Session Title: Wrangling Mobile: Developing a Mobile Strategy for Your Campus
Session Description: Blackboard Mobile isn’t one application or a choice to develop in HTML5 – it represents an approach to providing services and resources to the different communities that look to and depend on your organization. With so many technology choices, development approaches, user demands and individuals to serve, how can your institution wrangle mobile to make it best work for you? This workshop will provide you with tools and techniques that you can take and use within your environment to begin to develop a mobile strategy fit for your campus.
Audience: System Administrators, CIOs, Developers
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Sunday, July 7 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2304
Session Title: SIS Integration Framework
Session Description: Many clients are now running Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP6 or above and are now able to take advantage of the new SIS Integration Framework.. In this workshop, participants will learn how to use this new framework. Topics will include: Identification of basic data elements, behaviors, and business rules for automation and configuration of the SIS Integration Framework. You will have an opportunity to learn how the framework operates, what best practices are associated with the framework, and how others in the workshop have used the framework.
Audience: System Administrators
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Sunday, July 7 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2303
Session Title: Getting Started with Blackboard Learn, Course Delivery
Session Description: This workshop is designed for novice users just beginning to use Blackboard Learn, Course Delivery. It will cover the fundamentals of setting up a course menu, adding content, creating an assignment and/or simple test, and planning a discussion forum.
Audience: Faculty, New Instructional Designers
Length: Half Day
Type: Hands-on
Date/Time: Sunday, July 7 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $350
Room: Titian 2302
Session Title: Enterprise Surveys - Beyond a Single Course
Session Description: The new Enterprise Survey tool provides administrators with the ability to create, manage, and deploy dynamic surveys to selected users, courses, and organizations at their institution, as well as others outside their institution via email. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create a survey using the various question types, how to deploy the survey, and how to gather the results.
Audience: GUI Administrators
Length: Half Day
Type: Hands-on
Date/Time: Sunday, July 7 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $350
Room: Titian 2301AB
Session Title: Using Templates to Improve Course Design
Session Description: xemplary course rubrics emphasize five characteristics of a quality online course: navigation, content, assessment, collaboration, and learning support. In this presentation, we will look at some examples of course templates that increase course quality and student success. You will have an opportunity to build your own template and explore ways to use the template as a tool for improved online instruction.
Audience: Faculty, Instructional Designers
Length: Half Day
Type: Hands-on
Date/Time: Monday, July 8 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: $350
Room: Titian 2302
Session Title: Disaster Recovery
Session Description: Natural disasters can strike, but it's often far more mundane circumstances that cause your institution's mission critical applications to suddenly fail. This workshop looks at the key parameters, plans and documentation every institution should have in place in the event the worst case scenario hits. The workshop will include an overview of the definition and criteria for disaster recovery (DR) planning. Additionally, there will be a hands-on exercise involving participants' reflections on a DR case study (based on an implementation developed and delivered by Blackboard's Managed Hosting group). Participants will start work documenting their own disaster recovery plan using a template that they can take back to their organization. The workshop will provide a more holistic yet tactical view on planning and budgeting for your DR strategy.
Audience: CIOs, GUI Administrators
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Monday, July 8 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2304
Session Title: Content Management Boot Camp Part I: Essentials
Session Description: This immersive adaptation of Blackboard’s onsite Content Management Essentials training will cover the basic elements of adding and managing content, managing permissions, sharing content with courses, and creating portfolios. The hands-on workshop will be focused on an instructor perspective.
Audience: Faculty, Instructional Designers, GUI Administrators
Length: Half Day
Type: Hands-on
Date/Time: Monday, July 8 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: $350
Room: Titian 2301AB
Session Title: Certified Trainer Summit
Session Description: In this forum, participants will have opportunities to hear engaging presentations, share experiences and resources, and connect more fully with the certified trainer community. There will be four 15-minute presentation/demos on the following topics: Faculty Training, Upgrade Strategies, Training Materials, Beyond Blackboard; Web 2..0 Resources, and My Own Professional Development. After each presentation, there will be opportunity for questions, as well as smaller group and/or large group interaction to continue the discussion. During the 2-hour "On Your Own" lunch break; trainers are encouraged to continue their morning discussions.
Audience: Certified Trainers
Length: Full Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Monday, July 8 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $425
Room: Titian 2303
Session Title: Content Management Boot Camp Part II: Administration
Session Description: This immersive adaptation of Blackboard’s onsite Content Management Administration training will cover the Content Management administrator interface. It will concentrate on the essential features and setting, as well as best practices for organizing and managing Institution folders.
Audience: GUI Administrators
Length: Half Day
Type: Hands-on
Date/Time: Monday, July 8 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $350
Room: Titian 2301AB
Session Title: How to Engage Students by Gamifying your Blackboard Course
Session Description: The "G" (game) generation expects learning to be fun and look to engaging gamed environments for learning. In this presentation, you will learn how to re-frame existing Blackboard tools to create a gamed environment and improve student engagement. The presenter will provide background on gaming and examples from Blackboard courses for you to create your own games.
Audience: Faculty, Instructional Designers
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Monday, July 8 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2304
Session Title: Social Learning Online
Session Description: New tools in Blackboard Learn, SP10 provide opportunities for increased social learning. How do these tools work and how can these tool be incorporated into your instruction? In this workshop, you will learn about the new social learning tools on My Blackboard, and explore ways to maximize these in your instruction.
Audience: Faculty, Instructional Designers
Length: Half Day
Type: Hands-on
Date/Time: Monday, July 8 from 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $350
Room: Titian 2302
Session Title: What's New in Blackboard Learn Administration
Session Description: Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1 began a process of using frequently released service packs to introduce new functionality and software enhancements on a regular basis and now has added Building Blocks as a way to add even more functionality. In this workshop, participants will explore what's new in Release 9.1, SP10 and beyond. In addition to learning how to use the new tools, participants will have an opportunity to discuss best practices for using these tools in the context of online learning.
Audience: GUI Administrators
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 9 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2304
Session Title: Mobile Learn: Best Practices from the Field
Session Description: Many Institutions have instituted Mobile Learn initiatives, some just an added value to their online learning classes and others as a concentrated focus for driving student engagement. In this workshop, a panel will discuss what led to their use of Mobile Learn, what they did to drive success, and what they learned. Practical tips for project planning, course design, and communication strategies will be shared.
Audience: Faculty, Instructional Designers, GUI Administrators
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 9 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2303
Session Title: Developing an Exemplary Course
Session Description: Each year excellent courses are acknowledged as Exemplary Courses based on the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program rubric. But, how do these courses get developed, and how could you develop an exemplary course? In this 2.5 hour workshop, the presenters will share their design process and how they mapped their course to the Exemplary Course rubric. In addition, they will provide guidelines for you to develop your own exemplary course.
Audience: Faculty, Instructional Designers
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 9 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2302
Session Title: Blackboard Collaborate: Increasing your Web Conferencing Success
Session Description: Ever wonder why some Blackboard Collaborate sessions seem to be effortless, while in other sessions some folks have more difficulty accessing and interacting? The seminar will provide you with the knowledge to empart best practices tips to participants to encourage flawless, non-problematic sessions. You will also learn guidelines and tips that will help them conduct impeccable, smooth Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing sessions. Workshop attendees will also identify support resources for both Moderators and Participants.
Audience: Faculty, Instructional Designers, Trainers, Support Staff
Length: Half Day
Type: Seminar
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 9 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Cost: $300
Room: Titian 2301AB