The annual Faculty Summer Conference on Teaching and Learning is held two days in May each year. CLT's Faculty Summer Conference is open to faculty from across the Commonwealth, so invite your friends at other universities, colleges, or community colleges who might enjoy participating in this collegial discussion on teaching and learning.
The purpose of the Conference is to engage the Faculty in higher education from all across the Commonwealth in a discussion about best practices, tools, and research related to teaching and learning.
The outcome of the Summer Conference is intended to be a more reflective faculty community with increased awareness of and access to techniques and resources that will positively impact teaching and learning at the university.
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 6/3-6/9: 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.
This six-weeks Web-based workshop introduces faculty to a number of strategies foundational to effective online teaching. Based on the assumption that online teaching dynamics require different competencies and facilitation skills than those required in face-to-face teaching, this session will guide participants through the steps of planning, organizing, and facilitating online courses. Using the best practices from the field, attendees will find themselves actively engaged in using a systematic approach to the planning, organizing, facilitating, and evaluating of online courses. More specifically, the workshop will focus on:
Begins 6/3, Ends 7/21: 6-weeks ONLINE Web-based, Instructor-Led Workshop
The overall goal of this workshop is to provide opportunities for participants to explore and discuss online teaching strategies for best practices in delivering, interacting, engaging, facilitating, and collaborating with students while providing content in an asynchronous or synchronous environment.
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will use skills or concepts identified or practiced in the workshop to:
Online teaching dynamics require different competencies and facilitation skills than those required in face-to-face teaching, this online workshop will guide participants through the steps of planning, organizing, and facilitating online courses. Using the best practices from the field, attendees will find themselves actively engaged in using a systematic approach when planning, organizing, facilitating, and evaluating online courses.
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.
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Faculty will adopt more built-in features to improve efficiency in assessment.
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.
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..
The creation and deployment of a Faculty Website can create a one-stop location for faculty members to document teaching, research, and service for the university and for students to ‘meet’ their instructors as well as to receive immediate information on course, instructor, and student expectations.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore University resources for developing and maintaining their professional websites.
Faculty members will gather and organize material and content relative to their teaching, research, and services at ODU and and make them available on a faculty website using university resources.
Student engagement is critical for effective learning. You may engage your students through your presentations, through their interaction with your presentations or learning activities, or through their collaboration and interaction with others. Each session in this series will focus on one or more methods of engagement.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
In this workshop, participants will become familiar with the Blackboard workspace and how to utilize the basic course menu and control panel tools. Participants will consider their expectations for using Blackboard and time will be dedicated to exploring common practices in the default configuration and options for customization.
Begins 6/17, Ends 6/23: 1-week ONLINE Web-based, Self-Paced Workshop
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Faculty members who have a basic understanding of the learning management system are able to get started on their own and also feel comfortable exploring other options as they become increasingly familiar with the environment. Students will benefit from engaging with a well-informed, technology-ready instructor.
Student engagement is critical for effective learning. You may engage your students through your presentations, through their interaction with your presentations or learning activities, or through their collaboration and interaction with others. Each session in this series will focus on one or more methods of engagement.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
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 7/8-7/14: 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.
The creation and deployment of a Faculty Website can create a one-stop location for faculty members to document teaching, research, and service for the university and for students to ‘meet’ their instructors as well as to receive immediate information on course, instructor, and student expectations.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore University resources for developing and maintaining their professional websites.
Faculty members will gather and organize material and content relative to their teaching, research, and services at ODU and and make them available on a faculty website using university resources.
Student engagement is critical for effective learning. You may engage your students through your presentations, through their interaction with your presentations or learning activities, or through their collaboration and interaction with others. Each session in this series will focus on one or more methods of engagement.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
In this workshop, participants will become familiar with the Blackboard workspace and how to utilize the basic course menu and control panel tools. Participants will consider their expectations for using Blackboard and time will be dedicated to exploring common practices in the default configuration and options for customization.
Begins 7/22, Ends 7/28: 1-week ONLINE Web-based, Self-Paced Workshop
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Faculty members who have a basic understanding of the learning management system are able to get started on their own and also feel comfortable exploring other options as they become increasingly familiar with the environment. Students will benefit from engaging with a well-informed, technology-ready instructor.
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.
Student engagement is critical for effective learning. You may engage your students through your presentations, through their interaction with your presentations or learning activities, or through their collaboration and interaction with others. Each session in this series will focus on one or more methods of engagement.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
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 8/5-8/11: 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.
Accessibility for Instructional Materials
Do your instructional materials meet Web accessibility standards? Are the course materials you create (your videos and PowerPoint presentations, e.g.) ADA-compliant?
This workshop will introduce the standards and best practices that instructors should follow when designing online instructional materials or other course content. Topics range from creating accessible text, graphics, and video/audio to how to implement Universal Design for Learning. The instructor’s role in meeting ODU students’ accessibility needs will be discussed throughout. Activities include reformatting content in Blackboard for accessibility. Bring Word docs, PPTs, videos, etc. to be workshopped, if you wish.
This workshop is offered in Gornto Hall or via Web conference. Please notify us at least *24 hours* in advance if you wish to attend using WebEx--we must send you the workshop link.
Student engagement is critical for effective learning. You may engage your students through your presentations, through their interaction with your presentations or learning activities, or through their collaboration and interaction with others. Each session in this series will focus on one or more methods of engagement.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
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.
The creation and deployment of a Faculty Website can create a one-stop location for faculty members to document teaching, research, and service for the university and for students to ‘meet’ their instructors as well as to receive immediate information on course, instructor, and student expectations.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore University resources for developing and maintaining their professional websites.
Faculty members will gather and organize material and content relative to their teaching, research, and services at ODU and and make them available on a faculty website using university resources.
In this workshop, participants will become familiar with the Blackboard workspace and how to utilize the basic course menu and control panel tools. Participants will consider their expectations for using Blackboard and time will be dedicated to exploring common practices in the default configuration and options for customization.
Begins 8/19, Ends 8/25: 1-week ONLINE Web-based, Self-Paced Workshop
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Faculty members who have a basic understanding of the learning management system are able to get started on their own and also feel comfortable exploring other options as they become increasingly familiar with the environment. Students will benefit from engaging with a well-informed, technology-ready instructor.
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.
Student engagement is critical for effective learning. You may engage your students through your presentations, through their interaction with your presentations or learning activities, or through their collaboration and interaction with others. Each session in this series will focus on one or more methods of engagement.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
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.
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Faculty will adopt more built-in features to improve efficiency in assessment.
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..
Last updated October 27, 2017.