Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Brightspace Grading: Setting up the Grade Book
Microsoft TeamsThis 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.
Brightspace Quick Start
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop covers a number of Brightspace basics for beginners, including creating announcements, adding a syllabus and a module, and setting up and grading assignments. We’ll demonstrate the useful student view account and how to make your course available to students.
Writing Your Teaching Philosophy
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, we will discuss the value of articulating a personal teaching philosophy and important elements to include in your statement.
Pause and Reflect: Looking Back at a Course as it Ends
Microsoft TeamsThe end of the semester is a great time to think about how you’ve experienced your teaching this term. In this 30-minute Teams workshop, you’ll explore a few self-reflective processes. Join colleagues to consider how a few key questions can help you notice what you’ve valued this semester, how to approach reading student course evaluations, and what you might want to revisit or adapt in the future - and how doing some thinking now can help a future you return to this course with greater understanding.
Grading in Good Company
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomGot lots of grading to do? Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: May 6th, May 7th, and May 9th from 12-3pm.
Grading in Good Company
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomGot lots of grading to do? Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: May 6th, May 7th, and May 9th from 12-3pm.
Pause and Reflect: Looking Back at a Course as it Ends
Microsoft TeamsThe end of the semester is a great time to think about how you’ve experienced your teaching this term. In this 30-minute Teams workshop, you’ll explore a few self-reflective processes. Join colleagues to consider how a few key questions can help you notice what you’ve valued this semester, how to approach reading student course evaluations, and what you might want to revisit or adapt in the future - and how doing some thinking now can help a future you return to this course with greater understanding.
Grading in Good Company
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomGot lots of grading to do? Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: May 6th, May 7th, and May 9th from 12-3pm.
Teaching Equitably Online (Asynchronous Online Course)
OnlineThe Teaching Equitably Online (TEO) short-course is designed for faculty who want to deepen their understanding of equity-centered practices in online teaching. Focusing on inclusion, equity, engagement, and accessibility, faculty will engage with both theory and practical applications to create supportive online environments that motivate and empower students, with attention to the varied experiences and needs of individuals from diverse backgrounds. TEO is a cohort experience with guided discussion, assignments, and peer feedback. Assignment options allow for both experienced and new online instructors to meet their own learning goals. This course is facilitated by the Center for Teaching & Learning's educational developer, Dr. Rainamei Luna, who will model inclusive teaching practices.
Learning In a Time of Generative AI
E105 InnovationIn this workshop, we’ll think together about how to help students commit to building their knowledge, skills, and capacities in our courses – with and without generative AI. You’ll work with colleagues to develop concrete plans to enable meaningful learning in your courses. You will leave this workshop with a better understanding of how to convey your own boundaries around AI use in your classroom activities.
Improve Brightspace Course Accessibility with Ally
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, you will learn how to use Ally to evaluate the accessibility of your course materials. You will also learn how to use Ally’s step-by-step instructions to improve the accessibility of course documents. Finally, you will learn about the alternate formats Ally makes available to students for all your course materials.
Brightspace Course Design with Equity in Mind
Microsoft TeamsThis one-hour workshop explores how faculty can use Brightspace to support an equitable learning environment. The workshop offers course design recommendations and connects Brightspace tools to these four equity-minded principles:
Fostering Student Sense of Belonging
Creating Course Structure
Supporting Student Executive Functioning
Building Relationships
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Symposium
Innovation Hall 82 University Pl, Burlington, VT, United StatesRefreshments served : 8:30 am Opening keynote: 9:00 am This campus-wide symposium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), showcases researchers from across campus as they share their findings and work-in-progress related to teaching and learning research conducted here at UVM. The 2025 theme for the SoTL Symposium is Building Trust, highlighted by the […]
Equity Minded Syllabus
Microsoft TeamsA well-designed syllabus thoughtfully connects course goals with assignments, activities, and assessments and uses an inclusion and equity lens to frame student support. During this workshop, we’ll look at how the language and content of your own syllabus demystifies your course, welcomes students, connects them to resources, and sets you up for more effective and efficient grading. Bring a copy of your syllabus and leave with a plan for final revisions that better serve you and your students.
Brightspace Grading: Setting up the Grade Book
Microsoft TeamsThis 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.
Equity Minded Syllabus
Microsoft TeamsA well-designed syllabus thoughtfully connects course goals with assignments, activities, and assessments and uses an inclusion and equity lens to frame student support. During this workshop, we’ll look at how the language and content of your own syllabus demystifies your course, welcomes students, connects them to resources, and sets you up for more effective and efficient grading. Bring a copy of your syllabus and leave with a plan for final revisions that better serve you and your students.
Brightspace Quick Start
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop covers a number of Brightspace basics for beginners, including creating announcements, adding a syllabus and a module, and setting up and grading assignments. We’ll demonstrate the useful student view account and how to make your course available to students.
Pause and Reflect: Looking Back at a Course as it Ends
Microsoft TeamsThe end of the semester is a great time to think about how you’ve experienced your teaching this term. In this 30-minute Teams workshop, you’ll explore a few self-reflective processes. Join colleagues to consider how a few key questions can help you notice what you’ve valued this semester, how to approach reading student course evaluations, and what you might want to revisit or adapt in the future - and how doing some thinking now can help a future you return to this course with greater understanding.
Brightspace Grading: Setting up the Grade Book
Microsoft TeamsThis 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.
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 in Brightspace. 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.