Learn to create and grade video-based social annotation assignments for your face-to-face or online courses in this 45-minute session. Explore FeedbackFruits, a user-friendly social annotation tool that fosters interactive, collaborative engagement among students and faculty through video annotations. This approach promotes multimodal learning, enhances understanding of course videos, and creates assignments that are more resistant to AI misuse.
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 10:45 am
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Learn to create and grade a social annotation assignment for your face-to-face or online courses in this 45-minute session. Explore FeedbackFruits, a user-friendly social annotation tool that enables interactive, collaborative engagement among students and faculty through text annotations. This approach promotes multi-modal learning interactions that make student reading and learning processes more visible and engaging, supports student comprehension of course readings, and helps make assignments more AI-resistant.
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
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Discover how to transform your online discussion boards into dynamic spaces for interaction and engagement. In this webinar, we’ll explore innovative strategies to move beyond the traditional 'post once, reply twice' format. You’ll learn how to create thought-provoking prompts, leverage alternative discussion models, and incorporate activities. Perfect for faculty looking to enhance their online teaching toolkit with actionable ideas and examples.
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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This session will guide you through setting up your overall grade and verifying and customizing your grading schema to ensure it accurately reflects your syllabus. Additionally, you'll become familiar with the newly implemented workflow for submitting final grades to Banner. We'll walk you through all the necessary steps, from preparing your gradebook in Blackboard to successfully transmitting grades to Banner.
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Discover what’s new with the Blackboard Ultra Course View. Join YSU’s instructional designers as they provide an update on the monthly product and feature releases for Ultra.
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Preparing to Teach Online at YSU is a self-paced training taught in Blackboard Ultra. The course is designed to help YSU faculty prepare to develop and teach online courses. Successful completion means that you meet the training requirements for developing and teaching an online course at YSU. Enrollment is not limited to those who are new to the online experience or those who haven't met the training requirement. You are encouraged to sign up as a refresher or as an opportunity to engage in discussions about best practices in the online environment. The estimated time to complete is 8 hours.
This course is currently available for those utilizing Blackboard. Please contact the Instructional Design and Development Center in Youngstown State Online for more information.
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