Faculty Training
Integrating Blackboard into your Course
These Blackboard training sessions are offered to faculty members who are interested in learning how to
use Blackboard in their classes. The sessions are offered on Friday mornings in GM 118. Registration is not required, and faculty members are free to pick and choose the sessions they would like to attend.
In addition to these training workshops, GM 118 will be available as an open lab on Friday noon to 3:00pm
for instructors who would like individualized attention from our staff members. Faculty may also wish to view the
Blackboard Guidelines (PDF).
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Getting Started Using Blackboard
This workshop guides participants through the basic tasks and decisions required to set up a course.
Getting Started Using Blackboard workshop description (pdf).
- September 5, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
- September 12, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Mastering the Grade Center
This workshop provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the Grade Center tool.
Mastering the Grade Center workshop description (pdf).
- September 5, 2008, 9:30am to noon, BE 282
- September 12, 2008, 9:30am to noon, BE 282
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Presenting Content in Blackboard
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to planning, organizing, and presenting content in the Blackboard environment.
Presenting Content in Blackboard workshop description (pdf).
- September 19, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Communicating with Students
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the Blackboard tools used to keep students informed and to communicate with them.
Communicating with Students workshop description (pdf).
- September 26, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Making the Most of Discussions
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the Discussion Board tool.
Making the Most of Discussions workshop description (pdf).
- October 3, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Managing Groups and Assignments
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to using the Groups and Assignments tools.
Managing Groups and Assignments workshop description (pdf).
- October 10, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Creating and Grading Assessments
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the Assessment function of Blackboard, with a focus on creating and grading tests.
Creating and Grading Assessments workshop description (pdf).
- October 17, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Keeping Students on Track
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the tools that help instructors keep students on track and improve retention and results.
Keeping Students on Track workshop description (pdf).
- October 17, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
New Training Sessions
Has the pulse of your course flat lined? Does your course need CPR? (Consistency, Personality and Relevance)
If you answered "yes", then this presentation series is just what the doctor prescribed to revitalize your course and bring it back to life. These fun and interactive sessions will cover different types of multimedia and how they can be effectively applied to your face-to-face courses to improve learning.
The sessions are offered on Friday mornings in GM 118. Registration is not required, and faculty members are free to pick and choose the sessions they would like to attend. If you have any questions, please call Dawn Singh at 734-677-5480 or email at .
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PowerPoint
This workshop enables users to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations. Add visuals, animation effects, voice narration, video and sound to direct focus to different information during a slide show and add interest to the presentation.
- November 7, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Camtasia
This workshop enables users to record, edit and publish rich screen video presentations. You can easily create training, demonstrations, and presentations. Connect with your audience by including screen recordings, audio, voice narration, PowerPoint, Picture-in-Picture and webcam video. Edit and enhance your video with callouts, titles, credits, zooming, panning, additional audio tracks and even quizzes. Camtasia Studio's extensive editing options are at your fingertips. Finally you can publish in a variety of video formats that you will be able to share on the Web, CD or DVD.
- November 14, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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SoftChalk and Hot Potatoes
This workshop enables users to create engaging, interactive web lessons for your face to face classroom. You can create professional-looking, interactive content without knowing any HTML or programming. It's easy to engage your students in creating interactive learning games, including customizable flashcards, image labeling, image hotspot activities, matching games, jumbled-sentence, crosswords and more. Package your lessons for delivery via CD-ROM or integrate with your Bb course web site.
- November 21, 2008, 9:30am to noon, GM 118
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Quandary
This workshop enables users to create web-based interactive case-studies. The user is presented with a situation and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree case study approach is like negotiating a maze. Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires.
- December 5, 2008, 9:30 to noon, GM 118
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