Empowering Students to Succeed – Due Dates in Brightspace

We all have our preferences when it comes to communicating our expectations to students. At a minimum, designing a clear and detailed syllabus that includes weekly topics, assignments, and key due dates provides students with a roadmap for the course. However, Brightspace enables multiple communication strategies and with a few minor adjustments to learning materials, […]

Digital Literacy Resources For Students

As faculty we are faced with the difficult task of facilitating learning for heterogeneous student populations in an ever changing learning environment all while tools and technology continue to evolve at a breathtaking pace. While many of our students arrive at our institution as “digital natives”, their comfortability with technology does not necessarily translate to […]

Paging All Students – Keep Students Engaged and Reinforce Learning with Polls

The recent Poll Everywhere visual changes have us thinking about the flexible student engagement opportunities available through the use of this and other polling tools. Whether you teach a large format class, a small seminar, in-person or online, strategies that reinforce learning and check for understanding are key elements of an engaging course. While typical […]

Teaching to Engage

On January, 30th, 2023, an interdisciplinary cohort of graduate students from GSAS began the A&S Office of Educational Technology’s Teaching to Engage seminar. Some student student concurrently hold teaching positions or hold Teaching Assistant (TA) roles. As one of our office’s faculty development offerings, the Teaching to Engage course provides the opportunity to experience the […]