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Do you need assistance to develop your teaching with Blackboard and other digital tools?

As part of the Aarhus BSS blended learning strategy the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers individual counselling, webinars and workshops on the use of Blackboard and other digital tools to all lecturers, directors of studies and course administrators at Aarhus BSS.


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Blackboard and other digital tools

Individual counselling, webinars and workshops Individual counselling........................................................................................................................................................ 6 Webinars.................................................................................................................................................................................... 6Workshops................................................................................................................................................................................. 7

Workshop descriptionsGet started workshop for university teachers........................................................................................................8Distribution and structuring of course materials in Blackboard.................................................................8Video based teaching and instruction.....................................................................................................................9Activating students in lectures and seminars .....................................................................................................10Student collaboration in Blackboard.......................................................................................................................10Feedback to students in Blackboard.......................................................................................................................11Tests and assignments for activating students in Blackboard................................................................12Workshop for course administrators........................................................................................................................13

About CTL and Blackboard..........................................................................................................................................14CTL also offers.......................................................................................................................................................................14

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Would you like to develop your teaching? And do you need inspiration and assistance to use Blackboard and other digital tools in connection with your teaching?

CTL offers

1) individual counselling2) webinars and 3) workshops

on the use of Blackboard tools and functions, as well as other digital tools. Each of the three offers have a practical and pedagogical purpose.

We offer individual counselling for lecturers, who wish personal inspiration and help.

If you prefer a show and tell approach, you can participate in one of our short webinars. Here, we introduce you to the different functionalities of Blackboard, and you will also learn more about the pedagogical opportunities of the platform.

If you wish to get hands-on experience with the various tools and functionswe offer a range of theme-based workshops.

The two-hour workshops in Blackboard and other digital tools are for lecturers, directors of studies, and course administrators.

Read about the different offers in this catalogue and visit out website for more information and registration.

cul.au.dk/en

Introduction to CTL’s offers on individual counselling, webinars and workshops


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Quote from a webinar participant:

”In connection with the Go Online course I followed a webinar on how to make a wiki, a

blog and a discussion forum.

It was a very good supplement to the Go Online course because I quickly grasped technicalities

needed to get full benefit of the course.

The webinar format was excellent focusing on my individual problems. I could ask questions

and I saved a lot of time, because I could just sit in my office and follow the course”.

Quote: Teaching Assistant Professor Ricard Højberg,

Department of Business Communication

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Individual counselling

We encourage you to seek individual counselling if you wish to develop courses supported wholly or partly by Blackboard.

CTL can help you choose the tools in Blackboard that fit your teaching situation, and we can help you set up your Blackboard course website so that it is ready for you to begin teaching.

Target group: Lecturers who whish individual counselling on what tools to choose and how to set up a course website in Blackboard.

Format: Individual counselling.

Place: Your office or CTL.

Scope: 1 hour – but it may vary according to special agreements.

Contact: [email protected] or Tobias Alsted Nielsen, [email protected]

Webinars

As something new, and as an alternative to our workshops, we offer theme-based webinars. A webinar is an online seminar, where you follow the instructor’s screen. The instructor will show you how to use Blackboard using audio and video instructions.

The webinar is exclusively show and tell where you will be introduced to the various features of Blackboard.Furthermore, the instructor will offer good tips and tricks. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during the webinar via a built-in chat function.

Target group: Lecturers who want information on the Blackboard tools and later work on their own.

Format: Show and tell, and quesions and answers.

Place: Online - a link to the meeting room is opened at the webinar website on the day of the webinar. Scope: 30-45 min.


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Procedure for participation:

Having clicked on the link, on the day of the webinar, you write your name in the field ’Guest’ to enter the meeting room. No registration is necesary, you just ’show up’ in the meeting room.

Webinar themes

Distribution and structuring of course materials in BlackboardShortcuts for uploading large quantities of teaching materials, advanced menu editing and folder structure for different teaching methods, learning paths.

Student collaboration in BlackboardSet-up of online learning space for collaboration among students.

Feedback to students in BlackboardTools for individual feedback from teacher to student and for organising peer feed-back from student to student.

Workshops

We regularly offer theme-based workshops on Blackboard and other digital tools for lecturers, directors of studies and course administrators.

The workshops provide detailed informa-tion on the use of the tools. Besides getting hands-on experience, you will be inspired to use Blackboard for pedagogical purpo-ses. The facilitator of the workshop is able to provide personal assistance and spar-ring regarding your own teaching.

Taget group: Lecturers who want detailed insight into and experience with Blackboard and other digital tools. The workshops are for lecturers, directors of studies and course administrators at Aar-hus BSS.

Format: Presentations, hands-on exerci-ses and personal assistance.

Place: CTL teaching facility.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS ON THE NEXT PAGES.

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Workshop descriptions

Get started workshop

In this workshop we focus on some of the first challenges a teacher faces in Blackboard:

How can I as a teacher:

• Use my Blackboard-profile?• Make my course list in My Courses/My

institution more manageable?• Edit my course site - is there a template

for my department?• Add new course sites?• Select a different start page for my

course?• Give teaching materials to students?• Send a message to my students?• Create a folder in which my students can

upload materials?• Re-use my materials on various classes/

courses and from previous semesters?

The workshop combines instruction in Blackboard and hands-on exercises.

Participants are required to bring their own PC or Mac and to have access to mit.au.dk and Blackboard.

Distribution and structuring of course materials in Blackboard

During this workshop, the participants will get information on how to organise content and course sites in Blackboard and make materials available for students.

The workshop is based on the following questions:


• Edit the layout on my course site?• Edit the menu structure on my course

site?• Set up learning paths on my course

page?• Copy content and course structure from

an existing course?• Easily distribute large quantities of

materials to the students?

Participants will get hands-on experience with the tools presented, and during the workshop they can work with the tools in their own teaching.



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Video based teaching and instruction

In this workshop, we focus on the production of video presentations which can support the students’ work before and after lessons and thereby promote their learning.

The workshop is based on the following questions:


• Record a video presentation with my own computer or tablet?

• Record a voice over PowerPoint presentation (screencast)?

• Get a video presentation recorded at CTL Media Lab?

• Share my presentation in Blackboard?

Tools:

• Video presentation developed at CTL Medialab.

• Video presentation developed on your own PC and Mac.

• Screencast developed on your own PC, Mac, or tablet.

During the workshop, we use different programmes for PC and Mac. The programmes selected are easy to use in the production of video presentations and screencast.

More advanced programmes can be introduced in the workshop, depending on the participants’ needs. Furthermore, participants will work with an app for tablet which allows them to communicate using voice over and handwriting.

The workshop consists of hands-on exercises in the programmes and a few joint instructions.



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Activating students in lectures and seminars

This workshop presents tools for live voting to be used in lectures or seminars in order for students to participate actively in the class.

During the workshop, participants will work with the web service PollEverywhere, which provides the same opportunities as clickers and other voting systems.

PollEverywhere requires, as opposed to clickers, only access to the internet and no particular hardware: The students answer through their own computers, mobile phones, or tablets, and the voting result can be shown live.

In this workshop, we focus on:


• Set up and organise questions• Run live voting?• Integrate live voting in PowerPoint?• Test the live voting?• Use peer instruction in connection with

live voting?

Tools:

• PollEverywhere.

The workshop consists of hands-on activities with PollEverywhere and a few joint instructions. Participants are required to bring their own PC or Mac and to have access to mit.au.dk and Blackboard.

Student collaboration in Blackboard

This workshop introduces tools that support knowledge sharing and collaboration among students in online learning spaces.

How can I as a teacher have the students:

• Collaborate and communicate in groups in Blackboard?

• Collaborate on writing a joint text, problem analysis, definition, etc. in a wiki?

• Discuss materials or questions in a forum?

• Use blogs to relate to the subject areas and own learning?


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Tools:

• Groups• Discussion forums• Blogs (individual and group)• Wikis

Participants will get hands-on experience with the tools presented. Furthermore, participants will be able to work with the tools in their own teaching.


Feedback to students in Blackboard

In this workshop we present tools for teachers to provide individual feedback on assignments and organise peer feedback among students through Blackboard.

Participants get hands-on exercises based on the following questions:


• Let students submit assignments in Blackboard?

• Give grades, comment and mark specific sections in the students’ assignments in Blackboard?

• Organise peer feedback?• Ensure the quality of my own and the

students’ feedback through the use of as-sessment criteria in so-called Rubrics?

Tools:

• Assignment• Text comments• Giving points/grading• Self and user assessment• Assessment criteria in Rubrics

Participants will get hands-on experience with the tools presented. Furthermore, participants will be able to work with the tools in their own teaching.



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Tests and assignments for activating students in Blackboard

During this workshop we focus on:

• Tools in Blackboard for testing the students’ knowledge and understanding.

• Tools to monitor the students’ study activity.

• Tools for feedback on assignments.

The workshop is based on following questions:


• Set up multiple-choice tests or other types of tests in Blackboard?

• Set up a survey?• Let the students use their mobile phones

to quickly answer questions in class?• Use Blackboard’s tools for handling

assignments?• Provide individual feedback on

assignments or tests in Blackboard?• Monitor the students’ activity?

Tools:

• Tests• Studies• Multiple choice• Mobile tests• Assignments• Self and user assessment• Grade center

The first part of the workshop presents various tools and shows the participants how to set up the individual elements based on the above mentioned questions.

In the second part of the workshop, participants work with one or several of the tools presented in their own teaching.



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Workshop for course administrators

This workshop focuses on some of the challenges that a course administrator/study supporter face in Blackboard:

How can I as a course administrator:

• Use my Blackboard-profile?• Make my course list more manageable in

My Courses/My institution?• Edit course sites?• Distribute teaching materials to

students?• Send a message to course participants

and organisations/communities?• Make unused levels of courses

unavailable?• Merge courses when co-teaching?• Register e.g. course coordinators or

guest lecturers on a course or deregister them?

• Extract a list of participants to e.g. Excel?

• See whether the students have been active on a course site and seen the uploaded materials?

Tools:

• Blackboard-profile and directory• Adjustment, style (layout), and course

structure• Registration or deregistration of users• Co-teaching and availability of courses• Messages in courses and organisations• Setting up assignments, grade centre• Storage centre

The workshop combines instruction in Blackboard and hands-on exercises.



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About CTL and Blackboard

The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is the educational research and development unit at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University.

CTL is responsible for the digitisation of teaching at Aarhus BSS through the implementation of the technical systems that support the achievement of Aarhus BSS’ strategy for blended learning.

The implementation of Blackboard at Aarhus BSS has taken place in adherence with the strategy that was discussed by the Dean’s Office in October 2012.

The 1st step has been for all students and lecturers to move to the new LMS and become fully familiar with the basic functions (Blackboard as post office).

The current 2nd step is a multi-year effort aimed at getting users to use Blackboard for educational purposes as part of blended learning.

Step 2 involves, among other things:• building up Blackboard as a learning

space• to involve Blackboard as a natural

part of the planning and conduct of educational activities

• to use Blackboard for learning activities between tuition hours

Read more about CTL and see all our offers for teachers at our website:

cul.au.dk/en

CTL also offers

• Courses on university teaching for teachers at all career levels at Aarhus BSS.

• Help on producing digital learning material in CTL Learning Lab.

• Inspiration and examples of good teaching on TREAT (treat.au.dk).

• News and articles about teaching and learning at Aarhus BSS.

Editor: Helle Bjørnbak Goduscheit (CUL)

Published: August 2015.

Centre for Teaching and Learning, Aarhus BSS,Aarhus University

Fuglesangs Allé 4Build. 2620 + 26218210 Aarhus V

+45 [email protected]/en

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