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Welcome to CAT Base, the new and improved CAT+FD wiki, designed to support programming by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Brightspace: Instructors Quick Start Tutorial — To successfully teach your courses, you must be able to utilize basic Brightspace tools. If you are not already familiar with Brightspace, or if you need a refresher, start here.
Customize Your Course Homepage in Brightspace — Customize your course homepages to enhance the course experience for your students.
Utilize Brightspace to Help Students Stay on Track
Allow Learners to Reflect on Their Learning
Engagement Strategies for Online Discussions in Brightspace
Facilitating Group Work in Your Brightspace Course
Using VoiceThread to Enhance Lectures and Discussions
Rethinking and Improving Online Tests in Brightspace
Using Alternative Assessments to Improve Student Learning
Inclusive Teaching in Mixed-Mode
Instructional Continuity — Anything from extreme weather to family emergencies can disrupt scheduled courses. An instructional continuity plan will assist you with continuing course delivery in the event of a disruption by minimizing the effects of the disruption.
#LearnEverywhereXULA (Online/Hybrid Instructor Tutorial)
Brightspace Small Plates — Timely tips from our award-winning blog.
See also our Brightspace FAQ as well as our Brightspace documents.

Achieving HTML Literacy — The mysterious code of web pages doesn't have to be so mysterious anymore.
AI²: Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity
Artificial Intelligence “Bootcamp” for Xavier Faculty Spring 2023 — explore the potential benefits and risks of AI, including the use of AI to improve your teaching and research
Content Curation for Teaching & Learning — The content curator is emerging as an important role in the 21st century.
How to create a personal website — These simple step-by-step instructions will guide you through the process of setting up a free personal website on WordPress.com.
Everybody's a Visual Learner
How to Make Excellent Video Lectures
Mastodon and Beyond: Our Federated Future
Using Camtasia
Using Feedly
Using VoiceThread for Teaching and Learning
Video help

Fall Faculty Book Club: During the fall semester CAT sponsors a book club for Xavier faculty.
Teaching Portfolio Working Group: Develop a portfolio as a scholarly project that provides documented evidence of teaching from a variety of sources.
P-MAX (Preparing Mentors and Advisors at Xavier): P-MAX is a training program that is designed to provide participating faculty with the knowledge and skills needed to mentor and advise undergraduate students, especially those engaged in research.
#LearnEverywhereXULA Advanced Certification
Xavier Faculty Writing Group

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 * [[Using VoiceThread to Enhance Lectures and Discussions]]
 * [[Rethinking and Improving Online Tests in Brightspace]]
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 * [[Inclusive Teaching in Mixed-Mode]]
 * [[Instructional Continuity]] — Anything from extreme weather to family emergencies can disrupt scheduled courses. An instructional continuity plan will assist you with continuing course delivery in the event of a disruption by minimizing the effects of the disruption.