Blackboard Portfolios PowerPoint
Creating and Sustaining an Effective Curriculum
Friday, November 17 Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 Eastern via Zoom
With Leah Dvorak, Elizabeth Evans, and Erin Laverick
Effective curricula at Concordia are rigorous, relevant, coherent, current, experiential, explicit, and well-communicated to students. They are also aligned with the mission, university learning outcomes, and program learning outcomes. Effective academic programs result in healthy enrollment, retention, and completion numbers, demonstrate learning as expected by the faculty, and use continuous improvement. At this session, we will present tools for planning, implementing, and improving such curricula. The audience for this program includes faculty, department chairs/program directors, and deans.
Best Practices for Managing Blackboard Course Size
Friday November 10, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern via Zoom
Led by: Tyler Shadick
This session is for faculty. Blackboard courses have a finite amount of space before the maximum is reached. During this session, participants will learn best practices for sharing large files in their course such as videos and voiceover PowerPoints. We will also explain how using the course Content Collection can save additional course space and save you time when documents need updating or are shared in multiple locations within a course.
PowerPoint Course Size
Getting Started with Panopto with Justin Frisque
Friday, November 3, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern via Zoom
The audience for this program is faculty. Panopto is a tool used to record and share videos, including voiceover PowerPoint recordings. Participants will learn how to access Panopto to create recordings and integrate the Panopto tool in your Blackboard course. Also covered is the organization of videos within Panopto and setting viewing permissions.
Service-Learning Experiences
Thursday, November 2, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern via Zoom
Presenters: Julie Parve (Nursing), Robert Wahl (Computer Science), Heather Fortuine (Rehab Science), and Elisabeth Bennett (Business)
The audience for this program is faculty. In alignment with CUW’s GLO “Service and Citizenship”, you can now offer your students a chance to learn while serving others. Come join us and get inspired to add a transformative learning experience to one of your courses. We will discuss the availability of grants for service-learning experiences and how to apply as well as examples of service-learning experiences that have been impactful to students and the community they served. Feel free to come and share your ideas as well.
Friday, October 27, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern via Zoom
Leaders: Catherine (Kate) Robertson
The audience for this program is Department Chairs, Program Directors, and Deans. During this session, we will review and discuss the teaching observation process and form used for summative faculty observations, primarily for in-person classes. We will also share effective strategies for the observation itself and the post-observation discussion. Best practices for sharing constructive feedback, and tips on how to use the form (link to observation form) for formative, peer observations will also be shared.
PowerPoint: Classroom Observations 2023
The Successful Department Chair/Academic Program Director
Friday, September 8, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern via Zoom
Academic Program Change, New Program Proposal and Suspension/Discontinuance Starting September 2023
Tuesday, August 22, 9:00 – 10:00 am Central/10:00 – 11:00 am Eastern on Zoom
Presenters: Brooke Johnson, Michele Hoffman
This session will walk through the new process programs will use starting September 2023 to initiate, change or discontinue programs as of the 2024-2025 academic year (beginning August 2024). Come to this program to learn about the tools and deadlines for these curriculum processes. This program is for all program directors, department chairs, and academic staff involved in managing our complement of programs.
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Mequon Adjunct Orientation (In-Person Classes)
Monday, August 21, 5:00 – 6:30 pm Central via Zoom
Presenters: Kate Robertson, Elizabeth Evans, Ty Landers, Jason Lane, Jan Chapman, Andrew Wahl
Are you ready for teaching the spring semester that begins on August 28? During this session for Mequon adjuncts teaching in-person classes, we will share important policies and where to find them as well as many resources that address first-day teaching, student support, Academic Resource Center services, classroom AV, faith and learning, Blackboard, and more.
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