This workshop is designed for staff who will be facilitating an organization in Blackboard. Organizations are NON-CREDIT sites in Blackboard that allow for administrative departments and other non-credit units to provide training to the university community. Examples of training include, but are not limited to: network security training and sexual harassment awareness.
Available 11/12-11/18: 1-day ONLINE Web-based, Self-Paced Workshop
At the conclusion of the workshop, the Blackboard Organization Leader will be able to request an organization, manage enrollment in an organization, and will know a variety of media types that can be utilized in a non-credit training or information site in Blackboard.
Organization leaders will be able to manage and facilitate their online training and information sites.
During these open house format sessions, CLT staff will be available to help you answer the questions you have about the university's instructional technologies such as the Blackboard learning management system, Adobe Connect online meetings, WebEx web conferencing, Google Apps (Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Forms, etc.), WordPress, Respondus and Respondus LockDown Browser, etc.
You may have questions about how to incorporate them into your courses; the appropriate time to use them; strategies to implement them; or tips and tricks for efficiency while using them.
Bring your questions!
After attending the session, participants will be able to:
After this open house, just-in-time type of session, participants will be more informed about the tools that they use and will have the opportunity to interact with other participants, learning from each other as well as learning from the staff on call.
If you have course content in Blackboard already, you have probably wished you could leverage it and not have to "start over" each semester. You CAN! In this workshop, learn how to reuse and update existing course content and course design to save time between semesters.
If you do NOT have course content in Blackboard already, you can benefit from this workshop in that you will get a glimpse into the future and know what to expect. This will help you plan ahead as you put together your first course site. You can also consider taking one of the Blackboard Jumpstart or Getting Started workshops to learn about the basic editing features.
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
Participants will discover ways to save time and feel more comfortable reusing course content and structure semester to semester.
Prerequisite: Getting Started with Blackboard or equivalent experience in Blackboard.
Description: Several features in Blackboard are available to streamline your assessment processes. Online assignment submission; online testing; automatic grading options; grading with rubrics; color-coding the grade center; providing feedback quickly using text, audio, or video; anonymous grading; and university-licensed software packages are a few of the features that can help you manage assessment.
In this session, we will focus on using Respondus to help you manage online tests.
If you are looking for an easier way to load your exams and questions into your Blackboard course site? Respondus is university licensed tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard. You can also use Respondus to download the results of a Blackboard exam for your records.
During this workshop you will learn the steps to download and install your copy of Respondus onto your Windows system. The formatting of exams, questions, and answer selections will be explained and practiced during this hands on session. Finally, you will learn the steps needed to upload an exam directly into your BlackBoard course site where you students can take the exam online.
•Download and install Respondus 4.0 onto a Windows-based computer
•Format an exam in Plain Text or Word format, using a variety of question types, for use with Respondus
•Upload the exam into a Blackboard course site as either a Blackboard test or Question Pool
•Review and configure the exam for delivery
•Download an existing exam from Blackboard onto your computer
If you have a Windows-based laptop, feel free to have it with you at the workshop so you can install the Respondus application onto your own system to take back home or to your office. However, CLT will have lab computers that you can use to experience the installation process.
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Faculty will adopt more built-in features to improve efficiency in assessment.
Adobe Connect is an online meeting tool where faculty and students can engage in synchronous collaboration using text, audio, and video. Participants in online meetings can also share applications and a whiteboard during the meeting.
Because the online workshop is self-paced, some participants will prefer to and be able to allocate time to finish very quickly and others may need to work at a slower pace. There are no deadlines except to finish within 7 days. The estimated time to complete the workshop in one session is 2 hours.
Begins 11/26-12/2: 1-week ONLINE Web-based, Self-Paced Workshop
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Additional skills may include:
A greater number of participants will utilize a variety of available tools in the meeting space to facilitate interactive and collaborative activities.
If you have course content in Blackboard already, you have probably wished you could leverage it and not have to "start over" each semester. You CAN! In this workshop, learn how to reuse and update existing course content and course design to save time between semesters.
If you do NOT have course content in Blackboard already, you can benefit from this workshop in that you will get a glimpse into the future and know what to expect. This will help you plan ahead as you put together your first course site. You can also consider taking one of the Blackboard Jumpstart or Getting Started workshops to learn about the basic editing features.
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
Participants will discover ways to save time and feel more comfortable reusing course content and structure semester to semester.
This series of workshops is designed to offer you suggestions for managing your Distance Learning course and the accompanying web conferencing tools.
The goal of these sessions is to provide opportunities for faculty to become more informed about how best to manage a Distance Learning course. At the end of these sessions, participants will be able to locate and use administrative resources available to broadcast faculty.
Participants will feel confident in locating helpful resources and in managing the logistics or mechanics of delivering a Distance Learning course.
Prerequisite: Getting Started with Blackboard or equivalent experience.
Blackboard offers many features that can be used by students to submit their work in your courses such as assignment links, blogs, journals, wikis, discussion board, and tests and surveys. Similarly, Blackboard offers many features that you use to grade and provide feedback for those features quickly and efficiently.
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
The overall goal of the workshop is to provide opportunities for participants to explore and practice grading options for course assignments, projects, assessments, etc. Teachers using Blackboard will be able to identify Blackboard tools that will help them to reduce time spent grading and providing feedback..
Prerequisite: None
In this fast paced, focused session you will learn the critical skills necessary when using Blackboard, particularly if you are using it for the first time and need to get your course ready quickly. It’s also a great opportunity for those who have been using Blackboard for a while to refresh their view and see how Blackboard has changed over the past several years. Topics will include: course management, content organization, basic communication, and using the Grade Center.
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
First-time users of Blackboard will launch their courses with the basic configurations they identify as critical for their students' experience.
The purpose of this workshop is to increase participants' knowledge about and comfort level using either WebEx or Blackboard Ultra Collaborate as a communication and collaboration tool. All faculty and staff have access to WebEx. Faculty and staff with access to Blackboard can use Blackboard Ultra Collaborate. Participants will benefit from this session by learning how to use either of these products for small groups and online (virtual) office hours.
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
Faculty and staff provide more options and flexibility in scheduling meetings for colleagues or students who are in their immediate vicinity and those who are not.
Learn how to incorporate your favorite apps into your pedagogical strategy! This workshop will explore choosing apps to fit your instructional needs and will discuss using apps to engage your students and enrich their learning. It will also provide examples of how to create interactive activities with select iPad apps.
In this session, you will explore how to create interactive activities with different iPad apps such as HP Reveal, BaiBoard 3, Adobe Spark Video, Ideament, TED, Socrative, Blackboard Learn, or Spark Page, as time permits. By the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
By the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Participants will integrate mobile apps as supplemental tools and resources for their instructional materials, as well as utilize them to create engaging environments for their students.
This series of workshops is designed to offer you suggestions for managing your Distance Learning course and the accompanying web conferencing tools.
Begins 12/3, Ends 12/9: 1-week ONLINE Web-based, Self-Paced Workshop
This session will focus on Distance Learning (DL) Proctoring.
Become familiar with what’s new in DL proctoring for Spring 2019.
The goal of these sessions is to provide opportunities for faculty to become more informed about how best to manage a Distance Learning course. At the end of these sessions, participants will be able to locate and use administrative resources available to broadcast faculty.
Participants will feel confident in locating helpful resources and in managing the logistics or mechanics of delivering a Distance Learning course.
During these open house format sessions, CLT staff will be available to help you answer the questions you have about the university's instructional technologies such as the Blackboard learning management system, Adobe Connect online meetings, WebEx web conferencing, Google Apps (Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Forms, etc.), WordPress, Respondus and Respondus LockDown Browser, etc.
You may have questions about how to incorporate them into your courses; the appropriate time to use them; strategies to implement them; or tips and tricks for efficiency while using them.
Bring your questions!
After attending the session, participants will be able to:
After this open house, just-in-time type of session, participants will be more informed about the tools that they use and will have the opportunity to interact with other participants, learning from each other as well as learning from the staff on call.
This series of workshops is designed to offer you suggestions for managing your Distance Learning course and the accompanying web conferencing tools.
This session will focus on Distance Learning (DL) Proctoring.
Become familiar with what’s new in DL proctoring for Spring 2019.
The goal of these sessions is to provide opportunities for faculty to become more informed about how best to manage a Distance Learning course. At the end of these sessions, participants will be able to locate and use administrative resources available to broadcast faculty.
Participants will feel confident in locating helpful resources and in managing the logistics or mechanics of delivering a Distance Learning course.
During these open house format sessions, CLT staff will be available to help you answer the questions you have about the university's instructional technologies such as the Blackboard learning management system, Adobe Connect online meetings, WebEx web conferencing, Google Apps (Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Forms, etc.), WordPress, Respondus and Respondus LockDown Browser, etc.
You may have questions about how to incorporate them into your courses; the appropriate time to use them; strategies to implement them; or tips and tricks for efficiency while using them.
Bring your questions!
After attending the session, participants will be able to:
After this open house, just-in-time type of session, participants will be more informed about the tools that they use and will have the opportunity to interact with other participants, learning from each other as well as learning from the staff on call.
Last updated October 27, 2017.