TRAINING CLASS DESCRIPTIONS / HANDOUTS
Beginning Adobe Acrobat 8 (updated)
In this class you will learn the Acrobat interface, how to import different types of documents, how to extract images and text from a PDF document so you do not have to retype it, how to create interactive PDF files, and how to easily distribute information on your website using PDF files.
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Intermediate Adobe Acrobat
Adding interactivity is one of the best features of using Adobe Acrobat. In this class you will learn how to make PDF forms, how to change PDF forms that already exist, how to make interactive buttons, how to create a table of contents and index, how to add sounds and movies, and more!
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Beginning Adobe Acrobat Connect
Allows you to have a LIVE meeting online with other people. You can do things such as… text chat, talk with each other, exchange files, view webpages together, share a whiteboard together, see video of each other, and much more.
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Adobe Presenter
Works in conjunction with Microsoft Powerpoint to allow you to add voice narration synched with animations. Come learn how this free PowerPoint plug-in could be of use to you.
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Adobe Presenter: Quiz Manager
Adobe Presenter provides an additional feature called the Quiz Manager. It gives you the ability to assess student knowledge after viewing presentation content. Quiz results can be reported to Adobe if desired.
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Beginning Blackboard
What is Blackboard? How can I use it to support my courses? This course will teach you the basics of Blackboard and how you can use Blackboard to support your classroom instruction.
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Blackboard Focus on Feature: Adaptive Release
Adaptvie Release is a feature of Blackboard that gives instructors the ability to release content to students based on a set of rules. It creates a learning path for students to follow.
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Blackboard Focus on Feature: Assignment Tool
The Assignment feature is an assignment management tool for instructors and students. This tool makes the process of assigning, reviewing, and grading student assignments more managable. No longer do you have to search through piles of paper or assignment after assignment in your Digital Drop-Box looking for a student's assignment. The Assignment Tool keeps assignments organized by automatically generating an item in the Online Gradebook. From the Online Gradebook instructors can review, grade, download, and delete student assignments. Students review then submit assignment from one location. Easier for you and your students. In this class you will learn how to implement this feature in your courses.
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Blackboard Focus on Feature: Digital Drop Box and Group Pages
This course will show you how to use the Digital Drop Box to cut down on your paper trail by allowing you to exchange files with your students electronically. It will also discuss using Adobe Acrobat as a way to grade student assignments. Then, learn how you can setup a virtual meeting place for group projects.
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Blackboard Focus on Feature: Discussion Board
Ready to add a feature to your Blackboard course site? This course will explain how to use the Discussion Board to facilitate completely online discussions or continue an in-class discussion.
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Blackboard Focus on Feature: Test and Pool Manager
Ready to add a feature to your Blackboard course site? Do you want to deliver quizzes or exams online? This course will take you step-by-step through creating an online quiz/exam. Advanced features will be discussed such as how to randomize test questions.
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Blackboard Focus on Feature: Grade Center: NEW in Blackboard 8
Ready to add a feature to your Blackboard course site? Tired of repeat questions about grades? This course will take you step-by-step
through the process of posting student
grades online.
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Blackboard Focus on Feature: Review Status and Dashboard
Review Status allows instructors to view what content has been marked as reviewed by students. It can be enabled for individual content items. Once enabled, a Mark Reviewed button appears to the right of the item. Students click the Mark Reviewed button after reading the content. Instructors can then view what content has or has not been reviewed. This can be viewed from the Manage Item view or through the Performance Dashboard.
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Blackboard Advanced Feature: Safe Assignment
Let Blackboard help you detect plagiarism in papers that your students submit to you through Blackboard. Safe Assignment is a powerful tool that not only can detect plagiarism but can help you teach your students about plagiarism so that they can avoid it in the future.
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Blackboard Advanced Feature: Content Organization
How you organize your content inside Blackboard is essential to creating a course for your students that provides them a coherent structure and ease-of-use. This training course provides you the knowledge you need to choose the method of organization that fits your needs. Several different methods of organization will be presented.
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Blackboard Advanced Feature: Using Multimedia in Blackboard
Adding audio and/or video to a course can provide rich course material that engages the student and enhances learning. But just like anything else, there is a right way and a wrong way to implement those types of materials. This training course will demonstrate many different types of audio and video that can added to your Blackboard course and the best way to present those materials.
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Blackboard Advanced Feature: Wimba Voice Tools
With Wimba Voice Tools you can add a whole new dimension to your Blackboard courses. You can add your voice to several types of content inside Blackboard, such as…a discussion board, emails to students, announcements, etc. Now, both the instructor and students can hear each other’s voice instead of simply typing text back and forth. The benefit to online courses and subjects such as foreign languages can be literally astounding.
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Camtasia 4
Screen captures and recording.
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Adobe Contribute
Web page editing made easy; allows you to browse your site and make live edits.
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Classsroom Equipment: C.O.W., M.U.L.E., C.A.L.F.
Do you have equipment in your classroom, but not sure how to start using it? Contact the ITC to schedule a departmental or individual training session on how to use the equipment in your classroom.
Create Surveys with Dragon
Learn how to create and administer online surveys with Dragon 8.4.
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Beginning Dreamweaver
This course will teach you the basics of creating web pages with Adobe Dreamweaver. You will learn the basic interface features and create a sample webpage.
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Intermediate Dreamweaver
Advance your Dreamweaver knowledge by learning how to incorporate META tags, create image maps, anchors, frames, and much more!
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iTunesU: Podcasting Made Easy
Learn how you can provide multimedia learning content on the internet that students can download and consume on their personal computers and/or mobile mp3 players. Create audio and/or video content and enter the world of podcasting with iTunesU.
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Beginning Photoshop
Learn the basic Photoshop interface, how to prepare photographs and artwork for the web, the difference between GIF and JPEG images, pixels, resolution, and image quality, how to get the smallest file size for faster downloads and much more!
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Photoshop Bootcamp
You've been through the basics of Photoshop. You know what palettes, layers, and tools are. But now what do you do? This course will walk you through the paces of 'taking the next step'. It will be tough. It will test your metal. But most of all soldier, it will make you glad you came. You need this course.
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Respondus LockDown Browser
Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. Students are locked into the assessment and are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications.
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Respondus LockDown Browser Student Quick Start Guide
Instructions for students using Respondus LockDown Browser in their Blackboard course.
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Microsoft Groove
Use Groove to enable team members to work together from different locations. Share files, engage in discussions, text and audio chat, share calendars, and much more! Groove enables you to work smarter and keep up to date with your team members. And Groove can also allow you to synchronize files between 2 computers, such as your work computer and your home computer. No more forgetting to take a file home with you…get in the Groove!!
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Blackboard Sync for Facebook
If you would like to get notification inside your Facebook account any time something happens in one of your Blackboard courses, then Blackboard Sync is for you! This free plugin works for both students and faculty…anyone who has an account in Facebook and an account in our Blackboard server. The only information that is transferred between the 2 applications is a notification that some activity has taken place. Installation only takes a few moments, so download the handout to get the instructions.
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Beginning Web Forms
An introductory explanation of what Web forms are used for and how to create them. Explains how to create HTML forms in Adobe Dreamweaver and PDF forms in Adobe Acrobat/LiveCycle Designer.
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