| ISN | Date | Title | Location | Seats Available | Open For | Description |
| 9495 | 9/1/2025 4:30:00 PM | 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. |
| 9499 | 9/1/2025 4:30:00 PM | Bb Ultra: Creating and Organizing Your Content | Cowart 112 | 29 | Faculty | This workshop guides participants through creating and organizing content in their Blackboard Ultra courses. This session will demonstrate a wide range of tools that can be used to create content in Blackboard Ultra and discuss the importance of good course planning and implement rudimentary planning in course design. |
| 9501 | 9/2/2025 9:00:00 AM | Bb Ultra: Communication with Students | Webinar | 29 | Faculty | This workshop provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the Learn Ultra features used to most effectively communicate with your students, create opportunities for communication, facilitate community-building, and help students manage their time effectively. |
| 9496 | 9/2/2025 10:00:00 AM | Blackboard Ultra Orientation for Students | Webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9497 | 9/3/2025 4:30:00 PM | Blackboard Ultra Orientation for Students | Webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9503 | 9/3/2025 4:30:00 PM | Bb Ultra: Assessing Student Learning | Webinar | 29 | Faculty | Explore the power of Ultra courses in Blackboard with this engaging, hands-on session where you'll learn how to assess student learning effectively, create assignments and tests within Ultra courses, and navigate grading workflows for various assignment types. By the end of this workshop, you'll have valuable skills to enhance your teaching experience. |
| 9506 | 9/4/2025 9:00:00 AM | Bb Ultra: Gradebook Management | Cowart 112 | 29 | Faculty | Use the Gradebook to record students' grades, and monitor students' progress. In addition, this dynamic and interactive tool helps you understand student progress and make informed decisions on how to improve educational performance. |
| 9491 | 9/4/2025 2:00:00 PM | Blackboard Ultra Orientation for Students | Cowart 112 | 30 | 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. |
| 9492 | 9/5/2025 11:00:00 AM | Blackboard Ultra Orientation for Students | Cowart 112 | 30 | 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. |
| 9498 | 9/5/2025 2:00:00 PM | Blackboard Ultra Orientation for Students | Webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9500 | 9/8/2025 2:30:00 PM | Bb Ultra: Creating and Organizing Your Content | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | This workshop guides participants through creating and organizing content in their Blackboard Ultra courses. This session will demonstrate a wide range of tools that can be used to create content in Blackboard Ultra and discuss the importance of good course planning and implement rudimentary planning in course design. |
| 9512 | 9/9/2025 12:00:00 PM | Turnitin Assignment: Plagiarism Checker | Webinar | 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's interface, interpreting similarity reports, and providing feedback to students on their work. |
| 9504 | 9/10/2025 4:30:00 PM | Bb Ultra: Assessing Student Learning | Cowart 112 | 30 | Faculty | Explore the power of Ultra courses in Blackboard with this engaging, hands-on session where you'll learn how to assess student learning effectively, create assignments and tests within Ultra courses, and navigate grading workflows for various assignment types. By the end of this workshop, you'll have valuable skills to enhance your teaching experience. |
| 9520 | 9/11/2025 12:00:00 PM | Creating Interactive Media with EchoVideo | Webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9502 | 9/12/2025 10:00:00 AM | Bb Ultra: Communication with Students | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | This workshop provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the Learn Ultra features used to most effectively communicate with your students, create opportunities for communication, facilitate community-building, and help students manage their time effectively. |
| 9517 | 9/15/2025 4:30:00 PM | AI in Blackboard: Automate, Engage, and Innovate | Webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9514 | 9/16/2025 12:00:00 PM | Top Hat in Action: Smarter Engagement with AI-Assisted Questions | Cowart 112 | 30 | Faculty | Join us in this exciting session as we showcase TAMIU’s lecture capture technology, Echo 360. With Echo, you can automatically record your lecture, capture your powerpoint, voice and video! |
| 9516 | 9/17/2025 4:30:00 PM | Voicethread Conversations in the Cloud | Cowart 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. |
| 9519 | 9/18/2025 6:00:00 PM | VoiceThread Student Presentations | Webinar | 29 | Students | In this workshop, TAMIU students will learn about the process for uploading, recording and submitting a presentation inside VoiceThread.
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| 9510 | 9/19/2025 10:00:00 AM | Make Your Course Content Accessible | Webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9526 | 9/22/2025 4:30:00 PM | ChatGPT & Perplexity: AI Essentials for Educators | Webinar | 29 | 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. |
| 9505 | 9/23/2025 11:00:00 AM | Bb Ultra: Assessing Student Learning | Cowart 112 | 30 | Faculty | Explore the power of Ultra courses in Blackboard with this engaging, hands-on session where you'll learn how to assess student learning effectively, create assignments and tests within Ultra courses, and navigate grading workflows for various assignment types. By the end of this workshop, you'll have valuable skills to enhance your teaching experience. |
| 9515 | 9/24/2025 4:30:00 PM | Do you hear Echo? How Lecture Capture can enhance course delivery at TAMIU! | Cowart 112 | 30 | Faculty | Join us in this exciting session as we showcase TAMIU’s lecture capture technology, Echo 360. With Echo, you can automatically record your lecture, capture your powerpoint, voice and video! |
| 9507 | 9/25/2025 2:00:00 PM | Bb Ultra: Gradebook Management | Webinar | 30 | Faculty | Use the Gradebook to record students' grades, and monitor students' progress. In addition, this dynamic and interactive tool helps you understand student progress and make informed decisions on how to improve educational performance. |
| 9513 | 9/26/2025 10:00:00 AM | Turnitin Assignment: Plagiarism Checker | Webinar | 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's interface, interpreting similarity reports, and providing feedback to students on their work. |