At Niagara College we refer to courses that intentionally combine face-to-face and online learning experiences as hybrid. In this session, you will examine decision making strategies for choosing what elements of your course will be online and which will be face-to-face. Next, you will have an opportunity to think through what materials and activities you...
Please note that we close registration one hour before the session begins. Join us for a 60-minute webinar facilitated by the CAE team to learn about the basics for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. During this session, participants will receive an introduction to: Sharing content in your virtual room Using...
At Niagara College, we have a number of institutionally-supported tools for recording instructional videos. In this session, we will review four of these tools - Camtasia, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, PowerPoint and VoiceThread - and compare their functionality, strengths and limitations so that you can select the tool(s) that will align best with your teaching needs....
At Niagara College, we have two main institutionally-supported technologies that can provide robust ecosystems for group work. Both Blackboard and Microsoft Teams allow for the creation of groups and serve to aggregate tools that support synchronous and asynchronous group collaboration. In this session, we will review and compare group functionality within Blackboard and Microsoft Teams...
This session explores online group work as it relates to longer, more complex projects and assignments that necessitate repeated group interactions. We’ll review key considerations when setting up or evaluating group work online and look at ways that you can facilitate a positive experience for your students as they engage in group work online. Please...
This session will lead you through the process of creating online tests with randomized question sets. You will also be introduced to Respondus Exam Converter which can speed up the process of online test creation by enabling you to upload tests into Blackboard directly from Word files when they are created using appropriate syntax. Please...