The week of Nov. 4 – 8 is National Distance Learning Week, and the Center for Distance and Online Learning will be celebrating the occasion by offering all week a series of short, 30-minute overviews of exciting new Blackboard tools and resources that are now available for faculty to take advantage of!
SoftChalk Monday will feature overviews of SoftChalk, a web-based tool that DL staff will use to create a variety of engaging interactive presentations and scored activities that students can access directly through their Blackboard courses, and that faculty can have custom-made on request.
TechSmith Relay Tuesday will feature overviews of TechSmith Relay, another web-based tool, which faculty can use to create dynamic, interactive instructional videos in their Blackboard courses.
In turn, the overviews on ALLY Wednesday and Friday will introduce faculty to ALLY, a Blackboard plugin that can be your best “ally” in ensuring that your Blackboard course content is accessible and ADA-compliant.
The overviews on OSCQR Thursday will focus, finally, on the OSCQR (Open SUNY Course Quality Review) Rubric, which provides a matrix that faculty can follow as a guide to meeting the standards for online course design established by Open SUNY.
As icing on the cake, there will be a drawing on Friday for cool bags of “mystery swag.” Faculty will receive a drawing ticket for each overview session they attend, and there will be three lucky winners!
Below is a schedule of the overviews that the DL Office has planned for National Distance Learning Week. All sessions will be held in BTC 1033.
- Monday, Nov. 4: SoftChalk sessions at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
- Tuesday Nov. 5: TechSmith Relay sessions at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
- Wednesday, Nov. 6: ALLY sessions at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.
- Thursday, Nov 7: OSCQR Rubric sessions at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
- Friday, Nov. 8: ALLY sessions at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Published: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:54 +0000 by m.petersen