You may have noticed the orange question mark button on the side of the Brightspace screen. That’s your entry point to a context-sensitive help system. Help button: Clicking into the system provides users with context-sensitive help. So if you are using the Grade Center the system knows and offers you…
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Every month TLC will post the newest and noteworthy materials on the Teaching & Learning Hub. Here is May’s list. Updates: Farewell to Julie Wong, Associate Director of Learning Designs and Solutions! It is with bittersweet emotions that we send off Julie toward her next adventure. While we are happy…
Leave a CommentReflection is an integral part of the learning process. As educators, building reflection into our practice can fuel continuous growth and development, help us challenge ourselves, and deepen the learning environments that we create. Bell hooks’ engaged pedagogy draws upon the engaged mindfulness that Thich Nhat Hanh advocated, teaching…
Leave a CommentEvery month TLC will post the newest and noteworthy materials up on the Teaching & Learning Hub. Here is April’s list. Teaching Strategies & Pedagogy: All About Ally Part 2 – Ally, a tool active in Brightspace to help you improve the accessibility of your content, provides coaching on how…
Leave a CommentAlly and Alt Text Instructors – can all your students “see” the images in your course? For students using screen-readers, alt text is essential for viewing an image. Ally, a tool active in Brightspace to help you improve the accessibility of your content, provides coaching on how to add alt…
Leave a CommentInstructors: Are you tired of answering the same questions about assignment guidelines? Do you think grading takes too much time? Have your fingers ever cramped up from typing the same feedback over and over again? Are you sick of explaining to students why you gave them a certain grade? If…
Leave a CommentDuring Black History month, we honor the legacy of the Black feminist scholar, writer, and teacher bell hooks who passed away at her home in Kentucky on December 15, 2021. We share her belief that it is impossible to separate joy and learning. In this recent Chronicle of Higher Education…
Leave a CommentIn this blog post, we promote Release Conditions as a strategy to ensure students actually read the syllabus or other important course content. When you set a release condition in Brightspace, the course material is locked until a student completes the defined requirements. Examples: You could hide a content item…
Leave a CommentSuper Courses The TLC team just finished reading Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning (2021) for inspiration on how to improve learning experiences for our Wentworth students. In this book, Ken Bain presents alternatives to the traditional classroom activities, distinctive because they view learners as participants not just…
Leave a CommentInstructors can request course copies and course merges. These requests are quite different. Learn more about these processes so you can make the correct request.
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