Workshops and Consultations

Whether you are new to teaching in Brightspace or just need a refresher, the Brightspace Essentials 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, ... Read more

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT are changing the way instructors assign and assess writing in university classrooms. Whether you're concerned how generative AI may impact students' learning or excited by the possibility of streamlining your lesson planning, ChatGPT and similar tools will likely influence your teaching in the coming semesters. Join CITL staff ... 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

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 include: Overview of CITL’s support team Logging into Brightspace and accessing your course site Adding content to a site, including the Brightspace Course Setup Kit ... 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 one place and gives students the opportunity to keep track of their performance. In this session, we will focus on setting up your grade book ... 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 add and organize content being presented for review, as well as how to copy content from an existing site. While it is an introductory workshop, ... 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 are easy to set up, administer, and grade. Topics covered in this session include: Creating a quiz Due dates, availability dates, and other restrictions Appropriate ... Read more

The presenter for this session is Mr. Mark Picco, Instructor and Technical Communications Coordinator, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Roughly a year ago, the pedagogical landscape was transformed by widespread accessibility to generative AI tools like ChatGPT. The mere existence of such tools was polarizing: some instructors wanted to readily accept whatever AI had ... 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 a built-in annotation tool, a range of grading features (e.g., rubrics, audio/video feedback), and can be linked to the grade book for an efficient transfer ... Read more

If you are an instructor at Memorial and would like to: Know more about anything related to Brightspace Explore other educational technologies used at Memorial (Video Assignments, peerScholar etc.) Set up your grade book to allow students to track their progress Create group assignments in Brightspace Learn more about different ways of providing feedback to ... Read more

LIMITED REGISTRATION EVENT CITL is pleased to have Dr. Rob Power host of the Fall 2023 Teaching and Learning Book Study group. Dr. Power teaches in the Masters of Education (Educational Technology) program, through the collaborative partnership Memorial University has with Cape Breton University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Education. He specializes in ... 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 aligned with your expectations. As an added bonus, rubrics provide an objective and systematic method for grading work. Brightspace Rubrics tool offers a variety of ... 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 Brightspace allows instructors to configure quizzes in a way that will present each student with a different version of the same quiz. In this session, ... Read more