Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Brightspace: Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, we’ll explore how you can use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path for your course materials. We’ll introduce Intelligent Agents, which can automatically send emails to students who meet course criteria you specify. Finally, we’ll share examples of how you can use Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents together to further customize learning paths and enable timely student communication.
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Brightspace: Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, we’ll explore how you can use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path for your course materials. We’ll introduce Intelligent Agents, which can automatically send emails to students who meet course criteria you specify. Finally, we’ll share examples of how you can use Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents together to further customize learning paths and enable timely student communication.
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We’ll demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics), different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace's automated feedback tool - Intelligent Agents. We'll also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please register for "Brightspace Grades."
Grading with Rubrics in Brightspace
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, we’ll explore how to create and grade with rubrics in Brightspace while keeping fundamental design principles in mind.
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Grading with Rubrics in Brightspace
During this workshop, we’ll explore how to create and grade with rubrics in Brightspace while keeping fundamental design principles in mind.
Supporting Neurodiverse Students: “When Professors Are Helpful, It Really Helps” (Hybrid)
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomAutism Goes to College is a podcast series featuring the voices of neurodiverse students, sharing insights about how they experience college. We will be listening to episode 9, “When Professors are Helpful, It Really Helps.” It's about how one student’s visits to office hours helped both her and her professor figure out strategies to address her initial struggles in a research and methods class. Cal State Fullerton student, Caroline, and childhood and adolescent development professor, JudelMay Enriquez, discuss their experience and ways that instructors can reach out to students on the spectrum.
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. Our conversation will help you to fine-tune your approach to feedback and commenting so that you get the results you want. We will demonstrate creating audio comments in Brightspace and other software.
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We’ll demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics), different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace's automated feedback tool - Intelligent Agents. We'll also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please register for "Brightspace Grades."
Brightspace Showcase
Microsoft TeamsCTL's Brightspace Showcase will be a forum for several UVM faculty to share their diverse approaches for organizing their course sites. They’ll present their courses and talk about how they achieved specific pedagogical goals. Join us for this remote show-and-tell followed by a discussion.
Inclusive Teaching Book Discussion
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomJoin us for a discussion of the book Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (Sathy and Hogan, 2022). This book group builds on Sathy and Hogan's visit to UVM earlier this fall and provides an opportunity to dig deeper into the book's practical strategies for welcoming all students, fostering a sense of belonging, and enhancing peer and student-teaching relationships. Sathy and Hogan's framework emphasizes how structuring instruction and transparent communication with students builds equity and inclusion. In addition, address how documenting your experiences can support your growth as reflective instructor.
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!
Turnitin: Let’s Talk About Plagiarism Checkers
Microsoft TeamsTurnitin, a "similarity-detection" program, is integrated with Brightspace and can be utilized by instructors. WID has tested Turnitin’s capacities in order to inform decisions about the tool’s use. Join us to discuss WID's observations regarding its function and limitations, and also to explore student motivation and writing integrity.
Virtual Open Hours
Drop in and ask your Brightspace questions—no appointment or registration is necessary!