Distance Ed Offers Blackboard Training Sept. 29

20 September 2004 — The Office of Distance Education is offering an Introductory Blackboard Training Workshop for faculty and staff on 29 September. This workshop is intended to familiarize you with the Blackboard e-learning software platform that delivers a powerful, user-friendly environment for online teaching and learning.

Goals of this workshop include:

--Providing an overview of online learning policies such as copyright and instructional design, as well as online student characteristics

--Familiarization with the navigation and basic course design in Blackboard

--Practice adding documents such as PowerPoints and Word files to your course through multiple methods, including use of the new  Assignment Management System

--Use of the new WYSIWYG Text Editor Toolbar that allows instructors & students to copy/paste content into Bb without losing any formatting, or having to know HTML***

--Learning basic content manipulation through course and content copy features

There is no fee for this workshop, and it is open to both faculty and staff who may be interested in using the Blackboard platform, who need a refresher with any of the topics described above, or who would like to learn about the new features available in Blackboard.

The workshop will be held on Wednesday 29 September from 1 to 4:30 p.m.  Further information about this workshop will be provided upon registration.  To register for this workshop, please send an e-mail to Ms. Sherri Restauri (srestaur@jsu.edu) to   "Enroll in Introductory Bb Workshop", and include at least your first and last name in the body of your email.

Please submit your request no later than  Tuesday 28 September at  noon.  You will receive a confirmation email that you have been enrolled into the workshop  prior to the day of the training.

If you have any questions or need further information on workshops  provided,  please refer to the Blackboard Workshop for Instructors webpage at:
http://distance.jsu.edu/DLBbWorkshops.htm

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