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Instructional Resources is now offering a four-course Blackboard Specialization Certificate. Blackboard Learn is the official learning management system (LMS) at Buffalo State College that allows for dynamic learning to occur in the online environment. Earning a Blackboard Specialization Certificate will demonstrate your ability to enhance student learning and foster better engagement, interaction, and quality learning. This certificate is suitable for instructors teaching face-to-face, hybrid or blended, or online courses.

Earn a Blackboard Specialization Certificate by attending the following workshops:

1. Blackboard Learn 9.1: Introduction
2. Blackboard Learn 9.1: Assessments
3. Blackboard Learn 9.1: Grade Center
4. Blackboard Learn 9.1: Collaboration Tools

By earning the Blackboard Specialization Certificate, you will be able to

• create content items to present a variety of learning activities to enhance student learning;
• deliver authentic assessments to evaluate student knowledge in a variety of meaningful ways;
• record data, calculate grades, and monitor student progress;
• effectively use select collaboration tools to increase student engagement by providing a means to share and create knowledge.

You may also earn an Advanced Blackboard Specialization Certificate by attending the four workshops identified above and the following three workshops:

1. Blackboard Learn 9.1: Utilizing Rubrics in a Blackboard Course
2. Blackboard Learn 9.1: Student Performance and Retention Center
3. Blackboard Learn 9.1: Achievement Badges

By earning the Advanced Blackboard Specialization Certificate, you will be able to

• create and use rubrics to evaluate student work;
• use the Retention Center to monitor student performance and identify at-risk students;
• provide opportunities for students to earn recognition for their work in the form of badges and certificates.

Please download the Blackboard Training Workshops PDF to learn more about these courses.

For more information, please contact Michael DiFonzo, Blackboard trainer.