Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
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
SoTL Series: Using Evaluative Thinking to Design Assessments of Student Learning
Microsoft TeamsIn seeking to document student learning, we often default to pre/post tests and surveys. These survey instruments can be challenging to design, to administer, and to interpret. Moreover, they do not necessarily provide us with a window into students’ experiences and may not be ‘true’ to our discipline. An alternative strategy is to approach regular course assessments as opportunities to examine student thinking and learning in our courses. In this workshop, we will explore the potential of using an evaluation mindset to create assignments for SoTL research. This is an opportunity to consider your efforts to improve student learning in the context of research on your teaching, examining outcomes and success in student learning that aligns with your course learning objectives.
Planning a Long-term Project: A Workshop for Graduate Students
302 Howe Memorial 302 Howe Memorial LibraryFeeling overwhelmed by a project that will take months or even years to complete? This workshop will offer tips for planning long and complex tasks.
Improve Brightspace Course Accessibility with Ally
Microsoft TeamsAlly assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment and improving the overall student experience by assessing the level of accessibility of all instructor-uploaded content in Brightspace. Ally also provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to content accessibility. In addition, Ally generates alternate formats to Brightspace course documents to meet different learner needs, abilities, and preferences.
Puzzles and Podcasts: Unpacking Resilience and Grief
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomCurious about teaching, and looking for a low-key way to connect with colleagues? Join us for puzzles and podcasts! Today's podcast will be “Unpacking Resilience and Grief” an episode of Teaching in Higher Education that will focus on creating space and supports for grief and struggle among colleagues.
Rubrics 101 with Brightspace Demo
Microsoft TeamsAre your rubrics making grading more difficult than it should be? Or maybe you're not using them at all? Rubrics are often touted as a time-saving approach to grading and responding, but not every rubric delivers on that promise. This workshop explores principles for making rubrics that work. We will also demonstrate integrating your rubrics into Brightspace.
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.
Rubrics 101 with Brightspace Demo
Microsoft TeamsAre your rubrics making grading more difficult than it should be? Or maybe you’re not using them at all? Rubrics are often touted as a time-saving approach to grading and responding, but not every rubric delivers on that promise. This workshop explores principles for making rubrics that work. We will also demonstrate integrating your rubrics into Brightspace.
Teaching in Higher Education
Microsoft TeamsIn 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**
Improve Brightspace Course Accessibility with Ally
Microsoft TeamsAlly assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment and improving the overall student experience by assessing the level of accessibility of all instructor-uploaded content in Brightspace. Ally also provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to content accessibility. In addition, Ally generates alternate formats to Brightspace course documents to meet different learner needs, abilities, and preferences.
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
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.”
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
Tips & Tricks for Thesis Writing: A Workshop for Graduate Students
302 Howe Memorial 302 Howe Memorial LibraryThis workshop will cover techniques for planning, organizing, and writing a long project. It will include tips on how to put your writing software to work for you as you assemble your text.
SoTL Series: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the IRB
RemoteThis session, led by Dr. Ted Marcy, IRB Chair of the Committee on Human Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, will provide information that you can use to adequately protect the rights of students as research participants, apply for the appropriate study designation from the IRB, and obtain IRB approval in a timely manner.
Responding to Final Writing Projects
Microsoft TeamsAre you worried you're wasting precious time responding to final papers at the end of the semester? When students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, it's important that you use your responding time effectively to the benefit of both you and your students. Join colleagues to talk about adjusting your response strategies for the particular context of the semester’s end.
Turnitin: Let’s Talk About Plagiarism Checkers
Microsoft TeamsCurious about tools for detecting plagiarism? Turnitin, a “similarity-detection” program, is integrated with Brightspace and can be utilized by instructors. WID has tested Turnitin’s capacities in order to inform decisions about the tool’s use. Join us to discuss WID’s observations regarding its function and limitations, and also to explore student motivation and writing integrity.
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.
Save My Writing Assignment! Writing Assignment Revision Clinic
Microsoft TeamsDo you have an assignment you like but doesn’t quite work as well as you’d hoped? Let’s see if we can solve the problem and save your assignment together! During this assignment clinic, each participant will bring an assignment to workshop as a group using an appreciative and encouraging framework to think through what changes might help.
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
Responding to Final Writing Projects
Microsoft TeamsAre you worried you're wasting precious time responding to final papers at the end of the semester? When students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, it's important that you use your responding time effectively to the benefit of both you and your students. Join colleagues to talk about adjusting your response strategies for the particular context of the semester’s end.