TAOR 2025 Brightspace available for new grad TAs

The Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) is offering a self-paced Teaching Assistant Orientation (TAOR) via Brightspace for graduate students new to teaching this fall at Purdue’s locations in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. 

The TAOR 2025 Brightspace is a self-paced, asynchronous curriculum. Modules will provide graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) with guidance on creating effective student-centered learning environments, operationalizing their roles as GTAs, navigating their teaching context, and professional development resources and opportunities available to them at Purdue. There is no certificate of completion associated with TAOR, but access to it will continue through the 2025-2026 academic year. 

GTAs interested in obtaining access to the TAOR 2025 Brightspace may contact their undergraduate coordinator or email CIE@Purdue.edu with the following information: Last name; First name; Career account username (from the Purdue directory); and Purdue email. 

CIE is a member of Innovative Learning, Purdue’s hub approach to connect instructional teams to the resources they need to engage students, develop courses in any instructional modality, and enhance learning across the University. Other Innovative Learning members include Libraries and the School of Information Studies and Purdue University Online.