This workshop familiarizes attendees with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate a UCV course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize Blackboard tools, and grade assignments.  Register

Enhance your courses and get personalized assistance for teaching with the new Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View (UCV). Whether you have specific inquiries or just need general assistance, facilitators from the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and eLearning Services (eLS) are here to help!  Register

Developing Your Scholarly Identity is a summer webinar series for Graduate Students and Postdocs beginning their job search. The third workshop in the series is Developing Your Teaching Statement. What should you include in a teaching statement required for academic jobs? This working webinar will help you articulate your teaching philosophy through considering various aspects of your teaching experiences, along with stepwise guidance for for composing the essay. Participants will leave with an outline, starting paragraph, and guidance to continue crafting it.   Register

This comprehensive 75-minute training session is designed to help educators effectively use Zoom and Blackboard together to enhance their online teaching experience. Whether you are new to Zoom or looking to optimize your use of these tools, this training covers everything you need to know.

Participants will learn how to set up and use Zoom and its features right from their Blackboard course; how to schedule and manage Zoom meetings; how to manage recordings after your Zoom sessions, and more!  Register

This session will provide an overview of Progress Tracking and the Student Progress tab. You will learn more about these functions to give your students an easy way to keep track of what they’ve done in your course, as well as tracking their progress throughout the course.   Register

Developing Your Scholarly Identity is a summer webinar series for Graduate Students and Postdocs beginning their job search. The third workshop in the series is Crafting an Inclusivity Statement. How do you approach writing a diversity statement? What can be included -- research, teaching & service, or values and future goals? What if you think you don't have much experience? This webinar will guide you in determining what to include and how to best align your commitment and experiences to an institution's inclusivity goals.   Register

This workshop familiarizes attendees with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate a UCV course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize Blackboard tools, and grade assignments.  Register

Enhance your courses and get personalized assistance for teaching with the new Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View (UCV). Whether you have specific inquiries or just need general assistance, facilitators from the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and eLearning Services (eLS) are here to help!  Register

This session will provide an overview of the Blackboard Learn Ultra Gradebook. You will learn how to navigate the Gradebook, add columns, and setup preferences. You will also learn how to set up the overall grade by points and percentages.   Register

Panopto is an all-in-one video management platform built into Blackboard Learn. In this session, attendees will learn how to create and manage video learning content in Panopto that can be easily integrated into Blackboard courses.   Register

The session includes a networking lunch with USC faculty and support staff, as well as an open lab for working on individual courses and asking questions from Anthology and USC's UCV implementation team. You are welcome to join for the entire day or a part of the session. Computers are available in the lab, but feel free to bring your own laptop.

Boost your proficiency in Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View (UCV) with Anthology, the parent company of Blackboard Learn. This session will equip attendees with essential skills to confidently start teaching in UCV. Specifically, it will focus on converting courses and copying and building content in UCV.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to: 

• Copy course content from Blackboard Learn Original View to Blackboard Learn UCV.
• Copy course content from a UCV sandbox course to a UCV course.
• Recognize features of UCV. 
• Create course content in Blackboard Learn UCV.

Topics

• Copy content from original to UCV
• Copy content from UCV to UCV
• Overview of UCV
• Learning Modules
• Folders
• Documents
• Links

Agenda

10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Interactive Session: Getting Started with Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Open Lab/Q&A

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This comprehensive 75-minute training session is designed to help educators effectively use Zoom and Blackboard together to enhance their online teaching experience. Whether you are new to Zoom or looking to optimize your use of these tools, this training covers everything you need to know.

Participants will learn how to set up and use Zoom and its features right from their Blackboard course; how to schedule and manage Zoom meetings; how to manage recordings after your Zoom sessions, and more!  Register

This workshop is designed for Blackboard users who are familiar with the new Ultra Course View but want a more intensive look at the UCV Gradebook. In this 60-minute session, a consultant from eLearning Services will share best practices and tips & tricks for setting up a Gradebook that works for you, present a live demonstration, and answer questions.   Register

Enhance your courses and get personalized assistance for teaching with the new Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View (UCV). Whether you have specific inquiries or just need general assistance, facilitators from the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and eLearning Services (eLS) are here to help!  Register

This comprehensive 75-minute training session is designed to help educators effectively use Zoom and Blackboard together to enhance their online teaching experience. Whether you are new to Zoom or looking to optimize your use of these tools, this training covers everything you need to know.

Participants will learn how to set up and use Zoom and its features right from their Blackboard course; how to schedule and manage Zoom meetings; how to manage recordings after your Zoom sessions, and more!  Register

This session will provide an overview of the Blackboard Learn Ultra Gradebook. You will learn how to navigate the Gradebook, add columns, and setup preferences. You will also learn how to set up the overall grade by points and percentages.   Register

Enhance your courses and get personalized assistance for teaching with the new Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View (UCV). Whether you have specific inquiries or just need general assistance, facilitators from the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and eLearning Services (eLS) are here to help!  Register

The session includes a networking lunch with USC faculty and support staff, as well as an open lab for working on individual courses and asking questions from Anthology and USC's UCV implementation team. You're welcome to join for the entire day or a part of the session. Computers are available in the lab, but feel free to bring your own laptop.

Boost your proficiency in Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View (UCV) with Anthology, the parent company of Blackboard Learn. This session will equip attendees with essential skills to confidently start teaching in UCV. Specifically, it will focus on converting courses and copying and building content in UCV.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to: 

• Copy course content from Blackboard Learn Original View to Blackboard Learn UCV.
• Copy course content from a UCV sandbox course to a UCV course.
• Recognize features of UCV. 
• Create course content in Blackboard Learn UCV.

Topics

• Copy content from original to UCV
• Copy content from UCV to UCV
• Overview of UCV
• Learning Modules
• Folders
• Documents
• Links

Agenda

10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Interactive Session: Getting Started with Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View (UCV)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Open Lab/Q&A

Register

This workshop familiarizes attendees with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate a UCV course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize Blackboard tools, and grade assignments.  Register

Learn how to set up Blackboard assignments and SafeAssign plagiarism detection.   Register

Panopto is an all-in-one video management platform built into Blackboard Learn. In this session, attendees will learn how to create and manage video learning content in Panopto that can be easily integrated into Blackboard courses.   Register

USC now has an enterprise license for Zoom, and it's built right into Blackboard for your convenience! Get a crash course in scheduling Zoom meetings, recording in Zoom, and managing your video content in Blackboard.   Register

Blackboard’s new Ultra Course View is a simpler and more modern course experience for instructors and students. In this webinar, participants will become more familiar with Gradebook in UCV courses. eLearning Services will demonstrate how to create Gradebook items, enter and post grades, and set up the Overall grade. Register

Blackboard Ultra Course View (UCV) is the newest version of the Blackboard Learning Management System. With new improvements being made monthly to Ultra Course View there are exciting changes which instructors may not have seen. This is a short presentation about the most recent updates that have occurred in Blackboard Ultra Course View and will include information on how to stay up to date on future improvements.   Register

This workshop familiarizes attendees with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate a UCV course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize Blackboard tools, and grade assignments.  Register

This workshop is designed for Blackboard users who are familiar with the new Ultra Course View but want a more intensive look at the UCV Gradebook. In this 60-minute session, a consultant from eLearning Services will share best practices and tips & tricks for setting up a Gradebook that works for you, present a live demonstration, and answer questions.   Register

Blackboard’s inline grading feature just got a lot easier to use. New Box View has been replaced with Blackboard Annotate. When you go to grade an assignment or a discussion forum, you will see the new Blackboard Annotate feature. You will be able to draw comments, make edit marks, type comments and more with this new feature. Participants will learn about the many new options to provide meaningful feedback to your students.   Register

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an integral part of our world. However, it's crucial to understand that AI complements human innovation and creativity rather than replacing it. In this webinar, we'll explore how Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can empower learners and educators alike, fostering responsible and innovative use across disciplines.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Define Generative AI and explain how Generative AI works.
• Recognize the level of familiarity high school students have with using Generative AI.
• Develop a lesson plan with Generative AI elements for student use.
• Create clear expectations of Generative AI use in your classroom.

This is a required session for the Teaching and Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence certificate of completion.  Register

Artificial Intelligence(AI) software programs such as ChatGPT powered by OpenAI have been created in an effort to enhance the human experience by eliminating barriers to access to information. AI is a tool that some equate to the creation of the calculator or the internet.

This presentation will explain what Artificial Intelligence is as it pertains to its possible use in Higher Education by our students, faculty, and staff. We will also briefly discuss why students may be inclined to use programs like ChatGPT and how we can better adapt our course material to either incorporate the use of AI or make it nearly impossible to use on assignments in the first place. Ultimately, we believe that AI is not the end of Higher Education but, rather it's a new beginning.  Register

Are you curious about the potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence to transform teaching and learning? In this webinar, we will explore the world of Generative AI, a powerful technology that can generate text, translate languages, write different creative content, and answer your questions with human-like responses. With prompt engineering, the art of crafting effective instructions for Generative AI, you will discover how to design prompts that elicit thoughtful responses. 

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: 

• Define and explain Generative Artificial Intelligence and prompt engineering.
• Identify the various ways Generative AI can enhance teaching and learning.
• Explore three popular large language models, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.

This is a required session for the Teaching and Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence certificate of completion.

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