Winter Quarter
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Getting Started with Blackboard
Get an overview of Blackboard, the web-based software used at SCC for supplemental, hybrid and online classes. In this workshop, you will view basic course design and begin loading content. Please bring your employee ID number if you would like to participate in the hand-on activities. All are welcome—the workshops are not discipline-specific and no registration is required. |
Every Tuesday
12:30
room 4214 |
Blackboard Drop-in Hour
Join your colleagues to share and develop course designs in Blackboard. The eLearning team will bring in handouts of best teaching practices, but no formal "training" will be presented. Instead, enjoy this collaborative space to discuss and create courses. We invite anyone who is using Blackboard as a supplemental resource as well as those who teach only online or anything in between. |
online via Elluminate
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Online Show and Tell Sessions: Using Elluminate
Different topics about using Elluminate, hosted by Peninsula College and Bellingham Technical College.
Click here to participate.
Enter your First Name and Last Name and login. You don't need a password to participate.
Check out the recordings of past sessions |
on demand |
Online in Elluminate
Orientation tutorial for Elluminate participants (5 minutes)
Various topics for Elluminate Moderators
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dates vary |
Live, online sessions in Elluminate
Getting Started with Eluminate Live! for Moderators
Next Steps with Eluminate Live! for Moderators |
On DVD |
An Orientation to Blackboard's Assignment Tool
Available for check-out for one week at the Circulation Media desk at the Library, building 4000.
To begin, have an assignment ready in an electronic file that you wish to upload to your Blackboard classroom. You can watch/listen to the DVD while looking at your own computer screen and at the agenda while logged into Blackboard. The computer screen is a little hard to see on the DVD for this one, but the audio is good. |
On DVD |
Getting Started Teaching Online Using Blackboard
Available for check-out for one week at the Circulation Media desk at the Library, building 4000.
In Part I, you will login to Blackboard and learn how to get a Bb classroom and make it available to students.Please have your employee ID ready (a 9 digit number that begins with 965.)
Part 2 discusses course design/organization. You will learn how to add content (a folder and a file), an announcement, and a gradebook item. You can view the DVD while looking at your own computer screen and at the agenda while logged into Bb. You will want access to the following Blackboard classrooms: Blackboard Users Group, Bb Orientation Demonstration Classroom, and Lesson Based Course Template. Contact eLearning Services at eLearning@shoreline.edu and we will add you to these classrooms so you can get started. |
Date: Varies
Place: Online
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SoftChalk LessonBuilder
Register here for different topics about using SoftChalk LessonBuilder, including an introductory session. SCC owns an institution-wide license of SoftChalk LessonBuilder. To find out how you can download the software, Log into Blackboard and go to: BLACKBOARD USERS GROUP (BBUG) > SOFTWARE > SOFTCHALK LESSON BUILDER.
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SoftChalk Video Tours (Online)
Quick Tour Videos of SoftChalk LessonBuilder features, such as how to create a lesson. SCC owns an institution-wide license of SoftChalk LessonBuilder. To find out how you can download the software, Log into Blackboard and go to: BLACKBOARD USERS GROUP (BBUG) > SOFTWARE > SOFTCHALK LESSON BUILDER.
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Sloan-C Online Teaching Certificate
Date: Varies
Place: Online
The Sloan-C Online Teaching Certificate is offered as a sequence of three foundational courses and three electives leading from the conceptual to the implementation of online learning effectiveness best practices.
For more information, click here. |
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Off-campus conferences and training opportunities
The Conference Database of the Distance Education Clearinghouse is a reference of worldwide conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events of interest to distance education and related fields. |
