Academic Outreach and Innovation

Electronic rubrics reduce grading fatigue and ensure more consistent judging criteria. In this session we will cover rubrics, assignments, and SafeAssign.

A review of Blackboard’s full array of powerful question formats and setting options that allow you to precisely control and manage delivery of online assessments.

We’ll explain different setup options, show how to grade and comment on student work, and demonstrate how to use the electronic rubric.

For those new to Bb Learn. We will show you how to create, upload and edit content, including a review of the feature-rich content editor. We’ll also suggest valuable ideas, short cuts, and tips designed to save you time and energy managing your online class.

Learn how to use this flexible recording and uploading tool. Create video lessons, in-video quizzing and schedule recordings.

Learn how to engage students in meaningful conversation by interacting with their peers and media. Create, comment, collaborate, and share information with this tool that centers conversations around media (instructor created, student created, or already existing).

This series will explore active learning methods shown to result in greater learning achievement while also reducing drop, withdrawal, and failure rates. Participants will experience strategies that can be tailored to a variety of courses and learning outcomes. Each session will focus on different approaches, ranging from getting student buy-in to creating a course specific activity. Sessions are open to all instructors. You are welcome to attend one, a few, or all of the sessions available in the semester series.

Use this tool to proactively engage students in reading and provide a focus of conversation with automatically graded annotations. This platform allows students to make comments, ask questions, and interact with peers in a quick and scalable way that allows misconceptions about the reading (or other media) to be easily identified. This tool is also a strong candidate for a flipped classroom.

In this workshop faculty will discuss different techniques they have successfully used to keep students on track in their courses.

This web conferencing tool allows users to communicate through webcam/microphones, chat, and screen sharing. Learn about how this tool can be used to conduct real time class sessions, meetings, office hours, host remote presenters, and other events.