Teaching with the Blackboard Learning System

These training sessions will introduce faculty members, staff and teaching assistants to using the Portal to support courses in a blended or fully online teaching and learning environment. Using Blackboard Academic Suite software, the Portal is integrated with a number of important UofT systems, including ROSI student information.

Group training is available; please contact portal.help@utoronto.ca.

Blackboard Introductory Sessions

The Blackboard Essentials workshop aims to introduce faculty, teaching assistants and staff to supporting and developing courses accessed through the portal.
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For Teaching Assistants: Supporting and Developing Blackboard
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For non-course related use of the Portal, for example, online meeting space for UofT groups such as academic communities of interest, committees and departments, consider the use of a Portal Organization. Information and training are available; please go to the Community section of the Portal Information site.

Blackboard in Focus Sessions

Building Great Blackboard Courses: A Series of Five Workshops
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Communication and Collaboration Tools: in-depth use of the Discussion Boards, as well as the use of e-mail, Announcements, Groups, and Collaboration tools.
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Tests and Surveys: hands-on activities around using and deploying Blackboard’s Tests and Surveys.
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Gradebook: hands-on activities around using and deploying Blackboard’s Gradebook.
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Assignments: hands-on activities around using and deploying Blackboard’s Digital Drop Box, Assignments and statistical tracking tools.
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Content Design: explore the clever and effective ways that you can organize, present and integrate course materials into Blackboard.
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