Center for Teaching & Learning

In Flipgrid, instructors post discussion prompts and students respond with short videos, whether they are learning in class or at home. In this workshop, you’ll see a demonstration of Flipgrid, participate in a Flipgrid discussion, and learn how to set it up. Flipgrid is available for free as part of UVM’s Microsoft Office 365 suite.

This workshop will show the ways to use group documents in Team channels for collaborative editing, how to run polls from Teams, how to create a Teams page, as well as the use of OneNote for instructor notes and student note-taking.

This 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.

In this workshop, we'll show how to set up a test, create questions, deploy it so students can take it, view results, and grade it. After covering the basics, we'll cover how to import test questions (from a Word file or from other tests) and build randomized question sets so students get different versions of the test.

Perusall is a collaborative annotation tool that integrates with Blackboard (meaning no separate login is needed). Perusall has been shown to increase pre-class reading significantly (greater than 90% of students consistently complete readings in classes using this tool). Students—in small groups up to 20—can collectively mark up readings with threaded questions and comments.

During this live Q&A, you’ll have an opportunity to clarify questions and refine your knowledge of Screencast-O-Matic for increased confidence and independence in producing effective videos for your students. We can review any steps along the way from planning to recording to editing to sharing.

In this remote workshop, we will explore Team’s features while you experience its video conference functionality.

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 (Winkelmes et al., 2016). 

As the fall semester starts, we all return to campus changed by the pandemic. Last spring, we held a session to exhale together and make sense of how the pandemic had changed us and our teaching. We heard themes of flexibility and compassion, for students and ourselves. With classes about to start, let’s come together and inhale, entering the semester with connection, peer support, and intentional reflection. Come prepared to listen, share, reflect, and inhale with colleagues.

In this first of three short Blackboard workshops, we'll introduce its basic functions and show how to: post materials in an organized manner, modify the Course Menu, use some of the communication tools, view the course as a student, set up student small groups, and find help and resources.

The Classroom Technology Services (CTS) team is offering classroom orientation sessions in an open house format. Training will consist of operational functions of the system, using the control system, manipulating devices (both provided and personal), and using MS Teams for remote sessions. The CTS team will be available to assist with questions about classroom operations.
The CTS team will be available to assist with questions and classroom operations from 10 AM - 2 PM.

In this second of three short Blackboard workshops, we'll show how to use the Assignment Tool (for students to upload their work) and how to grade assignments. According to participants' interests, we'll look at the Blog and Journal tools, the Rubric tool, and the Discussion Board (with a brief look at its alternative, Yellowdig).

A course syllabus is an important part of students' first impression of you and your course. It outlines the semester's major work, describes course goals, your policies, and some relevant university policies...but how many syllabi end up looking like long legalistic documents that students won't read? This workshop introduces some simple principles for making syllabi student-centered.

During this live Q&A, you’ll have an opportunity to clarify questions and refine your knowledge of Screencast-O-Matic for increased confidence and independence in producing effective videos for your students. We can review any step along the way from planning to recording to editing to sharing.

In this remote workshop, we will explore Team’s features while you experience its video conference functionality.