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FCLD's Jumpstart Seminars (August)

July 12, 2021
Submitted By: FCLD

The Faculty Center for Learning Development (FCLD) offers ongoing seminars and instruction on a variety of instructional technology, including Blackboard, the University's learning management system (LMS). FCLD will be offering the following seminars during the month of August and early September. Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are held in the Woods Classroom in Harrison University Libraries. Faculty interested in attending should register by emailing fcld@hartford.edu or calling (860) 768-4661. 

Getting Started with Blackboard/Blackboard Drop-in

Tuesdays, noon - 1 p.m. - Woods Classroom or FCLD Lab

Every Tuesday, we offer an orientation and drop-in clinic for Blackboard, the application used to put courses online. If you’re new to Blackboard, you’ll learn strategies for organizing your Blackboard course, review the many tools and features available in Blackboard, and start adding course content items like your syllabus and web links to your course. Be sure to bring a digital version of your syllabus and/or other course materials; this is designed as a hands-on seminar. If you’re using Blackboard already, feel free to drop by with a question or for troubleshooting. 

Getting Started with Ensemble & Creating Video ‘Lecturettes’ With Anthem

Monday, August 16, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday, August 20, 11 a.m. – noon 

Ensemble works like an in-house YouTube, allowing faculty to upload videos to a media library quickly and easily, then link to them from Blackboard and other websites. Faculty who are flipping the classroom, teaching online, using video clips in instruction, or working with student video projects should plan to attend this special information session about Ensemble.  Anthem (Ensemble Personal Capture) is a simple, convenient tool that can capture your voice, the action on your computer screen, and web cam video to create lecturettes. You can use it to record audio podcasts, video lectures, or narrated presentations and demonstrations.  This session will guide you through the process of recording a narrated screen capture, editing it, and publishing it to Blackboard.

If you do not have an Ensemble account, please sign up here.

Creating Folders and Sharing Content In OneDrive

Wednesday, August 18, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

In this session, we will discuss the University of Hartford’s OneDrive for Business and how instructors can use it for instruction.  Instructors, staff and students all get a free 1TB worth of file storage space on One Drive.  We will cover:

  • Creating a course folder.
  • Inviting students to your shared folder.
  • Uploading and organizing documents and/or other files.
  • Sharing files with students so they can access them.
  • Collaboratively editing documents in the Shared OneDrive folder with colleagues or others.

There will be time for Q&A throughout the session.

We encourage participants to log into https://portal.office.com (use your UHart email and password) in order to become familiar with One Drive and explore the many other Office 360 applications available before attending this webinar.

OneNote Class Notebooks to Share Course Content & Foster Collaboration

Thursday, August 19, noon p.m. – 1 p.m.

The OneNote Class Notebook tool is now integrated with Blackboard, allowing instructors to create a shared notebook and link it to their course.  Students enrolled in your Blackboard course can access the notebook automatically without you having to add their names.  In this session, we will discuss how OneNote Class Notebook can help instructors deliver rich and engaging multimedia content, provide a space for students to work collaboratively, and provide private feedback.  OneNote Class Notebooks can be used for journals and observation assignments, collaborative or individual projects, lab notebooks, interactive portfolios of student’s work, as well as providing instructors and students with a notetaking and organization tool.