The Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation is hosting a series of virtual training sessions to assist instructors as they familiarize themselves with UB Learns ahead of the Fall 2024 semester.
UB Learns powered by Brightspace is a very powerful tool that helps promote student learning and success and helps instructors efficiently manage the administrative aspects of teaching. The following best practices address aspects related to instructor usage of UB Learns and augment course design best practices.
The microlevel layout and organization of your course can enhance the teaching and learning experience. These guides will help you create modules and add materials to your course.
UB Learns offers a variety of formative and summative assessment tools. Choosing the appropriate assessment method and tool is an important step which can benefit the students as well as the instructor.
UB Learns powered by Brightspace is a very powerful tool that helps promote student learning and success and helps instructors efficiently manage the administrative aspects of teaching. The following usage guidelines address aspects related to instructor usage of UB Learns.
Instructors should be aware of when courses are removed from UB Learns, ways to back up course content and student submissions and how to extend student access to past-term courses.
Brightspace Guided Training, developed by D2L, includes access to self-guided content and opportunities to attend instructor-guided training webinars. This program is recommended for anyone designing, building, teaching or facilitating courses in Brightspace.
