Workshops & Offerings

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Canvas Q&A with Instructional Development:

Mark your calendars and register below! We’re hosting several Q&A sessions over the summer via Zoom. This is your chance to ask questions, explore new features, and possibly exchange discipline-specific tricks you’ve discovered in our new LMS. Sessions are informal and will not be recorded. Please feel free to attend any or all sessions that fit best with your schedule. Whether you have Canvas feature and/or new instructional tech questions or just enjoy great conversation, we’d love to see you there!

Blackboard Preparation for Canvas Session

This one-hour session will guide faculty on saving and migrating Blackboard course site data and content in preparation for the move to Canvas. Instructional Development will demonstrate the following via Zoom and in-person simultaneously:

  1. Exporting Blackboard Course Sites – Export packages include course content and materials for later import into Canvas. Essential for courses before Summer 2024.
  2. Archiving Blackboard Course Sites & Downloading the Grade Center – Archive packages create a permanent record of the course, including content and user interactions. Important for educational records, incompletes, and grade appeals.
  3. Importing Blackboard Course Packages into Canvas – Blackboard export/archive packages can be imported into Canvas development or term section course sites.
  4. Copying Course Content in Canvas – Using Import Existing Content to copy content between Canvas course sites.
  5. Organizing Course Sites – Renaming Canvas Course Cards for easier navigation. (DEMO)

Unable to attend one of these sessions? Steps with videos are available here:  Content Migration Options.  If you need more help, please contact Instructional Development or request a meeting by submitting an IT Case.

Instructional Technology Training Options:

Adobe InDesign
InDesign is a sophisticated page layout and graphic design tool for print publication.

  • TBD

Harmonize Discussion for Canvas
We’re excited to share that instructors at UMass Dartmouth can use Harmonize, a discussion & collaboration tool that integrates with Canvas, to improve student engagement in your online discussions while saving you time in grading and managing your class!

Free recorded training for advanced topics!
Upcoming events hosted by Harmonize.
Visit our Harmonize webpage to learn more.

Kahoot! Game-based Learning for Blackboard or Canvas
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that allows you to create, share, and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in face-to-face classrooms and online courses! Kahoot! functions as an interactive technology to engage students in the learning environment through Games, Interactive synchronous and asynchronous lessons, Polls, Quizzes, and Interactive lectures. Join us for a training and demonstration offered by a Kahoot! education specialist.

Kaltura – Creating Online Lectures in Blackboard or Canvas
A lecture capture and personal recording solution is built into Blackboard and Canvas. Kaltura can record content on your computer screen, audio narration and webcam video. After recording, your video is automatically processed and stored in your personal Kaltura media space. This workshop will walk participants through initiating Kaltura, recording, and embedding videos into a Blackboard or Canvas site.

More Sessions are available at Kaltura Training Services

Qualtrics – Getting Started
UMass Dartmouth has selected Qualtrics as our Internet survey tool. All Faculty and Staff have access to create and publish their surveys. Students may also use Qualtrics under the direction of a Faculty or Staff member. This workshop covers the authoring and administration of surveys, as well as data collection. Question types are covered in detail. No previous survey experience is necessary.

  • TBD

Qualtrics – Branching
An intermediate Qualtrics workshop that explores different means of skipping or repeating questions in a survey. Topics covered include skip logic, display logic, blocks, block branching, and loop and merge. Previous survey experience equivalent to the Getting Started with Qualtrics workshop is required.

  • TBD

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a program in the Office 365 suite typically used to store, sort, and manipulate data. Although Excel is not a database, it is often used in data analytics and finance careers to assess large amounts of information and create visualizations.

  • TBD

TurnItIn in Canvas
TurnItIn is a web-based service that checks for plagiarism and originality in student writing. It compares submitted work to a large database of student work, articles, books, and websites. Turnitin generates an Originality Report for both faculty and students that highlights and categorizes any matching text to detect plagiarism and inaccurate citation references while striving to maintain academic integrity.

VoiceThread – Humanized Media-Rich, Online Discussions in Blackboard
VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool for engaging in rich, asynchronous conversations around images, documents, presentations, and videos. Learn how to take your online discussions to the next level! Attend or watch a workshop hosted by our service provider, VoiceThread.

Upcoming VoiceThread workshops
Previously Recorded VoiceThread workshops

YuJa Panorama for Accessibility in Canvas
We’re excited to announce that YuJa will host a series of webinars designed specifically for faculty and staff. These sessions are a great opportunity to refresh your knowledge of our tools and ask any questions directly to our experts. Did you know YuJa Panorama allows instructors and students to locate, assess, and fix accessibility issues and access content directly within Canvas? Users can see a file-by-file accessibility gauge, view the severity of the problems with color-coded icons, replace files, select from 110+ languages, and extract math equations from documents without leaving Canvas.

  • TBD

Online and Blended Teaching Courses:

Online Teaching and Learning Strategies (in Canvas)
A rigorous four-week, fully online asynchronous course introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently and collaboratively with peers from across campus and with instructional designers to design and build one unit of online instruction on a Canvas site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s). *Pre-requisite: Growing with Canvas

Visit Teaching Online for more information.

Blended Teaching: Designing Meaningful Content Connections (in Blackboard)
An engaging two-week, fully online course introduces faculty to current research and best practices for blended teaching and learning. Using their discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, and collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of blended instruction that can be incorporated into their course(s) to enhance student engagement and meaningful content connections. This instruction unit will meet the Quality Blended Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming blended course(s) on a Blackboard site. 

  • TBD – Pending Canvas transition

Visit Teaching Blended for more information.

Other Fully Online Teaching Educational Opportunities:

Online Teaching Resources
A fully online, independent, and self-paced learning opportunity that has been adapted from our rigorous Online Teaching and Learning Strategies certification course. Faculty can self-enroll and navigate resources at their own pace. While samples, course design templates, and assessment models are available to enrollees, submissions, grading, feedback, and certification are unavailable.

Enroll now!

Instructional Continuity
Explore tools and strategies that can be leveraged to keep your class(es) on track and maintain instructional continuity in the event of disruption due to weather-related incidents, campus emergencies, or closures.

Visit the Instructional Continuity site to learn more!

Getting Started in Blackboard
Highlights the most useful features of Blackboard. Viewers are guided through creating their Blackboard site(s), populating a course menu, incorporating communication tools, and adding and organizing course content based on industry best practices for online teaching and learning. Viewers will also learn how to use Student Preview Mode to ensure that they are creating a streamlined and engaging learning environment.

Visit our Getting Started in Blackboard site to learn more!

Other Blended Teaching Educational Opportunities:

Blended/Online Course Prep
A recorded workshop series that explains the differences between instructional modes and identifies which course components can be conducted online. Viewers will learn how to create a course and organize electronic materials for online delivery. Popular assessment strategies are showcased, and technologies for creating online content are explored. Each session builds upon the last and provides helpful guidance, templates, and samples for faculty to use as they plan for their upcoming online and Flipped course(s):

  • Session 1: Building a Base
  • Session 1.5: Blending for Lab, Clinical, and Studio Courses
  • Session 2: Developing and Curating Course Content
  • Session 3: Online Engagement and Wrap-up!

Visit our Workshop Series: Online Course Prep site for session recaps and resources!

Fundamentals of Flipping
A fully online and independent learning opportunity that allows faculty to self-enroll and navigate resources at their own pace. Enrollees are guided through workshop recordings, tutorials, and templates to organize and design their Flipped course.

Enroll now!