Fall 2007 Workshops

The Instructor’s Guide to BeachBoard Basics: Creating and Posting Course Documents

Ready to start using BeachBoard in your classes? This workshop is for you! In this hands-on, two hour workshop you’ll learn the basics of how to use BeachBoard, everything you need to know to get up and running in BeachBoard. In particular, you’ll learn how to login to BeachBoard, how to access your courses, and even how to post your syllabus and course handouts to BeachBoard.

All workshops are taught in the Spidell Electronic Classroom on the first floor of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

Tuesday, August 28
10:00 AM to Noon
Tuesday, September 4
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Thursday, September 6
10:00 AM to Noon
Wednesday, October 3
10:00 AM to Noon

Assessing Student Performance using BeachBoard’s Quizzes, Surveys, and Gradebook

BeachBoard lets you easily create and deliver online, automatically-scored assessments and surveys using over a dozen different question types: calculated formula, calculated numeric, hotspot, jumbled sentence, Likert scale, true/false, multiple choice, multiple answer, ordering, matching, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, essay, file upload, and binary choice. Assessment questions can be given all at once or one at a time, can be timed or un-timed, and assessments can be taken multiple times or only once.

You can also store student performance results in your BeachBoard Gradebook. Scores from assessments delivered through Blackboard are automatically recorded in the Gradebook, and the Gradebook supports custom grading scales, grade weighting, item analysis, and multiple Gradebook views. Best of all, you have the options of letting your students view their own grades (but no one else’s) inside of BeachBoard.

All workshops are taught in the Spidell Electronic Classroom on the first floor of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

Thursday, August 30
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Wednesday, September 12
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Wednesday, September 26
10:00 AM to Noon
Monday, October 15
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Thursday, November 1
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

The Instructor’s Guide to Turnitin: Detecting and Discouraging Student Plagiarism using Turnitin and BeachBoard

This hands-on workshop introduces you to Turnitin.com, an online plagiarism detection service supported by the Faculty Technology Center. Students submit their work—term papers, lab reports, computer programming assignments, group project summaries, or any other original material students create in your class—to Turnitin through BeachBoard. Turnitin then compares the students’ work to billions of other student papers and documents, including documents in both Google’s and ProQuest’s databases. Whenever a match is found, Turnitin highlights the suspect paragraph(s).

While Turnitin is an effective plagiarism detection tool, particular attention will be paid to ways you can use Turnitin as both a deterrent to student plagiarism and as a tool to teach your students proper citation techniques.

All workshops are taught in the Spidell Electronic Classroom on the first floor of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

Friday, September 7
Noon to 1:00 PM
Tuesday, September 18
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Friday, October 12
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Wednesday, October 31
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Communicating with your Students using BeachBoard

You already know that BeachBoard makes it easy for you to share course documents and announcements with your students. But did you know that built into BeachBoard is a way for you to quickly send email messages to some or even all of your students? Not only that, but BeachBoard also supports threaded, asynchronous discussions which can be sorted/viewed by thread, author, date, or subject and are completely searchable. And BeachBoard’s Collaboration Tool, designed for live, synchronous interaction, supports a text-based chat environment, as well as a full Virtual Classroom.

If you are looking for a way to use BeachBoard to fully engage your students, this workshop is for you!

All workshops are taught in the Spidell Electronic Classroom on the first floor of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

Friday, August 24
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Thursday, September 20
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Wednesday, October 24
10:00 AM to Noon

Providing equitable experiences for distance students

Face-to-face isn't the same as distance education, but you can create conditions for equitable learning. Find out how to create an authentic learning cyberspace -- even blend face-to-facers and onliners -- to provide a community of learners anywhere.

This workshop is taught in Intructional Technology Support Services lab on the lower level of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

Tuesday, October 9
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

BeachBoard 2.0

Find out how to use BeachBoard features to help students collaborate. Blogs, wikis and other
social networking tools will also be demonstrated in terms of educational practice.

This workshop is taught in Intructional Technology Support Services lab on the lower level of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

Friday, November 2
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

A picture is worth 1K words

Digital photography and other image techniques offer a new dimension to learning. See how to make course banners, class charts, talking heads, and other visual techniques to foster learning and a sense of community.

This workshop is taught in Intructional Technology Support Services lab on the lower level of the University Library. Reservations are not necessary.

Tuesday, December 4
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM