Blackboard Workshops for Faculty Fall 2020
Blackboard (Bb) workshop schedule and topics for the fall 2020.
No registration is needed. To attend a training workshop, log in to Bb. On "My Organizations" panel, click CTLET, then click "Blackboard Support for Faculty/Staff."
Workshop Schedule
| Monday (8/31) | Tuesday (9/1) | Wednesday (9/2) | Thursday (9/3) | Friday (9/4) | |
| 10 am - 11 am | Bb Discussion Board and Blog | ||||
| 11 am - 12 pm | Bb Collaborate Ultra | Bb Tests | |||
| 1 pm - 2 pm | Bb Groups for group work | ||||
| 2 pm - 3 pm | Bb Tests | ||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Bb Collaborate Ultra | ||||
| 5 pm - 6 pm | Bb Groups for group work | ||||
| 7 pm - 8 pm | Bb Discussion Board and Blog | Bb and Turnitin Peer Asessment tools |
| Monday (8/24) | Tuesday (8/25) | Wednesday (8/26) | Thursday (8/27) | Friday (8/28) | |
| 10am - 11am | Bb Basics | Bb Individual Assignments | Bb Collaborate Ultra for online meetings | Bb Tests | |
| 11am - 12pm | Bb Tests | Bb Individual Assignments | |||
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Bb Grade Center | Bb Tests | |||
| 1pm - 2pm | Bb Collaborate Ultra for online meetings | ||||
| 2pm - 3pm | Bb Basics | Bb Collaborative assignments | |||
| 3pm - 4pm | Bb Tests | Bb Individual Assignments | Bb Grade Center | Bb Collaborate Ultra for online meetings | |
| 4pm - 5pm | Bb Collaborative assignments | ||||
| 5pm - 6pm | Bb Individual Assignments | ||||
| 7pm - 8pm | Bb Collaborate Ultra for online meetings | Bb Basics |
Workshop Topics
Bb Basics
- Bb Home page
- “My courses” group by term, hide courses
- Bb Email address and avatar
- Course menu
- Content vs tools
- Edit mode
- Student preview
- Course management – control panel
- Post documents and web links, create folders
- Content editor Announcements, emails
- Make your course available
Bb Collaborate Ultra for online meetings
- Create a BCU session with appropriate settings
- Conduct a live session
- record the session
- use chat
- use polling
- share files share whiteboard
- share applications/screen
- hand-write and/or draw on a whiteboard in the live session
- change settings
- promote participants to presenters
- use breakout groups
- download attendee reports and polling results
- Find recordings
Bb Tests
- Create a test, quiz or exam using Bb Tests tool
- Deploy a test with appropriate test options
- Check and grade a test
Bb Individual Assignments
- Introduction to Bb Rubrics tool
- Create Bb assignments to collect files
- Create Turnitin assignments to check the originality of papers
Bb Collaborative Assignments
- Create discussion forums
- Create blogs
- Create Groups
- Introduction to Peer-Assessments and PeerMark
Bb Grade Center
- Simplify grade center
- Re-order grade columns
- Grade assessments and provide feedback
- Set up the weighted total
