What webinars are available to support academic continuity?

Professional organizations and vendors offer webinars to support academic continuity. While all are free to watch, some recordings may require registration to view.

Blackboard

Teaching Remotely: Bb Basics - This 30-minute webinar is designed to provide you easy step-by-step instructions on how to upload course content, create discussion boards for students to communicate, and provide an overview on the types of online assessments available in Blackboard Learn.

Getting Started with Teaching a Virtual Class - Bb Collaborate is a communication tool that will allow you to continue to engage with your students in a synchronous manner, or record sessions for students to watch at a later time. In this 30-minute webinar recording, we will review the Collaborate interface and tools available to use while teaching remotely.

Preparing to Scale Online during the Coronavirus - Being prepared to scale connectivity to students is a multi-faceted endeavor, including assurance that content is online and accessible, to providing instructors and academic staff with the right support to reach their learners. View this webinar recording to hear steps an institution can take to prepare for a transition to fully online status and ensure operational continuity.

Online Learning Consortium

Making the Shift to Online Learning: Emergency Preparedness & Instructional Continuity - Learn from a group of experts from the Online Learning Consortium community as they discuss how their institutions are implementing course delivery at a distance to ensure that students stay on track and experience minimal disruption.

Using Live, Online Sessions to Support Continuity of Instruction - This pop-up webinar will help higher education institutions to rapidly and effectively use live, online sessions to support continuity of instruction in the face of crises, disasters, or other unanticipated events.

Keeping Students Engaged in a Transition to Online Learning - This session will help you identify ways to proactively keep your students engaged in an online environment (course) and also what data to be looking out for to help mitigate attrition.

VoiceThread

Preparing for School Closures with VT - Many schools and universities around the world are faced with unexpected school closures or quarantine scenarios, and it’s important to ensure that students don’t fall behind or lose touch with their learning communities. In this workshop, VoiceThread will show you how to include VoiceThread lessons and assessments into your plans.