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CourseArc Essentials

Building interactive, accessible, & engaging online content

Location

Online

Date & Time

April 15, 2025, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

CourseArc is a digital content creation tool that encourages the design of interactive, accessible, and engaging online content. CourseArc is available to UMBC faculty for the ability to integrate captivating course content into Blackboard. This webinar provides a brief introduction to get started with CourseArc. 


Following this webinar, participants will be able to: 

  • Create an account
  • Build and organize content 
  • Create interactive student activities 
  • Embed CourseArc module to a Blackboard shell
  • Review student participation tracking and grading configuration.

Ben Amudzi, Instructional Technology Specialist, and Ada Crutchfield, Instructional Design Specialist, will facilitate this training. 

To RSVP for the event, please click “Going” below and be sure to add the event to your calendar! Registered participants will also receive a calendar invitation from the event host before the event.

At least 5 registrations are needed for this session to proceed as scheduled. The session will be recorded if two or more people attend and the link will be distributed to everyone who registered. All recordings are posted to the Instructional Technology Training Archive in Panopto.

JOINING THE SESSION

This webinar will take place in a Google Meet virtual conference room. Enter the webinar up to 10 minutes before the start time. Visit the myUMBC Event post and select the "Join Online Event" button to join the Google Meet session.

Prior to the Event

  1. For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Chrome, Brave, or Firefox, preferably the most recent updates to those browsers. Closing any unnecessary browser tabs will help conserve your bandwidth.  
  2. If this is your first time joining one of our webinars, please review the requirements to use Google Meet. Learn how to connect your audio & video, change/blur your background, and use reactions. You can also review the accessibility support including live captions. 

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