Faculty/Staff Development Calendar

These virtual help sessions are for faculty and staff who need assistance with technology used at QCC, such as Blackboard, Starfish, Turnitin, The "Q", Collaborate and Zoom.

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This 90-minute workshop is intended for faculty who have attended the Blackboard Ultra Essentials and Blackboard Ultra Assignments workshops and who want to delve deeper into using the gradebook in an Ultra course. During this workshop, attendees will learn about various views in the Ultra gradebook and gradebook settings, how to create rubrics and categories, how to set up calculations for the overall grade, how to monitor students’ performance using analytics, and how to use new features in Ultra that allow students to practice self-determination by keeping track of their own progress.     

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This 90-minute workshop is intended for faculty have attended the Blackboard Ultra Essentials workshop and who want to learn how to add various types of assessments, such as discussions, assignments, tests, Hypothesis assignments, and Turnitin assignments to a Blackboard Ultra course. 

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This one-hour workshop is intended for faculty and staff who have taken other workshops in our Blackboard Ultra series and are ready to convert a course or organization from original to Ultra for the Spring 2024 semester. During this workshop, attendees will learn how to request the Ultra course view for future courses; how to copy content, assignments, rubrics, and test banks into their Ultra course; and how to edit course materials in Ultra.

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During this half-hour workshop you’ll learn about and get hands-on experience using the AI Design Assistant in Blackboard Ultra course view classes. The AI Design Assistant can suggest learning module topics, create rubrics, generate tests, and produce images related to your course content. 

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These virtual help sessions are for faculty and staff who need assistance with technology used at QCC, such as Blackboard, Starfish, Turnitin, The "Q", Collaborate and Zoom.

Click HERE to Sign Up!

This 90-minute workshop is intended for faculty, staff, and administrators who want to learn more about the Ultra course view, including where to find features and tools; how layers work when navigating an Ultra course; how to organize course content using learning modules and folders; how to add content, announcements, and a Zoom link; and how to use course messages.  

Click HERE to sign up!

This 90-minute workshop is intended for faculty who have attended the Blackboard Ultra Essentials and Blackboard Ultra Assignments workshops and who want to delve deeper into using the gradebook in an Ultra course. During this workshop, attendees will learn about various views in the Ultra gradebook and gradebook settings, how to create rubrics and categories, how to set up calculations for the overall grade, how to monitor students’ performance using analytics, and how to use new features in Ultra that allow students to practice self-determination by keeping track of their own progress.     

Click HERE to sign up!

This 90-minute workshop is intended for faculty have attended the Blackboard Ultra Essentials workshop and who want to learn how to add various types of assessments, such as discussions, assignments, tests, Hypothesis assignments, and Turnitin assignments to a Blackboard Ultra course. 

Click HERE to sign up!

This 90-minute workshop is intended for faculty, staff, and administrators who want to learn more about the Ultra course view, including where to find features and tools; how layers work when navigating an Ultra course; how to organize course content using learning modules and folders; how to add content, announcements, and a Zoom link; and how to use course messages.  

Click HERE to sign up!

The Center for Academic Excellence is pleased to announce the new companion tool for Kaltura called Annoto. Annoto is a flexible tool that lets you create a variety of assessments and interactive video-based activities, turning passive video viewing into an active and collaborative learning experience, while providing you analytics and insights about your students and about your course content. 

At the end of the session, the participants will be able to:  

Locate Annoto on their Kaltura videos in either Blackboard Original or Ultra 
Locate the Annoto Dashboard and Features (tools)  
Enable, or disable, Annoto Tools 
Locate Annoto Insights (analytics)

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The Ultra Users Group meets once a month during the academic year to discuss Blackboard Ultra-related topics and to support those using Ultra. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend one or all of these sessions.

The Topic for this Session is Lessons Learned!

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During this half-hour workshop you’ll learn about and get hands-on experience using the AI Design Assistant in Blackboard Ultra course view classes. The AI Design Assistant can suggest learning module topics, create rubrics, generate tests, and produce images related to your course content. 

Click HERE to sign up!

This one-hour workshop is intended for faculty and staff who have taken other workshops in our Blackboard Ultra series and are ready to convert a course or organization from original to Ultra for the Spring 2024 semester. During this workshop, attendees will learn how to request the Ultra course view for future courses; how to copy content, assignments, rubrics, and test banks into their Ultra course; and how to edit course materials in Ultra.

Click HERE to sign up!

These virtual help sessions are for faculty and staff who need assistance with technology used at QCC, such as Blackboard, Starfish, Turnitin, The "Q", Collaborate and Zoom.

Click HERE to Sign Up!

The Center for Academic Excellence is pleased to announce the new companion tool for Kaltura called Annoto. Annoto is a flexible tool that lets you create a variety of assessments and interactive video-based activities, turning passive video viewing into an active and collaborative learning experience, while providing you analytics and insights about your students and about your course content. 

At the end of the session, the participants will be able to:  

Locate Annoto on their Kaltura videos in either Blackboard Original or Ultra 
Locate the Annoto Dashboard and Features (tools)  
Enable, or disable, Annoto Tools 
Locate Annoto Insights (analytics)

Click HERE to sign up!

These virtual help sessions are for faculty and staff who need assistance with technology used at QCC, such as Blackboard, Starfish, Turnitin, The "Q", Collaborate and Zoom.

Click HERE to Sign Up!

This 90-minute workshop is intended for faculty have attended the Blackboard Ultra Essentials workshop and who want to learn how to add various types of assessments, such as discussions, assignments, tests, Hypothesis assignments, and Turnitin assignments to a Blackboard Ultra course. 

Click HERE to sign up!