As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Proctoring/Alternatives," presented by John Draeger, director of the Teaching and Learning Center, and Meghan Pereira, director of instructional design and training, on Wednesday, August 5, from 3:00 to 3:50 p.m.

This session considers issues of academic integrity related to online environments. We’ll consider ways to create authentic assessments that make cheating exceedingly difficult as well as various proctoring solutions. 

You can access the webinar using the Teaching and Learning Center meeting room. Please review the BbCollaborate website to become familiar with using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a participant, if you'd like.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar " Ensemble Dropbox," presented by Todd Benzin, educational technology specialist, on Wednesday, August 5, from 2:00 to 2:50 p.m.

While students at Buffalo State do not have Ensemble Video accounts, instructors can create an Ensemble dropbox to allow students to submit videos and audio files to their instructors for class. This workshop will walk you through the steps of creating an Ensemble Video dropbox and how to post a direct link to the dropbox in your Blackboard Learn course. 

You can access the webinar using Todd Benzin's Training Room. Please review the BbCollaborate website to become familiar with using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a participant, if you'd like. 

Google Chrome or Firefox is highly recommended as a browser. If you have a webcam and microphone, that's great. If not, you should be able to get everything you need as long as your headset or speakers are working.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Ensemble Video Quizzes," presented by Todd Benzin, educational technology specialist, on Wednesday, August 5, from 1:00 to 1:50 p.m.

With Ensemble Video, you now have the ability to easily create quizzes embedded in your videos and then publish them in Blackboard Learn. Come and see how to use this new feature and take your assessments to the next level.

You can access the webinar using Todd Benzin's Training Room. Please review the BbCollaborate Website to become familiar with using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a participant, if you'd like. 

Google Chrome or Firefox is highly recommended as a browser. If you have a webcam and microphone, that's great. If not, you should be able to get everything you need as long as your headset or speakers are working.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Metacognition: Students Learning about Learning So They Don’t Need Us," presented by John Draeger, director of the Teaching and Learning Center, on Wednesday, August 5, from noon to 12:50 p.m.

This session explores metacognition in remote environments. Metacognition encourages us to be intentional about the processes we engage in (e.g., driving, cooking, building a business, teaching, learning). Those engaged in metacognition are aware of what’s working, what’s not, and when they need to make adjustments. This session will offer ways to help students learn about their own learning. 

You can access the webinar using the Teaching and Learning Center meeting room. Please review the BbCollaborate Website to become familiar with using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a participant, if you'd like.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Blackboard Learn Assessments," presented by Brooke Winckelmann, instructional designer, on Wednesday, August 5, from 11:00 to 11:50 a.m. 

This workshop focuses on the available assessment tools in the latest version of Blackboard Learn. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to create, configure, and deploy individual and group assignments to collect student submissions to manage grades and feedback. The use of assignments and auto-graded tests will be covered.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Blackboard Learn: Fostering Communication and Collaboration," presented by Meghan Pereira, director of instructional design and training, on Wednesday, August 5, from 10:00 to 10:50 a.m.

To build a successful community, students need the tools to interact and have conversations. Blackboard Learn offers communication tools for self-reflection, collaboration, and communication. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to use the discussion board, journals, and groups to provide rich assignments and evaluate students in authentic ways where students can share and create knowledge.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Designing and Evaluating Assessments," presented by Brooke Winckelmann, instructional designer, on Wednesday, August 5, from 9:00 to 9:50 a.m.

This discussion-centered session will complement module 4 (Designing and Evaluating Assessments) of the self-paced Online Course Development series. We will recap important ideas from this module and expand on the discussion questions. 

Please come prepared to share your discussion responses for module 4 of the self-paced Online Course Development series. 

Before attending this session, we ask that you self-enroll in the “Online Course Development Series – Self-Paced" organization in Blackboard Learn and review the materials found within module 4. The series provides best practices for online teaching and learning, as well as guidance with educational technology. 

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Remote Learning Is HIP (High-Impact Practice)," presented by John Draeger, director of the Teaching and Learning Center, on Tuesday, August 4, from 3:00 to 3:50 p.m.  

High-impact practices (HIPs) have been shown to significantly improve student retention and academic achievement. HIPs involve activities requiring a significant investment of student effort over time with multiple interactions between faculty and students about substantive matters as well as opportunities for frequent feedback and structured reflection. This webinar will take a fresh look at how to bring inquiry-based activities into an online environment and how to up the HIP quotient of the course.  

You can access the webinar using the Teaching and Learning Center meeting room. Please review the BbCollaborate website to become familiar with using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a participant, if you'd like. 

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Creating Online Lecture Videos Using PowerPoint," presented by Pamela Schuetze, professor of psychology, on Tuesday, August 4, from 2:00 to 2:50 p.m.

We will discuss several easy steps to convert PowerPoint slides into online lecture videos. Narrating PowerPoint adds a human touch for your students and allows you expand on the information provided in the visuals on the slides. We will also discuss how to convert the narrated PowerPoint into a video that can be uploaded into Ensemble and Blackboard.  

You can access the webinar using the Teaching and Learning Center meeting room. Please review the BbCollaborate website to become familiar with using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a participant, if you'd like. 

Please register through the Workshop Registration System. 

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Upload Video and Create Playlists (Ensemble)," presented by Todd Benzin, educational technology specialist, on Tuesday, August 4, from 1:00 to 1:50 p.m.

Ensemble is the media server solution that allows the Buffalo State community to store, manage and publish their audio and video files into an LMS such as Blackboard and on other websites. This session will focus on adding videos into your Ensemble account, creating playlists for those videos, and publishing your videos and playlists to Blackboard Learn courses. Buffalo State is currently using version 5.4 of the platform. 

You can access the webinar using Todd Benzin's Training Room. Please review the BbCollaborate website to become familiar with using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra as a participant, if you'd like. 

Google Chrome or Firefox is highly recommended as your browser. If you have a webcam and microphone, that's great. If not, you should be able to get everything you need as long as your speakers or headset are/is working. 

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.