IT-Educational Technology and Media Services provides free instructional technology workshops for UNI faculty and staff. To register or to see more details about the workshop, click on the workshop title in the calendar below. If you'd like to add all of these events to your UNI Google calendar, click on the +Google Calendar button on the lower right corner of the list of events. Otherwise, you can add an event individually by clicking on the event name and clicking "copy to my calendar".
On this page:
- Getting Started with the UNI eLearning Suite
- Workshop Calendar
- On Demand Workshop Videos
- Vendor Provided Training Opportunities
Getting Started with the UNI eLearning Suite
Visit our Getting Started with the UNI eLearning Suite web page to see recommended tiers for which workshops to focus on first and which are considered more advanced. If you have never taken our foundational "Tier I" workshops, we highly recommend completing them even if you already have been using the UNI eLearning Suite of tools. The "Tier I' workshops form the foundational knowledge to achieve best practices in your utilization of the UNI eLearning Suite of tools and to better meet students' needs.
Workshop Calendar
The calendar incorporates faculty and staff professional development opportunities from: IT-Educational Technology & Media Services, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Continuing and Distance Education, Rod Library, and Student Accessibility Services. Most workshops are currently delivered via Zoom; however please check the details for each workshop calendar entry for delivery options.
Go to IT-ETMS Workshop Registration
Skills addressed and prerequisites for Blackboard Learn workshops
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On Demand Workshop Videos
These are videos of workshops that you can take right now! You will need to log in using your UNI CatID to view these videos.
Blackboard:
- Getting Started with Your Blackboard Learn Course (Bb01)
- eLearning Options to Assess Student Learning
- Assessing Your Students Using Bb Learn's Assignment Tool (Bb02)
- Using Bb Learn's Discussion Tool (Bb03)
- Online Testing with Bb Learn (Bb04a)
- Facilitating Collaborative Group Work via Bb Learn's Groups Feature (Bb06)
- Bb Learn Grade Center (Bb05a & Bb05b)
- Weighted Grading in Bb Learn (Bb05c)
- Integrate Attendance Data Into the Grade Center Using the Bb Learn Attendance Tool (Bb09)
- Improving Accessibility in Your Course with Blackboard Ally (Bb07)
(see also "From Reactive Accommodations to Proactive Accessibility" under Other below)
Other:
- Getting Started with Panopto
- How to use Zoom with your Class
- eLearning Options to Assess Student Learning
- From Reactive Accommodations to Proactive Accessibility
(see also "Improving Accessibility in Your Course with Blackboard Ally (Bb07)" under the Blackboard list above) - Are you Prepared? - Presentation given to CBA faculty on March 13, 2020
- Remote Possibilities: Considering your Students' Bandwidth (CETL & ETMS workshop presentation on 3/25)
Vendor Provided Training Opportunities
Following are links to training opportunities provided by vendors of our supported eLearning Suite technologies:
- Blackboard Academy Catalog - paid and free professional development from Blackboard