Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Brightspace Migration Lab: Spotlight on Discussions
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop covers the details about how to check Discussions in your courses that were migrated from Blackboard. We will demonstrate where all your Discussions are found (group and whole class), how Forums function in Brightspace, and how Blackboard threads translate to Brightspace Topics. Enrollment is limited so we can better address your specific questions.
You will receive a Microsoft Teams calendar invitation the afternoon prior to your event explaining how to join and participate in the meeting. If you click “accept,” it will populate on your Teams calendar for easy access!
Journal and Blog Assignments in Brightspace
Microsoft TeamsBrightspace doesn’t have a journal or blog tool, so if you’re used to creating Blackboard assignments in those formats you’ll need to learn alternative ways to meet your instructional goals. This workshop focuses on alternative methods in Brightspace for students create journals or one-on-one communication, as well as having students create content that can be seen by some or all of their classmates. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.
Brightspace Migration: First Steps
Microsoft TeamsYour 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.
Brightspace Essentials
Microsoft TeamsThis 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
Brightspace: Course Content
Microsoft TeamsIn 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
Brightspace Migration Lab: Spotlight on Grades
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop covers the details about how to approach the Grades area in your migrated Brightspace course. We will demonstrate where to find the grade book in Brightspace and offer options for your next steps. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create your Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard. This session will help you decide what option is the best for your course. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.
Promoting Equity and Agency Through Transparency, Scaffolding, and Assignment Design
Microsoft TeamsJoin guest speaker Shawna Shapiro, author of Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom, to explore how purposeful assignment design, explicit expectations, and scaffolding of challenging assignments promote both equity and student agency in the classroom and your discipline. We will also consider how tapping into, and building on, the skill set that a diverse group of students brings to class can help them to reach even higher levels of achievement. This interactive session will leave you with practical ideas you can use to help students build confidence that they can succeed at meaningful, challenging work–and give you some big questions to ponder for the future.
Brightspace Migration Lab: Spotlight on Quizzes
Microsoft TeamsThe Brightspace tool—for what in Blackboard is called Tests—is Quizzes. This workshop covers the details about how to check how your tests and quizzes migrated into your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate where and how to check your quizzes and question pools (if you used them in Blackboard) and discuss options for connecting them to Brightspace’s Grade Tool. Enrollment is limited so we can better address your specific questions.
Brightspace Migration Lab: Spotlight on Grades
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop covers the details about how to approach the Grades area in your migrated Brightspace course. We will demonstrate where to find the grade book in Brightspace and offer options for your next steps. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create your Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard. This session will help you decide what option is the best for your course. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.
Brightspace Migration: First Steps
Microsoft TeamsYour 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.
Teaching Roundtable on Large Classes (Virtual Event)
Microsoft TeamsThis roundtable will open with snapshots of presenters’ varied large-enrollment classes, and quickly open up into a discussion about strategies for encouraging and managing students’ engagement during class, the affective needs of large class instructors, and the ways that flexibility in instructional modes affects student engagement.
TA Roundtable: Navigating Communication and Relationships with Students and Instructors
Microsoft TeamsThis session will focus on TA relationships and communication with both students and instructors. Teaching assistants often serve as an intermediary figure in between students and faculty. Whether you are working alongside a faculty member or teaching your own course and reporting to your program director, as a TA, you have to navigate communication with both parties.
Brightspace Essentials
Microsoft TeamsThis 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
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
Communicating with Students About AI/ChatGPT
Microsoft TeamsIn this session, we will explore classroom policies and syllabi statements that convey appropriate AI use and/or limits for in varying contexts, and how students might acknowledge such use. We will also discuss how our expectations about these tools connect with UVM’s Code of Academic Integrity. Participants will be provided with a range of sample policies, statements, and guiding prompts and given time to begin drafting language for their future assignments or syllabi during the workshop.
Brightspace Migration Lab: Spotlight on Discussions
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop covers the details about how to check Discussions in your courses that were migrated from Blackboard. We will demonstrate where all your Discussions are found (group and whole class), how Forums function in Brightspace, and how Blackboard threads translate to Brightspace Topics. Enrollment is limited so we can better address your specific questions.
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
Communicating with Students About AI/ChatGPT
Microsoft TeamsIn this session, we will explore classroom policies and syllabi statements that convey appropriate AI use and/or limits for in varying contexts, and how students might acknowledge such use. We will also discuss how our expectations about these tools connect with UVM’s Code of Academic Integrity. Participants will be provided with a range of sample policies, statements, and guiding prompts and given time to begin drafting language for their future assignments or syllabi during the workshop.
Brightspace Migration Lab: Spotlight on Content & Course Organization
Microsoft TeamsHow your content displays in your migrated Brightspace course depends on your Blackboard organizational choices. In this lab, we’ll show you strategies for handling some of the common organizational challenges. This session will be particularly helpful if your Blackboard course contained a multi-level folder structure, multiple Blackboard “Items” in folders, and had a complex Course Menu. Enrollment is limited so we can better your address specific questions.
Brightspace Migration: First Steps
Microsoft TeamsYour 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.