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September 2023

Simple Ways to Build Connections and Equity with Brightspace

September 29
Microsoft Teams
Free

This workshop will focus on low-effort Brightspace strategies for building connections with your students and enhancing their learning. Your Brightspace course may be one of the most important places that students consult to understand what your course is all about. We will show you how the way you set up your Brightspace course can affect how easily students can locate important information. By considering how Brightspace creates the opportunity for you to connect with your students and help them see what tasks are important, you will build a more equitable learning environment for everyone. In this workshop, we’ll explore small steps you can take to organize your course consistently, helping students to navigate the materials and keep themselves on track.

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October 2023

Brightspace Grading: Setting up the Grade Center

October 5
Microsoft Teams
Free

This workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

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Brightspace: Content and Course Organization

October 6
Microsoft Teams
Free

In this session we’ll focus on:

How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
Tips for using the HTML editor
Linking to course activities

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Designing Writing Assignments and Assessments with AI/ChatGPT in Mind

October 9
Microsoft Teams
Free

During this workshop, we’ll explore how to design and balance writing assignments, activities, and assessments that take into account the limits and possibilities of generative AI.

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Course Design That Works: A Prelock Award Finalists’ Roundtable (Teams)

October 10
Remote, Remote Delivery VT
Free

See a live 'course tour' highlighting different dimensions of effective course design. Presenters are all student-nominated finalists for the 2022 Prelock Online Teaching Award (featuring both synchronous and asynchronous courses). The finalists were selected from over 80 submissions.  Each panelist will be discussing what made their approach effective.  The focus will be on how these principles can be adapted to the Brightspace Learning Management System.  

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Brightspace Assignments

October 12
Microsoft Teams
Free

In this session we’ll focus on:

Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work

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Designing Writing Assignments and Assessments with AI/ChatGPT in Mind

October 12
Microsoft Teams
Free

During this workshop, we’ll explore how to design and balance writing assignments, activities, and assessments that take into account the limits and possibilities of generative AI.

Find out more »

Brightspace Grading: Setting up the Grade Center

October 13
Microsoft Teams
Free

This workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

Find out more »

Brightspace Grading: Setting up the Grade Center

October 16
Microsoft Teams
Free

This workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

Find out more »

Brightspace Assignments

October 16
Microsoft Teams
Free

In this session we’ll focus on:

Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work

Find out more »

Brightspace Discussions

October 17
Microsoft Teams
Free

This workshop covers the details of using the Discussion tool in Brightspace. We will demonstrate where to set up both whole class and group discussions, and how link them to your Table of Contents. We'll look at how to clean up Discussions migrated from Blackboard and cover the differences between Forums and Topics in Brightspace.

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Brightspace: Content and Course Organization

October 18
Microsoft Teams
Free

In this session we’ll focus on:

How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
Tips for using the HTML editor
Linking to course activities

Find out more »

Brightspace Quizzes (Tests)

October 20
Free

In Brightspace, the Quiz tool is used for both quizzes and tests.  In this session we’ll show the workflow for creating quizzes, including:

Creating questions and question types
Creating a question library
Building a Quiz
Grading a Quiz
Quiz statistics and logs

Find out more »

Simple Ways to Build Connections and Equity with Brightspace

October 20
Free

This workshop will focus on low-effort Brightspace strategies for building connections with your students and enhancing their learning. Your Brightspace course may be one of the most important places that students consult to understand what your course is all about. We will show you how the way you set up your Brightspace course can affect how easily students can locate important information. By considering how Brightspace creates the opportunity for you to connect with your students and help them see what tasks are important, you will build a more equitable learning environment for everyone. In this workshop, we’ll explore small steps you can take to organize your course consistently, helping students to navigate the materials and keep themselves on track.

Find out more »

Brightspace: Content and Course Organization

October 24
Microsoft Teams
Free

In this session we’ll focus on:

How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
Tips for using the HTML editor
Linking to course activities

Find out more »

Brightspace Quizzes (Tests)

October 31

In Brightspace, the Quiz tool is used for both quizzes and tests.  In this session we’ll show the workflow for creating quizzes, including:

Creating questions and question types
Creating a question library
Building a Quiz
Grading a Quiz
Quiz statistics and logs

Find out more »

November 2023

Brightspace Grading: Setting up the Grade Center

November 1
Free

This workshop covers how to set up and manage the Grade Book in your Brightspace course. We will demonstrate the best ways to organize the Grade Book and the best ways to enter grades. Some instructors may find it beneficial to create their Grades area anew rather than editing what has been migrated from Blackboard, and this session will help you decide which option is best for your course.

Find out more »

Brightspace: Content and Course Organization

November 2
Microsoft Teams
Free

In this session we’ll focus on:

How content is added and organized in Brightspace (modules and topics)
Adding content and powerful tools like Video Note and the Accessibility Checker
Content settings (visibility, date restrictions)
Tips for using the HTML editor
Linking to course activities

Find out more »

Brightspace Assignments

November 2
Free

In this session we’ll focus on:

Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work

Find out more »
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