In 2003, Bazely received York University's Faculty of Science and Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2013, she was awarded York University's President's University-Wide Teaching Awards, in the senior full-time faculty category, in recognition of time spent on preparing and innovating the courses she teaches. Bazely was also recognized as a "Hotshot Professor" in the Globe and Mail's 2014 Canadian University Report. In a The Washington Post editorial, Bazely writes that she uses editing Wikipedia pages as a tool to teach her students the skills of HTML-style coding. Bazely also co-sponsors a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at York University.
