BMCC Faculty Collaboratory

09/16/2026

Creating Accessible PDF Files - 9/18 -

This workshop empowers BMCC faculty to create accessible PDFs that ensure all students can engage fully with course materials. Participants will learn practical techniques for identifying and fixing common accessibility issues using available MS Office tools (Word/Powerpoint/Excel) and Brightspace.....

09/14/2026

Sharing Library Resources with Students in Brightspace - 9/16 -

Give your students easier, more affordable access to high‑quality academic materials by integrating library resources directly into your Brightspace course. In this workshop, learn how to locate, link, and embed a wide range of library content, including e-books, articles, streaming media, and sub...

09/14/2026

Faculty CoLab Newsletter - Week of 9/14/2026 -

09/11/2026

Improving Course Accessibility: Working with Ally in Brightspace - 9/16 -

Learn how you can use the Ally tool in Brightspace to review your course materials and make simple changes to improve course accessibility. Ally flags items that do not meet accessibility guidelines and provides step-by-step instructions about how to make them more accessible. In this workshop, we.....

09/11/2026

Brightspace Bistro: Course Organization - 9/16 -

Join us at this Brightspace Bistro to hear how your colleagues are organizing their course sites in Brightspace and to share your own ideas/questions. We'll start with short presentations from Carlo Diego and Susan Licwinko, who will walk us through how they organize their Brightspace sites and the....

09/10/2026

Creating Accessible Digital Course Materials: An Overview - 9/14 -

Integrating a few basic practices is a first step towards ensuring that all students can engage with course materials on the first day of class. While designed to provide equitable access to individuals with disabilities, these practices enhance usability, flexibility, and the overall learning exper...

09/08/2026

Social Annotation with Hypothesis: A Deeper Dive - 9/10 -

Are you a Hypothesis user looking to deepen your knowledge? Learn about the many ways you can use Hypothesis, including image annotation and video annotation. We’ll also answer questions about the tool and brainstorm ways you might use it to engage students in your classes.  

09/08/2026

Cleaning Up Your Copied Brightspace Courses - 9/10 -

So you’ve copied an existing course into your new course site – now what? Whether your course is coming from a few semesters ago, all the way from Blackboard, or even just from last semester – there will certainly be things that you’ll want to attend to before your students arrive. Time to t...

09/08/2026

Hypothesis Annotation: A Deeper Dive - 9/10 -

Are you a Hypothesis user looking to deepen your knowledge? Learn about the many ways you can use Hypothesis, including image annotation and video annotation. We’ll also answer questions about the tool and brainstorm ways you might use it to engage students in your classes.