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Brightspace: Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents

Microsoft Teams

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.

Free

Save My Writing Assignment! Writing Assignment Revision Clinic

Microsoft Teams

Do you have an assignment you like but doesn’t quite work as well as you’d hoped?  Let’s see if we can solve the problem and save your assignment together!  During this assignment clinic, each participant will bring an assignment to workshop as a group using an appreciative and encouraging framework to think through what changes might help.

Free

Brightspace Course Design with Equity in Mind

Microsoft Teams

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 

Free

Responding to Final Writing Projects

Microsoft Teams

Are you worried you're wasting precious time responding to final papers at the end of the semester? When students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, it's important that you use your responding time effectively to the benefit of both you and your students. Join colleagues to talk about adjusting your response strategies for the particular context of the semester’s end.

Free

Turnitin: Let’s Talk About Plagiarism Checkers

Microsoft Teams

Curious about tools for detecting plagiarism? Turnitin, 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.

Free

Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback

Microsoft Teams

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.”

Free

But, I’m Not a Writing Teacher! – Teaching Writing in Your Discipline

Microsoft Teams

Do you find it tricky to teach both content and writing skills in the same course? This workshop explores principles for infusing writing into disciplinary courses. Starting with some basic principles for understanding the role of writing in participants’ disciplines, we’ll look at how disciplinary courses can support student writers by creating opportunities for connections and practice—all with an eye on sustainable workloads for students and teachers alike. The workshop will allow participants to apply core principles to their own teaching situation.

Free

Puzzles and Podcasts: Overcoming Imposter Anxiety

303 Howe, CTL Classroom

Curious about teaching, and looking for a low-key way to connect with colleagues? Join us for puzzles and podcasts! Today's podcast will be “Overcoming Imposter Anxiety” an episode of Teaching in Higher Education that will focus on identifying imposter anxiety in ourselves and identifying tools that can help support a strong self image.

Free

But, I’m Not a Writing Teacher! Teaching Writing in Your Discipline

Microsoft Teams

Do you find it tricky to teach both content and writing skills in the same course? This workshop explores principles for infusing writing into disciplinary courses. Starting with some basic principles for understanding the role of writing in participants’ disciplines, we’ll look at how disciplinary courses can support student writers by creating opportunities for connections and practice—all with an eye on sustainable workloads for students and teachers alike. The workshop will allow participants to apply core principles to their own teaching situation.

Free

Destressing in Crafty Company

303 Howe, CTL Classroom

Late in the semester can be stressful, but the finish line is in sight! Remember to step away from grading and emails, even when the workload feels overwhelming. Come destress in good company!

Join us at the CTL, Howe Library, Room 303, for a moment of end-of-semester connection. Stop in for coffee, tea, or a snack; talk with colleagues as the semester winds down; make a bracelet or two that might lift your spirits.

Free

Communicating with Students About AI/ChatGPT

Microsoft Teams

Are you wondering how you should approach AI use policies with your students? As artificial intelligence tools become more available, it’s vital that we engage students in open and clear dialogue about course policies and other potential impacts. In this session, we will explore syllabi statements that address AI use and limits in varying contexts and how our expectations connect with UVM’s Code of Academic Integrity. Participants will be provided with a range of sample policies, statements, and guiding prompts and will leave the session with a heightened sense of the values they wish to communicate to students.

Free

Writing Your Teaching Philosophy

Microsoft Teams

During this workshop, we will discuss the value of articulating a personal teaching philosophy and important elements to include in your statement.

Free

Grading in Good Company

303 Howe, CTL Classroom

Got lots of  grading to do?  Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: Thursday 12/12, 9:30-noon, and Friday 12/13, 11-2.

Free tea and coffee, snacks, and a chance to break out of your office for a couple of hours! Enjoy quiet, comfy working space in Howe 303.

Free

Communicating with Students About AI/ChatGPT

Microsoft Teams

Are you wondering how you should approach AI use policies with your students? As artificial intelligence tools become more available, it’s vital that we engage students in open and clear dialogue about course policies and other potential impacts. In this session, we will explore syllabi statements that address AI use and limits in varying contexts and how our expectations connect with UVM’s Code of Academic Integrity. Participants will be provided with a range of sample policies, statements, and guiding prompts and will leave the session with a heightened sense of the values they wish to communicate to students.

Free

Grading in Good Company

303 Howe, CTL Classroom

Got lots of  grading to do?  Join us for our open Grading in Good Company times: Thursday 12/12, 9:30-noon, and Friday 12/13, 11-2.

Free tea and coffee, snacks, and a chance to break out of your office for a couple of hours! Enjoy quiet, comfy working space in Howe 303.

Free

Teaching Equitably Online (Asynchronous Online Course) *Registration Passed*

Online

The 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.  

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Brightspace Quick Start

Microsoft Teams

This 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.

Free

Brightspace: Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents

Microsoft Teams

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.

Free

Brightspace Quizzes (Tests)

Microsoft Teams

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

Free

Equity Minded Syllabus

Microsoft Teams

A 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.  

Free