Center for Teaching & Learning

This 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 

During 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.

In this workshop we will help you reflect on your teaching and share current research on teaching practices such as Kuh’s High Impact Practices and Universal Design for Learning.

**This workshop is a requirement of the Graduate Teaching Program**

This 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.”

During 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.   

The end of the semester is a great time to think about how you’ve experienced your teaching this term. In this 30-minute Teams workshop, you’ll explore a few self-reflective processes. Join colleagues to consider how a few key questions can help you notice what you’ve valued this semester, how to approach reading student course evaluations, and what you might want to revisit or adapt in the future - and how doing some thinking now can help a future you return to this course with greater understanding.

This workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

This workshop covers a number of Brightspace basics for beginners, including creating announcements, adding a syllabus and a module, and setting up and grading assignments. We’ll demonstrate the useful student view account and how to make your course available to students.

During this workshop, we will discuss the value of articulating a personal teaching philosophy and important elements to include in your statement.

The end of the semester is a great time to think about how you’ve experienced your teaching this term. In this 30-minute Teams workshop, you’ll explore a few self-reflective processes. Join colleagues to consider how a few key questions can help you notice what you’ve valued this semester, how to approach reading student course evaluations, and what you might want to revisit or adapt in the future - and how doing some thinking now can help a future you return to this course with greater understanding.

Got lots of  grading to do?  Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: May 6th, May 7th, and May 9th from 12-3pm.

Got lots of  grading to do?  Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: May 6th, May 7th, and May 9th from 12-3pm.

The end of the semester is a great time to think about how you’ve experienced your teaching this term. In this 30-minute Teams workshop, you’ll explore a few self-reflective processes. Join colleagues to consider how a few key questions can help you notice what you’ve valued this semester, how to approach reading student course evaluations, and what you might want to revisit or adapt in the future - and how doing some thinking now can help a future you return to this course with greater understanding.

Got lots of  grading to do?  Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: May 6th, May 7th, and May 9th from 12-3pm.