Training
Blackboard training sessions.
Our workshops offer basic to advanced levels of instruction for faculty and their staff teaching courses using the Blackboard Course Management System as well as other online technologies. See the course descriptions below.
Better Teaching and Learning Through Blogs and Wikis in Blackboard (2 hours)
Use blogs and wikis to increase student participation and performance in your online and face-to-face classes. In this session we will demonstrate how to use the new TeamsLX (wikis) and JournalsLX (blogs) tools integrated into Blackboard to help you and your students collaborate on class assignments and to create reflective journals that promote active learning. Along with hands-on demonstrations of the new tools, we will also share best pedagogical practices in using blogs and wikis for better teaching and effective learning.
Blackboard Assessments & Assignments (2.25 hours)
Three 45-minute sessions covering topics such as Self/Peer Assessments, Performance Dashboard, Early Warning System, Course Statistics, Assignments, and Tests.
Two 45-minute sessions covering topics involving the foundational skills to use UofL's course management system. Using Blackboard fosters increased student interaction with the instructor as well as each other. It affords the opportunity to enhance lectures with engaging activities and provides a means to organize and post materials for students to access anytime, anywhere. You'll learn to login and navigate the system both as a student and instructor, work within the control panel and add announcements, add a syllabus and other files, manage the Grade Center, and even upload/download grades.
Communicating in Blackboard (2.25 hours)
Three 45-minute sessions covering topics such as Announcements, Email, Messaging, Groups, Discussion Boards, Chat Rooms, and Virtual Classroom.
GradeCenter Training (2.25 hours)
Three 45-minute sessions covering topics such as Adding Columns, Organization, Adding Grades, Student view, Downloading/Uploading, Grading Periods, Weighted Grades, Dropping the Lowest Score, Grade History, Grade Reports, and email students from GradeCenter.
SafeAssign & Plagiarism Prevention (2 hours)
SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service integrated with the Blackboard Learning System™. It helps prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers submitted using Blackboard. This session will present several techniques that may be used to help prevent plagiarism in student writing, including the use of SafeAssign comparison tool. Participants will learn what SafeAssign is and how it works, including the sources used to identify unoriginal content, and how to interpret a SafeAssign originality report. Participants will learn what the University of Louisville expects faculty to include on their syllabi before using the tool. The session will also demonstrate the use of SafeAssign in the context of and as a tool of pedagogy, so understanding and preventing plagiarism through pedagogy will be discussed and examples presented. Instructors will demonstrate how to use the SafeAssign tool in Blackboard to build SafeAssignments for submission of student work. Technical requirements and required browser settings will be discussed. Hands-on computer lab time is included so participants can practice using SafeAssign.
Teaching with Tegrity (90 minutes + optional 30 minutes hands-on lab)
Tegrity is the university’s new class capture system. It can be used to record the instructor’s computer screen and voice, providing students with an opportunity to replay class content online, or on iPods and other mobile devices. The purpose of this session is to discuss the utility of the Tegrity system from an instructor’s perspective. Two participants from the Tegrity pilot study will discuss how they used the Tegrity system during the pilot and review student and instructor reactions from the pilot. Effective strategies for incorporating Tegrity into various styles of instruction and general best practices for using the Tegrity system will also be discussed. Presenters will demonstrate how to record and make content available to participants using Tegrity. At the end of the session, participants will have 30 minutes of hands-on computer lab time to practice using Tegrity, if desired.
General Information
Location: Belknap workshops will be held at the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning, Ekstrom Room 244. HSC workshops will be held at the Delphi Center's Training Lab, Kornhauser Library Room 313. Other locations may apply please check specific locations.
Registration: Click on the name of the course above to view the schedule for that course. Then click on the Register button for the course you will attend. You will receive confirmation of your registration via email.
Additional Trainings: If you do not see a topic and description above that meets your training needs, please contact our department for a personal training session. Email the Delphi Center or call 852-4319 to request a personal training session.
