MercerOnline will be offering a variety of training to get your semester off to the right start! Please review the schedule of sessions and use the link below to sign-up.
Monday, August 22, 2016
How To Use Blackboard - Best Practices – session will review suggestions for updating your online class. This is not for first time users. 1:00pm and 2:30pm in AD131
MO 103 - Blackboard Grade Center Training – provides a general overview of the Grade Center Tool within Blackboard. Faculty should come to the training with their own laptop, syllabus, course grading scale and assignments for their current fall semester course. 1:00pm and 2:30 pm in AD234
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
MO 105 - Introduction to Zoom – A one-hour face-to-face training that will introduce faculty to the Zoom video conferencing tool. This tool allows faculty to quickly set-up video conferences with their students for meetings and synchronous learning sessions. Please bring laptop. 2:00pm and 3:00pm in AD131
Blackboard Retention Center - Naveen Ramnanan, Blackboard Customer Success Advocate, in an engaging workshop on Retention Center in Bb Learn—This 1-hour workshop will review how instructors can identify at-risk students in a course using the Retention Center. Participants will examine the following features: missed deadlines, grade alerts, course activity, and course access alerts. We will consider practices for customizing the retention center based on rule types, creating new rules, selecting preferred criteria, monitoring students, and notifying students at risk. 1:00pm, 2:00pm and 3:00pm in AD234