TLC Blog Posts

Every month TLC will post the newest and noteworthy materials on the Teaching & Learning Hub. Here is August’s list. Teaching Strategies & Pedagogy: Five Minute Flares: Rubrics Reimagined – Watch the video version of Megan Hamilton Giebert’s five minute flare from D2L Fusion on July 20th. Create a Welcoming…

Is a tool that you use in Brightspace not behaving? Maybe the tool is not loading or is loading very slowly and you want to know is the tool or Brightspace that’s the problem. Many of our academic technology tools have status pages where the current system status is listed…

This blog post has been adapted from a presentation at D2L Fusion by Instructional Designer Lucy Wolski. What comes to mind when you think of the word ‘home’? What if we approached the challenge of creating excellent courses by focusing on making a course feel homey. Making a space feel…

An automated workflow controls access to courses where a student receives a grade of “IC” allowing continued access to complete coursework.

On July 20, 2022 starting at 9 PM our Brightspace instance will be updated to the most recent release. Most of the changes are minor and will require little or no adjustment. One area where changes  might impact instructors are in the Turnitin Integration. The Turnitin Interface in the assignment…

Summer is a fantastic time to reflect on your teaching practice. What’s been working well? What would you like to improve upon? What would you like to change? For inspiration, I recommend Professor Adam Grant’s Ted Talk: “What Frogs in Hot Water Can Teach Us About Thinking Again.” Grant shares…

Asking the Big Questions in Learning Design I’ve enjoyed having vital conversations about teaching and learning at a rich variety of educational development opportunities this May, including the New England Faculty Development Consortium conference, Duke University’s 2022 Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium: From Innovation to Transformation, and the Perusall Exchange, an…