Blackboard Training

Courses and Descriptions

• CAFE 105:  Blackboard Open Forum

  • Open forums will be Q&A sessions for online and residential faculty.

• CAFE 110:  Blackboard Basics I

  • This course will present a basic overview of Blackboard, the menu and tools link, as well as the basic function of the control panel.

• CAFE 115:  Blackboard Basics II

  • This course will teach the basics of organizing content, building, assignments and creating course links.

• CAFE 120:  Moving Course Content

  • This class will cover the Blackboard Utilities of Export and Import, as well as Blackboard's tools for moving content within a course.

• CAFE 205:  Graded Discussion Boards:  Implementation and Use

  • This course will teach faculty the process of building and grading discussion boards.

• CAFE 210:  Creating Groups and Group Discussion Boards

  • Faculty will learn how to create and manage Groups in Blackboard.  This includes using Graded forums and Advanced Group Management
     

• CAFE 215:  Safe Assign:  Direct Submit, Assignments, and Reports

  • This course will cover the use of Safe Assign.  Faculty members will learn how to create assignments, recheck student work, and interpret Safe Assign Reports.

• CAFE 220:  Blackboard Test Pools and Tests

  • This class will involve best practice for creating test pools, and deploying tests.  It will also include an overview of question types and special which hold pictures.  Also, "what not to do."

• CAFE 225: Interactive Rubrics

  • This session will discuss the creation, deployment and use of Rubrics.

• CAFE 230:  A Student's View

  • This course will provide an example of what students see when they interact with online courses, including assignments, emailed announcements, grades and feedback.

• CAFE 305:  Grade Center: Orientation

  • This course will teach faculty members to interpret and use the standard Grade Center columns, column organization.

• CAFE 310:  Grade Center: Intermediate

  • This course will discuss downloading and uploading the Grade Center, bulk downloading assignments.

• CAFE 320:  Grade Center: Advanced

  • Creating schemas, dropping scores and exempting scores.

• CAFE 405:  Respondus

  • This class will cover the installation and use of Repsondus, and formatting test pools for Respondus.

• CAFE 410:  Creating and Deploying PointeCasts

  • This class will train faculty members how to create PointCast presentations, save them, and deploy them into Blackboard courses.

• CAFE 415:  Blackboard and Media

  • This course will discuss how to integrate media, such as YouTub, Prezi, Camtasia, etc. Into Blackboard courses.