The following is a list of training sessions that will be offered for CSI faculty and staff during the Fall of 2009 semester.
Please mark your calendars!
This workshop will focus on the basic features of Adobe Connect - the online meeting and collaboration system that allows users to engage in a virtual meeting across the Internet. You will learn how to create meetings and online presentations, interact with attendees, record your meetings, and work with reusable content.
Creating & Grading Assignments. Setting and modifying Assignments Options.
BB9 – Getting Started |
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| Course ID: | N/A |
| Registration required: | No |
| Number of credits: | 0 |
| Fees: | N/A |
| Dates and Times: | 11/02/2009 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Library 101 |
| Instructor: | Izabella Bagdasarova |
Customizing the course Setting, Course Menu and design, preparing and uploading documents to Blackboard, creating Announcements.
Creating Tests, setting options, deploying and deleting tests; importing and exporting tests.
Customizing the grade book. Adding, modifying, and deleting the Gradeboook items. Grading Assignments and tests. Creating Smart Views and Reports. Downloading Grade book to Excel.
Enrolling, Removing, and Viewing Users in your class. Creating Groups and working with Group features.
This training session will focus on using Excel to enter and format tabular data, sort and filter the data, enter the formulas to calculate the final grades, and create charts and graphs.
This training session will focus on using PowerPoint to insert, adjust, and compress graphics; insert video and animation files; insert sound clips or record narration. You will learn how to package your presentation, so all your movies and sound will work when you show your presentation.
An introduction to the MyCSI portal including features such as looking up courses and class rosters, entering grades, taking attendance, adding and dropping classes, customizing MyCSI, calendaring and announcements, features that can be used for advising students, sending e-mail messages to all students in class directly from the module, etc.
This training session will cover the basic operations of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Topics that will be covered include: distribution lists, 7 ways to organize your messages, meeting requests, calendar management, and more!
Participants will learn about this effective classroom response system that is currently being used by several CSI instructors. This easy-to-use technology allows instructors to gauge students’ understanding and comprehension by posing multiple choice or true/false questions which the students answer using a wireless remote. Feedback is instant and provides an ideal forum for class discussion and review. A brief demo will be provided along with a discussion regarding its usefulness in the classroom.
Want to communicate your office hours to students? Would you like to add to create a personal webpage to market your courses to prospective students? WebTools is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to do just that. The training session will also cover the Online Course Evaluation system. You will learn how to preview your evaluations, customize the evaluations by adding course-specific questions, and how to review the results that you can use to continually improve your courses.