Training Topics:
Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Learn Orientation Session
The following is a recorded orientation session on Purdue’s new course management system, Blackboard Learn.
Part 1: Introduction to Blackboard Learn Basics
Part 2: Best Practices in Blackboard Learn
Part 3: Moving Content into Blackboard Learn & Creating Master Courses
Blackboard Vista
Introduction to Blackboard Vista
Blackboard is the course management system for the Purdue campuses. Come see how you can get started by setting up material to supplement your campus-based courses.
Click here to view the Fall 2009 Blackboard training session
Click here to view the Spring 2010 Blackboard training session
Setting up Assessments in Blackboard Vista
The assessment tool in Blackboard offers a powerful method for assessing student learning both in traditional and online courses. This workshop will showcase the assessment tool and show you the ins and outs of creating an assessment in Blackboard.
Click here to view the Blackboard Assessment Set Up training session
Design For Success
There’s is an infinite number of ways you can lay out your course in Blackboard. Come to this workshop to see some examples of course layouts for traditional courses, hybrid/blended courses, and fully online courses. You’ll learn some tips and tricks for organizing your course materials in Blackboard.
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Creating a Dynamic Syllabus
The syllabus is an integral part of an effective course that should provide the structure for learning. In this workshop, you will consider the multiple purposes of a syllabus, examine the design of a student-centered syllabus, and learn how the Syllabus tool in Blackboard can be used to create a dynamic syllabus.
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Aligning Instruction: What’s the Point?
It is critically important that all aspects of a course be aligned with one another. Students need to know how the assignments and assessments are relevant to their learning goals. This workshop will discuss instructional alignment and demonstrate how the Goals tool in Blackboard can be used to help ensure a well-aligned course.
Click here to view the 2009 Instruction Alignment training session
Rubrics & Grading Forms: Keys to Assessment
Scoring rubrics are powerful tools for communicating expectations to students and simplifying the grading process. Learn about the benefits of rubrics and how to use the grading forms in Blackboard to facilitate criteria-based grading.
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SafeAssign
SafeAssign can be used as a tool to help prevent plagiarism and improve student authenticity. This session will provide you an overview of SafeAssign and give you the tools to create your first SafeAssignment.
Giving Feedback Electronically
Are you tired of hauling around stacks of papers to grade? Are you tired of having to write essentially the same comments on student papers? Are you teaching an online course and struggling to give students good feedback? Are you interested in saving paper? Come to this session to learn about some technological tools that allow you to provide students with feedback on their electronically. You may even find that it enables you to provide better feedback, all while saving you time!
Click here to view the 2010 Electronic Feedback training session
Click here to view the 2011 Electronic Feedback training session
Accommodating Student Needs in Blackboard
There are a variety of reasons why you might need to alter settings or make exceptions for specific students within Blackboard. Whether it be to accommodate students with special needs or to allow a student to make up an assessment due to illness, you will likely encounter situations where you will need to modify settings or individual students without impacting the whole class. This session will overview some of the common modifications made by instructors to accommodate unique student needs.
Click here to view the Student Needs Accommodation training session
Aligning Instruction: What’s the Point?
It is critically important that all aspects of a course be aligned with one another. Students need to know how the assignments and assessments are relevant to their learning goals. This workshop will discuss instructional alignment and demonstrate how the Goals tool in Blackboard can be used to help ensure a well-aligned course.
Tips and Tricks for Blackboard
Want to know all the little secrets in Blackboard? Want to learn the best ways to manage your grade book, sequence instructional components, or set up effective group discussions? Come t this session to learn some tips and tricks for using Blackboard effectively and ultimately saving yourself time!
Instructional Software
Capturing your Class
Echo 360 is a screen captured recording of a class session as well as posted supplemental course content. In this session, you will learn about Echo 360 and how you can use it to enhance and reinforce student learning.
Click here to view the Echo 360 training session – Part 1
Click here to view the Echo 360 training session – Part 2
eInstruction
eInstruction provides both instructors and students with the tools to interact with each other in the classroom. Through studdent response pads and a radio frequency receiver in the classroom, eInstruction allows quizzing, polling and more, instantaneously. eInstruction signals both to instructors and students how well one is grasping the topic at hand, allowing for adjustments in teaching and learning to be made.
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Podcasting 101
Students and teachers from all over the world are learning from audio and video programs, on desktop computers, laptops, iPods, Pocket PCs, Palm handhelds, and other devices. Find out how podcasts can be used to supplement course material and enhance student learning.
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Smartboards
Smartboards can greatly enhance your on campus class and allow students to get a better understanding of material presented. Come see how a Smartboard can be used in your classroom and where they are available on campus.
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Promoting Online Teaching & Learning with Technologies
The presentation will identify a list of possible problems in online teaching, showcase how technologies can be used creatively to solve these problems, as well as promote teaching and learning in distance education.
Click here to view the Online Teaching & Learning with Technologies presentation
OIT Instructional Technology Overview
Do you ever wonder what all our instructional software does? Stop in this session to get an overview of all that the OIT supports and how you can get use it in your online or on campus course.
Click here to view the OIT Instructional Technology training session
Web 2.0: Instructional Applications
There are many web 2.0 tools that allow individuals to connect with one another and easily share information. Come to this session to see some exciting web 2.0 tools and consider how you might use them to enhance students learning in your courses.
Web 2.0 Tools for Collaboration
Web 2.0 tools take the power of the Internet to a new level by allowing users to interactively share information and collaborate in new and innovative ways. Come to this workshop to learn more about some of the “hot” Web 2.0 tools and how you might use them to foster collaboration between you students and/or colleagues.
Click here to view the Web 2.0 Tools training session
Online Collaboration Made Easy with Adobe Connect
Adobe Connect is a synchronous web conferencing system that allows you to present to and communicate with your students and/or colleagues in real time. In this session, you’ll learn about Adobe Connect and its features by participating in an Adobe Connect session. So if you wish to “attend” this workshop, there is no need to leave your office (or PJs)…you can login from anywhere to learn more Adobe Connect and its features.
Click here to view the Adobe Connect training session
Creating Online Surveys with Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a powerful, yet easy-to-use online survey tool available for use by all Purdue employees. Conducting online surveys may be useful to you for your teaching, research, or any number of professional activities. If you’ve used SurveyMokey or Zoomerang for your online surveys in the past, you will want to learn about the enhanced functionality of Qualtrics that is available for free to Purdue employees.
Click here to view the Qualtrics training session
Social Networking
Are you a social butterfly?
Social networking tools are part of our students’ lives. In this workshop, you will learn how to set up an account and begin using Facebook and/or LinkedIn.
Click here to view the Social Networking training session
What is a tweet?
Twitter is a free social networking site that allows you to share short messages with a global audience. Twitter can be used for sharing status updates of projects, announcing upcoming workshops, providing reminders for deadlines/due dates, and much, much, more. In this session, you will learn how to create an account and begin following the OIT on Twitter.
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