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The Center for Online Learning & Teaching Technology will be offering various training on Quality Matters, Blackboard Learn and other supported tools. These sessions are open to all UTRGV faculty interested in learning more about Blackboard Learn and how they can apply it to their courses and beneficial for faculty who are currently teaching or will be teaching fully online or hybrid courses in the near future.
The training that we offered are listed below, please check the training services website for specific dates and times. If you need to request a special training session for a group of faculty or staff, please submit a Faculty Help Request.
Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Workshop
This is a two-week, full online, asynchronous workshop. Goes over the Apply the Quality Matters Rubric and how to apply it in reviewing the design of online and blended courses. This rubric introduces participants to best practices, instructional design, and research-based design principles of an online/hybrid course to ensure quality assurance. This workshop is required if you are planning to teach online.
| Date | Modality | Sign Up |
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| June 23rd to July 7th | Online Asynchronous | Register Now |
| July 12th to July 26th | Online Asynchronous | Register Now |
| August 2nd to August 16th | Online Asynchronous | Register Now |
Getting your Blackboard Course Ready
The purpose of this training is to get your online/hybrid/face-to-face course ready for next semester. Ensure you have all the essential elements to have an excellent online/faculty presence and show you how to create a course copy, manage course dates, and add/edit course content as needed such as updating your course syllabus.
This session will also cover adding Zoom into your course and setting up virtual meetings in preparation for the first two weeks of remote and synchronous learning.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| July 5 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
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| Aug. 2 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
Blackboard Basics
This training is designed to help faculty members develop the basic knowledge and skills necessary to use Blackboard Learn. This training covers the basics of Blackboard navigation, creating, editing, and deleting items, folders, manage discussion boards, etc.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| June 14 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
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| July 12 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
| July 28 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
Blackboard Advanced (Gradecenter)
Empower yourself to teach with maximum efficiency by understanding Blackboard Learn’s powerful Grade Center. The Grade Center is more than just a location to record students' grades--it is an interactive tool that allows faculty to filter, sort, and access data, calculate grades, and monitor student progress. Join this session to learn the basics of efficiently managing your columns, creating a weighted column (final grade), creating smartviews and generating reports.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| June 21 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
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| July 19 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
| Aug. 16 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
Panopto Basics
The Basic Training Webinar is designed for new users and beginners who would like to learn how to use the Panopto software. This webinar will cover creating, managing, and editing sessions as well as navigating the Panopto interface.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| June 28 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
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| July 26 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
Respondus LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor
This comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. The session provides a detailed demonstration of both applications, including enhancements that make Respondus Monitor even more effective and easy to use.
Top Hat
Engage Your Students in Any Environment with Top Hat
Sign up for Top Hat webinars and tutorials. Learn how to use Top Hat for engaging students into active learning.
Turning Technologies
Join Turning Point webinars. Learn how to setup Turning Point, how faculty use the receiver, how to create a polling presentation in PowerPoint, and how to integrate or create sessions.
Collaborative Groups
Join us as we dive into online group work and learner-learner collaboration. We’ll discuss best practices, the tools in Blackboard, how to apply them in your course, the technology and multimedia available. There will also be an opportunity to get hands-on Blackboard practice in creating, managing, assigning, and grading group work.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| June 22 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Online | Online |
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Microlectures
Microlectures, aren’t just for School House Rock. As we begin to relax health and safety protocols, Face-to-Face teaching is coming back in a big way. However, should everything we practiced in remote teaching go away? Students are now more than ever looking for easy ways to consume content as they start becoming more mobile. Microlectures are a great way to help meet those needs This training, Microlecture Fundamentals will show you some of the design thought that should go into microlectures and how to use the tools supported by UTRGV to leverage cutting edge videos with little to no production budget. Join us to learn how to plan, record, and share your microlectures with your students.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| July 14 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Online | Online |
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Teaching with Blackboard
Join Blackboard's webinars! Ongoing free webinars to help with getting the most out of teaching with Blackboard Learn and Bb Collaborate Ultra.
Accessibility Features in Blackboard
Learn how to make your content accessible by complying with section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act issued by the United States federal government and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) issued by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provide equal access to your students. Take advantage of Blackboard Learn features such as Bb Ally to easily make your content accessible.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| Aug. 9 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Online | Online |
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Leveling Up Learning: Designing Rubrics for Today’s Students
Ready to unlock your students’ potential? Join us as we explore the anatomy of a scaffolded rubric to transform one of your own! We will discuss transparent design practices to foster relationship-building, strategies to encourage self-assessment and problem-solving, and methods for garnering motivation throughout an assignment’s lifecycle. To get the most out of this session, be sure to bring a rubric you plan on using in an upcoming module or term.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| July 13 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Online | Online |
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