Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor
Microsoft TeamsThis comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. The session provides a detailed demonstration of both applications, including enhancements that make Respondus Monitor even more effective and easy to use.
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.
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
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
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
Microsoft TeamsThis 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.”
UDL Webinar – Learning In Action: Navigating and Responding
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomJoin us in the viewing of a webinar hosted by Robert LeGary and Diana LaRocco as they explore the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guideline, Physical Action. Providing options for physical action isn't simply about technological wizardry; it's about human-centered design. We consider the needs of learners first and then engineer the environment to support them. This might involve incorporating assistive technologies, offering different seating arrangements, providing manipulatives for hands-on learning, or encouraging movement breaks during lessons. To help students navigate and respond within a learning experience, it is essential to continuously reflect on curricular goals, assessments, learning methods, materials, and the environment. Together, we will explore the iterative process of teaching actions deliberately focused on addressing learner variability and creating an inclusive and exciting performance of knowledge.
Brightspace Quizzes (Tests)
Microsoft TeamsIn 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
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.
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
Using an Equity Lens for Responding to Multilingual Writers
Microsoft TeamsHow can we consider the needs of multilingual writers in ways that are both linguistically and culturally inclusive? How can we encourage writers to become increasingly attentive to the key learning goals in each course or department? Drawing on research on multilingual writing development, this workshop highlights effective teaching strategies for supporting multilingual students as learners and writers.
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.
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
Microsoft TeamsThis 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 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
Using an Equity Lens for Responding to Multilingual Writers
Microsoft TeamsHow can we consider the needs of multilingual writers in ways that are both linguistically and culturally inclusive? How can we encourage writers to become increasingly attentive to the key learning goals in each course or department? Drawing on research on multilingual writing development, this workshop highlights effective teaching strategies for supporting multilingual students as learners and writers.
Yellowdig: An Alternative Discussion Tool – Refresher Session
Microsoft TeamsPlease join us for a 1 hour refresher to learn more about how Yellowdig is designed to motivate your learners to increase engagement and keep them talking about your course concepts. The session will also cover how to optimize your role as an instructor in a Yellowdig community, as well as the data available to inform your teaching.
Brightspace Quizzes (Tests)
Microsoft TeamsIn 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
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
Yellowdig: An Alternative Discussion Tool – Refresher Session
Microsoft TeamsPlease join us for a 1 hour refresher to learn more about how Yellowdig is designed to motivate your learners to increase engagement and keep them talking about your course concepts. The session will also cover how to optimize your role as an instructor in a Yellowdig community, as well as the data available to inform your teaching.
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.