The SUNY Online Summit will be held in person February 28-29, 2024 at the SUNY Global Center in New York, NY. D2L Connection: New York will be held on Friday, March 1 at the Global Center.
Join SUNY Instructional Designers Rob Piorkowski and Alexandra Pickett for the Spring 2024 faculty webinar series on effective use of Brightspace!
Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively!
The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC), in collaboration with the Office of Disability Resources (ODR), is seeking to increase awareness about three key accessibility features in Brightspace: Anthology Ally (formerly Blackboard Ally), Accommodations and Special Access, and the built-in Accessibility Checker.
We are thrilled to announce that Purchase College has partnered with SUNY Online Instructional Design Services to offer all Purchase College faculty and instructors access to tailored instructional design support!
This free hybrid workshop (via Brightspace and Zoom) provides a comprehensive introduction to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Participants will learn why the UDL framework is important, how to apply its principles and guidelines to their own courses, and best practices for interacting with students with disabilities. Participants in this workshop will apply what they learn about UDL to design a new lesson or revise an existing lesson.
TLTC has received several inquiries from faculty about how we as an institution and a system are handling AI and what detection tools are available for faculty use. We understand that this is a loaded issue with many implications and a variety of potential consequences.
Fall 2023 SUNY FACT2 Campus Reps Updates & Professional Development Opportunities
Join SUNY Instructional Designers Rob Piorkowski and Alexandra Pickett for the next session in our webinar series on effective use of Brightspace!
Several new features have been added to our instance of Brightspace.
As part of our migration from Moodle to Brightspace, Purchase now subscribes to Tier 1 support services provided by the SUNY Online Help Desk.
Anthology Ally (formerly Blackboard Ally) is available in Brightspace to help faculty improve the accessibility and usability of course materials. We encourage instructors to use it as a guide for improving the quality of existing and new course content.
The TLTC needs your input to make Brightspace the best it can be!
Check out these quick tips to help you use Brightspace more effectively!
Directions for moving courses from Moodle to Brightspace.
July 2023 Brightspace updates from the TLTC and Brightspace Migration Project Team as well as info about upcoming SUNY teaching & learning conferences.
SUNY Empire State University will host its 8th Annual Learning with Innovative Technology (LIT) conference on Thu, Aug 10, 2023. This is a FREE virtual conference focused on using technologies in education.
SUNY System Administration, SUNY University Faculty Senate, and SUNY Faculty Council of Community Colleges are hosting an academic conference focused on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ) in the Curriculum to take place in-person at SUNY Albany on Nov 3 & 4, 2023.
June 2023 Brightspace updates from the TLTC and Brightspace Migration Project Team as well as info about upcoming SUNY conferences.
The SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD) OTTER Institute (set to take place on August 14 - September 18) is an opportunity for online practitioners, regardless of teaching modality, to learn more about online education’s innovations, trends, and challenges. Register now for free course design and delivery assistance from the SUNY DLE Trainers!
Faculty, as you plan courses for upcoming semesters, remember that you can adopt open textbooks from the extensive library available from SUNY OER Services!
We’re packing up and moving from Moodle to Brightspace!
AI-assisted writing tools such as ChatGPT are a hot topic in academia right now. During this session, Turnitin will discuss what they’ve been doing to develop tools to help instructors and students, as well as the unique opportunities and challenges this time period poses.
Open Education Week (March 6-10, 2023) is an annual celebration of the people and activities that apply open practices to education around the world.
The SUNY Center for Professional Development (SUNY CPD) is offering two main types of Brightspace training. All trainings are free and available to all Purchase College faculty and staff!
Stay informed about the upcoming Moodle to D2L Brightspace Migration, available training opportunities, and additional help resources!
Targeted for larger audiences, these scaled webinars offer live demonstrations of the Brightspace learning environment and other training topics. Opportunities to ask questions of Brightspace experts during the last 30 minutes. “Illuminations” are advanced Brightspace workshops offered in the scaled webinar format that feature Brightspace tools and topics not covered in the Brightspace Fundamentals training.
The release of ChatGPT late last year was immediately hailed as a game-changer in the application of artificial intelligence to writing tasks. This webinar takes a “technology-positive” approach to the challenges posed by A.I. to both humanities and STEM disciplines. Join us for this timely and practical discussion about how A.I. is transforming the educational landscape.
This month’s SUNY FACT2 update includes information on how to prepare for our move from Moodle to Brightspace, the SUNY Digital Learning Environment (DLE) website and all of its many resources, upcoming SUNY events including the SUNY Online Summit, FACT2 Inclusive Teaching Webinar Series, the 2023 Student Success Summit, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) workshops, SUNY’s annual Conference on Instruction and Technology (CIT), and Technology Conference (STC).
Join the Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology (FACT2) Inclusive Teaching Task Force each Thursday in April for this 4-part Inclusive Teaching Webinar Series.
The SUNY Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Student Empowerment Initiative seeks to provide support for SUNY to be a model of excellence of inclusive pedagogy in higher education by training SUNY faculty and instructional designers in the Universal Design for Learning framework.
We’ve recently upgraded our connection to Perusall, which required a new integration between our Moodle system and the Perusall application. To use Perusall this semester, faculty and students will need to confirm and merge their Perusall accounts.
SUNY campuses increasingly recognize the importance of being student-ready and culturally responsive, thus meeting students where they are in order to facilitate the co-creation and attainment of personal, academic, and professional goals.
CIT 2023 will be a hybrid event with a separate schedule for our virtual and in-person presenters and attendees. Registration is now open!
The 2023 Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) program has just been announced. These competitive, peer-reviewed awards aim to demonstrate, communicate and replicate innovations developed at campuses across SUNY.
Here are some useful Moodle Basics tips for faculty to help you get organized for the new semester!
The SUNY Online Summit will be held online and in-person March 8-10, 2023!