
March 2021
Effective Discussion Boards: Informal Writing for Learning and Community
This session explores principles for fostering effective online discussion by guiding participants to set priorities and goals for discussion board writing. You’ll leave this session with practical strategies for changing the nature of class discussion.
Find out more »Teams Troubleshooting
Are you using Teams to meet with your class? If so, you're invited to join us for this troubleshooting session. Bring your questions or problems related to teaching with Teams, and staff from ETS and the CTL will be there to discuss them and help you find solutions.
Find out more »Rubrics 101 with a Blackboard Rubrics Tool Demo
This workshop explores principles for making rubrics that work and will guide participants in determining whether rubrics are the right solution to the grading or responding challenges they want to address. We will also demonstrate integrating your rubrics into the Blackboard Rubric Tool.
Find out more »Top Hat Student Response System Demo
Join us to see currently available software for student response systems. We invite anyone on campus interested in looking at the feature sets for these systems, and particularly individuals currently using a response system in their teaching, to attend one or more demo. Each vendor will set aside time for Q&A as part of their presentation.
Find out more »TurningPoint Student Response System Demo
Join us to see currently available software for student response systems. We invite anyone on campus interested in looking at the feature sets for these systems, and particularly individuals currently using a response system in their teaching, to attend one or more demo. Each vendor will set aside time for Q&A as part of their presentation. After each session we will be asking you to do a quick survey to let us know what you think about the system. We…
Find out more »Efficient Grading: Tips to Ease the Work & Stress
This workshop explores ways you can tweak your approaches to grading and responding to written student work. With an eye to reducing your stress and workload while increasing clarity and effectiveness, we'll explore a variety of practical grading tips.
Find out more »Having Fun and Grabbing Interest in Large Remote Classes
Teaching large-enrollment remote courses has been a challenging shift for many of us over the last year, but there are ways we can make the remote experience fun for students and faculty while also holding students' attention and increasing learning.
Find out more »Teams Troubleshooting
Are you using Teams to meet with your class? If so, you're invited to join us for this troubleshooting session. Bring your questions or problems related to teaching with Teams, and staff from ETS and the CTL will be there to discuss them and help you find solutions.
Find out more »Poll Everywhere Student Response System Demo
Join us to see currently available software for student response systems. We invite anyone on campus interested in looking at the feature sets for these systems, and particularly individuals currently using a response system in their teaching, to attend one or more demo. Each vendor will set aside time for Q&A as part of their presentation.
Find out more »Teaching in Higher Education
In this workshop we will help you reflect on your teaching and and share current research on teaching practices such as Kuh's High Impact Practices and Universal Design for Learning.
Find out more »iClicker Student Response System Demo
Join us to see currently available software for student response systems. We invite anyone on campus interested in looking at the feature sets for these systems, and particularly individuals currently using a response system in their teaching, to attend one or more demo. Each vendor will set aside time for Q&A as part of their presentation.
Find out more »April 2021
CDE: Summer Online Teaching Boot Camp
Continuing and Distance Education’s Summer Online Teaching Boot Camp is a 2-week practical training in designing, building and teaching an online asynchronous course specifically for the accelerated summer format. You will learn the nuts and bolts of online course creation, tips and tricks to make Blackboard work for you, and key strategies to make your course dynamic, challenging, and engaging for both you and your students.
Find out more »May 2021
Teaching Effectively Online
Teaching Effectively Online is a 4-week, cohort-based, online course that prepares faculty to teach online.
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