Events

Participants will watch click-by-click demonstrations and explore diverse ways faculty use Blackboard at GW.

Participants will gain an understanding of features such as text and voice chat, PowerPoint slideshow delivery, and desktop sharing.

Focused on the advanced features of Echo 360, participants will learn how to edit echo recordings, conduct polling, review Q&A, transcripts and analytics.

Explore ways to enhance the student experience outside of the traditional classroom through Blackboard Discussion Boards.

Explore the creation and management of student blogs and private journals as well as group wikis in Blackboard.

Learn how to set up Zoom in Blackboard and use the various features to conduct a virtual class in Zoom.

Focused on the advanced features of Echo 360, participants will learn how to edit echo recordings, conduct polling, review Q&A, transcripts and analytics.

This workshop uses an example of what not to do to think about how to design syllabi that promote student engagement and incorporate principles of inclusive teaching.

Participants will learn how to enable and manage group tools as well as viewing and grading group activities such as assignments.

Learn more about VoiceThread, a web-based application that allows users to share and have conversations around media.

This workshop explores grading models that can change the practices and anxiety around grading to make it more conducive to student growth.

In this 2.5 day, hands-on workshop, participants will learn essential skills for working with genomics data.

In this workshop we’ll talk about basic tenets of digital accessibility and usability, and walk through tools and tricks to better organize Blackboard.

Participants will watch click-by-click demonstrations and explore diverse ways faculty use Blackboard at GW.

We will cover easy ways to not only remediate your existing documents to be accessible, but how to also create better looking and more organized “born accessible” documents.