Become Better at What You Do Best - Teaching!

Attend a Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series (BITS) Webinar

What is My Role in the Online Classroom?  Ways to Engage and Interact with Your Online Students
Date and Time: September 24th, 1 – 2pm ET

Led by Katherine Dowdell of Des Moines Area Community College, this complimentary webinar is designed for faculty members by faculty – regardless of your know-how or experience using Blackboard or other learning management systems. Register to learn more about how you can encourage active participation and peer-to-peer learning among your online students.

Open Course:  Designing an Exemplary CourseNext Open Course: Designing An Exemplary Course

Duration: September 26 - October 17

Using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Rubric as a guide, this open course will provide both theoretical concepts and practical tools for instructors to recognize, organize, and build online courses for both blended learners and online learners. Who Should Sign Up?  Educators in K-12, higher education and continuing education environments who teach web-enhanced, blended, or fully online courses.

Blackboard Collaborate: Are You Ready?

New to Bb Collaborate? You can check your system requirements here and you can go through an online orientation for BbCollaborate here.

Article about KCTCS Online High-Tech High-Touch Academic Advising

KCTCS Learn On Demand program is in the news! Read what Eric Stoller, the Learn on Demand Student Success Coaches’ NACADA recommended consultant, wrote for Inside Higher Ed about dedicated Student Success Coaches entitled “High-Tech, High-Touch Academic Advising.” (click on title to view article.)

Blackboard app will soon be available for ALL iOS and Android users!

Great news! The Blackboard app will soon be available for ALL iOS and Android users! Starting September 10th, you and your students can use your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, and Android® devices on any carrier or network to access and update announcements, discussions, content, and much more with the Blackboard Mobile Learn app.

To use Blackboard Mobile Learn, you will be prompted to subscribe to the app via one of two options:

• $1.99* for 1 year of access
• $5.99* for unlimited access

You can find the app by searching for “Blackboard Mobile Learn” in the App Store or Google Play store, or by scanning the codes below: 

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New Training Opportunities on Distance Learning Through KCTCS

As we settle in to a new semester, you may have time to take some workshops, offered by KCTCS, to enhance your Blackboard and online skills. When you log in to Blackboard, be sure to click on the Fall 2012 training link, as illustrated below, to see topics, dates, and times the workshops will be offered through Blackboard Collaborate this fall.