Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Registration Closed: Teams for Teaching
Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Teams can be an engaging and community building component of your remote teaching plan. In this remote workshop, we will explore Team’s features while you experience its video conference functionality.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Assessment
Microsoft TeamsThis one hour workshop is recommended for Chairs, academic program Directors, faculty and others involved with creating assessment mechanisms for their academic program. The workshop will take the form of a panel in which assessment coordinators from a variety of units discuss successful ways of incorporating questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their assessment work.
Registration Closed – Team Time: Learn about Breakout Rooms
Microsoft TeamsBreakout rooms, created on-the-fly, are finally here for Teams meetings. In this informal Teams practice session, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about how to create breakout rooms and how the settings options will affect your students’ experiences. Each participant in the workshop will have the opportunity to “host” a meeting with breakout rooms, including practice creating manually or automatically enrolled groups, moving people from one group to another, renaming groups, sending messages to all groups, and moving between breakout rooms.
Blackboard Tests
Microsoft TeamsIn the first part of this workshop, we'll show how to: Set up a test; Create questions (and look at the types of questions available); deploy it so students can take it; view results and grade it. After covering the basics, we'll cover two more advanced processes. How to: import test questions from a Word file or from other tests and build randomized question sets so Blackboard presents different versions of exams to students.
A Win-Win: Increase Reading Rates and Student Engagement with Perusall
Microsoft TeamsPerusall, which integrates with Blackboard (meaning no separate login needed), is a free collaborative annotation tool. 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), collectively mark up readings with threaded questions and comments.
Support for Research and Scholarship: Essential Compliance Topics in Sponsored Project Administration
This session will review the top ten things every Principal Investigator should know about research compliance. Topics include a high-level overview of compliance requirements related to sponsored projects and a walk through of some scenarios related to compliance. Facilitated by Sonya Stern, Director, Sponsored Project Administration; Victoria Jones, Research Compliance Officer
Support for Research and Scholarship: Overview of the NSF CAREER Program
Have you wondered if you should be applying for an NSF CAREER award? Have you thought about it but feel overwhelmed by the process? Maybe you already applied once and were not successful, or maybe you don’t even know what an NSF-CAREER award is. Whatever your answer may be, this session will be useful to […]
CDE Event: 5 Blackboard Organization Tips to Lighten the Load and Increase Student Success
Microsoft TeamsThe CDE Blackboard course shell can help your students focus more on the content of your course and spend less time figuring out how or where to find materials. By creating a familiar structure from week to week, the course shell is designed to make your course easier to navigate. It integrates design elements such as a course introduction that helps set the stage, with module or topic introductions paving the way week by week. Regular communication from you reminds the students about the structure and alerts them to any changes. This workshop will introduce you to the course shell, and demonstrate quick, practical tips for using it that you can apply to your course right away.
Advanced Teams for Teaching
Microsoft TeamsThis 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.
Yellowdig: An Alternative Discussion Tool
Microsoft TeamsYellowDig is an alternative to Blackboard's discussion board tool. In this session, you will learn about YellowDig’s features and Blackboard integration (e.g., no additional logging in, participation data transfer to gradebook if desired). Participants will leave the workshop able to decide whether YellowDig or Blackboard best serves their course goals.
Team Time: Learn about Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms, created on-the-fly, are finally here for Teams meetings. In this informal Teams practice session, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about how to create breakout rooms and how the settings options will affect your students’ experiences. Each participant in the workshop will have the opportunity to “host” a meeting with breakout rooms, including practice creating manually or automatically enrolled groups, moving people from one group to another, renaming groups, sending messages to all groups, and moving between breakout rooms.
General Purpose Classroom Orientation
CTL Faculty Associates and ETS are offering classroom tours of selected General Purpose rooms in Lafayette where you can try the room equipment and get a sense of how to teach in the space.
General Purpose Classroom Orientation
CTL Faculty Associates and ETS are offering classroom tours of selected General Purpose rooms in Lafayette where you can try the room equipment and get a sense of how to teach in the space.
Team Time: Learn about Breakout Rooms
Microsoft TeamsBreakout rooms, created on-the-fly, are finally here for Teams meetings. In this informal Teams practice session, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about how to create breakout rooms and how the settings options will affect your students’ experiences. Each participant in the workshop will have the opportunity to “host” a meeting with breakout rooms, including practice creating manually or automatically enrolled groups, moving people from one group to another, renaming groups, sending messages to all groups, and moving between breakout rooms.
General Purpose Classroom Orientation
CTL Faculty Associates and ETS are offering classroom tours of selected General Purpose rooms in Lafayette where you can try the room equipment and get a sense of how to teach in the space.
General Purpose Classroom Orientation
CTL Faculty Associates and ETS are offering classroom tours of selected General Purpose rooms in Lafayette where you can try the room equipment and get a sense of how to teach in the space.
Preparing an Annual Assessment Report
Microsoft TeamsThis one hour workshop is recommended for Chairs, academic program Directors, faculty and others involved with planning and reporting on assessment for their academic program, and will be an effective way to jumpstart report submission. Please have assessment teams come prepared with the materials they need to draft their report during the workshop.
Team Time: Learn about Breakout Rooms
Microsoft TeamsBreakout rooms, created on-the-fly, are finally here for Teams meetings. In this informal Teams practice session, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about how to create breakout rooms and how the settings options will affect your students’ experiences. Each participant in the workshop will have the opportunity to “host” a meeting with breakout rooms, including practice creating manually or automatically enrolled groups, moving people from one group to another, renaming groups, sending messages to all groups, and moving between breakout rooms.
Team Time: Learn about Breakout Rooms
Microsoft TeamsBreakout rooms, created on-the-fly, are finally here for Teams meetings. In this informal Teams practice session, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about how to create breakout rooms and how the settings options will affect your students’ experiences. Each participant in the workshop will have the opportunity to “host” a meeting with breakout rooms, including practice creating manually or automatically enrolled groups, moving people from one group to another, renaming groups, sending messages to all groups, and moving between breakout rooms.
Teams Troubleshooting – Registration closed.
RemoteAre you using Teams to meet with your class? If so, you're invited to join us for this troubleshooting session. Bring your questions or problems related to teaching with Teams, and staff from ETS and the CTL will be there to discuss them and help you find solutions.