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Academic Affairs: Center for Teaching Excellence

Thank you for visiting the Center for Teaching Excellence virtual page, where you can find helpful resources related to Brightspace, instructional best practices, assessment design, grading guidance, instructor professional development opportunities, and more.
Have a question, need help, or have feedback for CTE? Reach out to us at ycccctesupport@mainecc.edu or come visit us in Room 203.

JJ Dufort
Director of Learning
jdufort@mainecc.edu
207.216.4383

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Live Brightspace Workshops

As part of the MCCS Brightspace package, we get three D2L trainings per year. You're encouraged to attend any of the following workshops on Zoom. If we are able to record them we will post them here. No registration is needed, the links listed below are the direct links for the Zoom session.


Meet the CTE Team

JJ Dufort, Ed.D, Director of Learning


JJ has been an educator for 24 years. She has served in the K-12 space in Maine as a teacher and as a curriculum leader, and has been a member of the YC community as an instructor for over 16 years. She earned her Ed.D in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Carolina and is excited to leverage her experience and education to support the YC community. As the Director of Learning in Academic Affairs she is your go-to contact for assessment expertise, instructional strategies, and curriculum initiatives. She is well-versed in online, in-person, and hybrid instructional strategies. In her free time, JJ enjoys road tripping, reading, and hiking.

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Chris Watkinson, Workforce Instructional Designer
   

 

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Updates, Outages, and Remedies

Technology is constantly changing, and sometimes that means you may experience some technical difficulties in your courses. Here you'll find a list of current known updates and outages alongside action needed or suggested remedies. 

UPDATES: LTI 1.1 links will no longer be available in Brightspace, impacting the use of external learning tools such as McGraw Hill Connect, Cengage Mindtap, Labster, and similar third-party tools as of Friday, May 10th, 2024. Instructors should instead be using LTI 1.3 links, which can be inserted using "Existing Activities" in a Brightspace module. Resources and tutorials will be available soon. Summer instructors who are seeing "Broken Topic" items in their courses can reach out to CTESupport@yccc.edu for assistance.  

Brightspace Updates and Releases

The following videos provide quick overviews of Brightspace updates. Note that some updates are not relevant to YC and videos are snipped as possible to skip the non-YC material. 

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