Teach Well

Past Online Workshop Recordings

Remote Teaching

Get ready with this series of workshops covering essential elements for successful remote teaching.

• Organizing Your Remote Course — April 3, 2020
• Consistent Calendaring for a Remote Course — April 6, 2020
• Transparency in Remote Courses — April 13, 2020
• Alignment in Remote Rourses — April 20, 2020
• Assessment in Remote Courses — April 27, 2020
• Variation of Activities in Remote Courses — May 4, 2020
  • Presentation Slides (ppt)
• Building Community in Remote Courses — May 11, 2020
  • Presentation Slides (ppt)

Blackboard Ally

Blackboard Ally is coming in Fall for everyone. Get a jumpstart and learn how this accessibility tool can help with your course materials.

• Blackboard Ally: Get Started! — April 9, 2020
• Making Accessible Word Documents — April 16, 2020
• Making Accessible PowerPoints — April 21, 2020
• Making PDF Documents Accessible — April 30, 2020
• Alternative Formats Available to Students — May 7, 2020
• Make Blackboard Itself More Accessible — May 14, 2020

Technology Tuesdays

Webinars to refresh your knowledge about the many tools and technologies available at CPP to support remote teaching.

• Zoom Breakout Rooms and Polls — October 6, 2020
• Gradescope — October 13, 2020
• OneDrive — October 20, 2020
• Facilitating Asynchronous Discussions — October 27, 2020
• Student Panel on Remote Learning — November 10, 2020
• Creating and Sharing Interactive Videos with Kaltura — November 17, 2020

Wall of COOL Speaker Series

• Offering Choices Encourages Engagement in Online Courses, presented by  2020 Wall of COOL awardee Stephanie Marin Rothman — October 29, 2020

Prepare Ahead

Get Your Blackboard Course Ready

• Make your Blackboard course available to students
  
  1. Log into Blackboard.
  2. Open your course
  3. Navigate to your Control Panel (bottom-left menu) > Customization > Properties
  4. Select Yes next to Make Course Available
  5. Click Submit when done
• Upload your syllabus
• Add your course content
• Remind your students that all messages sent through Blackboard are sent to their CPP email.

Checklist

Technology Tools

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  Our Tools and Technologies page provides an overview and resources for a wide variety of useful tools.

Acknowledgement

Some content on this page is based on Stony Brook University’s resources, CSU Channel Islands’ Keep Teaching site, and Georgetown University’s Instructional Continuity site.