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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 Tutorials

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.
Design Course to Facilitate Learning
- Customize Your Course Homepage in Brightspace — Customize your course homepages to enhance the course experience for your students.
- Proactive Strategies for Academic Integrity
Helping Learners Stay on Track
- Utilize Brightspace to Help Students Stay on Track
Accessing Learners
Collaborative 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

Faculty Portfolio Working Group: Develop a portfolio as a scholarly project that provides documented evidence of teaching from a variety of sources.
Fall Faculty Book Club: During the fall semester CAT sponsors a book club for Xavier faculty.
#LearnEverywhereXULA Advanced Certification
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.
Part-time Faculty Support: Links and resources for new and returning part-time faculty members.
Xavier Faculty Writing Group: Each semester, the Xavier Faculty Writing Group provides a supportive community for teacher-scholars to further their academic writing.