Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Brightspace Assignments
Microsoft TeamsIn this session we’ll focus on:
Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We’ll demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics), different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace’s automated feedback tool – Intelligent Agents. We’ll also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please view “Brightspace Grades.”
Neurodivergent Learners: Building a Supportive Classroom and Community
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomExplore how to create an inclusive classroom culture that recognizes the strengths of neurodiverse learners. This session focuses on understanding individual and collaborative group needs, celebrating diverse ways of thinking and contributing, and establishing a learning environment where all students feel supported and valued.
Brightspace Course Design with Equity in Mind
Microsoft TeamsThis one-hour workshop explores how faculty can use Brightspace to support an equitable learning environment. The workshop offers course design recommendations and connects Brightspace tools to these four equity-minded principles:
Fostering Student Sense of Belonging
Creating Course Structure
Supporting Student Executive Functioning
Building Relationships
Collecting Mid-term Feedback From Students
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop will discuss how to collect mid-semester student feedback and why you might want to do so. We’ll provide an overview of the process – considerations for determining the types of questions you ask, methods for collecting feedback, communicating with your students, and suggestions for reflecting on the feedback you receive.
Developing Your AI Policy
Microsoft TeamsNo matter our stance on the role of generative AI in our discipline, each of us has a responsibility to develop course and assignment AI policies that can be clearly communicated to students. Given the rapidly changing technology, it can be hard to figure out how to shape useful policies, but by thinking about where you stand and the needs of your discipline, you can begin to describe the values you want to relay. In this workshop, we’ll explore heuristics for identifying values, beliefs, and action steps around genAI that will help you a draft policy ready for discussion with your students.
Brightspace Assignments
Microsoft TeamsIn this session we’ll focus on:
Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work
Coaching Students to be Better Peer Reviewers
Microsoft Teamso Do you assign peer reviews on essay drafts and feel disappointed in the results? Peer-to-peer interaction can be a powerful motivator for student learning, but it's also a troublesome pedagogy. Students and faculty alike sometimes report that it seems like wasted time that takes away from the professor's input on priorities -- yet research says otherwise! What causes this disjunction? A lack of coaching and practice. This workshop will introduce several rationales for peer responses, provide strategies for how to prepare students to do effective reviews, and offer participants the chance to try peer review themselves.
Collecting Mid-term Feedback From Students
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop will discuss how to collect mid-semester student feedback and why you might want to do so. We’ll provide an overview of the process – considerations for determining the types of questions you ask, methods for collecting feedback, communicating with your students, and suggestions for reflecting on the feedback you receive.
Coaching Students to be Better Peer Reviewers
Microsoft Teamso Do you assign peer reviews on essay drafts and feel disappointed in the results? Peer-to-peer interaction can be a powerful motivator for student learning, but it's also a troublesome pedagogy. Students and faculty alike sometimes report that it seems like wasted time that takes away from the professor's input on priorities -- yet research says otherwise! What causes this disjunction? A lack of coaching and practice. This workshop will introduce several rationales for peer responses, provide strategies for how to prepare students to do effective reviews, and offer participants the chance to try peer review themselves.
Brightspace: Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, we’ll explore how you can use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path for your course materials in Brightspace. We’ll introduce Intelligent Agents, which can automatically send emails to students who meet course criteria you specify. Finally, we’ll share examples of how you can use Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents together to further customize learning paths and enable timely student communication.
Explore Notebook LM With Us!
302 Howe Memorial 302 Howe Memorial Libraryo Join us in-person to explore Notebook LM, a research summarizing and chat-based text generation tool that utilizes only the sources you share with it. We’ll open with a brief presentation about the interfaces, possible uses, and ethical considerations, but most of your time will be spent using the Notebook LM. Please bring your laptop so you can take time to work with the tool, stopping periodically for the group to check in about what we’re noticing and thinking. Whether you’re considering using this tool in your teaching or curious what your students may be doing with it, this exploration will help you to become more familiar with their possibilities and shortcomings.
Brightspace Course Design with Equity in Mind
Microsoft TeamsThis one-hour workshop explores how faculty can use Brightspace to support an equitable learning environment. The workshop offers course design recommendations and connects Brightspace tools to these four equity-minded principles:
Fostering Student Sense of Belonging
Creating Course Structure
Supporting Student Executive Functioning
Building Relationships
Student Panel on Neurodiversity
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomHear directly from neurodivergent students as they share their experiences, insights, and successes in higher education. This session provides valuable perspectives on practices that have supported their growth and offers opportunities for reflection and future planning.
Improve Brightspace Course Accessibility with Ally
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, you will learn how to use Ally to evaluate the accessibility of your course materials. You will also learn how to use Ally’s step-by-step instructions to improve the accessibility of course documents. Finally, you will learn about the alternate formats Ally makes available to students for all your course materials.
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We’ll demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics), different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace’s automated feedback tool – Intelligent Agents. We’ll also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please view “Brightspace Grades.”
Brightspace: Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, we’ll explore how you can use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path for your course materials in Brightspace. We’ll introduce Intelligent Agents, which can automatically send emails to students who meet course criteria you specify. Finally, we’ll share examples of how you can use Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents together to further customize learning paths and enable timely student communication.
Brightspace Assignments
Microsoft TeamsIn this session we’ll focus on:
Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work
Brightspace Quizzes (Tests)
Microsoft TeamsIn Brightspace, the Quiz tool is used for both quizzes and tests. In this session we’ll show the workflow for creating quizzes, including:
Creating questions and question types
Creating a question library
Building a Quiz
Grading a Quiz
Quiz statistics and logs
Brightspace Course Design with Equity in Mind
Microsoft TeamsThis one-hour workshop explores how faculty can use Brightspace to support an equitable learning environment. The workshop offers course design recommendations and connects Brightspace tools to these four equity-minded principles:
Fostering Student Sense of Belonging
Creating Course Structure
Supporting Student Executive Functioning
Building Relationships