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Teach in Ultra training is a self-paced training designed to introduce instructors to essential skills needed to be successful in the Blackboard. Learners will explore the basic functionality and tools needed to develop basic content and teach a course using the university adopted Learning Management System (LMS).

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff (Asynchronous Materials)
Target Audience: Faculty

Prerequisite: Previous completion or current enrollment in Teach in Ultra Workshop.

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Online Teaching Certification training is designed to prepare faculty to teach online and blended courses using the Blackboard Learn Ultra experience. In this course participants will explore best practices and theory in online course design and develop a plan for online teaching. An emphasis will be placed on Student engagement, instructor to student engagement, and instructional design for online teaching. Upon successfully completing this certification, you will have the option to claim a micro-credential, University issued electronic Badge.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Join the Faculty Center to learn about how to best prepare your courses as we roll into Spring 2025. In this session we will discuss how to roll your courses into the new term, explore how to make changes to your upcoming term course materials, and explore how to update due dates and release conditions.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty and Staff

Join the Faculty Center for a workshop on making your online content accessible to all your students. In this workshop you will learn how to turn your course materials into content that can be accessed by students of all abilities. Participants will learn how to use Ally, create a tagged PDF and accessible tables using Microsoft Word, add alt-text to images, and check for accessibility in Word and PowerPoint.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Does your Blackboard course feel a little dull? This workshop explores creative tools and techniques that can be used to spice up the look and feel of your Blackboard course. An emphasis will be placed on content formatting, media creation strategies, and course aesthetics. Regardless of your experience level there is something for everyone in this training opportunity.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you looking to incorporate videos or video assignments in your course? Have you heard about the video platforms VoiceThread and Panopto? Are you unsure about the differences and capabilities of these tools in Blackboard? This introductory session answers these questions and helps prepare instructors to complete the basic set up of these video platform tools in their course.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This session will provide an introduction into generative AI and how it can be used in the teaching and learning process. First, we’ll look into different options for drafting a syllabus AI policy. Is the use of AI prohibited or allowed in your course? Is it allowed for some assignments but not others? How should AI use be documented? Whatever the case may be, students need to be informed. Then, we’ll showcase the use of AI Assistant, a built-in AI tool in Blackboard and how it can be used to create rubrics, test questions, and assignment prompts. Resources for getting started with exploring AI tools will be shared at the end.

Presenter(s): Dr. Maja Grgurovic and Sadie Naughton
Target Audience: Faculty

Join the Faculty Center for a discussion on strategies for engaging learners in face-to-face and online environments. Participants of this session are encouraged to share their own ideas during this collaborative presentation and discussion.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to work with Blackboard. An overview will be provided of the basic functionality and layout in Blackboard. Participants will also learn how to create or modify content in their courses.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you familiar with how to assist your learners using Blackboard? Do you know how your learners experience your course? Are you comfortable introducing Blackboard to your learners? Do you know how to troubleshoot common learner problems frequently encountered in Blackboard? This workshop provides faculty and staff with guidance on how to introduce students to Blackboard and how to assist them with common technical problems.

Presenter(s): aculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to start teaching with Zoom. An overview will provide instructors on how to install Zoom, basic functionality, and some ideas for making your online meeting sessions more dynamic.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to work with Blackboard. An overview will be provided of the basic functionality and layout in Blackboard. Participants will also learn how to create or modify content in their courses.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This session provides an accessible overview of what AI is, introduces cutting-edge AI tools, and delves into the essential topic of AI ethics. Learn how to integrate AI into your workflow while maintaining the critical human touch that drives meaningful outcomes. From understanding the fundamentals of AI to exploring ethical considerations and practical applications, this session equips you with the knowledge and confidence to get started with AI in a way that enhances your expertise. Discover how AI and human insight can work together to achieve powerful results!

Presenter(s): Dr. Sheila Boysen, Dr. Scott Kerth and Dr. Maja Grgurovic
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop introduces various workflows to help assist you with your grading. In this session learners will discuss different strategies for reviewing student submissions and issuing learner feedback using the tools in Blackboard. This session will also demonstrate how to configure and manage your gradebook.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you concerned about plagiarism in your course writing assignments? This workshop provided by Turnitin will introduce faculty and staff to the Turnitin plagiarism detection tools that can be added by modifying your assessment settings.

Presenter(s): Kenneth Rogers - Turnitin & Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Jhis workshop focuses on how to construct various assessment types. During this workshop instructors will be introduced to creating assignments, discussions, journals, and tests. An emphasis will be placed on how to manage and reuse existing content for assessment purposes.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you concerned about plagiarism in your course writing assignments? This workshop provided by Turnitin will introduce faculty and staff to the Turnitin Feedback Studio plagiarism detection tools that can be added as part of the LTI1.3 tool integration.

Presenter(s): Kenneth Rogers - Turnitin & Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This session will give tips and tools to save time in course design, inspire quality assurance initiatives across campus, and create pedagogical innovations. By sharing examples from Quality Matters (QM) certified courses in chemistry and forensic science, participants will gain critical strategies to implement in their course today. By the end of the session, participants will be able to apply research-based best practices and QM standards for courses delivered not only online but in any modality. These strategies will save time not just once, but year after year. Collectively, these efforts will provide an equivalent learning experience for all students and create QM momentum across the institution. Never underestimate the power of small changes to course design because it can lead to academic innovation!

Presenter(s): Dr. Amy J. Heston, Walsh University
Target Audience: Faculty, Administrators, and Staff

Does your Blackboard course have rubrics to provide learners with feedback? This session introduces how to get started creating and managing rubrics using Blackboard. During this session we will discuss different rubric design principles. This session will also demonstrate how efficient it can be to grade with a rubric housed in Blackboard. Learners will also see how students receive instructor feedback.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you Interested in using Peer Review in your courses? Join us for this session presented by Turnitin on PeerMark. This workshop will introduce instructors to how to complete peer review using the Turnitin platform.

Presenter(s): Kenneth Rogers - Turnitin & Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

The Advance Topics in Blackboard Ultra workshop has been designed to provide training for specific aspects related to Blackboard Ultra. The training is not intended to substitute for Blackboard Orientation or Online Teaching Certification, but instead intended to serve as a more focused exploration of specific tools and features that instructors may choose to implement in their courses. Topics include leveraging groups, Turnitin, Respondus lockdown browser, and Ally Accessibility Checker.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Prerequisite: Previous completion or current enrollment in Teach in Ultra Workshop.

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Online Teaching Certification training is designed to prepare faculty to teach online and blended courses using the Blackboard Learn Ultra experience. In this course participants will explore best practices and theory in online course design and develop a plan for online teaching. An emphasis will be placed on Student engagement, instructor to student engagement, and instructional design for online teaching. Upon successfully completing this certification, you will have the option to claim a micro-credential, University issued electronic Badge.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty planning on teaching online or blended courses

Have you explored the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence in Blackboard? Have you considered how assistive AI might enhance your workflow and efficiency as an instructor? This workshop provides faculty and staff with an overview of what is possible using the built-in AI tools in Blackboard.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Join the Faculty Center for a discussion on strategies for engaging learners in face-to-face and online environments. Participants of this session are encouraged to share their own ideas during this collaborative presentation and discussion.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

IThis workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to work with Blackboard. An overview will be provided of the basic functionality and layout in Blackboard. Participants will also learn how to create or modify content in their courses.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you familiar with how to assist your learners using Blackboard? Do you know how your learners experience your course? Are you comfortable introducing Blackboard to your learners? Do you know how to troubleshoot common learner problems frequently encountered in Blackboard? This workshop provides faculty and staff with guidance on how to introduce students to Blackboard and how to assist them with common technical problems.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to start teaching with Zoom. An overview will provide instructors on how to install Zoom, basic functionality, and some ideas for making your online meeting sessions more dynamic.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to work with Blackboard. An overview will be provided of the basic functionality and layout in Blackboard. Participants will also learn how to create or modify content in their courses.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop introduces various workflows to help assist you with your grading. In this session learners will discuss different strategies for reviewing student submissions and issuing learner feedback using the tools in Blackboard. This session will also demonstrate how to configure and manage your gradebook.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop focuses on how to construct various assessment types. During this workshop instructors will be introduced to creating assignments, discussions, journals, and tests. An emphasis will be placed on how to manage and reuse existing content for assessment purposes.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Does your Blackboard course have rubrics to provide learners with feedback? This session introduces how to get started creating and managing rubrics using Blackboard. During this session we will discuss different rubric design principles. This session will also demonstrate how efficient it can be to grade with a rubric housed in Blackboard. Learners will also see how students receive instructor feedback.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty