Center for Teaching & Learning

Yellowdig is an alternative to Blackboard's discussion board tool. In form and substance, it works much like social media platforms, supporting text and video posts as well as allowing participants to use likes or emojis to react to posts and comments. It provides flexible ways for the class community to interact.

When people with marginalized identities experience bias in the classroom, it negatively impacts teaching and learning.

This workshop, designed for anyone in an instructional role, will provide a common understanding of microaggressions and why intervention matters

In this workshop, we discuss how teaching with the iClicker Student Response System can enhance student engagement and understanding, especially in large enrollment courses.

This workshop presents an overview of Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (TILT), an award-winning, scholarly project focused on improving students’ learning experiences. Evidence from a national study shows that when faculty implement small changes to enhance transparency to the design of even just two assignments, there are statistically significant benefits for all students and even larger gains for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color.

This hour-long workshop will provide an overview of the different components that constitute an Annual Assessment Report-AAR, to help you kickstart your report writing process for the September 30th submission. Checklist on updating E1A, E1B forms and assessment plan charts will be discussed. Last 25 mins reserved for QnA.

If you enjoy meeting with faculty colleagues for discussion and exploration of teaching ideas, you might be interested in participating in one of several faculty groups hosted by the CTL and/or WID this fall. In this short "teaser" session we'll briefly introduce our groups, focusing on...

Wondering what the Catamount Core’s new WIL2 requirement is all about?  This short session will offer a brief overview of this new curricular option focused on writing and information literacy in a disciplinary context.  We’ll spend most of our time on participants’ questions and comments.

In this workshop, we'll introduce Blackboard and its basic functions such as posting materials and using communication tools.

Wondering what the Catamount Core’s new WIL2 requirement is all about?  This short session will offer a brief overview of this new curricular option focused on writing and information literacy in a disciplinary context. 

This session will introduce you to a simple, flexible digital bulletin board, useful for working with students to brainstorm, organize, and reflect.

There are a number of bad ideas about writing that get in the way of learning (and teaching). In this workshop, we’ll talk about common misconceptions about writing; we’ll also discuss disciplinary notions of writing. 

This hour-long workshop will provide a quick walkthrough of the different steps that are involved in submitting an annual assessment report electronically. Last 30 mins reserved for QnA.

Interested in exploring community connections for a course? In this short workshop, you will earn how to begin building in community engagement to your courses, and consider options and models for deeper collaboration over time.

In this session, we take a deeper dive into creating and uploading content into Brightspace

This workshop will focus on using BioRender, an image creation tool free through the Howe Library that’s focused on the life sciences, to create your own figures for your class.  Beyond the basic how to’s, we’ll look at situations where other image tools may be more useful and there will be time for you to start working on your own image.

College classes play an important role in teaching and practicing respectful and productive discussion. In this workshop, we’ll consider the purposes of discussion before moving to the more practical: strategies for engaging students in dialogue with each other.

In this session, we take a deeper dive into the Brightspace Quiz tool.

Writers are born, not made.  Citing sources is easy. The passive voice should be avoided. Texting is killing writing.  Good writers are successful in every context. These are just some of the bad ideas about writing that get in the way of learning (and teaching). In this workshop, we’ll talk about common misconceptions about writing; we’ll also discuss disciplinary notions of writing.

In this session, we take a deeper dive into the Brightspace Assignment tool.

This workshop help you learn how to use Teams to build collaborative documents, create group channels, and run interactive polls.