Rhody Ed Tech Essentials

Rhody Ed Tech Essentials provides new and current faculty with all the basic educational technology training they require to begin blended and online instruction in Brightspace.

Registration will be open at the beginning of July

 

Date & Time

Offered before Fall, Spring and Summer terms. Check here or the IT training calendar for future dates. Next Training: coming end of August.

Registration will be coming soon

Duration

The program is 3 hours long.

A Q&A and support session follows for those interested.

 

Location

Virtual – Zoom
See the calendar invite for Zoom link.

Details on accessing Zoom are here.

 

 

Agenda

The following agenda currently makes up the program, though is subject to change (so check back here for updates):

  • Introduction Brief Review / Introduction to IT Support Services (20 mins)
  • Brightspace Essentials [Logging in, where to find templates, gradebook, assignments, quiz, etc] (40 mins)
  • Brightspace accessibility checker, Readspeaker, & ADA compliance (20 mins)
  • How to merge Brightspace sections of the same course (20 mins)
  • Panopto Essentials – how to make lecture videos for online courses (40 mins)
  • Brief Review of other available ed tech tools [Camtasia, Snagit, Polling, etc] (20 mins)
  • Professional development opportunities to advance training/skills in all these topics and more [What, where, when] (10 mins)
  • End – Questions

 

 

 

ITS Service Desk
Walk-in support is available M-F 8-5 in the basement of the library