Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Demystifying Microsoft OneDrive
In this workshop we'll clarify what Microsoft OneDrive is, the benefits of using it, and the differences between it and Sharepoint or Teams. We'll give some tips about how you can use it to efficiently share files, including with students in Blackboard, and how it can free up space on your computer.
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.
Inclusive Teaching: Helping Students Reach your Course Goals
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop is designed to help participants think about how to reduce barriers to student learning by using inclusive teaching. Participants will leave the workshop with ideas that will help increase reflection, engagement, and participation from all students in a course.
Time-Saving Tips for Responding to Writing
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop explores ways you can tweak your approaches to grading and responding to written student work. With an eye to reducing your stress and workload while increasing clarity and effectiveness, we'll explore a variety of practical grading tips.
Time-Saving Tips for Responding to Writing
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop explores ways you can tweak your approaches to grading and responding to written student work. With an eye to reducing your stress and workload while increasing clarity and effectiveness, we'll explore a variety of practical grading tips.
iClickers
Microsoft TeamsIn this workshop, we discuss how teaching with iClicker (Student Response System) can enhance student engagement and understanding, especially in large enrollment courses. Faculty can now use the iClicker app to poll students and get instant feedback on whether students understand concepts presented during lecture and in pre-class readings.
How Are You Doing? – Connecting with Colleagues
Microsoft TeamsAn important constant during 20 months of pandemic turmoil has been the critical role of connecting with colleagues when navigating stress, burnout, grief, unanswerable questions, and increased workloads. We invite you to check-in with us and each other, in an informal, supportive conversation about the unique challenges of managing another pandemic semester.
How Are You Doing? – Connecting with Colleagues
Microsoft TeamsAn important constant during 20 months of pandemic turmoil has been the critical role of connecting with colleagues when navigating stress, burnout, grief, unanswerable questions, and increased workloads. We invite you to check-in with us and each other, in an informal, supportive conversation about the unique challenges of managing another pandemic semester.
Rubrics 101 with a Blackboard Tool Demo
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop explores principles for making rubrics that work and will guide participants in determining whether rubrics are the right solution to the grading or responding challenges they want to address. We will also demonstrate integrating your rubrics into the Blackboard Rubric Tool.
Grad Student Edition: How Are You Doing? – Connecting with Colleagues
Microsoft TeamsAn important constant during 20 months of pandemic turmoil has been the critical role of connecting with colleagues when navigating stress, burnout, grief, unanswerable questions, and increased workloads. We invite grad students to check-in with us and each other, in an informal, supportive conversation about the unique challenges of managing another pandemic semester. We'll attend holistically to each others’ diverse needs by sharing strategies, listening empathetically, and more.
Rubrics 101 with a Blackboard Tool Demo
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop explores principles for making rubrics that work and will guide participants in determining whether rubrics are the right solution to the grading or responding challenges they want to address. We will also demonstrate integrating your rubrics into the Blackboard Rubric Tool.
iClickers
Microsoft TeamsIn this workshop, we discuss how teaching with iClicker (Student Response System) can enhance student engagement and understanding, especially in large enrollment courses. Faculty can now use the iClicker app to poll students and get instant feedback on whether students understand concepts presented during lecture and in pre-class readings.
Responding to Final Writing Projects
Microsoft TeamsWhen students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, how can 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.
Blackboard Grade Center
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop will show you how to set up the Blackboard Grade Center to make it work for you and keep students informed about their current grades. We’ll also show you how to verify its weighted grade calculations and how to troubleshoot problems. The Grade Center is essentially a spreadsheet that can be customized to […]
Faculty Roundtable: Considering Tests and Exams
RemoteHow has the experience of moving all or most instruction online—and then back in person—affected the ways you think about testing and exams?
In this session, we’ll explore ways that online testing can play a role in in-person classes—and the ways that pandemic experiences have led some instructors to re-conceive their approaches to testing.
iClicker Student Response System: Engaging Your Students in Their Own Learning
Microsoft TeamsIn this workshop, we discuss how teaching with iClicker (Student Response System) can enhance student engagement and understanding, especially in large enrollment courses. Faculty can now use the iClicker app to poll students and get instant feedback on whether students understand concepts presented during lecture and in pre-class readings.
Making Your Syllabus Work for You and Your Students
Microsoft TeamsA well-designed syllabus is more than a way to explain your course to students. A good syllabus thoughtfully connects your assignments, activities, and assessments to course goals, thus preparing you for more effective and efficient grading through the semester. A good syllabus also supports students, a matter we will consider through a lens of inclusion and equity. During this workshop, you’ll begin editing your syllabus and will leave with a plan for final revisions that use your new ideas about how the content and language of a syllabus can serve you and your students.
Faculty Roundtable: Compassion, Structure, Flexibility: How Teaching Through a Pandemic is Changing
Microsoft TeamsJoin us for a session that fosters creative reflection and planning regarding the ways we’re adjusting our teaching in response to our experiences of living and working through a pandemic.
Yellowdig: An Alternative Discussion Tool
Microsoft TeamsYellowdig 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 and can be integrated into Blackboard.
Faculty Roundtable: Teaching the Hidden Curriculum & Promoting Student Support Resources with the Center for Academic Success
Microsoft TeamsKnowing how to “do college” is part of the “hidden curriculum.” Some students are savvy to the habits and behaviors that lead to academic success and others are not. At the classroom level, interventions to address these inequities include teaching the hidden curriculum and structuring the course to support development of these skills and habits.