Schedule and registration for York hosted faculty workshops
On this page you will find the schedule and registration links for both online and in-person hands-on workshops for faculty on Brightspace conducted by CTLET.
In addition to workshops on spacific tools, the workshop on Building a course from scratch to be ready for the first day of the semester provides a good overview of the Brightspace platform and guides you to make your course ready for the start of the semester. It includes:
- Customizing your BrS environment to meet your personal needs
- Reviewing and managing your notification and account settings
- Defining your course organization, sequence and navigation and implementing them
- Posting syllabus and other course materials in text, audio or video format
- Setting up the grade book (based on your grading policy stated in the syllabus)
- Creating a syllabus quiz (to help students get most out of your syllabus)
- Creating a discussion forum topic for students to introduce themselves
- Viewing your course as a student
- Making your course available to students
- Posting a welcome announcement
Date | Time | Format | link to register |
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April 3, Wednesday | 12 pm - 12:30 pm | Online | |
April 4, Thursday | 12:30 pm - 1 pm | In-Person | Setting up the grade book (CL-204b) |
April 4, Thursday | 4 pm - 4:30 pm | Online | |
April 5, Friday | 10 am - 11:30 am | In-Person | Building a course from scratch to be ready for the first day of the semester (CL-204b) |
April 8, Monday | 11 am - 11:30 am | Online | |
April 9, Tuesday | 12:30 pm - 1 pm | In-Person | Creating, deploying and grading quizzes/tests/exams (CL-204b) |
April 11, Thursday | 2 pm - 3:30 pm | Online | Building a course from scratch to be ready for the first day of the semester |
April 12, Friday | 10 am - 10:30 am | Online | |
April 16, Tuesday | 1 pm - 1:30 pm | In-Person | Re-using a course migrated from Bb (CL-204b) |
April 17, Wednesday | 12 pm - 12:30 pm | Online | |
April 18, Thursday | 10 am - 10:30 am | Online | |
April 19, Friday | 12 pm - 1:30 pm | Online | Building a course from scratch to be ready for the first day of the semester |
May 2, Thursday | 12 pm - 12:30 pm | Online | |
May 6, Monday | 11 am - 11:30 | Online | |
May 7, Tuesday | 12:30 pm - 1 pm | In-Person | |
May 7, Tuesday | 2 pm - 2:30 pm | Online | |
May 9, Thursday | 12:30 pm - 1 pm | In-Person | Creating and grading discussions (CL-204b) |
May 13, Monday | 10 am - 10:30 am | Online | |
May 14, Tuesday | 11 am - 11:30 am | Online |
The workshop schedule for summer will be ready at the end of May.