Curious about alternatives to hard copy tests and quizzes? Want to assess learning/preconceptions/misconceptions before or after class? Learn how to create and deploy assessments within the Blackboard environment that are easily gradeable, flexible, and support communication feedback with your students.
Workshop: Blackboard – Refresher for the Experienced
Looking to expand your interactions with students outside the classroom? Considering flipping your course? Learn ways that Blackboard can help you engage with students, track activitity on assignments, and assess learning, preconceptions, and misconceptions before and after class. Designed for those instructors with some experience using any version of Blackboard, this workshop can help you identify new ways to use the online environment and streamline the setup and deployment of your course to minimize issues using technology in and out of the classroom.
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Download the checklist: Course Development Checklist for Bb
This course development checklist was designed to accompany the workshop and provide a means of systematically developing or revising a course in Blackboard. The checklist corresponds with the course agenda and helps the participant to use the workshop methodology to systematically evaluate and organize course materials to support learning goals and objectives for the course.
Workshop: Blackboard 9 – From Syllabus to Grade Center
A one hour workshop for faculty focusing on how to turn the information on grading in your syllabus into a functional Grade Center that shares your grade information with your students, helps to recognize at-risk situations, organizes your approach to sharing grades, and keeps your students updated throughout the semester. Bring that grading block from your syllabus, and learn to set up weighted grades, categories that accommodate both planned and unpredicted assessment opportunities, and ways to identify at-risk students who may need special attention.