an academic unit. The workshop will highlight what you need to know about Brightspace to ... Read more

If you are an instructor curious about using Brightspace for grading student work, this webinar is for you. The Brightspace Grades tool allows instructors to keep all course grades in ... Read more

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