Collaborating with Teaching & Learning Innovations (TLI) connects educators and staff with a team of specialists dedicated to supporting engaging, inclusive, and high-quality learning experiences. TLI works across disciplines providing services and supports that include curricular and instructional design, course development, educational technology, assessment practices, and incorporating Indigenous perspectives into teaching and learning. By collaborating early in your course or program planning, you can streamline curriculum reviews, align with institutional priorities, and create a stronger foundation for student success.
From developing new programs to enhancing digital learning environments, TLI helps transform creative ideas into practical, effective solutions. The team offers hands-on support, workshops, evidence-based strategies, and collaborative guidance that bring your teaching vision to life, whether through innovative course design, accessible learning materials, or new approaches to assessment and feedback, our team is available to collaborate.
Every successful project starts with dialogue and shared vision. If you’re developing a new idea, course, or program, TLI is here to collaborate and guide the process. Click “Engage with TLI” to begin your collaboration and connect with the right members of our team.
Whether you're just getting started or looking to enhance your course, our Brightspace Knowledge Base offers step-by-step tutorials, helpful guides, and expert tips to make building your course easier and more effective.
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Quizzes & exams
Review your full exam and every question, including all questions in randomized pools. Check answers, marks, images, permitted resources, timing and individual accommodations, and offer an ungraded practice quiz.
November 1 reminder
B.C. will not turn clocks back on November 1, 2026. Check deadlines on or after this date and your computer and Brightspace time zone settings both before and after November 1. Keep browsers and software up to date. If deadlines need correcting, use Manage Dates to shift selected dates forward or backward by one hour, as needed, then confirm the results.
Grades & feedback
Organize grade items and categories, remove unused items, reorder assessments and adjust weights.
Final grades
Configure the Banner Grades scheme, review final grades and export them to Banner.
Course content
Add a download link to a content page so learners can open and work with the original spreadsheet.
Grades & feedback
Remove the association between a quiz or assignment and its grade item before deleting it.
Communication
Email your whole class, selected learners or students who have not submitted an assignment.
Quizzes & exams
Randomly select questions from a larger collection to give learners different versions of a quiz.
Whether you're seeking ways to engage your students in-person or online, or exploring alternative assessments, EduSavvy has you covered.
What sets EduSavvy apart is that the perspectives shared stem directly from instructors and faculty members at Okanagan College.
If you're keen on exchanging teaching and learning ideas with peers from all campuses, feel free to reach out via email at Teaching and Learning Innovations.
Our team helps educators develop a consistent experience
We can help shape various engagement approaches, so students stay active in your course.
Learning and Applied Research is able to assist you in a variety of ways, such as:
Guiding and helping shape your courses and pedagogy so students can best acquire the knowledge.
We can help with strategies and techniques to assess student’s understanding of a subject.
We can help shape various engagement approaches, so students stay active in your course.
The program and course curriculum are foundational to quality programming. Curriculum renewal is a process to examine currency of content and learning outcomes as they relate to the subject or discipline. Learning and Applied Research support faculty and instructors individually or in groups in examining core content and strategies for updating curriculum.
Renewal discussions, exploration and reflection are intended to support faculty and instructors in examining curriculum based on curriculum design principles and development.
As part of Okanagan College’s mission, vision and values, the Program Review and Renewal process plays a pivotal role in each of these key areas. The Program Review and Renewal process is intended to ensure that the knowledge, experiential learning, and training students obtain in their program will position them to excel in the workplace, succeed in further education, and become lifelong learners.
Read more about the program review and renewal process here.
Ben is an Educational Technology Coordinator at Okanagan College, a role he has held since July 2022. He works collaboratively across the institution to support the strategic, effective, and inclusive use of educational technologies in teaching and learning.
His background includes teaching digital media and creative technologies in post-secondary and higher education institutions in both the UK and Canada. He brings extensive experience with industry-standard tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and Final Cut Pro, applying this expertise to support digital learning design, media-rich course development, and accessible content creation.
At Okanagan College, Ben’s work spans partnerships with faculty, academic leadership, and service areas to align pedagogical priorities with sustainable technology practices. He contributes to initiatives that support online, hybrid, and flexible delivery models, enhance the digital learning environment, and strengthen the overall quality and consistency of the student learning experience.
Credentials:
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Leeds Beckett University
MA, Contemporary Fine Art Practice, Leeds Beckett University
BA (Hons), Fine Art, University of Leeds
Linda joined Okanagan College as a Teaching and Learning Advisor in October 2023. With 17 years of post-secondary teaching and learning experiences involving action research and curriculum writing projects, she brings creativity, innovation and a touch of humor and fun to her work. Linda’s areas of expertise encompass Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, with an emphasis on experiential learning, as well as, Early Childhood Education and Development, the Reggio Approach and Outdoor Pedagogical strategies for all ages of learners.
Credentials:
M. Ed., Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary
BA (Hons) Child and Youth Care Studies, University of Victoria
