Title on blue background with white letters "Building your online teaching toolbox"

The Office of Online Learning is happy to announce a new webinar series, Building Your Online Teaching Toolbox. Throughout this series, offered every other Friday from 10:00 am - 11:30 am, faculty from different colleges and schools around the campus will share their expertise with a variety of online teaching tools and strategies. Join us for one, two, or all of these exciting conversations. Recordings of the sessions will be available on this site after each session.

Friday, December 1, 2023 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Take your research to the next level...

  • Learn advanced searching techniques
  • Find out how to analyze results
  • Understand research metrics
  • Manage your research profile
  • Connect to ORCID
  • Track authors in your field

Part 1 Slides

Part 2 Slides

Friday, October 7, 2022 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Dr. Lauren Tucker, Special Education Department

This session reviews strategies, routines, and resources aligned with Universal Design for Learning to facilitate access within online courses.  Using UDL in course design can promote student engagement and instructional efficiency. 

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Friday, October 21, 2022 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Rebecca Hedreen, Distance Education Librarian

I’m sure you know that the library has books and journals online. But did you know that we have online films, documentaries, images, statistics and data, historical and current newspapers, comics and graphic novels, 3D images, tests and measurements? And within our usual collections of books and journals, there are resources beyond the usual, like practice guidelines, children's books, books suitable for textbooks, and historical primary documents. Come join me for a tour of the less expected resources in the Library’s online collections.

Friday, October 28, 2022 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Dr. Candy Hwang, Chemistry Department

In this webinar, we’ll learn about how to incorporate rubrics into Blackboard for any assignment and options for what students specifically see. We will then discuss how it can save time during grading. Lastly, we will go over how to generate rubric reports to see the related statistics and use is as an assessment tool. 

Presentation Slides

Below you will find an example Rubric that, as detailed in the webinar, you can upload in your Blackboard course and explore:

Blackboard Rubric

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Dr. Jess Gregory, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department

Using insights and reports in Blackboard and Teams to enhance engagement and student participation in online courses.

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Friday, February 10, 2023 - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Heidi Lockwood, Philosophy Department & Rebecca Hedreen, Distance Education Librarian

Have questions about ChatGPT, AI Art, or other AI tools?

  • What is ChatGPT?

  • What's up with AI Art?

  • What should we be telling students about AI tools?

  • Are there good AI tools?

  • Do we really have to worry about this?

Presentation Slides

AI Tools Links