Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
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.
Save My Writing Assignment! Writing Assignment Revision Clinic
Microsoft TeamsDo 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.
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
Responding to Final Writing Projects
Microsoft TeamsAre 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.
Turnitin: Let’s Talk About Plagiarism Checkers
Microsoft TeamsCurious 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.
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 view “Brightspace Grades.”
But, I’m Not a Writing Teacher! – Teaching Writing in Your Discipline
Microsoft TeamsDo 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.
Puzzles and Podcasts: Overcoming Imposter Anxiety
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomCurious 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.
But, I’m Not a Writing Teacher! Teaching Writing in Your Discipline
Microsoft TeamsDo 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.
Destressing in Crafty Company
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomLate 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.
Communicating with Students About AI/ChatGPT
Microsoft TeamsAre 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.
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.
Grading in Good Company
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomGot 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.
Communicating with Students About AI/ChatGPT
Microsoft TeamsAre 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.
Grading in Good Company
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomGot 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.
Teaching Equitably Online (Asynchronous Online Course) *Registration Passed*
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.
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.
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.
Brightspace Quizzes (Tests)
Microsoft TeamsIn 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
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.