Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning News Archive

June 29, 2022 — 
Meeting students where they live by considering equity, diversity and inclusion

June 29, 2022 — 
Much of Alexa Hryniuk’s success has been a result of integrating experiential learning, whereby students “learn by doing” and reflect on the experience.

June 28, 2022 — 
iClicker Roster and Grade Sync allows instructors to easily retrieve the student roster from UM Learn (Brightspace) into iClicker Cloud and sync iClicker polling scores with the UM Learn course's gradebook.

May 18, 2022 — 
The Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception recognizes the importance of teaching and teachers’ impacts on students’ educational journeys where 20 graduating students select two educators who made an impression on their learning: one from their K-12 years, and one from their time at UM.

May 13, 2022 — 
Every year, each faculty at the University of Manitoba nominates an outstanding student who is then invited to recognize two teachers who played an instrumental role in their educational journey, one from their early school years (K to grade 12) and one from university. Both teachers are then honoured at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning’s Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception. The Faculty of Law’s Outstanding Student for 2022 is Shawn Singh, a third-year law student and a fellow of the President’s Student Leadership Program. As fate would have it, the professor he chose to recognize at last Thursday’s reception was Assistant Professor Brandon Trask, who was also a Faculty of Law Outstanding Student Award recipient when he graduated – in 2012.

May 2, 2022 — 
New Webex app launches May 2, 2022. Be sure to update before the first day of class.

October 20, 2021 — 
More than 2,300 members of the University of Manitoba community have tried YuJa Video since it launched Sept. 1.

September 22, 2021 — 
Teaching and Learning Certificate program celebrates 2021 graduates

September 1, 2021 — 
As of Sept. 1, 2021, YuJa Video is available to all faculty, staff and students at the University of Manitoba through UM Learn.

June 14, 2021 — 
Looking for help in preparing for your Summer Term 2021 online final exams? Check out The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning's Final Exams: Help support and extended hours webpage.