| ISN | Date | Title | Location | Seats Available | Open For | Description |
| 9454 | 6/2/2025 10:00:00 AM | 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. |
| 9456 | 6/2/2025 2:30:00 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. |
| 9460 | 6/3/2025 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. |
| 9472 | 6/3/2025 2:30:00 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. |
| 9458 | 6/4/2025 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. |
| 9465 | 6/4/2025 3:00:00 PM | Bb Ultra: Assessing Student Learning | webinar | 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. |
| 9473 | 6/5/2025 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. |
| 9467 | 6/5/2025 3:00:00 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. |
| 9471 | 6/10/2025 2:00:00 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. |
| 9462 | 6/12/2025 10:00:00 AM | ChatGPT & Perplexity: AI Essentials for Educators | webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9476 | 6/17/2025 10:00:00 AM | Top Hat in Action: Smarter Engagement with AI-Assisted Questions | 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. |
| 9475 | 6/18/2025 2:00:00 PM | Supercharging Research and Comprehension with AI | webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9474 | 6/24/2025 2:00:00 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. |
| 9459 | 6/26/2025 10:00:00 AM | 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. |
| 9477 | 7/1/2025 2:00:00 PM | Creating Interactive Media with EchoVideo | Webinar | 30 | 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). |
| 9469 | 7/3/2025 10:00:00 AM | AI for Accessibility & Dynamic Presentations | Webinar | 30 | 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. |
| 9457 | 7/7/2025 10:00:00 AM | 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. |
| 9461 | 7/7/2025 2:30:00 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. |
| 9464 | 7/8/2025 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. |
| 9478 | 7/8/2025 2:30:00 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. |
| 9463 | 7/9/2025 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. |
| 9466 | 7/9/2025 3:00:00 PM | Bb Ultra: Assessing Student Learning | webinar | 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. |
| 9479 | 7/10/2025 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. |
| 9470 | 7/10/2025 3:00:00 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. |
| 9480 | 7/15/2025 2:00:00 PM | 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. |