VIRTUAL OFFICE HOURS
The Learning Platforms team hosts Virtual Office Hours every Wednesday at 3:30 pm ET. To join us for a session, go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb in your browsers. You should test your system before joining your first session, by going to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb sometime, at your convenience, to see if anything has to be loaded into your computer. Sessions start promptly at 3:30 pm. Call 305-284-3949 for technical assistance.
All sessions are recorded. Click the dates below for the complete session recordings. These are the highest quality recordings, but require that Java is installed on your computer.
Some of the individual topic recordings are available on the UM Virtual Office Hours channel in YouTube, or from the topic links below. The topic recordings are movies, and screen images are not as clear as in the session recordings.
All sessions are recorded. Click the dates below for the complete session recordings. These are the highest quality recordings, but require that Java is installed on your computer.
Some of the individual topic recordings are available on the UM Virtual Office Hours channel in YouTube, or from the topic links below. The topic recordings are movies, and screen images are not as clear as in the session recordings.
10/1/2014 Session (27 min)
5/21/2014 Session
5/14/2014 Session
5/7/2014
4/30/2014
2014-04-09
- Using Announcements Productively
- The New UM Blackboard Help Website
- Inline Grading - Crocadoc
- Content Management
- Retention Center
- Performance Dashboard
- Qwickly
- SafeAssign
- Spring Cleaning - Improving Your Course Site
- Course Merges and Augments
- Course Copies
- Setting up a Grading Scale in Blackboard
- Using a Blackboard Wiki
- Notification Email Settings
- Course Customization - Teaching Styles and Properties
- Badges and Certificates
- Creating a Rubric
- Respondus LockDown Browser
- Why can't I add a specific person to a Bb course site? (blocked users)
- Creating Grade Center Columns
- Yammer demonstration
- Creating a quiz, exam, or survey in Blackboard
- Create a Home page for a Bb Learn course site
5/21/2014 Session
5/14/2014 Session
5/7/2014
4/30/2014
- Breakout Rooms: Using Breakout Rooms in Blackboard Collaborate
- Creating a Weighted Total Column and Displaying Letter Grades in the Grade Center
- Adding Twitter to your blackboard learn course
- Participating in a Collaborate Event on an iOS device
2014-04-09
- Polling: Creating and Using Polls in Blackboard Collaborate
- Softchalk E-Learning Content Authoring System
- SlideShare: Embedding PowerPoint Presentations and more in Blackboard Learn
- Using Blackboard Collaborate in Blackboard Learn: Using the Default Course and Instructor Rooms
- Special event to announce the availability of Blackboard Collaborate outside of Blackboard Learn. This is useful for groups such as student affairs that want to do events that will be attended primarily by non-UM participants: public webinars, promotional events, collaboration with people at other institutuions, etc.
- Working with Blogs in Blackboard Learn
- Qualtrics: Online Survey and Insight Platform - Rapidly Createing, Deployeing and Analyzing Surveys
- Create CaneID for non-UM Students or Faculty
- Graded Discussion: Grading Student Interaction on the Blackboard Discussion Board
- Using NBC Learn Content in Blackboard
- SafeAssign - Using SafeAssign to Detect Plagiarism in Student Assignments
- Using Blackboard Collaborate as a participant
- Adjusting Tests: Item Analysis and Grade Adjustments Made Easy
- Uploading a Document Package