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.
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.
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.
This session will focus on using VoiceThread in Groups.
Prerequisite: Prior experience with VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a collaboration tool available in Blackboard that allows faculty and students to share and discuss content with text, images, audio and video. VoiceThread combines a media player with interactive tools to facilitate online discussions and media-based feedback. During this session, you will
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.
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..
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 10/1, Ends 10/7: 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.
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.
Web 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.
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.
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.
This session will focus on engaging your students with VIDEO.
Explore options for creating video, for embedding video from other sources without breaking copyright restrictions, and explore using YouTube, Kaltura, or other "mashup" tools to integrate video into your Blackboard course sites.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
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 10/15, Ends 11/30: 6-week 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.
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.
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.
This session will focus on visual presentation using cloud-based platforms.
Learn about new ways to make your visual presentation more compelling and dynamic. This session will highlight tools and techniques for adding nonlinear elements that can enhance your presentation design. Software tools – such as Adobe Spark, Microsoft Sway, Prezi, and Canva – will be showcased.
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Participants will understand how to use various design concepts from cloud based presentation software to utilize for their presentations.
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
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.
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 10/22-10/28: 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.
Have you ever wondered:
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Those participating in the workshop will evaluate and integrate relevant online tools into their teaching practices. They will also share their experiences with colleagues.
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..
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.
This session will focus on using groups in VoiceThread.
Prerequisite: Prior experience with VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a collaboration tool available in Blackboard that allows faculty and students to share and discuss content with text, images, audio and video. VoiceThread combines a media player with interactive tools to facilitate online discussions and media-based feedback. During this session, you will
Participants will be able to:
Those who use multiple forms of enagement should find that their student satisfaction and performance increase over time.
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.
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.
This session is ONLINE in Blackboard and will be available November 5 through November 11.
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.
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.
Have you ever wondered:
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Those participating in the workshop will evaluate and integrate relevant online tools into their teaching practices. They will also share their experiences with colleagues.
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.
This session will focus on engaging your students with VIDEO.
Explore options for creating video, for embedding video from other sources without breaking copyright restrictions, and explore using YouTube, Kaltura, or other "mashup" tools to integrate video into your Blackboard course sites.
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 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.