Instructional Technology & Center for Accessibility Professional Development Training

With continuous advances in educational technology, on-going professional development is vital to the success of individuals and organizations.  Atlantic Cape is proud to offer an array of opportunities to its faculty and staff to advance their knowledge and understanding of the tools we use to design accessible, innovative, and engaging learning environments.

Please explore the below list of training sessions and click the name of the session title to view the full topic description, format, and next available session. Registration is required!  Please follow the registration information for each department offering the workshop.

Instructional Technology Workshops

Please contact Instructional Technology to register by phone at (800) 617-2191 or by email at onlinehelp@atlanticcape.edu.

Ally is integrated in Blackboard Learn and assists faculty with making digital course resources more accessible. Ally helps you approach accessibility in a way that is beneficial to all students. In this session we take an in-depth look at Ally’s 3-step model for improving accessibility. We will uncover Ally’s many capabilities such as its ability to automatically provide alternative formats for digital course content. We will explore what Ally is, how it works, how it scores digital course content within Blackboard and its positive impact on students.

Ally Session Dates
Date Time Location
Tuesday, February 21 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CANCELED
Tuesday, March 28 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, April 28 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)

Many instructors who teach face-to-face, remote and hybrid courses use attendance data as part of their students' overall grades. In this session we will look at the Blackboard Attendance tool. You will learn how instructors can use the Blackboard Attendance tool for each class meeting to mark whether a student is present, late, absent, or excused. You will learn how instructors can use attendance as part of grade calculations just as you can for an assignment grade column. You will learn that when using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, attendance data can be sent directly to the Attendance tool in the course. Lastly, you will learn how Attendance data can easily be exported at the end of the semester as a CSV file for record keeping.

Blackboard Attendance Session Dates
Date Time Location
Friday, January 27 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Webinar (online)
Tuesday, February 7 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, March 3 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Webinar (online)
Tuesday, April 4 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Webinar (online)

During this session we will take an in-depth look at the Blackboard Grade Center. You will learn how to create columns and categories, enter grades, monitor student progress, and how to communicate information to students using the Blackboard Grade Center. Finally, you will learn how to create reports and export your grades from the Blackboard Grade Center to an Excel spreadsheet.

Blackboard Grade Center Session Dates
Date Time Location
Tuesday, January 31 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, February 17 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CANCELED
Tuesday, March 21 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, April 21 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)

Collaborate is an interactive web conferencing tool built inside of Blackboard. In this session, you will learn how to add the Collaborate tool link in your course shell and how to create a Collaborate session. You will explore the basic design interface of a Collaborate session as well as do a deep dive into the session settings. You will learn how to share content, interact using the chat tool and utilize the whiteboard, polling and breakout groups features to maximize student engagement. You will also learn how to record your Collaborate sessions, access your recordings and utilize the auto-captioning feature. Finally, you will learn how to access attendance, polling and recording usage reports.

Collaborate for Beginners Session Dates
Date Time Location
Friday, February 3 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)
Tuesday, March 7 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CANCELED

Planning is everything. Learn how to “plan” and “design” your course on Blackboard. Using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric, faculty are able to plan and design a Blackboard course that conforms to the best practices for course design. 

In this session, you will explore the first of the four individual standard categories specifically addressed on the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric, Course Design. Course Design, addresses the elements of instructional design, which include the structure of the course, learning objectives, content organization, learner engagement, and technology use. Sample courses will be shown to illustrate the various design topics on the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric. The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric will be provided as a handout as well as a course design checklist and best practices for students.

This webinar is for Blackboard beginners or any faculty who want to improve their current Blackboard course by examining the important concepts of design.

Designing an Exemplary Course on Blackboard Session Dates
Date Time Location
TBA

All Atlantic Cape faculty are required to attend our Getting Started with Blackboard Learn training session prior to using Blackboard at Atlantic Cape. In this session you will learn how to request Blackboard course shells each semester and how faculty and students access Blackboard. You will learn how to navigate the My Blackboard page, navigate the Blackboard course menu, and utilize edit mode and student view within your course. You will learn how to add content to your course and the importance of making sure that your content is accessible to all students. You will also learn the difference between the Course Messages and Send Email tools, learn how to use Discussions, learn how to send Announcements, view the Grade Center, and more.

Getting Started with Blackboard Learn Session Dates
Date Time Location
Friday, January 20 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, February 24 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, March 24 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, May 12 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)

Are your students submitting their assignments through Blackboard Messages, email or paper? Are you downloading endless attachments to grade, and then inputting the grades in your Blackboard gradebook? Learn how utilizing the Blackboard Assignment tool can streamline this process for you and save you time. Students can view and submit their assignments all within Blackboard and all of your grading will take place directly through the Blackboard Grade Center. You will learn how to create, edit, and grade assignments in Blackboard. Utilizing Turnitin Assignments in Blackboard will also be demonstrated.

Time to Assign Session Dates
Date Time Location
TBA

Increase, engage, and track your students' class participation by using the Discussion Board in Blackboard Learn. In this session, you will learn how to create a link to the Discussion Board, set up graded forums, post and reply to threads as a student, grade posts and provide feedback, close forums, and lock threads.

Using Graded Discussions in Blackboard Learn Session Dates
Date Time Location
Tuesday, February 14 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, March 10 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CANCELED
Tuesday, April 18 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Webinar (online)

In this session you will learn about Atlantic Cape’s adopted online proctoring tool, Honorlock. Beginning Summer 2023, Honorlock will be used with online and remote courses to protect the integrity of online exams and verify student identity. All faculty who teach online and remote courses will be required to use Honorlock with a minimum of one high-stakes exam. We will look at how Honorlock works and how it can be used both with Blackboard tests and third party publisher tests. We will look at how to add Honorlock to a Blackboard course shell and then how to set it up to be used with a test, including a deep dive look at the available proctoring options and student guidelines. Finally, we will look at how to review Honorlock results and a summary report.

Using Honorlock to Protect the Integrity of Online Exams Session Dates
Date Time Location
Wednesday, April 12 5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Webinar (online)
Tuesday, April 25 12:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Webinar (online)
Friday, May 5 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Webinar (online)

Zoom is an audio and video conferencing platform that is utilized for remote education. In this session, you will learn how to schedule a class meeting through Zoom as well as how and where to post your meeting information inside Blackboard. We will take an in-depth look at the Zoom interface and the various interactive teaching tools. Finally, you will learn how to view and download participation reports from your Zoom meetings.

Zooming Through Remote Teaching Session Dates
Date Time Location
Friday, February 10 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Webinar (online)
Tuesday, April 11 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Webinar (online)

Center for Accessibility Workshops

Please contact the Center for Accessibility to register by phone at (609) 343-5680 or by email at cfa@atlanticcape.edu.

Open to all faculty and staff, this session provides information on how accommodations are facilitated at Atlantic Cape. We will explore what accommodations mean, how one obtains accommodations and the responsibilities of the student, the faculty, and the staff within the process.

Accommodations at Atlantic Cape Session Dates
Day Date Time
Thursday
 12 January 12:00 p.m.
Friday
 17 February 12:00 p.m.
Tuesday
 14 March 10:00 a.m.

Learn how to make documents that are accessible to all students to ensure equal access to the learning experience and success. In this session, you will learn the meaning of accessibility and best practices for creating accessible documents.

Creating Accessible Documents Session Dates
Day Date Time
Friday
 13 January 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday 25 January 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday 22 February 7:00 p.m.
Friday
 24 February 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday
 8 March 2:00 p.m.
Thursday 30 March 6:00 p.m.

Atlantic Cape Community College is committed to ensuring that electronic technology adopted by the college for use by students is accessible to those who are blind or visually impaired in accordance with applicable law. In addition, Atlantic Cape Community College requires that web-based content adhere to WCAG 2.0 Level AA Standards, and therefore, will advise vendors of its desire to procure web-based EIT that complies with these standards.

In this workshop, faculty and staff will learn how to ensure that any Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) product considered for purchase or adoption by faculty or staff is evaluated in regards to whether or not it is accessible to people with disabilities.

Selecting and Adopting Accessible Materials Session Dates
Day Date Time
Friday 13 January 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday 18 January 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday 15 February 12:30 p.m.
Friday 31 March 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday 19 April 12:30 p.m.

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