Attend these upcoming live workshops:
When: October 6, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7127945176831894799
Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free accounts.When: October 13, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/9176960961494845967
We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.When: October 20, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5605066596780837647
In our third workshop in the series, participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work.When: November 10, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6367244758620656396
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create VoiceThreads and then add them to your Blackboard course as lessons or assessments.Or Visit the VoiceThread Workshop Archive: https://voicethread.com/workshop-categories/workshop-archive
Sample Workshop Recordings include:
Visit the VoiceThread Workshop Archive: https://voicethread.com/workshop-categories/workshop-archive
Sample Workshop Recordings include:
or attend these upcoming live workshops:
When: September 22, 2020 7:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Register here: https://voicethread.com/workshops/voicethread-advanced-skills-10/
In this workshop, participants will learn about more advanced VoiceThread features. We will demonstrate how to integrate Google Drive content via our Media Sources, how to change language displays, adjust playback settings and more. Portions of the workshop will be hands-on.When: September 29, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Register here: https://voicethread.com/workshops/humanize-your-online-course-with-voicethread-7/
VoiceThread Basics 1: Upload, Comment, and Share
Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free accounts.
When: April 14, 2020 1:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Register here
*** BONUS: Instructional Technology staff will host a VoiceThread remote workshop on April 1 at noon. Learn more.
As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:
As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:
Quickly Create Online Exams: Respondus 4 and the Test Bank Network
Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one LMS to another. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project.
Learn how to use Respondus 4 to quickly create and manage online exams — and see the brand-new user interface! With Respondus 4, exam can be printed or published directly to your online course. We'll also cover how the Respondus 4 and the Test Bank Network enable instructors to create online tests – in just minutes – from official publisher test banks.
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 new enhancements that make Respondus Monitor even more effective and easy to use.
About thirty faculty and staff attended two boot camps focused on the new Blackboard course interface before the FA2018 semester started.
Informed by a SP18 Ultra experience faculty pilot, the 2-day comprehensive workshops were offered in mid- and late-August to the campus community. Participants took a deep dive into the new Ultra Course View including its basic course building features, changes to communication and engagement tools, updates to tests and assignments, and improvements to the Ultra gradebook. The boot camp also reviewed the course conversion process using the Ultra Course Preview and compared faculty options for converting an original Blackboard course to Ultra or redesigning using the new tools. “Regardless of your experience, you walked away with what you needed to get started,” said one instructor.
Initial feedback from faculty was positive with participants citing Ultra's clean and simplified workflows, and the Ultra Experience continues to evolve with monthly innovation and enhancements. Several faculty opted to fully use the Ultra Experience this semester in five courses and to evaluate the new interface with another eight courses.
For more information about the new Blackboard course interface, please see the additional events posted to the Instructional Technology group at myUMBC:
As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:
Follow the Instructional Technology & DoIT myUMBC groups
Request a consult with instructional technology staff