Below you will find different resources to support your assessment, instructional and course design. You may find the same resources in more than two categories.
Course and Instructional Resources
- Accessibility Considerations for Brightspace: Overview Resource
- Accessible Teaching and Learning
- Alternative Considerations to Synchronous Presentations
- Alt-Text Use in Teaching and Learning Spaces
- Creating Accessible Classroom Resources
- Essential Course Requirements
- Interactive Oral Assessments: Accessible Pedagogy Design Considerations
- Making Engagement Accessible
- Supporting Accessibility in Large Classes
- Supporting Note-Taking Accommodations
- Active Learning
- Assessing Higher-Order Thinking with Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)
- Assessment Wrappers & Metacognition
- Beyond the Exam: An Alternate Online Assessment Toolkit (Faculty Spotlight with Maureen Connolly, Kinesiology)
- Beyond the Exam: An Alternate Online Assessment Toolkit (Pressbook)
- Co-Creating Community Agreements in the Classroom: A Guide for TAs
- Co-Creating Community Agreements in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide
- Developing More Meaningful Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ)
- Flipped Classroom
- Formative Feedback
- Inclusive Considerations for Multimodal Assessments
- Pop Quiz Alternatives to Support Inclusive Pedagogy
- Reflective Practice with the Brock University Labyrinth
- Rubrics
- Rubrics for Multimodal Assessments
- What is a Quiz, a Test, and an Exam?
Principles for assessment in the era of artificial intelligence [DRAFT] | [PDF]
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- Asynchronous Discussion Design and Guidance
- Benefits and Approaches to Syllabus Sharing and Review with Students
- Breaks during Lectures
- Building your Course Site in Brightspace
- Cognitive Load Theory
- Course Outline Template (Undergraduate and Graduate)
- Creating Course Learning Outcomes
- Flexible Teaching and Learning
- First Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories (Faculty Spotlight with Leanne Taylor, Education)
- Strategies to Reduce Cognitive Load
- Approved GenAI Tools
- Bias in Generative AI and its Implications in Education
- Decision tree to guide instructor GenAI use
- Designing Assessments to Mitigate the Use of AI Writing Tools
- Generative AI Guidance for teaching and learning at Brock University
- Suggested Syllabus Language for Generative AI
- Teaching Large Classes, Generative AI, Engagement (Faculty Spotlight with Neta Gordon, English Language and Literature)
- Guidance to Instructors concerning Agentic AI and Summative Assessment [PDF]
- Principles for assessment in the era of artificial intelligence [DRAFT] | [PDF]
- Large Class Assessments and Activities
- Supporting Accessibility in Large Classes
- Working with Teaching Assistants
- Teaching Large Classes, Generative AI, Engagement (Faculty Spotlight with Neta Gordon, English Language and Literature)
- Open Educational Resources Adoption and Adaptation Grants
- Brock Library and OER
- Faculty Spotlight of OER in your teaching
- Leveraging Wikipedia (Faculty Spotlight with Denise Smith, Brock University Library, Head, Research Lifecycle)
- Open Pedagogy In Pressbooks (Media Analysis) (Faculty Spotlight with Kate Cassidy, CPCF)
- Open Pedagogy in Pressbooks (Visual Culture) (Faculty Spotlight with Keri Cronin, Visual Arts)
- Using Pressbooks to Support Student Learning (Faculty Spotlight with Derek Foster, CPCF)
- Equitable Theatre Criticism (Faculty Spotlight with Karen Fricker, DART)