Center for Teaching & Learning

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.”

Go beyond polling as we dive into iClicker's more advanced features and learn how you can leverage them to fit your pedagogical practices! This session will go over the following topics:

AI Question Creator - Refresh your classroom questions by discipline, topic, learning taxonomy, and more with this new tool. Questions are customizable and can be downloaded as a PDF or slide deck!
Pre-Created Quizzing & Asynchronous Assignments - Upload your slide decks as a PDF and create pre-set quizzes and assignments ready to go for your synchronous and asynchronous classrooms 
iClicker Events - Run a one-time session with no account creation required! - Group Learning Learn how students can work together to answer poll questions and achieve consensus.

This session introduces neurodiversity as a framework for understanding the varied ways students think, learn, and engage. Participants will examine biological and social perspectives, reflect on their positionality, and explore the prevalence of neurodivergent experiences at UVM, including invisible identities. The session will challenge assumptions about teaching, providing a foundation for inclusive educational practices. 

In 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

In this 5-session book group, we’ll read “The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness” (Rhonda McGee, 2019), exploring mindfulness practices that encourage us “to pay attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way … (in order to) increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered”.  

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 

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

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.   

In this session, participants will focus on practical strategies to better support neurodivergent students. From small adjustments to larger shifts, the discussion highlights and gives examples of meaningful ways to structure a course, assignments, flexibility, and accommodations to improve learning experiences in and out of the classroom.  

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.

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.”

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.