| ISN | Date | Title | Location | Seats Available | Open For | Description |
| 8416 | 2/7/2023 2:00:00 PM | Want to make your Echo360 videos interactive? | CWT 112 | 29 | Faculty | Join us for an informative session with Echo360, highlighting its interactive features such as polling, embedding Echo360 content into Blackboard, and more! |
| 8417 | 2/8/2023 10:00:00 AM | Top Hat Introduction | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | Get to know what Top Hat can do for your face-to-face or online course! Experience the student perspective of engaging with your instructor on Top Hat. Create a Top Hat educator account and integrate a Top Hat course with your Blackboard course shell. |
| 8418 | 2/9/2023 10:00:00 AM | Top Hat for Students | CWT 112 | 30 | Students | Will your instructor be using Top Hat? Come learn the basics of our newest course tool that integrates directly with our LMS (Blackboard). In this training, we will cover attendance, accessing course materials, and navigating interactive features. |
| 8419 | 2/10/2023 10:00:00 AM | Blackboard Tests and Proctoring Solutions | Webinar | 29 | Faculty | This training session will go over all of the settings and how to get the most out of the Tests in Blackboard. Including how to create question sets, randomize not only the questions but also the answers, and more. We will also discuss the three proctoring solutions being offered at TAMIU and which is best for your classes. |
| 8420 | 2/13/2023 3:00:00 PM | Blackboard Gradebook | CWT 112 | 30 | Faculty | Join us for this session as we work on understanding how the gradebook in Blackboard works and we set up your gradebook together. Whether you are using a points based gradebook or a percentage based one, this session is a great session to attend. We will also talk about how to send your grades from Blackboard to UConnect from your gradebook. |
| 8430 | 2/14/2023 11:30:00 AM | Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT in Higher Education | WHT 116 | 47 | Faculty | During this session, attendees will acquire knowledge of AI tools, with a focus on ChatGPT and its impact, as well as methods of detection. Join us in this LUNCH & LEARN session, as we explore how AI is transforming teaching and learning today. |
| 8421 | 2/14/2023 2:00:00 PM | Voicethread Conversations in the Cloud | CWT 112 | 30 | Faculty | Join us in this session to discover a new way of hosting interactive discussions online, through a cloud application called VoiceThread. VoiceThread provides your students an opportunity to comment on presentations/discussions using 1 of 5 powerful commenting options: microphone, webcam, text, phone, and audio-file upload. |
| 8422 | 2/15/2023 10:00:00 AM | Blackboard Discussions | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | Learn all about discussions even some settings that you may not have even known about. This includes Managing Forum Settings, Organizing and Printing Threads. |
| 8429 | 2/16/2023 3:00:00 PM | Flip Out Over Flip - Video discussion app | CWT 112 | 30 | Faculty | Join us for an informative session on Flip, a video discussion app from Microsoft. Learn how to post topics and view student videos. This tool will help build social connections with your students. Flip allows students to be creative while sharing thoughts on your course topics and provides opportunity for peer feedback. This is an exciting way to have class discussions that can be integrated in your courses. |
| 8423 | 2/17/2023 10:00:00 AM | Top Hat for Students | Webinar | 30 | Students | Will your instructor be using Top Hat? Come learn the basics of our newest course tool that integrates directly with our LMS (Blackboard). In this training, we will cover attendance, accessing course materials, and navigating interactive features. |
| 8424 | 2/20/2023 10:00:00 AM | Blackboard Discussions | Webinar | 29 | Faculty | Learn all about discussions even some settings that you may not have even known about. This includes Managing Forum Settings, Organizing and Printing Threads. |
| 8425 | 2/21/2023 12:00:00 PM | Blackboard Tests and Proctoring Solutions | CWT 112 | 30 | Faculty | This training session will go over all of the settings and how to get the most out of the Tests in Blackboard. Including how to create question sets, randomize not only the questions but also the answers, and more. We will also discuss the three proctoring solutions being offered at TAMIU and which is best for your classes. |
| 8426 | 2/22/2023 3:00:00 PM | Blackboard Gradebook | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | Join us for this session as we work on understanding how the gradebook in Blackboard works and we set up your gradebook together. Whether you are using a points based gradebook or a percentage based one, this session is a great session to attend. We will also talk about how to send your grades from Blackboard to UConnect from your gradebook. |
| 8427 | 2/23/2023 10:00:00 AM | Making your Course Content Accessible | Webinar | 29 | Faculty | This session will give faculty a practical approach on how to make sure their course content is accessible to all students regardless of whether they have a learning disability or not following Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and Federal guidelines.?
Participants will be exposed to Blackboard Ally to improve content accessibility by following step by step instructions. |
| 7324 | 2/24/2023 2:00:00 PM | PROF - Publication Strategies | AIC 125 | 28 | Faculty | To discuss strategies for junior faculty who are starting to publish and the challenges of dealing with academic journals, assessing journal quality (including avoiding predatory journals), and dealing with frequent rejection at high quality journals. |
| 8428 | 2/24/2023 3:00:00 PM | Blackboard Discussions | CWT 112 | 30 | Faculty | Learn all about discussions even some settings that you may not have even known about. This includes Managing Forum Settings, Organizing and Printing Threads. |
| 7325 | 3/31/2023 2:00:00 PM | PROF - Grants and Publications | AIC 125 | 25 | Faculty | Discuss how faculty should select an academic journal to maximize their chances of promotion and tenure. They will review how the Scimago Journal Ranking web site can be a powerful tool in deciding how to disseminate your research. Speakers will share insights into what promotion and tenure committees' value as significant scholarship. While this workshop targets junior faculty, all students and faculty are welcome. |