Enhancing your use of Brightspace staff sessions - Workshop 1: Making better use of analytics and evaluating student engagement

Session Outline

The UHI Learning and Teaching Academy are running a workshop series that will provide opportunities for staff across the Academic Partnership to explore the VLE Brightspace in relation to supporting student engagement, retention and collaboration.

Workshop 1 will cover:

Course Overview widget; Class List and Class Progress; Intelligent Agents; and making use of other data in Brightspace 

• Demonstrating functions within Brightspace that provide opportunities for staff to identify student access and  engagement. This will lead into discussions around what these tools can be used to do to support unit, module and programme leaders to be proactive in identifying students who might need additional support.
• Student support and retention is also a driver for the use of Intelligent Agents – a valuable tool that can be set up in advance to send automated feedback to students when certain conditions are met. There is an efficiency to this and a degree of confidence that as soon as a certain condition is met, staff will be alerted to it, and that students affected will automatically and immediately contacted. The session will cover a wide variety of scenarios that Intelligent Agents can be utilised, and workshop participants will be offered the opportunity to set some up during the session.
• Additionally, the Course Overview widget can show staff how much time students in Brightspace spend on learning tools. Although drawing definitive conclusions takes some time and collaboration, this feature can highlight tools that are not being used by students. Staff can then consider minor redesigns of their modules or implementing additional student guidance.

Further information is available in the programme. 

We have aligned the workshops to the Standards for Lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges and colleagues can use the LTA mapping resource to see engagement in the workshops also aligns to the Advance HE Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023).

Presenter

Andrew Gibson

Andrew Gibson has worked with the university’s Learning and Teaching Academy for several years. Building on a Masters in Distance  Education, his work at UHI has involved analysing existing materials and methods used by teaching staff, supervising the creation of student-centred learning materials, and designing and delivering targeted staff development especially around Brightspace, accessibility and, recently, AI.

To Book

Please email events.lta@uhi.ac.uk to book a place on this event. This event is open to colleagues across the sector. 

Accessibility

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