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Designing Your Online Course for Success

Virtual – Blackboard Collaborate

Are you looking for ways to maximize student success in your online course? In this workshop, participants will explore opportunities to support students in online learning as a part of their course design. Working together, we will identify strategies to guide students through online learning and explore ways to structure a course to simplify navigation...

Selecting the Right Tool to Record Lesson Videos: Comparing Camtasia, Collaborate Ultra, PowerPoint, and VoiceThread

Virtual – Blackboard Collaborate

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....

Using Microsoft Teams to Support Teaching: Getting Started

Virtual – Blackboard Collaborate

Microsoft teams is a digital collaboration hub that can be used, in tandem with Blackboard course sites, to support your teaching. Host online class meetings, store information and collaborate through course documents, communicate via public/private chat feeds or 1-on-1 chats. In this webinar we will take our first steps towards creating a Class Teams Site...

Effective Communication for Online Teaching and Learning

Virtual – Blackboard Collaborate

In this session we will explore ways to effectively communicate with your students in an online course to promote better understanding of course expectations and content, build trust and connection, and enhance motivation for learning. By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Enhance their communications to increase student trust and engagement....

Collaborate Ultra: Sharing Content, Interacting with Students & Recording

Virtual – Blackboard Collaborate

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...

Course Site Accessibility

Virtual – Blackboard Collaborate

Creating accessible course sites directly supports the academic success of students from varied backgrounds, abilities, and learning styles. In this webinar we will explore specific strategies to making course content, media, and course documents more accessible to learners. Resources pertaining to accessible standards and principles will also be shared for those interested in finding guidance...

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