In this session, participants will be given a basic overview of Blackboard. Topics covered will include creating announcements, adding your syllabus and other course documents, and how to change...

During the winter term, UMBC transitioned into a hosted Bb environment.  With this transition, instructors now have access to a variety of new tools and features, including achievements, anonymous...

Blackboard managed hosting   not only provides UMBC faculty and students with a more stable learning platform, it also offers faculty access to many useful and innovative tools....

In addition to the F2F sessions, DoIT will also offer virtual drop-in sessions using Blackboard's web-conferencing tool, Collaborate. Any faculty members with Bb questions may participate in these...

According to many weather experts, our region needs to prepare for another rough winter season. This workshop will focus on how participants can use Blackboard to prepare their courses for the...

In this workshop, participants will learn how to create a Blackboard Collaborate session, the tools that are available inside a collaborate session, including chat, sharing desktop applications,...

A DoIT staff member will be available to work one-on-one with users who show up during the designated times. Please note that this is not a formal Blackboard training class. Users may show up or...

On Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 our Turning Technologies representative, Mr. Wesley Best will be on-hand to answer any questions you have about TurningPoint 5, and clicker usage in your...

Box is an online file sharing system that users can access from multiple devices (computers, smartphones, and tablets).  Box also allows users to share your files and folders easily with others....

Showing students hot to navigate a course or a new program can take up valuable instruction time in class.  By using screencasting, instructors can easily record and upload short tutorial videos...