Attention Faculty Members

Are you using social media, such as blogs and wikis, Blackboard, or a faculty Web site to enrich your curriculum? Have you provided your students the opportunity to create their best work in classes you teach and showcase this work in an ePortfolio? Would you like to teach partially online courses where you seamlessly blend face-to-face class meetings with online sessions? Then you'll want to take an AtoL workshop or seminar.

Getting Started in Brightspace 

An overview of key features and tools, course management — class list, groups/sections, communicating with students, adding content to courses (from existing course content, building it from scratch), assignment basics, quiz basics, adaptive release, key terms, and resources for instructors.

Assessments

Assignments, quizzes, attendance, accommodations and special access, gradebook basics.

Engaging Learners

A brief UDL overview and overview of accessibility in Brightspace, tools and features for communication (announcements, activity feed, discussions, and virtual classroom), tools and features for engagement (calendar, progress)

Gradebook

A deep dive into setting up the gradebook, including using the set-up wizard, adding in assessments, grade schemas, and releasing grades throughout the semester and as a final course grade.  

Office Hours

We will consult on specific questions about your course (migrated or new) or applying your teaching practice in Brightspace.

Blackboard Online Workshop for Faculty

You can log into this workshop by using your CUNYFirst credentials to get into Blackboard. Go to the CUNY website at https://www.cuny.edu/. In the far upper right-hand corner, you will see login. Pull down the menu to select Blackboard. Then use your CUNYFirst credentials to get into Blackboard.

Since this online workshop is for training purposes, you are all enrolled as students. So look for courses in which you are participating as a student. You will need to scroll down beneath the courses that you are teaching. However, if you still have difficulty finding the workshop, email itec@citytech.cuny.edu If you have trouble with your CUNYFirst login, please contact the CIS help desk at helpdesk@citytech.cuny.edu

Additional online support for Blackboard can be found on our Faculty Blackboard page. Additional support for online teaching will be found in the Blackboard Online Workshop for Faculty and on our City Tech Online page. If your students need extra help, they can also log into Blackboard and ask their questions in the Blackboard Online Workshop for Students. Please see the Academic Continuity website for help with OpenLab, email, online MS Office, etc.

The following workshops and presentations are designed to help you with your online teaching this semester. Some workshops will be held in-person on campus, and others will be held on Zoom. Faculty must register for the workshop in advanced to receive the location of the in-person workshop or the Zoom link and password. If you need assistance, please email itec@citytech.cuny.edu