Winter 2001

Teaching Large Classes

Focusing on Pedagogy in the Large Class, this one-day training will be offered Wednesday, March 28th from 9 am to 3 pm Teaching Large Classes is open to any instructor on campus and will address the topics listed below. Please register with Tim McMahon.

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Using Blackboard to Teach Large Classes

Blackboard is a web-based course management system for creating and hosting online courses and course websites. It offers communications features such as messaging systems, threaded discussions, collaborative work groups, and more. It has tools that facilitate grading (online grade book), online file exchange between the instructor/student, and it tracks course content usage. This Blackboard module will consist of creating a course website and adding your course content. Your site will be created when you register.

This 2 hour training will be offered twice--March 29 from 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM and March 30 from 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM It will be held in the ITC located on the second floor of the Knight Library.

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Using Excel to Teach Large Classes

Excel is a common spreadsheet program that you can use to manage your gradebook. In this module, we will take you step-by-step through some of the functions instructors can use to ease the hassle of managing grades in large classes. We will show you how to download your gradebook from the web as well as some basic design and layout techniques. We will demonstrate formulas to automatically add point totals, average a group of assignments and weight and add those averages. You will learn to automatically chose the top grade from a group of assignments, drop the lowest score and replace specific information with new information. You will learn how to use the sorting functions to quickly isolate students by score that may need extra assistance and how to save your gradesheets as HTML for posting to your course web page or Blackboard site.

This 2 hour training will be offered twice--March 29 from 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM and March 30 from 12:00 PM to 1:50 PM It will be held in the ITC located on the second floor of the Knight Library.

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ALS 609: Blackboard Websites (CRN 21110)

Class will be held on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 3:00 beginning January 9th. Open labs will be held on Thursdays from 2:00 to 3:30 in the ITC located on the second floor of the Knight Library.

This one credit Pass/No Pass course will focus on the effective implementation of Blackboard Technology into new and existing courses. Course content will address the technical and pedagogical issues commonly encountered by today's instructors through in-class discussion and hands-on software training. By the end of the quarter, participants will have developed a fully functional course web site.

Participants should expect a light amount of homework including gathering and/or preparing material for use in their coursesite, participation in group activities, reading assignments and assessments. Each participant will enter into a learning contract with the instructor. This contract will specifically outline expectations for participation, assignments, attendance, due dates and grading. Individuals interested in auditing the course may do so by entering into a participation contract with the class.

Class size is limited to 10 participants. Participants will create a Blackboard site for a course they will teach this academic year and will need to provide course material for use in creating it. Both a preregistration meeting and a learning/participation contract are required for this course.

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