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
Tuesday, August 6, 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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
Wednesday, August 7, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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
Thursday, August 8, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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
iClicker Cloud is a mobile-optimized engagement platform designed to facilitate student,
educator, and institutional collaboration. iClicker Cloud includes both synchronous
and asynchronous options including polling, quizzing, and assignments. Integrated
right into Blackboard, iClicker can help instructors increase attendance and participation,
provide instant feedback and identify misconceptions in real time, regardless of class
size or the delivery method. 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)
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
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
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
September 2024
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.
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.