Faculty Support & Training for Blackboard

 

Faculty/Staff Tutorials for Bb. 9.1 April 2014

Getting Started
Prepare Your Course for Term
End of Term Procedures
Course Menu
Course Design (the look and feel)
Course Content & Tools
Content Management
Course Statistics and Reports
Grading
Course User Management

Best Practices

 

Blackboard News for Faculty/Staff

 

Distance and Online Learning Help Desk

MyHudsonValley Portal/Blackboard Help Request

The Distance and Online Learning Help Desk provides support for Distance and Online Learning courses and the Blackboard/Portal system.

  • Request Help Form: The best way for both students and faculty to get their problems logged and known by the Distance and Online Learning Help Desk.
  • Telephone: 518-629-7070
  • Office Hours:
    • Regular: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Summer: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
    • Please note: the help desk is closed when the college is closed for breaks or inclement weather.
  • By Appointment for Faculty: online course development, reformatting course materials, learning new functions in Blackboard, developing multimedia, web technologies, and more. We can give you undivided attention if you make an appointment for a specific time. We also offer various workshops throughout each semester.

SUNY Online Help Desk – Evenings & Weekends

Evening and Weekend support is provided by the SUNY Online Help Desk. Please contact them directly by using the following contact information:

  • Internet: https://online.suny.edu/help for the web page which gives hours, contact information, Help Ticket submission and Chat application when it is on
  • Phone:  1-844-673-6786 (OPENSUNY) and/or direct 518-320-1300

Need Help with Turnitin, VoiceThread, Publishers, etc.

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Faculty/Staff Training

Distance and Online Learning Training Workshops

Online Instructor Training open
Pedagogy of Online Course Design and Delivery (PEOCDD) is a workshop for instructors who are developing an online or hybrid course to teach in an upcoming semester using the college’s Blackboard Learning Management System.

For about 20 years now HVCC has had a Quality Assurance protocol that required online faculty to be trained in best practices. Additionally, the faculty contract requires it. And SUNY research has documented that it takes about 150 hours to build a course. Because HVCC is committed to Faculty academic freedom, we train faculty using a minimalist template and spread the training out over a full semester to allow faculty to experiment, build multimedia, and otherwise design a robust course with the help of instructional designers. This is called the PEOCDD or Pedagogy of Effective Course Design and Delivery.

The training is in a hybrid format, we meet remotely once weekly for 2-hours for 7-weeks. Outside of training time, you will be working on developing and building your course. On completion of your course build, you will complete an SUNY Online Course Quality Review (OSCQR) using the OSCQR rubric with an OSCQR review team (ID, Faculty, DC).

Teaching and Learning Certificate Category: 1 Pedagogy, 1 Classroom Management, and 1 Technology (3 hours in each category)

Instructor: DL Staff

For more information and session dates.

 

Blackboard Basics open
The Blackboard Basics Training series consists of seven modules. You can earn a mastery badge for each module, you will need to review the course material provided, complete the Proficiency Assessment receiving a score of 10 or higher, and demonstrate understanding by completing the homework tasks assigned and reviewed by an Instructional Designer. After the completion of all seven modules, you will earn a Blackboard Basics Training Completion Certificate from the Center for Distance and Online Learning office and Center for Effective Teaching credit hours towards a CET certificate.

Instructor: DL Staff

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Blackboard Grade Center open
In this workshop you will learn how to use Blackboard Grade Center for record keeping for Final Grades.

Instructor: DL Staff
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Blackboard Organizations open
In this workshop you will learn how to use Blackboard Organizations for sharing materials with both faculty and staff or students.

Instructor: DL Staff
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YuJa Video Platform open
In this workshop you will learn how to use the YuJa Video Platform for pre-recorded video lecture materials. YuJa is a lecture capture or screen recording software that allows you to record your slideshows, screen, or face and voice. It can be used to pre-record the course content to put online. YuJa is best for “asynchronous” learning, meaning you will record the lecture content ahead of time, edit it if need be, and put it in Blackboard for your students to watch.

Instructor: DL Staff
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VoiceThread open
In this workshop you will learn how to use VoiceThread for lectures, discussions, or assignments. VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables users to add images, documents, and videos, and to which other users can add voice, text, audio file, or video comments. 

Instructor: DL Staff
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Quality Assurance

 

Advising Online Students

     

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