EOU Academic Technology Workshops

Faculty members interested in a one-on-one Blackboard tutorial are welcome to contact James Long to set up a time for a meeting, whether on campus or online.

Fall Workshop Topics

• Getting Started with Blackboard: A basic introduction to using Blackboard, either to support your on-campus class or for online teaching.
• Embedding Video in Blackboard: How to easily and inexpensively video record messages or mini-lectures and place them in your Blackboard course shell.
• Effective use of the SafeAssign Plagiarism Detection Tool: The Blackboard SafeAssign tool compares student papers with several databases and the entire Internet to identify improperly cited passages or instances of copying from electronic sources.
• Open Forum: Have questions about what digital technologies will help you achieve your teaching goals? Want to learn to use some new tools in Blackboard? Come to this open forum and let’s see how we can help out.
• E-books and Publisher Created Instructional Content: Learn how to include publisher created instructional content, exam banks, and e-book chapters from longer books in your course.

Faculty can access the Bb9 test and experiment environment here. If you do not have an account on the experimental server, request one from the Blackboard administrator.