Center for Teaching & Learning
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Extended Dr. Is In Hours
The Dr. Is In will be open between 10:30-3:30 from Monday, May 6th through Friday May 10th. Visit us at Bailey/Howe, Room 303 for help with Blackboard or other academic technologies. Read more about the Dr. Is In here.
Posted on 30 April 2013 | 11:49 am
Grade Center Tips
As we head down the last stretch of the semester, it’s a good time to recheck our Blackboard course grade centers and make sure everything’s working as it should be. Here are a couple of tips: First, make backups! This is always recommended but of special importance now when we may be making more changes [...]
Posted on 16 April 2013 | 1:43 pm
DPLA Launches Soon
We love Google books but, for research, often find its limitations frustrating. We love the many and varied digital collections that abound throughout the web but wish they could be used in a more seamlessly interconnected way. The vision of a national online library is as old (older?) than the web itself and in the [...]
Posted on 16 April 2013 | 12:48 pm
Launch of UVM Hybrid Initiative
Applications are now being accepted for the UVM Hybrid Course Initiative program! Read more about teaching hybrid coures, about the initiative, and the benefits in applying to teach one of these courses. » Make a comment
Posted on 5 March 2013 | 2:39 pm
A Wealth of Digital Images
We’ve recently had fun expanding our Media Resources page. There are new links to image collections, organized by Agriculture and Natural Resources, Art, History, Science, and General Collections. There are more video links, too. Read about copyright and fair use, and then go forth… as a kid in a candy store: www.uvm.edu/ctl/mediaresources. » Make a [...]
Posted on 1 March 2013 | 1:09 pm
UVM Multicultural Exposition: February 28th
The ALANA Coalition is proud to announce the UVM Multicultural Exposition on February 28th in Billings North Lounge from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM. The exposition will showcase faculty, staff, graduate students and our community members’ research, publications, art, and music. ALANA anticipates that a variety of UVM community members with different expertise will be [...]
Posted on 21 February 2013 | 5:15 pm
New England Early Career Faculty Focus Group and Networking Event
We just read about this networking event for early career faculty next week, on Wednesday, Feb. 20th, and wanted to pass on the word.
Posted on 15 February 2013 | 2:13 pm
Using Rubrics for Student Assessment
Did you ever hear a student say, “I wish I understood what the professor wanted with this assignment?” Have your students ever asked how you came to a specific grade? Have you felt the need to create more clarity around an assignment, both for your students and/or your TAs who handle grading? The solution may [...]
Posted on 14 February 2013 | 1:27 pm
Simplify Your Bb Course List
If your list of courses is long and overwhelming, there are solutions! You can either: re-sort the list so that your current course spaces show at the top, or hide older courses from the list (and restore them again, if desired) To learn how, see the CTL How-to page for course list management. (Note that [...]
Posted on 28 January 2013 | 3:44 pm