Learn Original Basics
This session is designed as an introduction to Blackboard Learn's Original Courses. The participants will learn how to build out a new course and use a number of the basic tools.
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- 3/31/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 4/1/2025 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- 4/7/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 4/15/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 6/9/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 6/16/2025 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- 6/17/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 6/23/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 6/30/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
- 7/9/2025 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- 7/14/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
Learn Original Course Tools
This session will cover Learn Original courses' most frequently-used tools, including Discussions, Assignments & Grade Center. Participants should have attended Learn Original Basics or be comfortable with Learn Original courses.
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- 3/27/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 4/1/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
- 4/3/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 4/9/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 4/17/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
- 6/11/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 6/18/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 6/20/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
- 6/25/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 7/1/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
- 7/10/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 7/15/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
Learn Original Courses: Understanding the Grade Center
The Grade Center can be one of the most confusing and stressful parts of managing your online course - but it doesn't have to be! This course will introduce you to the Grade Center for Learn Original Courses, walk you through basic grade column creation and management, and show you how you can calculate and submit final grades in Learn.
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- 4/4/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
Learn Ultra Basics
This training covers some of the basic components of Learn functionality, including: The basic course interface and overview of the menus; Adding learning modules and chunking content; Course communication options such as announcements, email, course messages, and conversations; Creating and grading assignments; Modifying access permissions of course content
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- 3/26/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 3/31/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 4/8/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
- 6/10/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 6/17/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 6/26/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 7/8/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 7/16/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Learn Ultra Advanced
Attendees will be provided a deep dive on topics such as creating groups, assessments, progress tracking, accommodations, attendance, and achievements.
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- 3/28/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 4/2/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 4/11/2025 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- 6/12/2025 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- 6/23/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
- 6/27/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- 7/17/2025 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
- 7/18/2025 - 10:00AM to 12:00PM
Creating Video Quizzes
This session demonstrates how to use the Kaltura Video Quiz feature to bolster student learning by implanting gradable quiz questions in your videos! Learn how to create questions, change settings, and even integrate the scores into your grade center.
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- 3/27/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 4/9/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 6/20/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 7/2/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
VoiceThread - Create, Comment and Share
During this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to set up different types of VoiceThread assignments. Participants will learn how to create, comment and share VoiceThreads with their class.
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- 4/4/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 4/16/2025 - 2:00PM to 3:30PM
- 4/22/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 6/12/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 6/24/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 7/9/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 7/17/2025 - 10:30AM to 12:00PM
Blackboard Ally and Document Accessibility
Blackboard Ally is a tool that automatically generates within Learn alternate formats of content, such as audio and HTML files for text-based documents. It also allows faculty to view feedback about the accessibility of their course content, as well as provide descriptions and instructions regarding issues and how to remediate them. This workshop will teach you how check Word,PowerPoint and PDF documents for accessibility, how the Ally tool works, as well as how to fix issues encountered in a sample course. Become informed as to why accessibility for your course is important and how to easily improve your course content's accessibility.
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- 3/28/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 4/7/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 4/23/2025 - 10:30AM to 12:00PM
- 6/3/2025 - 2:00PM to 3:30PM
- 6/9/2025 - 1:30PM to 3:00PM
- 6/26/2025 - 10:30AM to 12:00PM
- 7/7/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 7/16/2026 - 10:30AM to 12:00PM
Digital Lecture Recording 101
Video is everywhere! And now you, yes you!, can add it into your course with a snap. Learn what video recording options are available for faculty and staff at Drexel by attending this overview course where we cover a range of topics and software that will leave you ready to create your own academy award worthy online lecture.
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- 4/4/2025 - 2:00PM to 3:00PM
- 4/18/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:00AM
- 6/16/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
- 6/24/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:00AM
- 7/7/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:00PM
Creating Interactive Videos
This sessions demonstrates how to use Drexel Streams' Interactive Video Paths tool to add hotspots to link multiple videos together allowing for a more dynamic viewing experience.
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- 4/3/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 4/21/2025 - 2:00PM to 3:30PM
- 6/13/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:30AM
- 6/25/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:30AM
Intro to Microsoft 365
Microsoft calls Office 365 its 'universal toolkit for collaboration.' At its core, Office 365 provides a collection of applications and services that empower individuals and organizations to achieve more. The traditional Office suite of Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel are still there, along with other familiar products like SharePoint as well as completely new apps like Microsoft Teams, Sway, Planner and more. In this introductory session, we'll orient you to the Office 365 portal and take a high-level look at the breadth of tools available there and discuss potential use cases. Additional courses in this series will provide in-depth exposure to certain key applications in the Office 365 platform.
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- 5/6/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
Microsoft OneDrive
OneDrive for Business and Office 365 make it easy for you to share and work together on all your files. Easily store and access your files from all your devices. Share files and collaborate on documents with anyone inside or outside of your organization. Keep your files secure while also not worrying about what may happen to them should anything happen to your device!
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- 5/8/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:30AM
Microsoft Teams
Teams is Microsoft's 'productivity hub' in Office 365, combining tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues within work groups and across the organization. Teams also integrates with other Office 365 apps like SharePoint and Planner to expand its capabilities. Participants will build a strong understanding of how to use Microsoft Teams to collaborate with colleagues in a more seamless way.
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- 5/20/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Microsoft SharePoint
SharePoint Online is an integral part of Office 365, providing a platform for storing and sharing documents and other content. In this course, you'll learn about Document Libraries, Lists and Pages in SharePoint. Using these elements, you can create Sites that keep visitors or colleagues engaged and productive, making it easy for them to find just what they're looking for.
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- 4/10/2025 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
- 6/10/2025 - 1:00PM to 3:00PM
Task Management in Office 365
Task Management explores the task management options within Office 365. In this session, you'll learn how to utilize To Do for your personal tasks, Planner for managing team project tasks, and Tasks in Microsoft Teams that allows centralized access to all tasks. Leave the session with a better understanding of how to streamline your project and personal tasks.
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- 4/9/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:00PM
- 5/15/2025 - 2:00PM to 3:00PM
- 6/3/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
Intro to Automation in Office 365 (Microsoft Flow)
Microsoft Power Automate is a platform designed to help individuals automate processes to stay informed and be more productive. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to create your own Flows from a few of the hundreds of templates available as well as how to customize and extend those templates to meet your specific requirements. We'll also discuss how you can use the fundamental components of Flow (triggers, actions and conditions) to automate existing business processes like document reviews and approvals. There is more to Flow than we can cover in a one-hour workshop, but by the end, you'll have a functional knowledge of the platform and know where to go to learn more.
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- 5/22/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:30AM
Introduction to Microsoft Bookings
Microsoft Bookings makes scheduling and managing appointments a breeze. Bookings includes a web-based booking calendar and integrates with Outlook to optimize your staff's calendar and give your customers flexibility to book a time that works best for them. With built in flexibility and ability to customize, Bookings can be designed to fit the situation and needs of many different parts of an organization.
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- 4/10/2025 - 2:00PM to 3:00PM
- 5/13/2025 - 9:30AM to 10:30AM
- 6/4/2025 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
Microsoft Forms
With Microsoft Forms, you can create surveys, quizzes, and polls, invite others to respond to it using almost any web browser or mobile device, see real-time results as they're submitted, use built-in analytics to evaluate responses, and export results to Excel for additional analysis. In this info session, we'll look at some common use cases of forms and discuss how Forms can be integrated with other Office 365 apps like Teams and Power Automate.
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- 4/22/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 6/26/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:30AM
Microsoft Lists
Microsoft Lists are the latest evolution of SharePoint Lists. A List is like a web-based spreadsheet that can be used to store and collaborate on many types of tabular data. It could be a list of people, events, inventory or almost anything else you might normally store in an Excel workbook. In this session, you'll learn about the various ways to create a new List, how to work with List data and why you might want to move your Excel data to a List. You'll also get a brief introduction to column and view formatting which can help you make your Lists more visually engaging and interactive. Some experience in SharePoint or completion of the Microsoft SharePoint workshop is recommended, but not required.
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- 4/15/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 6/12/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:30AM
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. You can use OneNote to organize lecture notes, meeting minutes, or research materials. It can run on PC, Mac, tablet, or your phone; helping you to stay organized no matter where you are. Participants will learn the basics of OneNote: how to make and organize notes, how to include pictures and files within notebooks, and how to share and collaborate with others in a notebook.
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- 4/8/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
- 5/14/2025 - 1:30PM to 3:00PM
- 6/5/2025 - 8:00AM to 9:30AM
SharePoint Design
As the storage foundation behind other applications like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint often serves a utilitarian role in Office 365. However, SharePoint also provides you a powerful set of tools for sharing information with your Team or audience using Pages and News posts. In this session, you'll learn how to build a functional and beautiful home page for your Team site as well as how to design and deploy a template for others to use when posting News to the site. Completion of the Microsoft SharePoint workshop or equivalent experience/knowledge is required. If you have not attended the SharePoint workshop, please reach out to the training contact to register for this session.
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- 4/17/2025 - 9:00AM to 10:30AM
- 6/24/2025 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM