Monday, Sept. 13, 10-11 a.m.

Online

This session takes a deep dive into the options available for assessing student learning using the Quiz Tool within Brightspace. Brightspace quizzes enable you to ask a variety of questions of learners, and they are easy to set up, administer, and grade. Topics covered in this session include:

• Creating a quiz
• Due dates, availability dates, and other restrictions
• Appropriate security settings
• Providing special access for select students
• Accessing and grading student submissions
• And more…

This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow this link to register.

Presented by CITL

Monday, Sept. 13, 2-4 p.m.

Online

This session will cover scheduling and hosting a session using Webex, including how to integrate Webex into your Brightspace course site. Demonstrations of content sharing, collaboration tools such as annotation and polls, and ways to leverage the chat tool will also be provided. As this tool is being used to record both synchronous and asynchronous content, participants will be taken through the process of recording and publishing, while being mindful of best practices and privacy considerations. This session will also provide time for Q&A.

This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow this link to register.

Presented by CITL

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

SN-4078

A four hour certification course in recognizing, reducing, and managing emotionally charged situations. This course is being offered at no charge to faculty and staff.

Presented by Campus Enforcement and Patrol

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Whether you are new to Brightspace or just need a refresher, the Brightspace Basics session will walk you through the basic steps of preparing your course site for the start of the term. Topics include:

• Overview of CITL’s support team
• Logging into Brightspace and accessing your course site
• Adding content to a site, including the Brightspace Course Setup Kit
• Using course mail and announcement to contact your students
• Setting up a discussion forum
• Creating assignments and quizzes
• Setting up the grade book to track and return grades to students
• Introducing online rooms

Participants are encouraged to bring forward issues or challenges they may have experienced when teaching with Brightspace, and the facilitator will aim to provide suggestions to address them.

This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow this link to register.

Presented by CITL

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1-2 p.m.

Online

The hills are blue with berries, and while we all know that pancakes, pies and crisps are good for the soul, fewer people are aware of the healing powers of blueberries on the brain.

Studies have shown that the antioxidants found in blueberries can help protect the brain from aging, inflammation and neurogenerative disorders. Dr. Weber and his team believe berry extracts may be beneficial to cardiovascular health and to reduce the effects of some diseases, and help protect against the effects of traumatic brain injuries.

Join Dr. John Weber of Memorial’s School of Pharmacy on Sept. 14 to learn how this superfood can improve your health!

Find it here.

Presented by Office of Alumni Engagement; School of Pharmacy

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 7-9:30 p.m.

Online

On This Side of the Wall is a deep and global look at migrations, borders, and the most insurmountable walls erected by mankind.

Alberto, a dull and indolent engineer, is fired from his company just as he plans to buy a house with his girlfriend and become parents. To cover it up, he decides to accept an assignment from his former boss to travel to the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa and gate to Europe.

Alberto must renovate, underhand, the system of fences that not only separates one piece of land from another, a city from a country, but two universes in eternal collision: those who want to enter and those who prevent them from doing so. There, he will meet Nagore, a police officer in charge of guiding him through the unknown space, and he will come face to face with the complexity of one of the great issues that shake the world: immigration. Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?

Find it here.

Presented by Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Group

Wednesday, Sept. 15, 10-11 a.m.

Online

Online Rooms is a “web-conferencing” application accessible within each Brightspace course site. This tool allows instructors to schedule and host synchronous sessions with students, and the sessions can be recorded for review. Some ways to use this tool include hosting online office hours, review sessions prior to an exam, and guest speaker or student presentations. The online rooms can also be used to record lectures, which can then be shared with students through the Brightspace course site. This session will present the features of the online rooms and share best practices for using them.

Registration is required for this event.

This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow this link to register.

Presented by CITL

Wednesday, Sept. 15, 12-1 p.m.

Online

Advisors at the IO provide direct advising to international students and are available to answer faculty and staff’s questions about student’s Canadian immigration requirements, and to consult on policy/program changes that may impact students’ immigration status. You are invited to attend an Open Meeting for Faculty and Staff on International Students Immigration Regulations in Canada. Meetings held monthly during Fall 2021 semester in Webex. For meeting details, click here or email us to receive email invite.

Presented by Internationalization Office

Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1-2 p.m.

Online

Topic: 

In this presentation, Bethany will discuss how her team approaches some of the key challenges experienced by an engineer at the leading edge of technology. Bethany will also discuss her experience as a leader on a Memorial student robotics team, and how that experience has helped her to excel in industry.

Presenter Biography: 

Bethany received her B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from Memorial University in 2014. During her time as a student, Bethany was a member of Eastern Edge Robotics, eventually becoming Electrical Team Lead. Following graduation, she moved into a role as an electrical engineer with Kraken Robotic Systems where she has worked on Kraken’s active towfish (KATFISH) and is the lead electrical engineer for Kraken’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: ThunderFish Alpha and ThunderFIsh XL.

Register Here!

https://mun.webex.com/mun/onstage/g.php?MTID=ed119d020b7e7110f5ae76677a433e3cd

Presented by Student Design Hub

Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2-3 p.m.

Online

The Assignment Tool in Brightspace provides instructors with a consistent location to collect student work. The tool has built-in grading features, and can be linked to the gradebook for an efficient way to return work and share student grades on their assignments. This session will walk you through the steps of setting up your assignments, submission folders, and restrictions as well as using the grading features. Special attention will be given to the Video Assignment tool.

This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow this link to register.

Presented by CITL

Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Online

Memorial offers over 100 graduate diploma, master’s, and doctoral degree program options across almost all disciplines. Join us for this free, interactive webinar in which we’ll cover admission requirements, program requirements, tuition fees, tips for finding a research supervisor, and advice on how to submit the best possible application. We’ll also answer any questions you might have to help you make the right choice on where and how to apply. Click here to register.

Offered by the School of Graduate Studies. For more information about graduate studies at Memorial University, please visit www.mun.ca/masterplan. 

Presented by School of Graduate Studies

Thursday, Sept. 16, 10-11 a.m.

Online

Using the Brightspace Grades Tool, including the grade book, allows you to keep all course grades in one place and gives students the opportunity to keep track of their performance. You can link your Brightspace assessments directly to the grade book, and at the end of the course have all the grades ready to transfer to Banner. This session will introduce the various features of the grades tool and demonstrate how to link different types of assessments to the grade book.

This session will be hosted in Webex. Registration is required for this event – please follow this link to register.

Presented by CITL

Thursday, Sept. 16, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

D. F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music

Announcing the first performance in Music at Memorial’s Fall 2021 Mainstage Concert Series!

Join us as we celebrate being together again at the D.F. Cook Recital Hall! Our Reopening Celebration will feature a variety of performances from our distinguished faculty including Florian Hoefner, Trinitas Chamber Ensemble, Bill Brennan, Rob Power, Étienne Gendron, Hillary Simms, and Mado Christie.

For a full schedule of events for our Fall 2021 Mainstage Concert Series, visit our website here.

Presented by School of Music

Friday, Sept. 17, 1-3 p.m.

Online

Faculty of Medicine; Titled: UNDERSTANDING SCHOOL FOOD IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR THROUGH A SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK

https://mun.webex.com/mun/j.php?MTID=m7cb6b92c41bc962602a8569f5bd529af

Presented by School of Graduate Studies

Saturday, Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Online

Registration is now open for the Ovarian Cancer Symposium 2021! This year the Symposium will be offered in an entirely virtual format, and registration is complimentary. To learn more and register, please visit https://www.med.mun.ca/oped/programs/4419

Thank you,

The OPED Team
Office of Professional and Educational Development
Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, Newfoundland
T 709 864 3358 | F 709 777-6032
www.med.mun.ca/oped

Presented by Office of Professional and Educational Development