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Teach in Ultra training is a self-paced training designed to introduce instructors to essential skills needed to be successful in the Blackboard. Learners will explore the basic functionality and tools needed to develop basic content and teach a course using the university adopted Learning Management System (LMS).

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff (Asynchronous Materials)
Target Audience: Faculty

Does your Blackboard course have rubrics to provide learners with feedback? This session introduces how to get started creating and managing rubrics using Blackboard. During this session we will discuss different rubric design principles. This session will also demonstrate how efficient it can be to grade with a rubric housed in Blackboard. Learners will also see how students receive instructor feedback.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you Interested in using Peer Review in your courses? Join us for this session presented by Turnitin on PeerMark. This workshop will introduce instructors to how to complete peer review using the Turnitin platform.

Presenter(s): Kenneth Rogers - Turnitin & Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

The Advance Topics in Blackboard Ultra workshop has been designed to provide training for specific aspects related to Blackboard Ultra. The training is not intended to substitute for Blackboard Orientation or Online Teaching Certification, but instead intended to serve as a more focused exploration of specific tools and features that instructors may choose to implement in their courses. Topics include leveraging groups, Turnitin, Respondus lockdown browser, and Ally Accessibility Checker.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Prerequisite: Previous completion or current enrollment in Teach in Ultra Workshop.

The s¼¶ËØÈË Online Teaching Certification training is designed to prepare faculty to teach online and blended courses using the Blackboard Learn Ultra experience. In this course participants will explore best practices and theory in online course design and develop a plan for online teaching. An emphasis will be placed on Student engagement, instructor to student engagement, and instructional design for online teaching. Upon successfully completing this certification, you will have the option to claim a micro-credential, University issued electronic Badge.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty planning on teaching online or blended courses

This session will explore how introducing AI in the classroom can prepare students for life and the workplace. It will discuss practical methods for teaching AI as a tool for learning, and strategies for setting clear expectations around AI usage.

Presenter(s): Dr. Sheila Boysen, Dr. Maja Grgurovic and Dr. Scott Kerth
Target Audience: Faculty

Have you explored the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence in Blackboard? Have you considered how assistive AI might enhance your workflow and efficiency as an instructor? This workshop provides faculty and staff with an overview of what is possible using the built-in AI tools in Blackboard.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Join the Faculty Center for a discussion on strategies for engaging learners in face-to-face and online environments. Participants of this session are encouraged to share their own ideas during this collaborative presentation and discussion.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

IThis workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to work with Blackboard. An overview will be provided of the basic functionality and layout in Blackboard. Participants will also learn how to create or modify content in their courses.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Are you familiar with how to assist your learners using Blackboard? Do you know how your learners experience your course? Are you comfortable introducing Blackboard to your learners? Do you know how to troubleshoot common learner problems frequently encountered in Blackboard? This workshop provides faculty and staff with guidance on how to introduce students to Blackboard and how to assist them with common technical problems.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

In this interactive session, faculty will learn how to leverage AI tools to enhance teaching and learning effectively. The session will demystify key concepts such as prompts, one-shot prompts, and prompt engineering, providing a clear foundation for understanding how AI responds to user input.

Participants will learn practical techniques for crafting, refining, and iterating prompts to generate high-quality, targeted results. Through live demonstrations and hands-on examples, we will explore how the same prompt performs across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, highlighting how to adapt and optimize prompts for various tools.

Additionally, this session will cover strategies for editing AI-generated outputs to meet instructional goals and showcase real-world use cases of AI integration in the classroom. We intend to prepare and equip you with practical skills to effectively design, revise, and apply AI prompts, empowering AI as a dynamic partner in teaching and learning.

Presenter(s): Dr. Sheila Boysen, Dr. Maja Grgurovic and Dr. Scott Kerth
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to start teaching with Zoom. An overview will provide instructors on how to install Zoom, basic functionality, and some ideas for making your online meeting sessions more dynamic.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop provides faculty and staff with the essential skills necessary to work with Blackboard. An overview will be provided of the basic functionality and layout in Blackboard. Participants will also learn how to create or modify content in their courses.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop introduces various workflows to help assist you with your grading. In this session learners will discuss different strategies for reviewing student submissions and issuing learner feedback using the tools in Blackboard. This session will also demonstrate how to configure and manage your gradebook.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

This workshop focuses on how to construct various assessment types. During this workshop instructors will be introduced to creating assignments, discussions, journals, and tests. An emphasis will be placed on how to manage and reuse existing content for assessment purposes.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty

Does your Blackboard course have rubrics to provide learners with feedback? This session introduces how to get started creating and managing rubrics using Blackboard. During this session we will discuss different rubric design principles. This session will also demonstrate how efficient it can be to grade with a rubric housed in Blackboard. Learners will also see how students receive instructor feedback.

Presenter(s): Faculty Center Staff
Target Audience: Faculty