Dear Faculty Colleagues, Registration is now open for Chapman University’s 4th annual Summer Academy on Teaching sponsored by the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (IETL) and Educational Technology Services (ETS). Consisting of formal and informal presentations and peer discussions, the focus of Summer Academy is to provide a dedicated time for faculty members
As was shared in the Spring All Faculty Meeting on Friday, April 26, I offer you an update on the progress of the project to upgrade/replace our current version of BlackboardLearn. As a reminder, we are evaluating three LMS possibilities for the future at Chapman: Brightspace, Blackboard Ultra, and Canvas. In the fall semester we
On April 18th from 9am to 11am join Educational Technology Services as we continue the conversation on the future of learning management systems and web accessibility. From 9am to 10am hear from several faculty members who have been trying out alternatives to Blackboard Learn and have experience teaching their courses using a different learning
Spring 2019 Workshops for Orange Campus @ The Tech Hub (DeMille Hall 104) Feb 14 1pm – 2pm Blackboard 101 Feb 27 12pm – 1pm Office 365 vs Google Suite (Sarah Blake) Feb 27 10am – 11am Panopto 101 Desktop Lecture Capture Feb 28 1pm – 2pm Edublogs for Blogging and Student ePortfolios Mar 6
Happy new year! Please join us for Educational Technology upcoming events during the month of January: JanCon 2019: Re-imagining the Classroom You’re invited to a one day conference on Reimagining the Classroom! Includes: keynote speakers, faculty and student panel discussions, hands-on lab, and tour. January 25, 2019 8:30 am – 3:00 pm Location: DeMille
You are invited to an interactive panel discussion for the Blackboard Learning Management System Review. Detailed event information can be found below: 11/9/2018 11AM-12PM LMS Panel Discussion: Canvas | Blackboard | Brightspace Virtual Conference Link | Tech Hub, DeMille 104 | Rinker 94-277 We will be hosting four Chapman colleagues who are considered Blackboard power users
It is common practice to include images within MS PowerPoint (PPT) presentations to demonstrate key points and support classroom discussions. Often, these images are of high quality and resolution. However, when these images are included in the PPT file, they become a part of the file (a process called embedding), which increases its overall size.
Perhaps you have heard you can use Blackboard Organizations to organize groups of people, send emails, and share files, but you don’t know where to start. Attend a workshop in the Tech Hub (DeMille 104) on either Tuesday, Oct 16 at 1pm, or Thursday, Oct 18 at 2pm to learn how you can use Blackboard
You may (or may not) have heard about Panopto, our in-class and desktop lecture capture software, but now there’s even more reason to give it a try. Did you know it has a new quizzing feature that allows faculty to create videos and insert quizzes on key points? Even more, faculty can add these videos
Play with Poll Everywhere Competitions during our upcoming Poll Everywhere Workshops. If you’d like to learn more about using Poll Everywhere to engage students, including a live demonstration of multiple polling options, please come by the Tech Hub for the upcoming ETS workshops: Tuesday, September 25th, 2018, 1:00-2:00 Thursday, September 27th, 2018, 2:00-3:00 The Tech