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New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation will be held Thursday, August 17, 2023 at the University Conference Center,  1705 College Street, Close Hipp Building, Suite 800, Columbia, SC  29208 . 

The Office of the Provost sponsors New Faculty Orientation (NFO) to help all new faculty make a smooth, enjoyable transition to the University. This welcome and orientation session is for all new full-time faculty: tenure-track, research, professional-track, instructors and lecturers who have been hired since August 15, 2022, including those hired for Spring, Summer and Fall 2023 terms.

New Faculty Orientation Agenda

Please contact the Center for Teaching Excellence at cte@mailbox.sc.edu if you have questions concerning 2023 New Faculty Orientation.

Adjunct Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation is not for Adjunct Faculty. A special, virtual Adjunct Faculty Orientation will be held Monday, August 21, 2023,  from 5:30 – 7:00 pm. Register for Adjunct Faculty Orientation Fall 2023.

eLearning Services Blackboard Workshops

eLearning Services supports USC faculty by providing training and personalized assistance for Blackboard and other academic technologies. Blackboard is a web-based Learning Management System (LMS) designed to allow students and faculty to participate in classes delivered online or use online materials and activities to complement face-to-face teaching. Blackboard enables instructors to provide students with course materials, discussion boards, online testing, a live presentation platform, tools to make content more accessible, and more.

eLearning Services is offering webinars to give new faculty the opportunity to learn the different features/capabilities of the Blackboard LMS they will use to facilitate courses. New faculty members will view presentations and participate in Q&As so they can move forward in their course preparations with confidence.

For more information, contact eLearning Services at 803.777.1800

August 2023

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, 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. 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

Blackboard offers many ways to engage your students using a variety of collaboration tools. Learn how to use some of these tools to encourage your students to communicate and collaborate in an effective and creative way.  Register

In this webinar, participants will become familiar with Backboard Gradebook in Ultra Course View 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

Blackboard’s inline grading feature, Blackboard Annotate, makes grading easy. Learn how to provide meaningful feedback to your students through comments, virtual stamps, edit marks, and more.  Register

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

Panopto is an all-in-one video management platform built into Blackboard. 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

In this session you will learn simple instructional techniques that benefit all users, technology tools that can be used to provide specific accommodations, and resources that are available to meet accommodation needs.  Register

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

September 2023

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

October 2023

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

The Virtual Environments Community of Practice is planning ways to integrate virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality into teaching and learning environments at UofSC. Meetings are open to faculty, staff and students.

If you are interested in participating in the Virtual Environments CoP, or would like to be on the email list for further information, please email Charles Andy Schumpert at schumpca@mailbox.sc.edu.  RSVP

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

November 2023

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available in Blackboard, and grade assignments.  Register

December 2023

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with Blackboard’s Ultra Course View. eLearning Services will demonstrate how instructors can navigate an Ultra course, communicate with students, add content, find and utilize tools available

Instructional Design Support

CTE's Instructional Design team can help you prepare courses and will be happy to consult with you about selecting the best combination of tools, resources, and teaching practices to develop courses and course components for face-to-face, hybrid and fully online courses.

Our instructional design team can assist you in:

  • Designing detailed and organized syllabi.
  • Developing course outcomes and objectives for your students.
  • Creating easy-to-navigate and accessible courses.
  • Incorporating multiple methods to check student learning.
  • identifying  the instructional technologies that support your teaching style, course objectives and activities and enhance the learning experience for your students. 
  • Designing, developing and delivering online courses either in a fully online, blended, or hybrid format.

Whether starting a course from scratch, enhancing a current course or moving a course to online instruction, we can help.

To consult with a member of our instructional design team or learn more about our instructional design services, Schedule an Instructional Design Consultation.


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