Office of Technology Services Training is offering a wide variety of Blackboard workshops over spring 2006 to help you with your Blackboard course site:
Blackboard Discussion Boards
Monday, April 24: 9-11 a.m.
The Discussion Board is an area where students can discuss a topic you designate. This would be the same as having an in class discussion but facilitated online instead. After creating a main topic for the students to discuss, they can respond to your topic and other students posts.
Blackboard: End of Semester Maintenance
Thursday, May 11: 9-11 a.m.
Once the semester has come to an end there are certain steps you must take to properly maintain your course site. Learn to designate your course site for future use or storage, save a backup of your course site, remove students, set your course site to unavailable and recycle old statistics.
Blackboard: Gradebook
Monday, June 19: 9-11 a.m.
Learn the new features of the gradebook.
Blackboard: Managing Your Course Site
Sign Up Now! Friday, Jan. 27: 3-4:30 p.m.
Learn techniques for managing your Blackboard course sites. Some workshop topics include: managing multiple sections of a course, archiving your course site, exporting gradebook information, recycling course components and your responsibilities as instructor.
Blackboard: Tests and Assignments
Sign Up Now! Tuesday, Jan. 24: 10 a.m.-noon
Monday, March 13: 9-11 a.m.
Learn the new test environment and how to create assignments.
To register for these workshops and others go to {http://www.towson.edu/otstraining}. All workshops are held in Cook Library, room 3, unless otherwise noted on the Web page. Also, look for self-help quick sheets as an alternative to workshops by clicking on the Documents link.
Please note that the entrance to Cook Library has temporarily moved to the side loading dock during the lobby’s renovation.
