Getting Started with Blackboard Learning Management System

Thinking about getting on board with Blackboard? This workshop will guide participants through the basic tasks and decisions required to put some or all of your course content in Blackboard and use the communication tools to keep students informed. You will learn to create a course menu, add tools to a course menu, create content areas and add course materials; announce events, send messages and email, and use tools across the course.

::Registration is required::

Newport Campus 205:
Tue Jun 4, 10:00 AM - Noon

Knight Campus 4100:
Wed Jun 12, 10:00 AM - Noon
 

Build your faculty webpage using WordPress

CCRI provides faculty websites as a vehicle for faculty to distribute course-related documentation and contact information for their CCRI students. The new CCRI faculty Web is powered by WordPress. We are adopting the use of this web-based editing and publishing tool as an alternative to FrontPage - a legacy technology that is no longer supported by Microsoft. Faculty who do not have a WordPress site will need to request one via the Faculty Web Request Form at least two business days before the workshop. Also please be prepared with electronic access to your office hours, photograph, biography text, list and short description of the courses you teach, and course syllabi to add to your new WordPress site.

::Registration is required::

Flanagan Campus 2602:
Wed Jun 12, 10:00 AM - Noon
 
Knight Campus 4100:
Tue Jun 4, 10:00 AM - Noon
 

Learn the essentials for creating and delivering on-line assessments in Blackboard

This workshop is designed to demonstrate how to create an assessment for online delivery using three easy methods: from an existing Word document into Respondus, creating questions inside Blackboard, or creating questions in Respondus to import to Blackboard. Respondus is a powerful tool available to faculty for creating and managing tests. We will also discuss key settings inside Test Options in order to effectively deliver your online test. Other topics will include creating Random Blocks of questions and Question Sets to be used in your test. Please bring sample questions in order to practice creating a sample test.

::Registration is required::

Knight Campus 4100:
Wed Jun 5, 10:00 AM - Noon

Flanagan Campus 2602:
Thu Jun 13, 10:00 AM - Noon

Demonstration of video captioning with Camtasia Studio

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute designed to ensure equal access to opportunities and benefits for qualified individuals with disabilities. In many state, government, and education institutions, videos must include ADA compliant captions. In this workshop you will learn the guidelines for ADA compliant captions, tips for writing captions, and how to create video captioning with Camtasia Studio, which is available to CCRI faculty in the Centers for Instructional Technology (CITs).

::Registration is required::

Newport Campus 205:
Tue Jun 11, 10:00 AM - Noon

Best Practices for building a better Blackboard experience for students

Evaluate how your Blackboard course conforms to various quality rubrics. In this workshop you will reflect on your own course design through a self-evaluation of your course and gain new perspective and insights on your course and Bb features and tools.

::Registration is required::

Flanagan Campus 2602:
Thr Jun 6, 10:00 AM - Noon

Knight Campus 4100:
Tue Jun 11, 10:00 AM - Noon

Contact Information:

Knight Campus

Yan Huang
Tel: 401-825-1113
E-mail: yhuang@ccri.edu

Norm Grant

Tel: 401-825-1195

E-mail: ngrant@ccri.edu

Flanagan Campus
Gene Grande
Tel: 401-333-7031
E-mail: ggrande@ccri.edu

Liston Campus
MaryAdele Combe
Tel: 401-825-2486
E-mail: mcombe@ccri.edu

Newport Campus

Ben Leveillee

Tel: 401-851-1708

E-mail: bleveillee@ccri.edu