Center for Teaching & Learning

Join First-Year Seminar, Liberal Arts Scholars Program, and HCOL85 colleagues to discuss your questions and experiences regarding teaching first-year students and incorporating FWIL (WIL1) outcomes in your courses. This is the last meeting in a series of Thursday discussions; attend one, some, or all! In this session, we will check in to see how you are doing, answer your questions, and discuss what support would be helpful moving forward.

As a TA, you are often tasked with assessing, critiquing, and grading student work without having designed the course or developed the learning objectives. Navigating grading in a fair and thorough way can be difficult and time consuming. We’ll discuss how you can manage end of semester time constraints and share how you can approach assessment to best fit our course, instructor, and students.

This session provides an overview of ways UVM colleagues have challenged traditional grading systems in order to change classroom and power dynamics, improve student outcomes, and make grading more efficient. Join us to learn about their experiences with alternative grading methods (such as contract grading or specifications grading) and ungrading methods (strategies for eliminating grades as much as possible) and discover how these approaches can refocus time and attention for faculty and students.

This session introduces Brightspace and focuses on:
• Finding your way in the Brightspace environment
• Course settings and personal profiles
• The course navigation bar, home page, and table of contents
• A brief look at content and course tools e.g., Announcements, Calendar, Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes

In this session we’ll focus on:
• How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
• Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
• Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
• Tips for using the HTML editor
• Linking to course activities

In this session we’ll focus on:
• How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
• Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
• Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
• Tips for using the HTML editor
• Linking to course activities

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

Do you want more context about the transition to Brightspace? In this 30-minute session, we’ll talk about how your courses will be moved from Blackboard, how you can start working in Brightspace, and your options for learning how to use it. This session won’t involve hands-on work in Brightspace; it's designed for people who have questions about the process and want to know how to plan for this transition.
So, join us for this talk. We welcome your questions!

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

This session introduces Brightspace and focuses on:
• Finding your way in the Brightspace environment
• Course settings and personal profiles
• The course navigation bar, home page, and table of contents
• A brief look at content and course tools e.g., Announcements, Calendar, Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes

In this session we’ll focus on:
• How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
• Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
• Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
• Tips for using the HTML editor
• Linking to course activities

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

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 session we’ll focus on:
• How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
• Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
• Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
• Tips for using the HTML editor
• Linking to course activities

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 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

This session introduces Brightspace and focuses on:
• Finding your way in the Brightspace environment
• Course settings and personal profiles
• The course navigation bar, home page, and table of contents
• A brief look at content and course tools e.g., Announcements, Calendar, Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes

In this session we’ll focus on:
• How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
• Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
• Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
• Tips for using the HTML editor
• Linking to course activities

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