Technology
Upcoming workshops
Engaging Students with Accessibility
By appointment July-August, 2024
One-on-one personalized workshops fit to your role — Learn how to better engage students with Universal Design for Learning, and how to improve your (students’) digital quality-of-life with accessibility features in the tools you already use (Ally, Office 365, G Suite, Chrome/Edge/Firefox, and more).
Engaging Students with Accessibility (Group Training)
By appointment July-August, 2024
Inaccessibility can break students. This workshop covers the importance of accessibility, and gives attendees the tools and skills they need to implement it. By the end, participants will know:
What Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is, why it's important, and how easy it can be
How different disabilities affect...
AI Detection
August 15th
Discover the best free AI detection tools in our upcoming workshop. We'll explore how to effectively use these tools to identify AI-generated content, ensuring academic integrity and authenticity. Ideal for faculty aiming to enhance their understanding of AI detection and maintain high standards in their courses.
Get Your Course Ready to Go Using CIT's Beginning of Semester Checklist!
August 21st, 2024
Let NECC's Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) help you make sure your Blackboard course is ready to go. Using CIT's Beginning of the Semester Checklist, this workshop will guide you through the steps for making sure your course runs smoothly for you and your students...
Setting Up the Grade Center in Blackboard
August 22nd, 2024
Come learn how to make grading for your courses easier and more efficient for you and your students. In this workshop, you will learn how to set up and use the grade center inside your Blackboard class. By the end of this workshop, you will know how to: evaluate your course grading system, identify the key features of a Blackboard grade center (Create Column, Create Calculated Column, Manage...
Real-Time Teaching and Learning:
Intro to LinkedIn Learning
Intro to LinkedIn Learning
August 28th
Flip the learning in your classroom with videos from LinkedIn Learning. Join us to learn how to embed LinkedIn Learning videos or courses that can provide your students with on demand skills, support various learning preferences (auditory, visual and kinesthetic)...
Hypothesis - A Tool to Make Reading Active and Social
August 29th, 2024
There is an exciting new active reading tool on Blackboard! Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that allows you and your students to actively read and annotate a text together as a group. You and your students can read, annotate and interact with a text to create a truly social annotation experience in your online or face-to-face classes. Along with traditional annotations, students also have the ability to add...
Making your Course Accessible to All Students
August 29th, 2024
Inclusion takes many forms in creating and teaching courses. This workshop will demonstrate best practices for making your course materials accessible and inclusive to all students. In this workshop, you will learn how making a few changes in your course documents can improve the accessibility of your course. All the tools used in this workshop are available to you at NECC. Features will include...
Creating a Course Navigation Video
August 30th, 2024
For students, beginning a new online course can be both exciting and overwhelming. A great way to relieve that anxiety and help students get familiar with your course is by making a short video to help them get started. A welcome video can help you walk your students through the course and explain the course structure and navigation. During this workshop, you will identify the purpose and scope of your video...
Modern and Cool Again: Blackboard Ultra Course, View Look and Feel
November 15th
Join us to explore the new look and feel of Blackboard Ultra. This session will provide faculty with an overview of the streamlined interface, enhanced course management tools, and innovative features designed to improve student engagement and simplify your teaching experience. Whether transitioning from the classic view or looking to improve your current courses, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills to make the most of Blackboard Ultra. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay current with the new Ultra Experience.
Past workshops
Promoting Student Engagement with Online Tools
Join us as we consider how to improve student participation and engagement through the use of a variety of tools. There are many exciting tech tools to help you create a more engaging, interactive learning experience for you and your students. Come to this session to learn more about various online tools that can be used to engage your students with the course content, support student collaboration and resource sharing, and foster community in your course. There will be plenty of time to share your favorite tools and how you are using them in the teaching and learning environment.
Integrating LinkedIn Learning to Support Learning Outcomes and Department Goals
Flip the learning in your classroom with videos from LinkedIn Learning. Join us to learn how to embed LinkedIn Learning content that align with student learning outcomes while supporting various learning preferences (auditory, visual and kinesthetic). LinkedIn Learning provides soft and hard skills needed in the 21st...
Creating a Course Navigation Video
For students, beginning a new online course can be both exciting and overwhelming. A great way to relieve that anxiety and help students get familiar with your course is by making a short video to help them get started. A welcome video can help you walk your students through the course and explain the course structure and navigation...
Setting Up the Grade Center in Blackboard
Come learn how to make grading for your courses easier and more efficient for you and your students. In this workshop, you will learn how to set up and use the grade center inside your Blackboard class. By the end of this workshop, you will know how to: evaluate your course grading system, identify the key features of a Blackboard...
Interactive Assignment Design through AI
As AI tools become more powerful and accessible, they present opportunities to reinvent assignment design - if used judiciously. That’s why we developed this seminar—to equip educators to leverage these technologies ethically to solve real-world problems and make a genuine impact through multimedia.
Student Accessibility Resources: What Accessibility Means to You
All accessibility features benefit everyone. In this workshop, students will learn about the accessibility features in the tools and systems they use, how they can personally benefit from them, and what accessibility and digital accessibility mean to them. Workshop is primarily intended for students, but both students and faculty...
The SoftChalk Cloud Overview
Are you ready to make your online course content more engaging for you and your students? Join part one of this two part workshop series to learn more about how the SoftChalk program can help you design interactive learning modules, lessons, assignments and lectures that will breathe new life in your course content...