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Open time with Online Learning Services staff for instructors to ask questions and get support on ultra courses. Hosted on Zoom:

Open time with Online Learning Services staff for instructors to ask questions and get support on ultra courses. Hosted on Zoom: 

This newly-designed workshop is for Syracuse University instructors to use their syllabus to create a Blackboard ultra course from the ground up. In part one instructors will focus on updating their course structure to take advantage of ultra’s navigation. Instructors will create new Blackboard documents and copy items from their prior courses. The optional second part of the workshop will center on gradebook setup and assessment settings. The workshop is a “hands-on” opportunity to work with OLS staff as they guide participants through the process of re-designing for ultra.

This is a virtual training that will meet on Zoom with a limited number of seats available in each session.  

Instructors who want a comprehensive experience of the Ultra course view can join this online, asynchronous orientation course, delivered through Ultra itself. The course contains a set of general training modules designed to cover the basic features of Blackboard Ultra which will be useful to (nearly) all instructors, and a second set of optional, advanced modules on more specialized topics.

Instructors can join a cohort for either a 1 or 2 week session, depending on whether they plan to complete just the basic training or engage with the advanced content. During the session, the course will be actively monitored by an expert facilitator from Online Learning Services who will answer questions, provide individual suggestions and feedback, and host virtual office hours. Participants can work through the training modules on their own schedule, with optional opportunities to interact with the facilitator and other members of their cohort through Blackboard discussions and virtual office hours. At the conclusion of a session, the course will no longer be monitored by Online Learning Services staff, but participants will retain access to the training materials in Blackboard indefinitely.