Listed below are faculty workshop schedules for online course development and delivery for faculty using eCollege and Blackboard. Workshops being held at the Downtown Denver Campus have DDC following the workshop title and those held at the Anschutz Medical Center have AMC following the workshop title. Faculty are invited to attend workshops at either campus.
What’s New in Blackboard 7.3? - AMC
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Anna Thai
Location: Ed 2 North P28, Room 2201C
The new Blackboard features include:
- A newly designed Discussion Board that allows for forum subscription; peer rating; etc.
- Ability to grade Discussion Board participation; collect average post length; maximum and minimum post length; average post length, etc.
- New options for deploying tests
- Email spell-checker
- Enhanced Student Group functionality
- Asian language support
- Announcements can emailed to students at time of posting
- Monitor student performance via the new Early Warning System
- Give students more individualized feedback in the Gradebook
Respondus Exam Builder for Blackboard - AMC
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Anna Thai
Location: Ed 2 North P28, Room 2201C
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Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Anna Thai
Location: Ed 2 North P28, Room 2201C
CU Online recently procured an institutional site license for a software application known as Respondus. Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams or quizzes. In this workshop you will learn the features ofRespondus and how to acquire and use this tool to create and manage tests for your Blackboard course. Respondus contains an easy to use Exam Wizard for creating an assessment in minutes. Exams can be created offline in Respondus using a Windows environment. Tests can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard. Attend this workshop to find out more of the many benefits of using Respondus and get your copy for use in your online courses.
Using the Discussion Forum tool in Blackboard 7.3 - AMC
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Anna Thai
Location: Ed 2 North P28, Room 2201C
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Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Anna Thai
Location: Ed 2 North P28, Room 2201C
The newly enhanced Discussion Board features include, but not limited to the following:
- Ability to subscribe to a forum or a thread, peer rating, etc.
- Ability to grade Discussion Board participation; collect average post length; maximum and minimum post length; average post length, etc.
- List View vs Tree View
- Mark Read & Unread postings
Academic Honesty with Safe Assign - DDC
Date: Friday, February 15, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Instructor: David Thomas
Location: CU Building, Suite 800
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Date: Friday, March 14, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Instructor: David Thomas
Location: CU Building, Suite 800
Keeping It Honest. A new set of tools included in Blackboard this Spring allow all faculty, both online and in the classroom, to easily check student writing for instances of plagiarism. This seminar covers how to implement Safe Assign in your classes, as well as providing recommendations and a framework for encouraging academic honesty with your students.
Course Copy within Blackboard 7.3 - AMC
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Instructor: Anna Thai
Location: Ed 2 North P28, Room 2201C
Don’t have time to re-create your course content over again? Well Blackboard 7.3 has just made your life a lot simpler. In this session, you will learn how to copy content from a previously taught course into your current semester course. You will also learn how to selectively choose content you wish to copy over.
Online Video Lectures and Virtual Classes using Breeze - DDC
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Brian Yuhnke
Location: CU Building, Suite 800
Find out how you can use Breeze to record Web-based lectures and even host live, virtual classes. With Breeze you can:
- Easily record video at your desktop and share with your students through eCollege and Blackboard
- Integrate PowerPoint, Word and more into your online lectures
- Meet with students live, over the Web, from your computer
- Archive live Web lectures and meetings for broadcast later
Respondus Exam Builder for eCollege - DDC
Date: Friday, February 29, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: David Thomas
Location: CU Building, Suite 800
CU Online recently procured an institutional site license for a software application known as Respondus. Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams or quizzes. In this workshop you will learn the features of Respondus and how to acquire and use this tool to create and manage tests for your eCollege course. Respondus contains an easy to use Exam Wizard for creating an assessment in minutes. Exams can be created offline in Respondus using a Windows environment. Tests can be printed to paper or published directly to eCollege. Attend this workshop to find out more of the many benefits of using Respondus and get your copy for use in your online courses.
Auraria Library offers Endnote seminar – DDC
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Instructors: Nina McHale, Gayle Bradbeer
Location: Auraria Library classroom 245
EndNote Web is a new organizing tool available to you from Auraria Library through our subscription to Web of Science. You can manage your research resources, collect and organize references and format citations and footnotes, and create bibliography.
Learn about getting started with this online tool which is free to the Auraria community on Wednesday, March 19 at 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in Auraria Library classroom 245.
Online Course Development Workshop using eCollege - DDC
Date: Friday, April 4, 2008
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Instructors: David Thomas
Location: CU Building, Suite 800
This hands-on workshop will give you the tools and strategies you need to develop a successful online course. The workshop is divided into sessions that cover the critical aspects of developing and teaching an eCollege online course, such as; Elements of a successful online course, Day to day details you should know, Designing online syllabi and announcements, Assessing students, Crafting student discussions, and Assessing your course. During each session you’ll see some instructional best practices and apply these practices by adding new material to your own course. You will be given your own eCollege course shell to practice with, but you can also use a course you’re already developing. If you are new to online instruction, you should take the entire workshop. If you are an experienced online instructor, you can attend only the specific modules that interest you.
CU Online 2008 Spring Symposium – DDC
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Tivoli- DDC
Summer Web Camp 2008 – DDC
Date:Monday - Friday, June 9 -13, 2008
Time: TBD
Location: CU Building, Suite 800
For more information contact Kim Penoyer at 303-315-3697 or Kim.Penoyer@cudenver.edu to register for any of the above workshops.
Lunch is provided for those workshops starting at 11:30 a.m. and the all day workshop. If you require a vegetarian lunch, please let us know.
CU Online also has a limited number of grants for faculty interested in participating in any of the following:
LERN www.lern.org online faculty workshops
- Multiple Assessments and New Ways of Grading scheduled for March 5 and 6, 2008
- “Fostering Online Discussion”, scheduled for June 11 and 12, 2008
eCollege CiTE Conference
To apply send a brief paragraph explaining what you would like to participate in and why to Kim.Penoyer@cudenver.edu. Those receiving the grant would also be asked to fill-out a brief evaluation of the workshop or conference.
