Blackboard Services Week

Exploring how Blackboard’s innovative services can support your institution’s success

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A four-part webinar series:

Blackboard Services Week

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The webinar series

Blackboard Services Week explores how the Blackboard Consulting team support institutional success through innovative service offerings. To demonstrate how the team does this each and every day, we have scheduled a series of webinars over four days that showcase those services and explores how to extend the impact of your Blackboard investment.

Join us to learn more about how we work, explore a sample of the services we offer and see how we can partner to help you achieve your goals.

You can sign up for as many of the webinars as you wish. If you attend all four, you will automatically be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win an Amazon Echo Show 5.

All webinars will be held at the same time each day and will be 45 minutes in duration. The sessions will be interactive and there will be time set aside to ask any questions you may have.

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The sessions

Monday 21 October
“Designing Professional Development in Digital Teaching and Learning - Approaches, Tips and Lessons Learned” – Dr Joel Armando, Digital Teaching and Learning Series Programme Manager, Blackboard
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Tuesday 22 October
“Extending the Reach of your Learn Environment - Blackboard’s Training & Development Management Solution” – Lloyd Stock, Senior Educational Consultant, Blackboard
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Wednesday 23 October
“Getting to Useful Data Faster - Enabling Data Informed Decision-making” – Steve Bailey, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Blackboard
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Thursday 24 October
“Sharing Institutional Experiences of Electronic Management of Assessment – Innovative Assessment and Grades Journey” – Andy Ramsden, Strategic Educational Consultant, Blackboard
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Sessions

Session 1:

Designing Professional Development in Digital Teaching and Learning

Approaches, Tips and Lessons Learned

Presenter: Dr Joel Armando, Digital Teaching & Learning Series Programme Manager, Blackboard

With rising student expectations of digital learning and the ever-present pressure on academic staff time, designing meaningful professional development for staff can be challenging.

Blackboard’s Digital Teaching and Learning Series consists of three certified professional development courses focusing on development academic staff digital capabilities and application to practice. So far it has been delivered to over 1,000 participants in 14 countries and is available in 6 languages. In this webinar we'll share some of our lessons learnt from the design and development of this programme. Particularly, we'll discuss:

  • Designing a curriculum with the academic community at the centre
  • Promoting reflective practice and collaboration in the different delivery modes of the programme (f2f, blended and fully online)
  • The advantages of applying product management practices to course design
  • The challenges of standardised assessment and certification in a global context.

This session is primarily aimed at Professionals in Academic Development, Learning Technologies, Learning Design and Online Learning Departments.

Session 2:

Extending the Reach of your Learn Environment

Blackboard’s Training & Development Management Solution

Presenter: Lloyd Stock, Senior Educational Consultant, Blackboard

We’re seeing growing interest from clients who want to use Blackboard Learn for activities beyond traditional credit bearing courses. It makes perfect sense. Yet, often these activities include participants outside the Student Information System, and it has been challenging to accommodate them – until now.

In this interactive session we’ll explore a new extension for Blackboard Learn, called the Training and Development Manager. This allows institution to support use cases like:

  • Short courses, summer schools and CPD
  • Internal staff development activities
  • Pre-enrolment engagement
  • Participants in research project or clinical trials
  • Community outreach.

Blackboard’s Training and Development Manager extension sits in front of your existing Blackboard Learn environment on the cloud. You deliver the course as normal through Blackboard Learn, but the Training and Development Manager solution provides a wrapper for all the administrative needs.

This session will be applicable to anyone who wants to leverage the power of Blackboard Learn for delivering learning of any non-credit bearing form.

Session 3:

Getting to Useful Data Faster

Enabling Data Informed Decision-Making

Presenter: Steve Bailey, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Blackboard

In this session we will introduce you to our new data and analytics platform, Blackboard Data, which combines activity and usage data from the Blackboard SaaS EdTech ecosystem, and the Blackboard Reporting Stack, which provides insight into tool adoption and direct access to the data within the Blackboard Data model. During the webinar we will provide an overview of how this can enhance data-informed decision making at your institution.

If your Blackboard Learn environment is already on SaaS or you are planning to make the move to SaaS in the near future, this session will introduce to you to Blackboard’s foundational data services that enable you to fast track your reporting capabilities is key areas, getting you to useful data faster and making data-informed decisions that directly impact on your institutional goals and student experience.

This session is directed at educational professionals involved in data-informed decision making, such as institutional leadership, CIOs and Business Intelligence teams.

Session 4:

Sharing Institutional Experiences of Electronic Management of Assessment

Innovative Assessment and Grades Journey

Presenter: Andy Ramsden, Strategic Educational Consultant, Blackboard

This session will draw upon different institutional experiences to discuss how the use of technology has driven innovation within their assessment and feedback processes. This will explore three key objectives many institutions face:

#1: Enabling academics to work more effectively and efficiently.

  • Reducing duplication of administrative effort so academics can focus on pedagogical best practice
  • Improving efficiency of marking, feedback and moderation processes.

#2: Enhancing the student experience of assessment and feedback.

  • Improving timeliness, consistency and quality of feedback to students
  • Improving the student experience of assessment administration.

#3: Enabling administrators to work more effectively and efficiently.

  • Ensuring that workflows support academic business rules and requirements
  • Improving grades management workflow efficiency to avoid duplication and errors.

The session will also provide practical steps that your institution can implement to progress the discussion around the effective use of technology within the electronic management of assessment.

This webinar will benefit Assessment Administration, Heads of Department, IT System Integration Teams, Heads of eLearning, Educational Developers and Academics.

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