| ISN | Date | Title | Location | Seats Available | Open For | Description |
| 9371 | 3/28/2025 10:00:00 AM | Blackboard Ultra Orientation for Students | Webinar | 29 | Students | Gain confidence in maximizing your online learning experience with Blackboard Ultra through this introductory training tailored for students. In this session, you will be introduced to navigating the virtual classroom, accessing communication tools and course materials, participating in discussions, submitting assignments, and leveraging the platform's interactive features, all seamlessly integrated with the convenience of the Blackboard app. |
| 9376 | 3/28/2025 3:30:00 PM | Make Your Course Content Accessible | Cowart 112 | 28 | Faculty | This session provides practical strategies to make digital course content accessible, creating an equitable learning environment for all students. Guided by Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, this training emphasizes compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the latest web accessibility regulations. Participants will also explore using Blackboard Ally to enhance content accessibility through its step-by-step instructions. |
| 9382 | 3/31/2025 3:30:00 PM | Turnitin Assignment Plagiarism Checker | Cowart 112 | 30 | Faculty | Empower students to do their best, original writing by checking for originality and similarity with this comprehensive plagiarism checker. Participants will learn how to create a Turnitin assignment on Blackboard. This will include setting up the assignment, selecting the appropriate settings by navigating Turnitin interface, interpreting similarity reports, and providing feedback to students on their work. |
| 9383 | 4/2/2025 3:30:00 PM | Make Your Course Content Accessible | Cowart 112 | 29 | Faculty | This session provides practical strategies to make digital course content accessible, creating an equitable learning environment for all students. Guided by Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, this training emphasizes compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the latest web accessibility regulations. Participants will also explore using Blackboard Ally to enhance content accessibility through its step-by-step instructions. |
| 9384 | 4/2/2025 3:30:00 PM | Voicethread Conversations in the Cloud | Webinar | 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. |
| 9385 | 4/4/2025 3:30:00 PM | Create Engaging Course Content with CourseArc | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | Join this session to learn more about CourseArc, a web-based content authoring and management tool available to TAMIU instructors to help you easily create engaging, interactive, and accessible online courses or course content. CourseArc content seamlessly integrates with Blackboard Learn and can be used alongside content you already have in Blackboard for online, hybrid, and traditional courses. |
| 9386 | 4/4/2025 3:30:00 PM | Top Hat in Action: Smarter Engagement with AI-Assisted Questions | Cowart 112 | 29 | Faculty | Enhance student engagement with Top Hat's interactive tools! This session will cover how to set up your educator account, integrate Top Hat with Blackboard, and create dynamic content with formative assessments. Plus, explore the AI-powered question generation feature, designed to help you quickly develop high-quality questions to support student learning. |
| 9419 | 4/7/2025 9:00:00 AM | Emburse Cardholder Training | AIC 128 in person | 167 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. ECT |
| 9420 | 4/7/2025 9:00:00 AM | Emburse Cardholder Training | Via Zoom | 169 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. ECT |
| 9421 | 4/7/2025 2:00:00 PM | Emburse Delegate Business Administration Training | AIC 128 in person | 192 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. DBAT |
| 9422 | 4/7/2025 2:00:00 PM | Emburse Delegate Business Administration Training | Via Zoom | 181 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. DBAT |
| 9389 | 4/7/2025 3:30:00 PM | AI in Blackboard: Automate, Engage, and Innovate | Cowart 112 | 29 | Faculty | Want to streamline course development while maintaining full creative control? Blackboard's AI Design Assistant simplifies the process by generating learning modules, assessments, rubrics, and even role-playing activities. This session will show you how AI can automate routine tasks, freeing up more time for student interaction and deeper learning experiences. |
| 9390 | 4/7/2025 3:30:00 PM | ChatGPT & Perplexity: AI Essentials for Educators | Webinar | 27 | Faculty | Explore the fundamentals of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, along with essential prompt engineering techniques. This session will cover how faculty can effectively use AI for brainstorming, content generation, research support, and refining student interactions. Gain hands-on experience in crafting effective prompts to get the most out of these tools in an educational setting. |
| 9423 | 4/8/2025 9:00:00 AM | Emburse Cardholder Training | AIC 128 in person | 175 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. ECT |
| 9424 | 4/8/2025 9:00:00 AM | Emburse Cardholder Training | Via Zoom | 176 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. ECT |
| 9425 | 4/8/2025 2:00:00 PM | Emburse Cardholder Training | AIC 128 in person | 186 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. ECT |
| 9426 | 4/8/2025 2:00:00 PM | Emburse Cardholder Training | Via Zoom | 174 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. ECT |
| 9427 | 4/9/2025 9:00:00 AM | Emburse Approver Training | AIC 128 in person | 191 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. EAT |
| 9428 | 4/9/2025 9:00:00 AM | Emburse Approver Training | Via Zoom | 190 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. EAT |
| 9429 | 4/9/2025 1:30:00 PM | Emburse Approver Training | AIC 128 in person | 192 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. EAT |
| 9430 | 4/9/2025 1:30:00 PM | Emburse Approver Training | Via Zoom | 194 | FacStaff | Navigation of the new travel and expense management platform. EAT |
| 9391 | 4/9/2025 3:30:00 PM | Supercharging Research and Comprehension with AI | Cowart 112 | 29 | Faculty | Streamline your research workflow with AI tools designed to extract, summarize, and analyze content. This session will explore ChatPDF, Google's NotebookLM, and Perplexity AI, demonstrating how they can assist in digesting large volumes of information, generating summaries, and uncovering new insights. Discover how these tools can enhance comprehension and support faculty and students in academic research. |
| 9392 | 4/9/2025 3:30:00 PM | AI for Teaching, Collaboration & Student Engagement | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | Leverage AI to enhance teaching strategies, collaborative work, and student engagement. This session introduces MagicSchool.ai for instructional planning and question generation, MURAL AI for collaborative whiteboarding and AI-driven insights, and Perusall for fostering social engagement around course content. Learn how these tools can support active learning, creativity, and critical thinking in your courses. |
| 9393 | 4/11/2025 3:30:00 PM | AI for Accessibility & Dynamic Presentations | Webinar | 29 | Faculty | Discover AI-driven solutions for creating more accessible and engaging course materials. This session will explore Image Insights GPT by CourseArc, which generates descriptions and alternative text for images to improve accessibility. We will also introduce Gamma, an AI-powered presentation tool that helps create compelling slide decks based on prompts or existing content. Learn how these tools can save time while improving the quality and accessibility of your instructional materials. |
| 9397 | 4/14/2025 3:30:00 PM | Creating Interactive Media with EchoVideo | Cowart 112 | 29 | Faculty | Not sure if your students are watching your videos or if your videos are helping your students' comprehension of the course material? Participate in this intermediate EchoVideo workshop to learn how to add polling questions in your videos on the EchoVideo system, practice embedding interactive media in a Blackboard course, and identify where to find your students' responses to the video. Prerequisites for this workshop: Completion of a Blackboard 101 workshop (navigating and basic item/assignment creation) and EchoVideo Introduction workshop (creating/uploading videos to EchoVideo). |