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Blackboard 101, Grade Center, River Support & ReachOut

Training Opportunity
Saturday, November 1, 2014
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Blackboard Essentials 101
V125 Kight Center, Main Campus
Instructors need to build fundamental skills in Blackboard to
effectively develop and deploy course content. In this session you will:


11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Grade Center Training
V125 Kight Center, Main Campus
As the end of the semester nears, students will be expecting accurate grading and results to
be recorded in the Grade Center
In this session you will:
Develop Categories and learn to manage columns in the Grade Center
Distinguish best practices in deploying the Grade Center in your course.
Apply use of Needs Grading, Rubrics, Safe Assign, and Inline Grading
10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. River Support and ReachOut
V125 Kight Center, Main Campus
As a faculty member, you are the most influential person with whom students interact. For that
reason, you are the best person to recognize when a student is experiencing academic or personal
difficulties. We encourage you to ReachOut! Sending a ReachOut is a way to get assistance for
a student who is exhibiting behaviors detrimental to his or her success from the assigned advisor.
Your awareness of and timely response to potential academic problems is the foundation of our
RiverSupport System. In this session, you will learn more about:
RiverSupport Access Points
Best Practices The Dos and Donts of ReachOuts
Collaboration with Advisors
Retention Center and Grade Center Integration
RiverSupport Resources

Seating is limited!
To register for this informative Saturday morning session just click on the link below.
http://v125-irsc.weebly.com/saturday-training-topics--registration.html
For more information contact Michael Pelitera: email mpeliter@irsc.edu or call 772-462-7734.

Learn how to apply various tools which influence student success
Demonstrate abilities to navigate Blackboards basic functionalities
Add and organize folders, files, assignments (Dropbox) and multi-media