Blackboard

Blackboard Basics 

The webinar recording will cover the content based on the  

course template which is applied to all new Blackboard courses. This workshop will also show participants how to create and deploy assignments and discussion forums. Other topics will include:  

• Organizing, building, and managing course content  
• Uploading a syllabus  
• Adding Course content  

• Ways to place a Youtube video in your Blackboard course 
• Going over Email functionality within the course  
• Adding assignment inline commenting  
• Adding assignment audio/video feedback for students 
• Adding the My Grades tool to the Course Menu 

 

Running out of Data Storage in your Blackboard Course? 

Are you not able to upload any files into your course and have received an error that you have reached the 500 MB file size limit? Are you looking to remove files from your Blackboard Course Content Collection that you are no longer using? If so, User Support Services is offering a webinar on how to access and manage files within your Blackboard course. This webinar will cover the following topics: 

• How to delete old file(s) in your course's Content Collection 
• How to remove all the inactive files from the course's Content Collection at one time 
• How to replace attached files to items with another file 
• How to overwrite files which are attached to items and etc. 

• How to link a file from your Microsoft 365 OneDrive in your Blackboard Course 

 

Course Copy Your Previous Blackboard Course Content into Your New Blackboard Course 

This webinar recording will show you how to course copy our previous Blackboard course over to your previous Blackboard course. 

• How to remove the new course template's course menu components (Optional) 
• How to course copy your previous course content over to your current course 

 

Blackboard Collaborate Essentials  

  

This webinar recording will give participants a solid foundation, enabling them to successfully deliver live, interactive Collaborate sessions. Participants will learn the following topics: 

• Understanding the Collaborate user interface 
• Effectively managing the communication tools 

• Understanding audio indicators 
• Managing sessions 
• Participant interaction (engaging your students),  
• Displaying the whiteboard as well as other whiteboard options  
• Sharing content such as PowerPoint content 

• Recording a session 

Start Breakout Group with the Groups Created in Your BB Course

Start breakout groups with the groups created in your Blackboard Learn course. Use your existing course groups to create breakout groups in advance and save time. This is like the pre-assigned breakout rooms for your Zoom meetings. In this video, you will learn the following:

• How to create Group Sets
• How to add/remove students to the group
• How to use the group sets when you want to place your students in their breakout groups

Assessments: Creating and Deploying Assignments with Rubrics in Blackboard 

  

This webinar recording will show participants how to create, deploy, and grade assignments. Other topics will include: 

• Creating/deploying assignments 
• Attaching Blackboard Rubric to the Assignment 
• SafeAssign 
• Student submitting work 

• NEW Annotation tool for your inline commenting 
• NEW WAY to provide Audio/Video Feedback for students 
• Grading student submitted work  
• Students accessing their grades and instructor's comments/feedback

 

Assessments - Tests and Quizzes in Blackboard 

Learn how to use the Tests tool to efficiently create online tests that assess students in a variety of meaningful ways and decide on the best way to present the tests you create. Topics will include: 

• Create and deploy a Test 
• Go through the Test Options 

• Modify an existing question and add image to a question 
• Modify the question points 
• Giving a student more time for a test 
• Adding questions to a test from an existing pool and test  
• Upload questions from a TXT and Word files 

 

Engaging Your Students Asynchronously: Discussion Board Forums in Blackboard 

By the end of this webinar recording, you better understanding on the following topics: 

• How to create and deploy a Discussion Forum 

• How to Add a Discussion Link on the Course Menu 
• How to Add a Discussion Link in a Course Content area 
• How students post initial thread and reply to fellow students’ threads/replies 
• How to grade discussion board forums 

 

Upload video to your Kaltura My Media  

By the end of this webinar recording, you better understanding on the following topics:  

• What are the benefits in uploading your video files to the Kaltura My Media rather than uploading the video directly into your Blackboard course  
• How to upload your video file to your Kaltura My Media   
• How to link the video in your Kaltura My Media into your Blackboard course  

Mastering the Grade Center

 

This video provides a comprehensive introduction to the grade center tool. Use this valuable tool to help understand student progress and make informed decisions on how to improve educational performance. This workshop assumes you are already familiar with Assignments, Tests, and other Blackboard tools. This video will cover the following Grade Center topics:

• Navigating the Grade Center
• Go over some housekeeping items
  • Showing icon legend
  • Editing rows display
  • Column organization
  • Grading color codes
  • Hiding drop students
• Generating Reports
  • Viewing Grade History
  • Submission Receipt
• Building the Grade Center Columns
  • Using categories
  • Creating an average column
  • Creating a manual column
  • Editing Columns
  • Using Smart Views to filter out data
  • Grading assignments
  • Managing Grades
  • Creating the Final Grade (Current Grade) weighted column
  • Setup the percentages for Final Grade (Current Grade) column
  • Configuring your Letter Schema
  • Create the Final Grade Round-up and Final Grade Letter columns

Zoom

Getting Started with Zoom 

This webinar recording will show you how to create and manage a Zoom meeting. The webinar will also cover the following topics: 

• Installing the Zoom Client/New Zoom Progressive Web App (PWA)
• Accessing Your RIC Zoom Web Portal
• Zoom Meeting Settings You want to either Turn On or Off
• Scheduling a Your Recurring Class Meetings
• Starting a Zoom Meeting as the Host
• Students Joining the Meeting
• Going through Features located on the Zoom Toolbar
  • Mic
  • Video
  • Security
  • Participant
  • Polling
  • Chat
  • Share Screen
  • Record
  • Reactions
• Stop Meeting
• Access Recordings

Students having difficulty in accessing your Zoom cloud recordings  

Are your students having difficulty in accessing your Zoom cloud recordings? It could be that your Zoom cloud recordings require them to enter in a passcode and/or sign-in before they can access your recordings. This webinar recording will show you the following:  

• How to make existing Zoom cloud recordings public  
• How to remove passcodes from existing Zoom cloud recordings  
• How to remove passcodes for all future Zoom cloud recordings  
• How to make all future Zoom cloud recordings public  

Downloading Your Zoom Cloud Recordings 

In this webinar recording, you will know how to: 

• How to access your Zoom cloud recording? 
  • Zoom LTI 
    • How to access the recording via the Zoom LTI tool 
    • How to download the recording via the Zoom LTI Tool 
  • Zoom Web Portal 
    • How to access the recording via the Web Portal  
    • How to access your Recording settings 
    • How to download the recording via the Web Portal 
  • Kaltura – My Media 
• Upload the recording in your Kaltura My Media 
• How to embed the recording in your Blackboard course 
   

How to Create and Deploy Pre-Define Polls via Zoom LTI Tool

This video will cover the following topics:

• How to download the poll template file
• How to add your poll questions and possible answers
• How to import the poll csv file
• How to bring up one of your polls within your Zoom meeting
• How to share poll results with the participants
• How to re-launch the poll

 

How to Create and Deploy Pre-Define Polls via Web Portal

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This video will cover the following topics:

• How to access the Poll section for an existing Zoom meeting
• How to add your poll questions and possible answers
• How to make the poll anonymous
• How to bring up one of your polls within your Zoom meeting
• How to share poll results with the participants
• How to re-launch the poll

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Microsoft 365

Access and Organize Your Files and Folders within Your Microsoft 365 OneDrive 

   

In this webinar recording, you will know how to: 

• Access your Microsoft 365 OneDrive 
• Create folders 
• Rename folders 
• Upload a single file and multiple files 
• Upload an entire folder 
• Moving and copying files and folders 
• Organize files and folders 
• Create Word, Excel and PowerPoint files within your OneDrive 
• Delete and restore files from the Recycle Bin 

  

Sharing Files/Folders and Collaborating Using Your Microsoft 365 OneDrive 

In this webinar recording, you will know how to: 

• Access your Office 365 Microsoft 365 OneDrive 
• How to share folders and files with your students and colleagues 
• How to collaborate different ways on a document with your students and colleagues 
• How to access the document's version history 
• How to un-share a folder/file 

 

Google Apps

Setting Up Your Google Classroom  

Discover Google Classroom and all it has to offer. In this course, you will become familiar with setting up your Google Classroom.   

In this webinar recording, you will learn: 

• Classroom Fundamentals 
  • Classroom navigation 
  • Copy, Archive and Delete Classes 
• Managing the Classroom 
  • Create and edit classes 
  • Providing students with your class code so they can join your class 
  • Class Setting 
  • Going over grading options 
• How to use the Classwork page 
  • Add Topics 
  • Going over the Class Drive Folder 
  • Add Material 
  • Create Ungraded and Graded Assignments 
    • Create rubrics 
    • Turn on the originality report 
  • Post Questions 
  • Creating a Quiz Assignment 
• Communication 
  • How to use the Stream page 
  • Post Announcements 

 

Grading and Providing Feedback in Your Google Classroom  

 

Discover Google Classroom and all it has to offer. In this course, you will become familiar with how students submitted work and how you grade and provide feedback to your students' work.   

In this webinar recording, you will learn: 

• How to setup the Grading options 
• How Teachers and Students can post and provide comments on the Stream page 
• How to read what’s on the Grading page 
• How students access the assignment 
• What is the difference between Mark as done vs Turn in? 
• How students can run the originality report before submitting work to the assignment 
• What students can submit (Google Drive, link, File or Create Docs, Slides, Sheets or Drawings) 
• How Students submit to an assignment 
• How Teacher provides feedback before student turn in assignment 
• How to Grade, Provide Feedback and Return Assignment to Student   
• View Your Work/Grade for the students 
• How students can add a class comment to a question 
• How students type out answers in a question  
• How to Grade, Give Feedback and return a question to a student 
• How teachers view individual student’s results and score 
• Release quiz grade and provide Feedback to students 

 

End of Unit Google Form 

 

Google Forms allow you to collect filled out information and analyze the results. It has a lot of possibilities for educators.  Google Forms can also be used to get feedback from students about a course, to create quizzes, or as an exit ticket for a lesson/unit. In this webinar recording, you will learn the following: 

• How to use Google Forms 

• How to add different types of questions  

• How to edit the form 

• How to change the theme and fonts for your form 

• How to show questions based on answers 

• How to insert Youtube videos within a form question 

• How to share your form 

• How to view and manage form responses 

 

Google Drive Essentials 

Discover Google Drive and all it has to offer. In this workshop, you will  become familiar with this popular cloud-based online storage service that provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation software and more.  In this webinar recording, you will learn: 

• How to navigate throughout Google Drive interface 

• How to organize and locate your Google Drive files 

• Learn the benefits in starring a file/folder 

• How to rename, copy, move and delete file/folder 

• How to  add a file in your Shared with me to as a shortcut to your Drive 

• The difference between Google Documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides) and Google Drive 

• How to create Google Doc and Google Slide 

• How to upload and edit Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel files 

Google Meet Essentials

This webinar recording will show you how to the following: 

• How to schedule a Google Meet

• How to invite users to your meeting

• How to use the different options

• How to change video layout

• How to change your video background

• How to record your meeting and access the recording

• How to use the whiteboard activity (Jamboard)

• How to share your screen, window or tab

Using Google Docs for Collaboration

Discover Google Drive and all it has to offer. In this workshop, you will  become familiar with this popular cloud-based online storage service that provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation software and more.  In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to share a Google Doc

• How to provide feedback/comments in Google Docs

• How to collaborate on a Google Docs at the same time

• How to use the Revision History in Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides

Using the Google Jamboard (Whiteboard) App to Synchronously Engage Your Students

By the end of this webinar recording, you will have a better understanding on the following topics:

• How to access the Google Jamboard app
• How to open an existing Jam
• How to create and save a Jam
• How to use the different Jam tools
• How to write, draw, and add notes in a jam
• How to insert images in a jam
• How to share a jam