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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Using Rubrics in Blackboard
2:00pm - 3:00pmParticipants will learn how to create a rubric, associate it to a graded activity, and effortlessly grade using an interactive rubric.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Monday, February 24, 2020
Student Response System TurningPoint
2:00pm - 3:00pmThis workshop will cover the basic features of TurningPoint, including creating questions, conducting polling, and saving results.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Testing in Blackboard: Best Practices
11:00am - 12:00pmThis workshop will cover the basics of administering a test in Blackboard such as test creation and best practices.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Monitoring and Assessing Student Performance on Blackboard
2:00pm - 3:00pmExplore tools to monitor student progress, including how to identify under-performing students using the gradebook, set up rules to determine at-risk students, and use the performance dashboard.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Friday, February 28, 2020
Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Roundtable
12:00pm - 3:00pmHow can you build on students’ writing abilities as you introduce them to the content of your discipline?
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Civic Legacies and Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
How do we explain divergent patterns of immigrant incorporation in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan given the similarities between each country’s immigration and citizenship policies, their overlapping immigrant populations largely from neighboring Asian countries, and their common dilemmas of accommodating social diversity while adhering to liberal democratic principles?
- Academic Events
- Faculty & Staff
- Guest Speakers
- Elliott School of International Affairs
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Getting Started with Blackboard in 45 Minutes
12:30pm - 1:15pmFrom uploading course materials to engaging a discussion board to grading student assignments, participants will watch step-by-step demonstrations and explore diverse ways faculty use Blackboard at GW.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Blackboard Grade Center
2:00pm - 3:00pmParticipants will have the opportunity to learn about and practice adding columns and categories, entering grades, and monitoring student progress.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Improve Course Accessibility with Blackboard Ally
2:00pm - 3:00pmLearn about Blackboard Ally and how it can help make digital course content more accessible to students.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Monday, March 9, 2020
Blackboard: Blogs, Wikis, and Discussions
11:00am - 12:00pmParticipants will explore the creation and management of student blogs and private journals as well as group wikis in Blackboard.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Tools for Creating Online Lectures
2:00pm - 3:00pmThis workshop will cover the basics of online lecture creation using PowerPoint narration, iSpring, and Echo Personal Capture as tools to bring audio, video, and screen captures to lectures.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Monday, March 16, 2020
Get It Together: Manage Your Records
10:00am - 12:00pmThis workshop will allow you to get to know the Records Life Cycle.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Getting Started with VoiceThread
12:00pm - 1:00pmParticipants will learn how to integrate VoiceThread into their Blackboard course and how to create, comment and share content on VoiceThread.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Blackboard: Assignments and Tests
2:00pm - 3:00pmThis 60-minute workshop will primarily cover how to create assignments and develop tests that make the best of both your time and your students efforts.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Getting Results from Your Work with Project Management
10:00am - 11:30amParticipants will learn how to manage and prioritize work efficiently, build and maintain trust with individuals and groups, plan and facilitate productive meetings, and develop an agile mindset.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Using Rubrics in Blackboard
2:00pm - 3:00pmParticipants will learn how to create a rubric, associate it to a graded activity, and effortlessly grade using an interactive rubric.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monitoring and Assessing Student Performance on Blackboard
2:00pm - 3:00pmExplore tools to monitor student progress, including how to identify under-performing students using the gradebook, set up rules to determine at-risk students, and use the performance dashboard.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Course Design Institute Faculty Call
11:00pm - 11:00pmCDI is a “bootcamp” style program that guides faculty through the design of a new course or the re-design an existing one in a facilitated, supported environment.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra - Live Virtual Classroom
2:00pm - 3:00pmParticipants will leave the workshop with hands-on experience in features such as text and voice chat, PowerPoint slideshow delivery, and desktop sharing.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Testing in Blackboard: Best Practices
11:00am - 12:00pmThis workshop will cover the basics of administering a test in Blackboard such as test creation and best practices.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Blackboard Grade Center
11:00am - 12:00pmParticipants will have the opportunity to learn about and practice adding columns and categories, entering grades, and monitoring student progress.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Improve Course Accessibility with Blackboard Ally
2:00pm - 3:00pmLearn about Blackboard Ally and how it can help make digital course content more accessible to students.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Friday, April 10, 2020
Getting Results from Your Work with Project Management
10:00am - 11:30amParticipants will learn how to manage and prioritize work efficiently, build and maintain trust with individuals and groups, plan and facilitate productive meetings, and develop an agile mindset.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Monday, April 13, 2020
Testing in Blackboard: Best Practices
1:00pm - 2:00pmThis workshop will cover the basics of administering a test in Blackboard such as test creation and best practices.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Blackboard: Assignments and Tests
11:00am - 12:00pmThis 60-minute workshop will primarily cover how to create assignments and develop tests that make the best of both your time and your students efforts.
- Academic Events
- Career & Professional Development
- Faculty & Staff
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