Center for Teaching & Learning

During 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.   

This 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 

Hear directly from neurodivergent students as they share their experiences, insights, and successes in higher education. This session provides valuable perspectives on practices that have supported their growth and offers opportunities for reflection and future planning. 

In this course, you will apply the foundational principles of the “backward design” framework to design courses that foster student success. Courses designed with this framework communicate clearly to students what they will learn, how they will learn it, and how they will know if they’ve mastered the material. You learn how to align your course objectives, activities, and feedback to create a clear, cohesive learning experience that supports student progress toward achieving their goals.

This 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 view “Brightspace Grades.”

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

A panel of distinguished UVM faculty, recognized for their excellence in teaching, will share their perspectives on what defines teaching excellence. They will discuss their successes and challenges both inside and outside the classroom, explore strategies for fostering teaching excellence across disciplines and class formats, and offer insights on balancing exemplary teaching practices with other responsibilities. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the panelists through Q&A.

Join this session to view a demonstration of FeedbackFruits. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to submit your feedback, which will be taken under consideration as UVM makes their decision.

Join this session to view a demonstration of Yellowdig. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to submit your feedback, which will be taken under consideration as UVM makes their decision.

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

Join this session to view a demonstration of Harmonize. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to submit your feedback, which will be taken under consideration as UVM makes their decision.