Staff development workshops
I manage educational content in Blackboard courses
I administer Blackboard courses
We recommend you complete the workshops within each strand of training in the order suggested.
Designing your course
- Organise your units in an easy to navigate way.
- Use the template and maintain consistency across the units.
- Add content such as Documents, Files, Links and Re/Play recordings.
- Reuse relevant content from your units in Blackboard Original.
- Understand, identify and fix common accessibility issues.
- Identify steps you need to take to get your units ready.
You may also be interested in our practice-sharing event, which incorporates elements of this workshop.
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Mode and Duration
Online, 1.5 hour
Relevant Guidance
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- Understand the benefits of adding interactivity to your course to you and your students.
- Access the supported tools through Blackboard.
- Add interactivity into Blackboard.
- Understand, identify and fix common accessibility issues.
- Know where to look for support materials.
- Know how to access support and guidance from the DEO.
You may also be interested in our practice-sharing event, which incorporates elements of this workshop.
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Mode and Duration
Online, 1 hour
Relevant Guidance
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Topics
The workshop covers:
- Assessment design
- Assessment innovation
You may also be interested in our practice-sharing event, which incorporates elements of this workshop.
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Mode and Duration
Online, 1 hour
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By the end of this workshop, you will:
- Decide how to organise your unit teaching materials.
- Start building your unit content and activities.
- Understand how to move the content from the sandboxes into your live units.
You may also be interested in our practice-sharing event, which incorporates elements of this workshop.
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Mode and Duration
In-person, 3 hours
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User Management
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Enrol and remove users from a course.
- Create a group set and a group and add members to a group.
- Create release conditions for content.
- Post an announcement in a course.
- Send an email to a group of users on a course.
- Understand and perform basic analytics on student engagement in a course.
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Mode and Duration
Online, 1 hour
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Assessments, Tests and the Gradebook
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Understand submission types in eVision and their corresponding items in Blackboard when configuring summative assessments
- Identify the relevant areas of the Gradebook to make changes or check information
- Basic Gradebook management
- Ensure assessment grades have correct visibility
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Mode and Duration
Online, 1 hour
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Assessment Workflow Management
This workshop is best run for whole Schools or Teams, please use the Arrange or deliver local training option to request this workshop.
Topics
The workshop covers:
- Blackboard Online, OR
- Blackboard Offline, OR
- Blackboard Tests, OR
- Turnitin
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Mode and Duration
Online, 1.5 hour
Topics
A chance to ask questions about Blackboard Ultra.
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No booking required
Mode and Duration
In-person drop-in, 3 hours
Assessment Workflow Marking
This workshop is best run for whole Schools or Teams, please use the Arrange or deliver local training option to request this workshop.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Locate and access assessments that need marking.
- Use your knowledge of features to find and select appropriate marking and feedback tools for your needs.
- Recognise how marks and feedback appear from a student’s perspective.
- Locate further guidance on marking and feedback, if needed.
Arrange or deliver local training
Mode and Duration
Online or in-person, 1 hour
