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.
Date & Time
Offered before Fall, Spring and Summer terms. Check here or the IT training calendar for future dates. Next Training: February 2, 9-12
Duration
The program is 3 hours long.
A Q&A and support session follows for those interested.
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
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