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Faculty Workshops 

Every semester we offer 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.

Recent workshops have been focused on providing support to faculty teaching in Ultra courses. More information and resources are available on the following website:

Blackboard at the University of Rochester

NEW SPECIAL SESSIONS on Blackboard Ally and Accessibility. 

There will be two half-hour sessions for faculty about Blackboard Ally and Accessibility.

Ally and Accessibility

 

Workshops for Transitioning to Ultra Courses - This is offered as a series of three workshops to assist you with the transition from Original to Ultra courses. These workshops are offered to support faculty teaching in Spring 2026. Each workshop requires Zoom registration, and the schedule will be coming soon.

Workshop #1 - Organizing Content in your Ultra Course

Workshop #2 - Creating Graded Items in your Ultra Course

Workshop #3 - Teaching in Ultra

 

 

More Workshops to Support your Teaching within Blackboard

These hour-long workshops are meant to help you learn new tools and techniques for your teaching.

Add Interactivity to your Class with PollEverywhere – August 7 at 10:30 am

Enhance the classroom experience with PollEverywhere. Use it to engage students during lectures or give digital quizzes. Learn how it can connect with your Blackboard gradebook.

Registration

How to Use Padlet: A Digital Discussion Board – August 8 at 10:30 am

Padlet is a digital bulletin board that you can used both synchronously or asynchronously in your class to engage students. Learn about different use cases for Padlet in your course. See examples of different ways Padlet can be used to support collaboration and student learning. Learn how to get a UR Account and connect Padlet to Blackboard so that students have accounts associated with their contributions.

Registration

Enhancing your Discussion and Student Interaction using Harmonize – August 12 at 10:30 am

Harmonize is a discussion board tool that can enhance your online discussions by allowing audio, video, and text-based comments. Offering multiple due dates and reminders to students. It can also be used to facilitate peer review activities.

Registration

Save Faculty Time – Best Practices and Supporting Course Development with AI – August 14 at 10:30 am

This workshop will cover a number of tips and tricks you can use to help manage your course more efficiently. It will also suggest tools that can be used for basic course administration, like attendance taking and grading.

Registration

 

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