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Teaching with OWL Brightspace

Jan 13, 2025 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM

Registration Deadline: Jan 13, 2025 04:30 PM

Once your OWL Brightspace course site is created, it's time to focus on how to manage and adjust it so it works well for you, your Teaching Assistants/Facilitators, and students. This workshop will provide an opportunity to get hands-on practice with the following Brightspace tools and features: Class Progress, Manage Dates, Awards, Release Conditions,Checklist, and Quick Eval.

In this workshop you will learn how to:  

  • Use Class Progress to track and identify students who are at risk of not succeeding in the course  
  • Manage Dates
  • Use Awards to issue badges and certificates
  • Use checklists to help keep your students organized
  • Assign and publish Grades
  • Use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course
  • Use Quick eval to centralize and prioritize your evaluations 
This is a "hands-on" workshop. To prepare for the workshop, we recommend that you:  
  1. Request your OWL Brightspace personal sandbox if you haven't already. Request your sandbox at https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2tQiAfWl7lt28R0. Sandbox access can take up to a week and you'll be notified by email when it's ready.
  2. Review the following sections of Western's OWL Brightspace Self-Guided Instructor Training and make note of any question or tasks related to the session description:
  • Phase V: Teaching with Brightspace only 
How to Access Western's Self-Guided Instructor Training: 
  1. Sign into OWL Brightspace at westernu.brightspace.com 
  2. On the purple tool bar at the top of the page, select "Help," then choose "Self-Guided Instructor Training." 
Visit
https://teaching.uwo.ca/elearning/brightspace-trainingresources.html for more information about resources for learning to teach with OWL Brightspace!