We’ve had a very busy summer so far, with all of our workshops being fully subscribed. Don’t worry if you missed out though as we’re planning plenty more training opportunities from September and beyond.
We know that many of you are starting to think about how you will be delivering your learning and teaching next year and might be wondering what you can use to support your blended and online elements.
With that in mind we’ve put together a programme of workshops that cover various tools which can help support online learning and teaching and, whilst the focus of the workshops will be on using a particular technology, we will of course include use cases and scenarios of where this will be useful, and provide examples of good practice.
All the workshops will be delivered online and you can sign up for them from the staff development booking page.
Here’s a quick summary of what’s available, and when:
- 3/9/20 10.15 -11.30, Blackboard made simple
This workshop is ideal for those of you wo are new to Blackboard, or who may need a refresher.
- 8/9/20, 10.00 – 11.00, Vevox online polling
Vevox is our new online voting tool and can be used in conjunction with Collaborate to engage your students in polling and online question and answer sessions.
- 9/9/20 and 23/9/20, 10.00 -11.00, Collaborate
Collaborate has become the go-to technology for delivering live online sessions. If you’ve not yet tried it or would like to build a bit more confidence this session is for you.
- 15/9/20 and 24/9/20, NEW – Recording from your desktop using Panopto
Panopto is our new video platform which allows you to record presentations from your desktop and make them available to your students via Blackboard.
- 16/9/20, 10.15 -11.15, Accessibility and Ally
The new accessibility guidelines come into force in September and Ally is now available in all Blackboard modules for staff and students. This session will show you how you can use it to improve the accessibility of your module.
- 22/9/20, 10.15-11.30, Using tests, quizzes and surveys on Blackboard
Quizzes are a great way to engage students and can provide formative feedback on their learning. This session will show you how to set up and deliver quizzes and surveys within your module.
- 30/9/20 10.00 -11.00, Assessing student presentations online using Collaborate and Panopto
Assessing student presentation online presents a number of challenges and opportunities. This workshop will look at the options available and discuss the practicalities of assessing student presentations in an online environment.
- 01/10/20, 10.15-11.30, Camtasia
Camtasia is a great tool for creating learning resources for your students which can be interactive and engaging, and accessed at a time convenient to the student
- 7/10/20, 10.00 -11.00, Tracking student engagement in Blackboard
Retention and engagement is even more critical when students are working remotely. This session will show you how you can use the tools within Blackboard to check how your students are engaging with the module.
- 8/10/20, 10.15-11.15, Blended Mobile and Flipped learning
This session will look at how to make best use of Blackboard to facilitate flipped and blended learning. It will also consider how to comply with the new accessibility guidelines which come into force in September 2019. There will also be a discussion regarding how best to structure your Blackboard module to make it compatible with the increasing use of mobile devices by students.
We also now have a fully online, interactive training package for Turnitin which is hosted on LearnUpon. Just login via the staff homepage and work through the package – it should take no more than an hour and covers everything you need to know about using Turnitin for assignment submission, marking and feedback.
If you have any queries, please email tel@worc.ac.uk
