Center for Teaching & Learning

Explore 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. 

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 

This 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.

No 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. 

In 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

This 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.

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.   

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 

Hear 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. 

In this course, you will apply the foundational principles of the “backward design” framework to design courses that foster student success. Courses designed with this framework communicate clearly to students what they will learn, how they will learn it, and how they will know if they’ve mastered the material. You learn how to align your course objectives, activities, and feedback to create a clear, cohesive learning experience that supports student progress toward achieving their goals.

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.”

In 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