During this 30-minute session, faculty will learn several fast, easy fixes to their documents that can make content more accessible for all students.
Here are the resources for this program that was held on Friday, September 16, Noon – 12:30 pm Central/1:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern on Zoom
Please plan to join us to learn about the research conducted by two Arts and Science colleagues who recently completed their doctoral degrees: Steve Hendrix (Ann Arbor) and Josh Locklair (Mequon).
Concordia Faculty Seminars are informal interactive presentations and conversations on faculty and staff projects including grants, research, and service designed to promote scholarship, spark new ideas, provide opportunities for meaningful discussion, and increase collaboration. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Thursday, September 15, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 Eastern via Zoom.
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The audience for this program is Department Chairs and Program Directors. What are the expectations for the role of Department Chair or Academic Program Director? An effective chair or academic program director manages faculty, staff, programs, courses, and processes vital to student success. The effective chair also fosters a healthy departmental culture and establishes efficient, collaborative decision-making processes. A strong department chair or program director uses both management skills and leadership skills to create and sustain a successful department in which faculty and staff feel engaged and energized.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Friday, September 9, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern via Zoom
Faculty learns how to create, engage in, and grade Blackboard online discussion boards.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Wednesday, August 17, 1:00 – 2:00 pm Central/2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern via Zoom.
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How to create a discussion forum
How to view, subscribe, read and respond to discussion forums
This interactive session for faculty leaders, department chairs, and program directors suggests strategies for the development of effective curricula for academic programs. These strategies could be applied to new programs or to improve and refresh existing programs.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Friday, August 12, Noon – 1:00 pm Central/1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern via Zoom.
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Practices and Processes – Building an Effective Curriculum
Voicethread is a tool in Blackboard that takes the idea of an online discussion board to a new level of engagement. Participants learn how to access and navigate the Voicethread options, create a basic instructor introduction, comment on a Voicethread using audio, video, or text, and set up a graded Voicethread assignment.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Friday, August 12, 10:00 – 11:00 am Central/11:00 am – Noon Eastern via Zoom.
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The Assessment of Student Learning channel on the Faculty tab of the portal provides current resources for curriculum mapping and assessment.
Here are the resources for this program that was held on Thursday, August 11, 2022.
Assessment Party Recording 2022
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Ally is a tool in Blackboard to help instructors make their content more accessible. Your class is full of diverse students with unique learning abilities, needs and devices. Course content created with this in mind can benefit not only your students with disclosed disabilities such as visual impairments and dyslexia, but improve the learning experience for all of your students.
During this information session, we show the Ally accessibility indicators and Ally instructor feedback report. We also demonstrate common fixes in Microsoft Word that can help make your content more accessible for all students.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Thursday August 11, 9:30 – 11:00 am Central/10:30 am – Noon Eastern via Zoom.
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This session is primarily for full-time faculty.
Learn what resources are available to you as faculty, including research/scholarship support, where to find them, and who to contact if you need more help.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Wednesday, August 10, 3:00 – 4:00 pm Central/4:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern via Zoom.
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The first half of this session shows how faculty can create Blackboard Tests using three commonly used question types. The second half of the session covers Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor. Faculty learns the difference between LockDown Browser and Monitor, and how to enable the appropriate settings based on where students take the test.
Here are the resources for this workshop that was held on Wednesday, August 10, 1:00 – 2:30 pm Central/2:00 – 3:30 pm Eastern via Zoom.
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Blackboard Test Feedback Options Summer 2020
Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor Summer 2020