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2006 Spring WORKSHOPS
*Please
bring
your materials (syllabus, course documents and files, test/exams, images
and/or multimedia clips in your "My documents") for use in hands-on
Blackboard or PowerPoint development.
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Workshop Descriptions
Blackboard QuickStart (for beginners)
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Blackboard is extremely easy to use
and most instructors are quickly able to start building
courses or place content online. This is a hands-on
workshop that introduces you to the features of
Blackboard, shows you how to add content to your course
and gives you a forum to ask questions. You'll add
content and graphics to a practice site, learn about the
online gradebook and communication features such as the
Discussion Board and practice customizing the look of
your course. Although Blackboard is a relatively easy,
point and click program, there are some basic procedures
that all instructors should know. Even if you're a savvy
computer user, this workshop will show you things that
will save you time in the long run.
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Blackboard Online Gradebook and
Assessments
Top This workshop explores Blackboard's Online
Gradebook and Assessment Manager tools. The course is designed for
instructors, teaching assistants, and support staff who have a working
knowledge of Blackboard but want to learn more about the strengths and
limitations of these tools. We will focus on drafting questions and
methods of presenting questions to students, using enhanced feedback
features and test settings, creating a question "pool" and even using
images in question creation. Come prepared with some test/quiz
questions and images.
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Using the Assignment Tool in
Blackboard
Top This allows instructors to create assignment
items through which students can submit their response to the
assignment. Instructors can track the students' assignments and download
the submissions from an entire class simultaneously through the
Gradebook. They can grade the assignments and provide feedback for each
student which may be viewed online when checking their grades.
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Blackboard Virtual Classroom &
Articulate Open
House
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The Collaboration feature, also referred to as Virtual Classroom, allows
students and instructors to hold real-time virtual classroom sessions
online. Students can also use this feature to conduct online group
meetings. Professors can use it for virtual office hours.
Articulate Presenter lets non-technical users
create e-learning courses by adding narration and interactivity to a
standard PowerPoint file. At the press of the button, your presentation
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Basic Image Scanning
Top We will scan images and discuss the basics of creating and editing image
files. Using the CIDT scanners, we will scan, create PDF's, upload
the images to Blackboard, attach the files in Outlook --- or
whatever you want to do with them. Please bring a phot0, picture
or item to scan.
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Barracuda Spam Filtering
Top Information
Technology has implemented a Barracuda Spam Firewall to reduce
unsolicited e-mail. The Barracuda screens all incoming email checking it
for viruses, worms, and spam before it even gets to your inbox.
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is extremely efficient
in eliminating a high percentage of spam, however no filter is 100%
accurate. Messages determined to be spam are placed in a quarantine area
so you can access them if you need to determine if they are legitimate
email messages. You are in complete control over what gets blocked,
filtered or delivered.
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Outlook 2003
Top An introductory course for those who need
to learn the basic e-mail and contact features. You will learn how
to compose, format, send, save, forward and reply to messages. The
course also covers how to create folders and move messages.
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Word 2003
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A beginning course that will help you develop
efficiency. This course will cover the format features, customized
toolbars, ruler and tab settings, indents, page numbers, headers/footers
etc.
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Excel 2003
Top A beginning course for faculty or staff who need to
learn the basic concepts of the popular spreadsheet. The course is
designed for those who have little or no experience with spreadsheet
applications.
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Advanced PowerPoint 2003
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This course is designed to help you take advantage of the tools in
PowerPoint and use them thoughtfully to support your ideas and lectures.
We will show you how to incorporate video, sounds and transitions in a
deliberate manner and publish the presentations to Blackboard and/or
CD-ROM.
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Individual Training
Top CIDT offers one on one training to
faculty members on any software that IT supports. If you are
interested in setting up an appointment, contact us by phone (6496) or email
and we can arrange to set up a training either here at the CIDT lab or
at your office. |
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Classroom Presentations
CIDT staff members are available
to come to your class and present tutorials on how to maximize the usage
of software in coursework.
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Blackboard
- FrontPage - Web Design Fundamentals
- Blackboard
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