ITS Faculty Workshops for Summer 2009

SDSU Faculty Workshop Registration for Summer 2009

Welcome to the SDSU Summer workshops (on Blackboard, Captivate, Wimba, and Clickers) for faculty. Please sign up and register for all workshops you are interested in.

SafeAssign (the plagiarism detection tool) is now available through Blackboard 8. For information about SafeAssign, please go to the ITS website at: http://its.sdsu.edu/tech/plagiarism/.

For SDSU staff and students, ITS will not be offering workshops this Summer, but are looking into potential online training options.

For SDSU students writing a thesis, Word Document Formatting and Thesis Template will no longer be offered through ITS. You can get technical assistance at Thesis Review of Graduate and Research Affairs (thesisreview@mail.sdsu.edu) or call 619 594-4165.

1. Please enter your contact information, which is required for registration.

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2. Please select your status as a SDSU faculty, staff or graduate student.
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3. Workshop Selections

Please select all the workshops you would like to sign up for by clicking on the box to the left of each workshop.

Note for Wimba: As of July 7, we closed Wimba Live Classroom on July 9 and Wimba Voice Tools on July 10 due to over enrollment.
Instead, please sign up for two new Wimba sessions: Wimba Live Classroom on July 16 and Wimba Voice Tools on July 17.

The workshop descriptions are listed after these selections.
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Workshop Descriptions

Blackboard Introduction
This hands-on workshop introduces you to the many features of Blackboard (SDSU's Learning Management System), and gives you a forum to ask questions.

Blackboard Grade Center
This workshop will include posting grades for assignments and exams, choosing options for displaying grades, accessing the different gradebook views, adjusting or weighting grade center items, exporting the grade center to Excel, and viewing grade center item statistics.
Prerequisite: Intro to Blackboard or Equivalent Knowledge

Captivate
Learn how to create accessible online instructional tutorials that include animation, narration, and captioning without programming knowledge or multimedia skills.

Blackboard Assessments (Blackboard Quizzes and Surveys)
Learn how to do online quizzes and surveys to check student learning, give students practice with learning endeavors, and receive anonymous feedback.
Prerequisite: Intro to Blackboard or Equivalent Knowledge

Using the Discussion Board as a Teaching and Learning Tool
Learn about discussion board mechanics along with learning activities you can use in your course discussion board to encourage student learning and engagement.
Prerequisite: Intro to Blackboard or Equivalent Knowledge

Wimba Live Classroom
Wimba Live Classroom is a web-conferencing system, offering the ability to hold and archive class sessions, group meetings, office hours, or guest presentations online with audio, video, text, images, and multimedia materials. Participant interaction may occur through text chat, audio discussion, shared whiteboard, application sharing, and polls.

Wimba Voice Tools
Wimba Voice Tools gives you the ability to add voice recordings, voice-based discussion boards, and live chat sessions combining text and voice to a Blackboard course, to send out voice-based emails through Blackboard, and to easily create podcasts.

Introduction to Clickers
Learn more about how SDSU faculty are using clickers to increase student engagement, encourage participation and attendance, and administer assessments. Faculty from several disciplines will present their uses of clickers.

	Blackboard Introduction on Tuesday, June 16 @ 1-3 pm in LL-260
	Blackboard Grade Center on Th, June 18 @ 10 am-noon in LL-260
	Captivate on Fri, June 19 @ 9:30-11:30 am in LL-260
	Blackboard Assessments on Th, June 25 @ 9-11 am in LL-260
	Blackboard Discussion Board on Fri, June 26 @ 10 am-noon in LL-260
	CLOSED - Wimba Live Classroom on Th, July 9 @ 10 am-2 pm with one-hour break in LL-260
	CLOSED - Wimba Voice Tools on Fri, July 10 @ 9:30-11:30 AM in LL-260
	NEW Section - Wimba Live Classroom on Th, July 16 @ 10 am-2 pm with one-hour break in LL-260
	NEW Section - Wimba Voice Tools on Fri, July 17 @ 10 AM-noon in LL-260
	Introduction to Clickers on Wed, August 19 @ 12-2 pm in AH-1112