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Faculty Workshops - Spring 2022

Workshops fromSpring 2022

A series of one-hour “how-to” workshops to get you started with some basic online activities.  This series covers everything from giving live or recorded lectures, using various discussion board tools, giving an online test, and providing a platform for asynchronous student presentations.

The following workshops were held in Spring 2022

 

Using the Blackboard Course Template to Organize your Course

Having a well-organized course in Blackboard provides students and faculty the opportunity to focus on the essential coursework, meet course goals and achieve student learning outcomes. Come learn more about how to use “Learning Modules” to effectively organize your course materials in an effective, efficient and relevant structure that can be used for traditional, online, or hybrid classes.

This workshop applies specifically to the template used by Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, Eastman  School of Music, Warner School of Education, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and School of Medicine and Dentistry graduate courses, but concepts can be applied to any Blackboard course.

Dates: January 5, 12noon-1pm

Slides:

Organizing your Course using the Template

 

How-to Record and Deliver Video Lectures to your Students

Learn how to use Zoom to record a video lecture that includes PowerPoint slides, desktop software, or just video input. Best practices for creating recording lectures will be examined. Tips for creating effective lectures, including tips for fixing mistakes. Provide streaming access for that video to the students in your course via Blackboard and Panopto access controls. Panopto edit features, as well as captioning options, viewing statistics, and adding quiz questions to videos will also be reviewed.  Using the Lightboard, instead of Zoom, as an option for creating videos will also be discussed.

Dates: January 6, 12noon-1pm

Slides:

Recording Video Lectures

Learn how to Copy Materials from a Previous Course into your Upcoming Course

Learn how to make the best use of your time in copying materials from a previous course into the new template. We will cover how to copy individual items, individual tests, and full course materials.

Note: This workshop will cover how to copy from an existing course into the template used by Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, Warner School of Education, School of Medicine and Dentistry Graduate programs, Eastman School of Music, and Eastman Institute of Oral Health. The process will work for other school templates, but will be demonstrated with this template.

Dates: January 11, 12noon-1pm

Slides:

Course Copy Information

How to Facilitate a Live, Interactive Zoom Class Session

Learn how to use Zoom to facilitate a live class session, including sharing your Zoom class links in your Blackboard course. Learn some tips for maintaining your classroom securely, as well as how to share your screen, annotate on your screen, use the whiteboard, create breakout rooms, and use the polling feature to create an engaging and interactive session. Learn how to use different tools to add interactivity into your Zoom sessions. We will cover breakout rooms, polling, and use of Padlet in this session. And we will cover the Zoom Meeting Manager.

 Dates: January 12, 11am-12noon

Slides:

Live Zoom Interactions

Planning to use the Blackboard Grade Center

Learn how to use the Blackboard Grade Center to grade submitted work. Learn how to set up new columns, categories, and smart views in order to make your grade book work for you.

 Dates: January 13, 1pm-2pm

Planning your Grade Center

Blackboard Basics

This workshop is for Blackboard beginners. Learn the basics of setting up a course in Blackboard. This session will cover how to add and move content, how to use Announcements and Email for communication, how to manage the left-hand menu, and how to add basic tools to your course and review the grade center. It will not cover settings and options for any of the various tools or options within the grade center. 

Date: January 20, 12noon - 1pm

Blackboard Basics

Writing Good Multiple Choice Questions (for tests or Polls)

Learn principles for writing good multiple choices questions, including question stems, distractors, and organization.

Dates: January 27, 12noon - 1pm

Slides and Resources

 

 

Poll Everywhere

The University has an Enterprise license for PollEverywhere. Come learn how to get your own account and use the interactive polling features.                 

Dates: February 3, 12noon - 1pm

Slides

Qwickly Tools for Attendance and Course Management

Would you like to keep track of student attendance and have attendance auto-graded for you? Qwickly attendance can help you, regardless of the size of your class or the class modality. Attendance can be taken manually (for small classes) as well as with a swipe card (for medium classes) or through an online check in (for large courses).  Also, learn how to use Qwickly Course tools to check web links in your course, as well as how Course Tools can be used to communicate with students across multiple courses at the same time.

Dates: February 10, 12noon - 1pm

Slides

 

How to Use Voicethread in Blackboard

In this workshop presented by Vociethread training, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hand-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules. Please note that University of Rochester uses "Deep-linking" or LTI 1.3.

Tuesday, February 15 at 1pm

Recording

 

How to Facilitate Discussion, Sharing of Student Work, and Peer Review Activities Using Blackboard Tools

This session starts with an overview and comparison of discussion board options (Blackboard, Yellowdig, VoiceThread and Piazza). Learn how to set up a discussion board within Blackboard. See how different settings can be used to facilitate different kinds of activities. The use of the Blackboard Blog tool will also be shared in this session.

Dates: February 17, 12noon - 1pm

 

Learn More about Gradescope

Gradescope is offering a series of workshops in February that will provide in-depth information about how to use its various features. Sign up for one or more of these sessions. Each session will be followed by a Q&A with University of Rochester Gradescope support personnel to help you get started. See link below to join the Q&A session.

Registration for any/all of the workshops below at: https://info.gradescope.com/workshop-series

Gradescope in Blackboard: Thursday, February 10 at 3pm

Recording

Gradescope for In-Person Teaching: Friday,. February 11 at 12noon
(templated assignments for handwritten exams and multiple choice bubble sheets)

Recording

Gradescope for Computer Science: Wednesday, February 16 at 12noon

Recording

Gradescope for Online/Hybrid Teaching: Thursday, February 17 at 2pm
(online assignments, student uploaded work)

Recording

Gradescope for In-Person Teaching: Tuesday, February 22 at 2pm
(templated assignments for handwritten exams and multiple choice bubble sheets)

Recording

Gradescope for Online/Hybrid Teaching: Wednesday, February 23 at 1pm
(online assignments, student uploaded work)

Recording

Advanced Gradescope Features: Thursday, February 24 at 3pm

Recording

 

How to Collect Online Assessments, including Projects, Presentations, and Performances

Learn how to set up the Blackboard assignment tool to collect individual student submissions and group submissions. Learn about different options for collecting various kinds of student assessments, including video and online presentations. 

 Dates: February 24, 12noon - 1pm

 

How to use Yellowdig for discussions

Looking for a different kind of discussion board? Yellowdig is similar to Facebook in that it provides a conversation that is more like social media. Additionally, students earn points for their contributions to the conversation on Yellowdig, whether it be through original posts or comments on posts from classmates. Learn more about how Yellowdig works, and how to set up Yellowdig for you in your course. 

Dates: March 3, 12noon - 1pm

 

 How to Facilitate an Online Exam

Learn how to create and set up a Blackboard Test. The various options available for testing will be discussed including when and how to use each option. Additional testing software will be mentioned. 

Date: March 10, 12noon - 1pm

 

Creating and Using Blackboard Groups

Learn how to use Blackboard Groups for project assignments, discussion boards, sign-up sheets, and more.

Dates: March 17, 12noon

 

Learn more about Padlet

Padlet is an electronic bulletin board. Learn about different use cases for Padlet in your course. See examples of different ways Padlet can be used to engage students and support collaboration. Learn how to get a UR Account and connect Padlet to Blackboard so that students have accounts associated with their contributions.

Date: March 24, 12noon

Registration: 

 https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrde2trDwvGdVCeUBy-cUqySFr_augIjQV

 

Advanced Blackboard Grade Center

This session will cover how to find submitted work and then look at some advanced features like smart views, categories, and creating weighted columns.

 Date: March 31, 12noon

Registration: 

https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocOqtqDIiEtf_dwRNNGAZrlLBBoyCKT35

Focus on Academic Honesty

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Dates: April 7, 12noon

Registration:

 https://rochester.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIufumvqzwoGNMW3619oeMh88I3ns3rAPKq

Using Voicethread in Blackboard (offered by Voicethread)

In this workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons, discussions, or assessments. This will be a hand-on workshop where you can follow along with the activities and add VoiceThreads into your course modules.

Dates: April 12, 1pm

Registration:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OO0grz37TzGVG0vd_ZoagQ

 

Learn more about Perusall

Perusall is a social annotation tool. Learn different use cases for Perusall in your course. See examples of ways Perusall can be used to engage students around your content. Learn more about how connect Perusall to Blackboard.

 Cancelled 

 

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