Current Sessions

Ally is a new addition to Blackboard which helps us provide our students with content that’s accessible in a variety of ways. In this session we’ll review the alternative formats Ally makes available, then we’ll review Ally’s accessibility score and how you can take steps to improve it. 

This is a 50-minute online session. 

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Artificial intelligence is transforming how we teach, learn, and work. It also prompts critical questions about judgment, trust, and our core human values. This session invites faculty of all experience levels to explore the intersection of innovation and discernment. Through concrete examples, we will examine responsible AI use, its limitations, and when it is best to step back. Participants will practice evaluating real AI outputs and discuss how colleagues across campus are thoughtfully engaging with or intentionally avoiding these tools.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe what AI tools can and cannot reliably do, using concrete examples from teaching and professional work.
2. Evaluate examples of AI output using reflective questions grounded in human judgment, ethical responsibility, and cura personalis.
3. Identify one practical next step for using, limiting, or responding to AI with greater intention in their work, teaching, or professional context.

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In this session we’ll review the tools that control how students access assessments in Blackboard. We’ll review settings like item availability, due dates, remote proctoring (via LockDown Browser), posting grades, feedback options, and student accommodations, with an eye toward how all these pieces can be fit together to help you provide an appropriate assessment of your students’ learning. 

This is a 50-minute online session. 

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YuJa’s Lumia Media Library is an excellent tool for sharing video with students and peers through Blackboard. In this session we’ll not only look at how to embed video into Blackboard through YuJa, we will also explore how to create shared-access folders which let you and your peers share media that can easily be embedded in any Blackboard course sites. We will also look at how to create viewing quizzes, which give students a score in Blackboard based on their having played a YuJa video. 

This is a 50-minute online session. 

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