Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Rubrics 101 & a Blackboard Rubrics 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.
Teaching in Tumultuous Times: A Faculty Panel
RemoteThis faculty panel will focus on ways to support both our students and ourselves during times of tumult and stress about events: the upcoming election, the pandemic, racialized police violence, social justice protests, and the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, to name a few.
Student Voices Panel Discussion: Building Classroom Connection During a Pandemic
Microsoft TeamsA panel of current UVM undergraduate students will share their perspectives on learning across modalities this fall, with a particular focus on how their faculty have addressed needs for connection and inclusion.
Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Sitting Alongside Students in Uncertain Times
Join with colleagues during this week of great uncertainty and anticipated change to practice together in community and learn how contemplative practices can be incorporated into the classroom experience.
Audio Commenting: A Faster and More Engaging Way to Respond to Student Work
Microsoft TeamsJoin colleagues to learn how audio comments can increase clarity of instructor responses, reduce student stress, and improve grading and responding in remote environments. We will demonstrate creating audio comments in Blackboard and other software.
Audio Commenting: A Faster and More Engaging Way to Respond to Student Work
Microsoft TeamsJoin colleagues to learn how audio comments can increase clarity of instructor responses, reduce student stress, and improve grading and responding in remote environments. We will demonstrate creating audio comments in Blackboard and other software.
Identifying and Supporting Students of Concern
Microsoft TeamsThis important presentation will discuss current mental health and behavioral trends and challenges in today’s college student population. We will identify best practices for faculty and/or staff in identifying, supporting, and referring students with behavioral and/or mental health concerns within and outside the classroom.
iClicker Cloud/Reef
Microsoft TeamsIn this workshop, we’ll demonstrate how teaching with iClickers can enhance student engagement, especially in large enrollment courses. Faculty can use clickers to poll students and get instant feedback on whether students understand concepts presented during lecture and in pre-class readings.
Tests and Quizzes: Creating, Giving, and Grading Them in Blackboard
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.
Blackboard Grade Center
Microsoft TeamsThe end of the semester is fast approaching and if you're using the Blackboard Grade Center, this workshop will help you. The Grade Center is essentially a spreadsheet that can be customized to calculate your students' weighted grades as they proceed through the course. However, beyond being just a spreadsheet, it's connected to tools you've set up in your course for graded assignments and it has a private student-view called "My Grades."
iClicker Cloud/Reef
Microsoft TeamsIn this workshop, we’ll demonstrate how teaching with iClickers can enhance student engagement, especially in large enrollment courses. Faculty can use clickers to poll students and get instant feedback on whether students understand concepts presented during lecture and in pre-class readings.
Sharing Stories: Faculty Reflections on Teaching in Fall 2020
Join us for a storytelling session that fosters creative reflection and builds community among tellers and listeners! CTL faculty associates have been experimenting with a structured writing process to create their “teaching in Fall 2020 story.”You will have time to reflect on your own experience, using the same process. Exploring each other’s stories can inform your approach to teaching this spring and create meaningful connections with colleagues.
Writing-Intensive Courses in Online Environments
This workshop introduces instructors to principles for designing writing-intensive courses in both synchronous and asynchronous online environments. We will open with a brief presentation that previews the foundations of effective writing pedagogy in context benefits that online environments offer writing instruction importance of instructor presence in online spaces role of peer support in learning to […]
Planning During a Pandemic: Using Backward Design to Create a More Manageable Semester (for Life and Work)
Microsoft TeamsFaculty life in a pandemic is anything but normal, and the strategies and routines that served us well pre-pandemic may no longer be sustainable. This workshop creates space for us to gather and explore the ways individual choices might affect how we experience a semester shaped by systemic challenges. In this workshop, we will use the idea of backward design--a powerful outcomes-based approach to course planning--to holistically consider our spring semester. We’ll reflect on what outcomes we hope to achieve, and describe what progress towards those outcomes would look like.
Book Group: “A Field Guide To Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet” (Jan 8, 15, & 22)
Microsoft TeamsJoin colleagues and author Sarah Jaquette Ray for a three-part discussion of her book, "A Field Guide To Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet" (2020). Jaquette Ray, an environmental justice and environmental humanities scholar from Humboldt State University, draws on her "experience as a mother, professor, program leader, and certified member of the age of overwhelm" to craft strategies for cultivating resilience, based on research on emotion, social movement history, affect, and environmental philosophy. This book is written for written for both our "climate generation students" and those who teach and support them.
Continuing and Distance Education: Summer Online Boot Camp (January 11-22)
Microsoft TeamsBoot Camp, offered by CDE, is a 2-week practical training in designing, building and teaching an online asynchronous course specifically for accelerated summer format. You will learn the nuts and bolts of online course creation, tips and tricks to make Blackboard work for you, and key strategies to make your course dynamic, challenging, and engaging […]
Inclusive Teaching: A Faculty Panel of Lessons Learned
Microsoft TeamsEngage with a panel of faculty who have taken the Cornell Online Course on Inclusive Teaching Practices. They will discuss ways they implemented Inclusive Teaching practices into their courses during the pandemic. Practical ways to welcome all students into your course through the application of inclusive practices will be shared, in addition to ways to include assessment options to give all students a chance to show what they are learning.
Decolonizing Your Syllabus
Microsoft TeamsWhat stories does you syllabus tell about the discipline and subject at hand? Whose voices and perspectives are centered and whose are marginalized or absent? If you’ve found yourself wanting to address inequalities, gaps, and silences in your syllabi and courses, but don’t know where to start or don’t know where to go next, please join our workshop on decolonizing your syllabi. All faculty are welcome regardless of what stage you are at in syllabi development.
Teaching Writing-Intensive Courses Online
Microsoft TeamsJanuary 11 & 13
This two-part workshop supports instructors in selecting and implementing strategies for teaching writing online (synchronously or asynchronously) and lays the foundation for exploring what online writing instruction looks like. We'll overview strategies for learning and teaching writing, focusing on structures for communicating expectations; options for giving meaningful, sustainable feedback; and possible strategies for synchronous and asynchronous writing and peer-review activities.
Postponed: Sharing Stories: Faculty Aspirations for Teaching in Spring 2021
Microsoft TeamsJoin us for a storytelling session that fosters creative reflection and build community among tellers and listeners! CTL Faculty Associates have experimented with a structured writing process to create their “teaching in Spring 2021 story.” They will tell their stories of connecting, sharing, creativity, adapting, gratitude, and balancing, and then you will time to reflect on your own experience, using the same process.