Past events

Have you missed some training sessions that have taken place in recent weeks? For a limited time, you can access resources shared during those sessions and, when available, the recordings as well.

Training 2024

Partnering for Success

In this introductory session to the Library, you will learn about the services, staff and spaces that support your teaching and research needs.

Duration of recording: 35 min

Slideshow (2 MB)

The Library’s Course Reserve Service

The Library’s Course Reserve Service (H2)

Preparing your courses for the upcoming term and wish it were easier to add readings and other resources to Virtual Campus? Looking for an alternative to course packs? Want to help your students save money by better integrating the Library’s electronic resources into your courses?

It’s as easy as submitting your syllabus! This webinar will introduce you to the advantages of using the Library’s Course Reserve Service and demonstrate how to submit requests, how materials will be made available to students, and where to access items in the Ares course reserve platform and in Virtual Campus (Brightspace).

Duration of recording: 36 min

Slideshow (611 KB)

Technology for Teaching

Get to Know Virtual Campus (Brightspace) and our Complementary Technologies

New to Virtual Campus (Brightspace), or want to learn more about what it has to offer? During this webinar, we will explore the Brightspace platform as well as what tools are available to support assessment, content presentation, and interaction (such as, Zoom, Yuja, Wooclap, Respondus, Simple Syllabus and Ouriginal).

Duration of recording: 69 min

Slideshow (386 KB)

Handout – Technology for Teaching (854 KB)
Guide – Professor essentials (386 KB)
Visit the TLSS website for more resources on Virtual Campus

Ready, Set, Teach!

Join us for 30 minutes, and we will provide practical tips, resources and simple strategies for preparing your courses for the next term.

During this express webinar, we will review a simplified course design process, quick content creation tips, important lessons for the first class, logistic information not to forget, and how to set yourself up for a successful term

Slideshow (1,3 MB)

Facilitating Virtual Meetings

Are you looking for ways to add more interaction while teaching synchronously online? Do you want to increase student participation in your classes?

The Zoom and MS Teams platforms give you the tools to interact with students in real time.

In this short webinar, you will learn how to use the various features of these platforms to make your virtual meetings a meaningful and engaging learning experience.

Slideshow (5 MB)

First Day of Class

Strategies for a Successful Term

Your course plan is mostly complete, the learning objectives and assessments decided, and now all that is left to do is teach your course. After all that hard work, how can we ensure we make a good first impression and effectively communicate what we have put to paper? Should we: plan a full lecture, captivate students' interest, initiate some ice-breaker activities, read the syllabus out loud, let students leave early?

This webinar will look at questions like these and discuss how to create a positive first day of class. We will consider various strategies we can implement to build an engaging and supportive learning environment for students.

Beyond “one size fits all”

Engaging learners through UDL

In today's diverse and dynamic educational landscape, a “one-size-fits-all” approach to teaching falls short in meeting individual student learning needs. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides keys to unlocking the potential of every student, removing barriers to learning and fostering academic success for all, considering a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and ways of learning.

This webinar will introduce the UDL framework and its principles, enabling you to create adaptable and flexible learning materials, activities and assignments that cater to a diverse student body, without watering down course expectations. We will also discuss inclusive teaching strategies for designing welcoming, safe, open, and engaging learning environments that will benefit all.

Whether you're a professor, instructor, teaching assistant, or support staff, join us on the path to making teaching practices more accessible and universal, with the goal of reducing the need for accommodations and empowering all students on their learning journey, including those with disabilities or different abilities.

Teaching in person, online or hybrid

Exploring the best strategies for your course type

Over the past few years, teaching modalities have greatly diversified. In addition to courses taught in-person, it is now possible to teach a course online, synchronously or asynchronously, and even to offer a combination of modalities in the form of a hybrid course.

  • How do you choose between these different types of course?
  • What are the strengths and limitations of each?
  • Which teaching strategies are best for your learning environment?

In this webinar, we will explore these questions and more! We will review the formats available at the University of Ottawa, discuss how they may suit your teaching context, and explore engaging course models that will enhance student participation, collaboration and knowledge construction.

Duration of recording: 80 min

Slideshow (1.5 MB)
Worksheet – Lesson Planning (331 KB)
Laurillard Lesson Planning Template (317 KB)

Symposium Perspective 2024
Multicolor graphic representing a diversity of people

Perspective on accessible teaching and learning

Symposium hosted on April 11, 2024
This event was organized in collaboration with three important sectors of the University of Ottawa: the Library, the Academic Accommodations Service, and the Teaching and Learning Support Service.

Panel – Working together to create accessible teaching and learning environments

  • Megan McMeekin, Inclusion Librarian, University of Ottawa Library
  • Jan Swiderski, Learning Specialist, Academic Accommodations Service
  • Jean-Pascal Beaudoin, Senior Specialist, Teaching and Learning Support Service

Activity slideshow (1.5 MB)
Postsecondary Course Accessibility Guide – University of Waterloo
Digital Accessibility – eCampusOntario
Inclusive Pedagogies – University of Ottawa

Level Up Your Support : collaborating for Student Success with Academic Accommodations Service and Library Accessibility Services

  • Michelle Zidner, Learning Specialist, Academic Accommodations Service
  • Megan McMeekin, Inclusion Librarian, University of Ottawa Library
  • Isabelle Castonguay, Lead Coordinator, Health Sciences Library

Duration of recording: 63 min
Activity slideshow (1.1 MB)

Universal design for learning (UDL) in a large enrolment course – It's possible!

  • Alain St-Amant PhD, Vice-Provost, Academic Affairs & Full Professor in Chemistry

Duration of recording: 70 min
Activity slideshow (966 KB)