Workshops and Consultations

The Brightspace Course Setup Kit has been designed by CITL to provide a starting point to creating your course site. The kit includes a course design template and pre-formatted pages that you can easily download, edit, and adapt to your specific course needs. This workshop will walk you through the Brightspace course template that the ... 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

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

In this session, participants will explore best practices for developing a comprehensive course syllabus. Participants will review required syllabi content, methods of dissemination, and will be introduced to recommended components that provide students with enhanced communication around course expectations, procedures, policies, and available supports. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss their own course syllabi, ... Read more

This session takes a deep dive into the options available for assessing student learning using the Quiz Tool within Brightspace.  Brightspace quizzes enable you to ask a variety of questions of learners, and they are easy to set up, administer, and grade. Topics covered in this session include: Creating a quiz Due dates, availability dates, ... 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

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

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

In this session, participants will explore how to document their teaching in a teaching dossier which describes and provides evidence of an individual’s teaching philosophy, approaches, accomplishments, and effectiveness. Participants will be introduced to a suggested content and organizational framework for their teaching dossier and will receive advice on how to get started. This session ... Read more

In this session, participants will consider the integration of teamwork and other collaborative approaches into courses. Both formal, and informal collaborative strategies will be discussed, including team-based teaching, group projects, in-class group activities, peer-review, and student communities of practice. Participants will explore best practices for group composition, community standards, communication, conflict resolution, peer review and ... Read more