The Centre for Teaching and Learning's Brightspace Workshop series provides in-person and on-line synchronous learning opportunities. In-person workshops for faculty/staff are offered in two varieties:
Step-by-Step: relaxed, slower-paced sessions and
Quick Steps: faster, technically driven sessions.
Start your Brightspace training with the Getting Started with Brightspace workshop to provide the basis for the more advanced workshops.
Once you are registered for a workshop, if you find you will not be able to attend, kindly unregister for the workshop so facilitators can plan activities accordingly.
For Faculty/Department-specific workshops, visit https://ctl2.uwindsor.ca/workshops/147/
For D2L led workshops, visit https://ctl2.uwindsor.ca/workshops/146/
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Ensuring Accessibility in Brightspace
Create an equitable learning environment and support the diverse needs of your students by ensuring your course materials are accessible by all students.
In this workshop you will learn how to use Brightspace's built-in accessibility features and other tools that are designed to help make your Brightspace course site accessible.
A Teams meeting link will be sent out the day before the workshop.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Use the power of a Brightspace Video Note
Sometimes your tone is an extremely important aspect of your assessment feedback or instructions. If you can’t provide verbal feedback in person, creating a video note or audio note in Brightspace is an excellent substitute. The Video Note tool can also be used in assignment descriptions, student submissions, or to introduce yourself in an announcement, and so much more! In this short session, you will learn how to create and use your own video or audio note.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Save time prepping a copied course with the Manage Dates tool
If you copied material from a previous course site, updating due dates and availability dates can be a chore. Easily edit and manage due dates and availability dates of your course content and assessments from one central location using the Manage Dates tool. Learn to view, bulk edit, bulk offset and quickly revise the dates of your course materials in this short session.
Monday, December 8, 2025
Getting Started with Brightspace (for instructors, GAs & staff)
Need to learn Brightspace? Start with this workshop. This workshop will introduce participants to the Brightspace environment and provide an overview of the tools in Brightspace. Participants will walk through the process of structuring course content in Brightspace, and uploading and creating content. Focus will be placed on learning the features that are found throughout Brightspace, such as the html editor and visibility options to help create engaging learning material. The Announcements tool, sending class emails, adding TAs, and where to find support resources will also be included.
** This workshop is an expected prerequisite before taking other Brightspace workshops.
Quick Steps: This option will offer a fast-paced more technically driven step-by-step workshop. This category is suitable for the learner who possesses a high comfort level in learning and adopting new technology.
If you prefer slower paced instruction and no Step-by-Step workshop is offered, please email brightspace@uwindsor.ca.
A link to a Teams meeting will be sent to you the day before the workshop.
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Getting Started with Brightspace (for instructors, GAs & staff)
Need to learn Brightspace? Start with this workshop. This workshop will introduce participants to the Brightspace environment and provide an overview of the tools in Brightspace. Participants will walk through the process of structuring course content in Brightspace, and uploading and creating content. Focus will be placed on learning the features that are found throughout Brightspace, such as the html editor and visibility options to help create engaging learning material. The Announcements tool, sending class emails, adding TAs, and where to find support resources will also be included.
** This workshop is an expected prerequisite before taking other Brightspace workshops.
Quick Steps: This option will offer a fast-paced more technically driven step-by-step workshop. This category is suitable for the learner who possesses a high comfort level in learning and adopting new technology.
If you prefer slower paced instruction and no Step-by-Step workshop is offered, please email brightspace@uwindsor.ca.
A link to a Teams meeting will be sent to you the day before the workshop.