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FCLD's Fall 2022 Workshops

November 28, 2022
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 fall semester.  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. (Virtual) < Click to attend or stop by the FCLD office
or by appointment (online 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.

Faculty interested in attending should register by emailing fcld@hartford.edu or calling (860) 768-4661.

What Do All of these Microsoft Apps do Anyway?

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. (Virtual)

What is Yammer? What can I do with Forms? The University of Hartford is an Office 365 school and has access to a whole suite of Microsoft Tools available for free to all instructors, staff, and students.  We will review what app is best for what, including: OneNote, OneDrive, Yammer, Teams, Forms, SharePoint, Sway, and others.

We encourage participants to log into https://portal.office.com (use your UHart email and password) in order to explore the many other Office 365 applications available prior to attending this workshop.

Getting Started with Kaltura

Friday, Sept. 23, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Monday, Oct. 3, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 11 a.m. – noon (Virtual)
Monday, Oct. 31, 11 a.m. – noon (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Thursday, Nov. 17, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (Virtual)
Wednesday, Nov. 30, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. (Virtual)
Friday, Dec. 16, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)

Video and audio files should never be added directly to Blackboard; instead, instructors should be using Kaltura (the new replacement for Ensemble). Kaltura 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 Kaltura. Kaltura Capture is a simple, convenient tool that can capture your voice, the action on your computer screen, and webcam 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.

OneNote Class Notebooks: An All-in-One Notebook for Students

Monday, Sept. 26, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (Virtual)

The OneNote Class Notebook tool is 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 adding 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. The OneNote Class Notebooks can be used for journals and observation assignments, collaborative or individual projects, or even lab notebooks, which are interactive portfolios of student work, as well as a notetaking and organization tools.

Creating Folders and Sharing Content in OneDrive

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. (Virtual)

Instructors, staff and students all get a free 1TB worth of file storage space on One Drive.  In this session, we will discuss the University of Hartford’s OneDrive for Business and how instructors can use it for instruction.   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 365 applications available prior to attending this workshop.

Using Microsoft Forms as a Teaching Tool

Friday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Thursday, Dec. 1, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (Virtual)

Use Microsoft Forms to assess and collect feedback from your students, collect feedback from others, and collaborate with other educators.

  • Create surveys, quizzes, and polls, and easily see results as they come in.
  • Share surveys or quizzes with your students using any web browser, even on mobile devices.
  • Create and share forms to collaborate with other educators.
  • Export data, such as quiz results, to Excel for additional analysis or grading.

We encourage participants to log into https://portal.office.com (use your UHart email and password) in order to become familiar with Forms and explore the many other Office 365 applications available prior to attending this workshop. 

Microsoft Teams for Remote Instruction, Office Hours, and Collaboration

Monday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (Virtual)

Microsoft Teams is a video conferencing application that now integrates with Blackboard.  It is a platform that can be employed for remote instruction, office hours, or collaborative group work in your courses. Microsoft Teams can be accessed via a desktop application or a browser and is available on mobile devices as well. In this session, we will show you how to set up a Teams Meeting in your Blackboard course, how to navigate the Teams interface, how to share files or documents with students, and how to share screens. We will also show you how to set up groups so your students can work on collaborative activities together.

Creating SharePoint Sites for Committees & Groups on Campus

Tuesday, Oct. 25, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. (In-person, Woods Classroom)
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. (Virtual)

Microsoft SharePoint is a suite of tools, included with Office 365, that allow online collaboration between groups on campus. A SharePoint site gives groups access to features such as file sharing, data storage and retrieval, and communication via chat or virtually via Teams. In this workshop, we will demonstrate setting up your own SharePoint site for your campus group.  Once your site has been created, faculty, staff, and students may collaborate virtually. Some of SharePoint’s features include:

  • Document storage and sharing with your group
  • Shared tasks, contacts, calendars, announcements, and link lists
  • Online discussion forums, including the integration with Teams for meetings online
  • Subsites for teams, departments, or collaborations on meetings and documents
  • OneNote for meeting minutes