Events

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Oct

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

October 14, 2015, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

Description

Showing students how to navigate a course or a new program can take up valuable instruction time in class. Screencasting allows instructors to easily record and upload short tutorial videos to...

View Event Details for Flipping Out Screencasting and You! CANCELLED!

Oct

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

October 14, 2015, 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm

Description

Discover which students in your course are at risk. Track students, get early insight into student performance, and check the overall academic health of your class. Apply best practices for...

View Event Details for Student Outreach & Retention (SOAR) with Bb CANCELLED!

Oct

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

October 7, 2015, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

Description

Rubrics can help students organize their efforts to meet the requirements of an assignment, and you can use them to explain evaluations to students. Rubrics can help ensure consistent and...

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Oct

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

October 7, 2015, 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm

Description

Creating assessments and assignments in Blackboard can ease the pain of collecting stacks of papers and/or grading scantrons. In this session, participants will explore how to create and deploy...

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Sep

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

September 30, 2015, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

Description

Box is an online file sharing system that users can access from multiple devices (computers, smart phones, and tablets). Box also allows users to easily share files and folders with others. In...

View Event Details for Organizing Your Course Content in Box

Sep

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

September 30, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Looking for a fun way to engage your students in the classroom? Then join us on Wednesday, September 30th, for a clicker workshop with our Turning Technologies representative, Wesley Best. The...

View Event Details for Turning Point Clicker Workshop!

Sep

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

September 23, 2015, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm

Description

The achievements tool allows instructors to designate criteria for issuing rewards to students in the form of both badges and certificates. Students can see which rewards they’ve earned, providing...

View Event Details for Using Achievements to Motivate Students CANCELLED!

Sep

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

September 23, 2015, 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm

Description

You're a face-to-face instructor, so why do you have a Blackboard shell, and why should you care? This workshop will show you both pedagogical and technical reasons face-to-face instructors should...

View Event Details for Why Do I Need Blackboard? CANCELLED!

Sep

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

September 16, 2015, 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm

Description

In this introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL), participants will learn about key foundational concepts of UDL for providing accessible course materials and review alternative methods...

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Sep

Location

Engineering : 025

Date & Time

September 9, 2015, 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm

Description

Using the Grade Center helps instructors stay organized and informs students of where their course performance. Explore features such as grading schema, categories, color coding, and editing...

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Events

Flipping Out Screencasting and You! CANCELLED!

FITT Training

Student Outreach & Retention (SOAR) with Bb CANCELLED!

FITT Training

Rev Up Your Courses with Rubrics

FITT Training

Assessing Your Learners in Blackboard

FITT Training

Organizing Your Course Content in Box

FITT Training

Turning Point Clicker Workshop!

FITT Training

Using Achievements to Motivate Students CANCELLED!

FITT Training

Why Do I Need Blackboard? CANCELLED!

FITT Training

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

FITT Training

Grading & the Blackboard Grade Center

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

FITT Training

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