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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
Goes over how to Apply the Quality Matters Rubric. 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.
Getting your Blackboard Course Ready
The purpose of this training is to get your online course ready for next semester. Ensure you have all the essential elements to have an excellent online presence and show you how to create a course copy, manage course dates, edit content as needed and add new course tools.
| Date | Time | Brownsville Campus | Edinburg Campus |
| December 14 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 26 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
| May 24 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 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 |
| January 18 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 15 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
| March 8 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
| April 12 | 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 |
| January 25 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 22 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
| March 22 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
| April 19 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
| May 17 | 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 |
| January 11 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 8 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Online | Online |
| March 1 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
| April 5 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Online | Online |
| May 10 | 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.
New session for 2022, coming soon!
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.
New session for 2022, coming soon!
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 you content accessible by complying to section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act issued from the United States federal government and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) issued by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and provide equal access to your students. Take advantage of Blackboard learn features such as Ally to easily make your content accessible.
New session for 2022, coming soon!