Center for Teaching & Learning

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

Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Join us for a 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? You are welcome to stay for an additional 30 minutes after the scheduled workshop time to explore your migrated space and ask questions.

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 covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

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

Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Join us for a 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? You are welcome to stay for an additional 30 minutes after the scheduled workshop time to explore your migrated space and ask questions.

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 can be added and organized in Brightspace to best support student learning. We'll show the wide variety of content types that are supported, important settings, and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker.

In this workshop, we will begin by hearing from *you* -- outstanding STEM instructors at UVM -- on ways that you're engaging your students today. If you choose to participate in the “Teaching Slam”, you will have three minutes and one slide to share something you’ve done recently to improve your course or engage students, after which the assembled community will make a collective, thunderous SLAM noise to let you know that your voice has been heard, and your work well received. To begin the 2nd half of the workshop, Dr. Auerbach will briefly share best practices honed over the last 13 years of iCons instruction. Workshop participants will then form teams of faculty to reflect on and answer the following questions:

What is one aspect you wish to further improve in the engagement of your students?
How would you know such improved engagement will have been accomplished?
What is one new teaching approach you will try to further engage 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 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

This workshop covers the details of using the Discussion tool in Brightspace. We will demonstrate where to set up both whole class and group discussions, and how link them to your Table of Contents. We'll look at how to clean up Discussions migrated from Blackboard and cover the differences between Forums and Topics in Brightspace.

In this session we’ll focus on how content can be added and organized in Brightspace to best support student learning. We'll show the wide variety of content types that are supported, important settings, and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker.

This workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

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 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

Your fall Blackboard course has been migrated (copied) to Brightspace. So now what do you do? Join us for a 30 minute overview that describes what you can expect and will help you assess your course holistically, identify which of your migrated materials need attention, and what your next steps might be. Want to test it out? You are welcome to stay for an additional 30 minutes after the scheduled workshop time to explore your migrated space and ask questions.

In this session we’ll focus on how content can be added and organized in Brightspace to best support student learning. We'll show the wide variety of content types that are supported, important settings, and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker.