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Blackboard Grade Center

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about Grade Center in Blackboard! Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and practice adding columns and categories, entering grades, and monitoring student progress. You will also learn how to create smart views that will create a shortcut on your course menu to a selected group of columns.

Improve Your Course through Mid-Semester Feedback

Collecting feedback mid-semester gives you insight into how your students perceive your courses and allows you to make adjustments in time to help your students be successful. It has also been shown to improve end-of-semester student evaluations. Join us to discuss strategies for collecting feedback and what to do with it once you’ve got it.

Creating Online Lectures

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to enhance your online lectures with rich media! This 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. Participants will also learn how to make such lectures available to students on Blackboard.

Data Analysis for SoTL

You’ve collected your data for your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project – now what? We’ll discuss strategies for analyzing your data and point you to resources on campus that offer support. We’ll consider common roadblocks to completing a SoTL project and tips for completing and sharing your research. (Professors Maria de la Fuente and Elizabeth Ruckert)

WID Roundtable for Faculty: Designing Innovative Writing Assignments

Hear faculty from multiple disciplines describe their problem-centered or otherwise innovative writing assignment designs, followed by interactive table discussions on how to prepare students for success on demanding or complex assignments. Organized in collaboration with the University Writing Program.

Botanic Garden Trip

Come join GW TRAiLS on our free trip to one of DC's most beauitful exhibitions!

Billy Goat Hike

The Billy Goat trail is one of the most popular and well-known hikes in the DMV area. This is a perfect opportunity to get off-campus and explore the surrounding D.C. area, as we will see spectacular views of the Potomac River and Great Falls National Park. This hike also is an easy de-stresser amidst midterm season as you get lost in the head-clearing sights and sounds of nature.

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra - Live Virtual Classroom

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about Blackboard Collaborate Ultra! Come discover the essentials of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, the new version of the synchronous virtual classroom tool, beginning with a general geography of the new and improved user interface and ending with a practice session.

Police Killings of African Americans Town Hall Discussion

Join the GW Criminal Law Initiative and the GW Black Law Student Association for a town hall discussion on the killing of African Americans by police in recent years. 

Participants

Alvin Bragg Former Chief Deputy Attorney General and Chief, Special Investigations and Prosecutions Unit, New York State; Visiting Professor, New York Law School

Community-Engaged Scholarship and Activist Movements: Making the Connection

This Conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Phyllis Ryder and the members of the 2018 Nashman Faculty Learning Community on the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Blackboard: Blogs, Wikis, and Discussions

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about blogs, wiki, and journals in Blackboard! Participants will explore the creation and management of student blogs and private journals as well as group wikis in Blackboard. From informal inquiries to graded topical interactions, we will explore the diverse ways in which you can enhance the student experience outside of the traditional classroom through Blackboard Discussion Boards

Baby Teeth Launch: Nostalgia

The newest issue of Baby Teeth is out! Wooden Teeth’s spin-off mini literary magazine has just published another zine. This issue’s theme is ~nostalgia~ Contributors to the zine will be reading their submissions to kick off our open-mic, followed by a series of workshop activities and prompts. Stop by to read prose or poetry, to workshop something that you’re working on, and to pick up the latest zine!

FPP Presents The 13th Annual Musical Cabaret

Join Forbidden Planet Productions for our 13th Annual Musical Cabaret featuring group musical performances from shows such as Little Shop of Horrors, Waitress, Fiddler on the Roof, etc. Tickets will be available a week before the performances on the FPP website. The shows are in the Betts theatre in the Marvin Center. 

FPP Presents The 13th Annual Musical Cabaret

Join Forbidden Planet Productions for our 13th Annual Musical Cabaret featuring group musical performances from shows such as Little Shop of Horrors, Waitress, Fiddler on the Roof, etc. Tickets will be available a week before the performances on the FPP website. The shows are in the Betts theatre in the Marvin Center. On Friday and Saturday showtimes are at 7 and 10 p.m. 

Testing in Blackboard: Best Practices

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about testing via Blackboard! This workshop will cover the basics of administering a test in Blackboard such as test creation and best practices.

Please register here: https://workshops.itl.gwu.edu/Account/Login

This workshop is also offered on:

Records Management: You Can Do It!

Originating in 2004, and last revised in 2017, the Records Management policy is one that applies to all schools and divisions that maintain GW records. An effective Records Management policy allows us to meet operational needs and legal requirements for record retention and privacy protection, optimize office space, minimize the cost of record retention, and properly dispose of outdated records.

Classroom Technology Showcase & Emerging Technology Revealed

Academic Technologies (AT) recently completed the Digital Transition Initiative, upgrading over 60 analog AV technology classrooms to meet new digital standards! This session will take an in-depth look at technology that is offered in digital classrooms and introduce new technology that is a part of AT’s pilot program.

Blackboard: Assignments and Tests

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about assignments and tests in Blackboard! Blackboard offers a variety of ways to assess your students. This 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. Participants will also discuss test settings and how they impact the student experience of taking a test online.

Blackboard Grade Center

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about Grade Center in Blackboard! Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and practice adding columns and categories, entering grades, and monitoring student progress. You will also learn how to create smart views that will create a shortcut on your course menu to a selected group of columns.

Applying Growth Mindset in Your Classroom

Students often struggle to persist and motivate themselves in classes requiring high-level critical thinking and application skills. Join faculty guest presenters Elizabeth Ruckert and Rhea Cohn to discuss ways to use the “growth mindset” framework as a tool to help students understand the value of effort in learning, collaborate with peers, and process instructor and peer feedback.

The History of Inequity in Washington, DC: What Community-Engaged Scholars Need to Know

Dr. Maranda Ward will facilitate this Conversation about the history of inequity in Washington, DC and our role in partnering with those who are working toward justice.

9:30am, Coffee and connection with colleagues 9:45am, Conversation begins

Using Rubrics in Blackboard

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about Blackboard! Have you ever had students wondering why they got a certain grade on their assignment, or what their grade was made of? Consider using Blackboard rubrics. A Blackboard rubric lists evaluation criteria for a graded activity. Rubrics can help students organize their efforts to meet the requirements of an assignment.

Blackboard Grade Center

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about Grade Center in Blackboard! Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and practice adding columns and categories, entering grades, and monitoring student progress. You will also learn how to create smart views that will create a shortcut on your course menu to a selected group of columns.

Testing in Blackboard: Best Practices

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about testing via Blackboard! This workshop will cover the basics of administering a test in Blackboard such as test creation and best practices.

Please register here.

This workshop is also offered on:

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 11:00am - 12:00pm Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Blackboard: Assignments and Tests

Join the Instructional Technology Lab to learn about assignments and tests in Blackboard! Blackboard offers a variety of ways to assess your students. This 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. Participants will also discuss test settings and how they impact the student experience of taking a test online.