Center for Teaching & Learning

Research shows that cheating behavior is linked, not to individual students, but to the environment in which those students are learning. This is good news, because it means you can actually reduce cheating in your classes. The additional good news is that the ways to decrease academic dishonesty are directly linked to methods for increasing deep learning. Come find out more about how to develop classes and assignments that motivate students to learn rather than cheat.

A small, colorful, meter now appears next to your files in Blackboard... will yours be red or green? To help ensure that our Blackboard course spaces are accessible to all students, UVM has implemented a new tool, Blackboard Ally. This new feature checks files against federal guidelines and, if necessary, helps you improve the files. It also provides alternative formats of those files to your students (e.g. HTML, audio, tagged PDF, eBraille, and more) so that all your students can benefit.

In this introductory, hands-on workshop we will discuss ways screencasting can support student learning, determine what screencast features will best suit your purposes, learn the basics of Screencast-O-Matic, produce a simple screencast (including outlining, scripting, and recording), publish a screencast in Blackboard using the UVM Streaming service.

This workshop explores the practice of role play in the university classroom. The presenter, Cynthia Reyes of the Department of Education, will reflect on her own experiences of both the benefits and tensions that emerged in her class when role play was used to practice problem solving issues of social justice and equity.

In this workshop, you'll learn about Blackboard at UVM, how to navigate it, and the important basics of building and managing a course. You’ll learn how to add a variety of content types as well as different ways to communicate with students and how to take attendance.

Blackboard offers a variety of ways that students can interact with each other and submit work. In this second of three workshops, you'll learn about the following tools and how to choose the right ones for your course.

In this workshop, you'll learn the ins and out of grading in Blackboard and how the Rubric tool can make it easier. We'll look at how to grade student work submitted with the tools described in the previous workshop, how to enter grades for work done outside of Blackboard, and how to manage Blackboard's most robust feature, the Grade Center.

In this workshop, you'll learn about Blackboard at UVM, how to navigate it, and the important basics of building and managing a course. You’ll learn how to add a variety of content types as well as different ways to communicate with students and how to take attendance.

Blackboard offers a variety of ways that students can interact with each other and submit work. In this second of three workshops, you'll learn about the following tools and how to choose the right ones for your course.

In this workshop, you'll learn the ins and out of grading in Blackboard and how the Rubric tool can make it easier. We'll look at how to grade student work submitted with the tools described in the previous workshop, how to enter grades for work done outside of Blackboard, and how to manage Blackboard's most robust feature, the Grade Center.

In this workshop, we demonstrate how teaching with iClickers can enhance student engagement, especially in large enrollment courses and overs the technical aspects of using iClickers (including comparison of “iClicker Cloud” and iClicker Classic”).

A small, colorful, meter now appears next to your files in Blackboard... will yours be red or green? To help ensure that our Blackboard course spaces are accessible to all students, UVM has implemented a new tool, Blackboard Ally. This new feature checks files against federal guidelines and, if necessary, helps you improve the files. It also provides alternative formats of those files to your students (e.g. HTML, audio, tagged PDF, eBraille, and more) so that all your students can benefit.