More Archived Webinars
2020
Planning for Course Continuity
Monday, March 16th, 10:00am
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What faculty need to consider when continuing their face-to-face course to online delivery.
Blackboard for Beginners 鈥 Using Common Tools
Monday, March 16th, 1:00pm
Recording:
Learn how to navigate Blackboard and how to use basic tools such as create content items, send announcements and emails and create course assignments.
Communicating with Students in Blackboard
Tuesday, March 17th, 10:00am
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This webinar will go over how to create announcements, email, and discussions to effectively communicate with your students in Blackboard.
Recording Handwritten Content for Online Course Delivery
Tuesday, March 17th, 12:00pm
Recording:
Sometimes the only way to show students what you鈥檙e talking about is to write it out, and sometimes a keyboard doesn鈥檛 have the means to express complex concepts and processes such as equations, diagrams, annotations, etc. This webinar will showcase a range of hardware and software options available to instructors for recording handwritten content.
Panopto for Lecture Capture
Tuesday March 17th, 1:00pm
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Panopto can be used to record lectures or presentations for your students. Panopto is a lecture capture software that allows the user to include video, audio, screen capture and slides into a recording. Panopto is integrated with Blackboard and available from all spring 2020 Blackboard course shells.
Blackboard Collaborate for Synchronous Sessions
Wednesday, March 18th, 10:00am
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| Topic | Link |
|---|---|
| Part 1: Introduction to Collaborate Ultra | |
| Part 2: Creating a Session | |
| Part 3: Working With the Session Interface |
Use synchronous sessions to meet with your class or to meet with students individually. Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a real-time video conferencing tool that lets you add files, share applications, and use a virtual whiteboard to interact. Collaborate with the Ultra experience opens right in your browser, so you don't have to install any software to join a session.
Creating Assessments in Blackboard
Wednesday, March 18th, 1:00pm
Recording:
How to create a test, add questions, and make the test available to students in Blackboard.
Getting Started with Zoom Video Conferencing
Day and Time: Thursday, March 19th, at 1:00pm
Recording:
Zoom is a videoconferencing tool that enables participants to "join anywhere, on any device" from mobile to desktop. It can be used for distance learning, virtual meetings and collaboration sessions by providing video, audio, real-time messaging and content sharing in one application. This webinar will explore various features found in Zoom Meetings.
March for Best Practices Event
Day and Time: Friday, March 20th, 10:00am - 2:00pm
Keynote Presenter: Aaron Johnson, author of the text
Session Title: Strategies for a Successful Semester Online by Aaron Johnson.
10:00am - 11:00am: Teaching Online for Beginners
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This webinar is intended for those who are relatively new to teaching online. Shifting gears in the middle of the semester is a challenge for faculty and students. Attend this webinar to learn some basic online teaching practices that are easy to incorporate into your instruction, but can help motivate and engage your students, make use of remote communication, and support student success.
11:30am - 12:30pm: Motivating Online Students, Providing Students with Feedback
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In this webinar, we will begin by examining motivation for our online instruction 鈥 the 鈥渨hy鈥 for teaching online 鈥 we will reflect and connect with what motivates us. Then we shift from the why of teaching online to the how of providing students with feedback. What does the research says about feedback; what are some tools and tips for rich and helpful online feedback?
1:00pm 鈥 2:00pm: Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom
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In this webinar, we will explore best practices, tips and tools for instructor presence in your online course. We鈥檒l examine the language of professor presence. Perceiving professor presence through the eyes of the students.
Methods of Evaluating Students in an Online Course: Alternatives to High Stakes Testing
Thursday, March 26th, 11:00am
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This webinar has been added to the Keep Teaching Series to address methods of evaluating student performance in an online learning environment. During these challenging, rapidly changing events, students may be experiencing technological limitations related to the current demand for technology (e.g., webcams, laptops, tablets, etc.). The limitations to access these types of tools, traditionally used to ensure academic integrity in online testing, may require that you consider alternatives to evaluating your students鈥 performances in meeting learning objectives. In this webinar we will discuss several evaluation strategies that you may wish to consider using in your online classes.
Panopto Lecture Capture Training for Instructors (Provided by Panopto)
Thursday, March 26th, 1:00pm
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Learn how to create and share videos using Panopto for Windows or Mac, the mobile apps or by uploading files. Learn how to quickly edit your videos. Presented by Kathryn Kelly, Product Training Specialist at Panopto.
Engaging Students with Blackboard Discussions
Wednesday, April 1, 1:00 pm
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Learn how you can engage students in discussions utlizing the Blackboard discussions tool.
Creating Online Collaboration with Zoom
Thursday, April 2, 11:00am
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Workshop & open Q&A on Zoom features that create collaboration in online class environments.
Using VoiceThread in Blackboard (Provided by VoiceThread)
Thursday, April 2, 1:00pm
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In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons or assessments.
Blackboard Collaborate Breakout Rooms
Friday, April 3, 11:00am
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Join us in this Blackboard Collaborate session for a demonstration of using breakout rooms and discussion about using them in your course.
Blackboard Grade Center
Thursday, April 9th, 11:00am
Recording:
Blackboard Learn offers a fully-featured grade center. Our hope is that you can leave the webinar feeling confident in how to navigate the basic features of the grade center. We will demonstrate many functions such as needs needs grading, student grade information, filtering, weighted totals, categories, column organization and more.
Blackboard Grade Center
Thursday, April 16th, 11:00am
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Blackboard Learn offers a fully-featured grade center. Our hope is that you can leave the webinar feeling confident in how to navigate the basic features of the grade center. We will demonstrate many functions such as needs needs grading, student grade information, filtering, weighted totals, categories, column organization and more.
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Thursday, April 23rd, 11:00 am
Recording:
Learn how to engage your students with VoiceThread. Create presentations, have students create presentations, and conduct in-depth discussions with VoiceThread. This webinar will show how a PowerPoint or a presentation can create interesting dialogue and engage students with content, the instructor and other students in a variety of ways.