LIVE Q&A: Using the Technology in Fordham’s Classrooms Review the classroom technology with Media Services staff that you’ll need for online and hybrid teaching and learning; learn best practices to ensure a successful class; ask your questions about using room technology.
Continuing our Faculty Technology Orientation series, in this session Ms. Lindsay Karp will review the various assistive technology recommendations and resources available at the university, and then Mr. Shannon Ortiz from our University Information Security Office will review the latest IT security best practices.
A broad introduction to Blackboard, Fordham’s Learning Management System. Faculty get an introductory overview of the system and learn how to set up their course. This introduction will focus on issues specific to faculty who have never used Blackboard. Instructors are guided through the following processes, step-by-step: Course Design, Adding Content, Creating Folders, Adding Items,… Continue Reading Introduction to Blackboard (webinar)
Continuing our Faculty Technology Orientation series, in this session, we'll be providing you a virtual tour of LITE, our new learning commons and makerspace in the basement of the Walsh Family Library at Rose Hill. For more information on LITE, please visit fordham.edu/LITE.
An overview of the various assessment tools within Blackboard including: test, quizzes, and assignments. More info on Assessments in Blackboard.
Teaching in an asynchronous manner, where learning does not take place at a set time and place, is a great way to stay on track when meeting in person is not possible. This approach allows you to create and distribute content (e.g. recorded video lecture, podcasts, voice-overs on PowerPoints, or even just handouts, etc.) to… Continue Reading Building Asynchronous Content (webinar)
Drop by during this time with your questions. A Fordham IT instructional technologist will be on hand to answer your questions.
Welcome to Fordham University! New Employee Technology Orientation (NETO) introduces new staff and faculty to the available technology services at the University. Topics you'll learn about include: Navigating the Portal at My.Fordham Banner Blackboard Information Security Awareness Gmail and Google Workspace The link to the webinar will be sent via Gmail calendar invite. We look… Continue Reading New Employee Technology Orientation (NETO) (webinar)
Creating online courses that are accessible to all students regardless of age, ability, or life situation can be challenging. In this TechShop you’ll learn how to design an ADA compliant course. Review online course design Get practical advice for making courses more accessible Identify modifications you can make when creating and sharing content. Identify various… Continue Reading Accessibility (webinar)
Hosted by Fordham University's Finance Department, this workshop is designed for budget managers that will utilize Banner Finance SSB. During this session, participants will learn how to access and interpret budget information in Banner. At the completion of this course, participants will be able to: 1) Check available balances 2) Identify and research Banner transactions… Continue Reading Banner Finance (webinar)
Panopto is a cloud-based video capture service that empowers you to record lectures and presentations using your computer's audio, video, and desktop screen. Integrated with Blackboard and Zoom, Panopto also provides robust editing and accessibility services. At this workshop, you’ll learn how to: -Record / upload lectures -Add / edit closed captioning -Embed recordings in… Continue Reading Introduction to Panopto (webinar)
If you have text that you want students to close read, Perusall is a fantastic social annotation tool that can help you and your students get more out of reading assignments. Perusall is a plug-in within Fordham’s Blackboard environment and allows you to assign class readings, specify how many annotations (comments, questions, or answers) you’d… Continue Reading Social Annotation with Perusall (webinar)
Google Workspace is a powerful set of apps that helps you email, schedule meetings, store files, collaborate, and more. It's used at Fordham in the classroom, for research, and in the office. Fordham IT Technology Training welcomes you to join us at this in-person opportunity to learn about how to make the most of Google… Continue Reading Google Workspace Best Practices for Faculty & Staff (webinar)
Concur Expense, Fordham University’s streamlined expense and reimbursement system, provides intuitive web-based and mobile tools that help employees complete expense reports quickly and accurately. At this interactive training which takes place on Zoom, you will learn about: > Fordham's updated expense policy > How to submit / review / approve expense reports > Best Practices… Continue Reading Concur Expense Training (webinar)
In this TechShop, we review the Qualtrics Research Suite, a web-based survey tool provided free to all Fordham students, faculty, and staff at fordham.qualtrics.com. Learn how to create exciting and effective surveys and how to reduce survey fatigue. More info on Qualtrics.
Zoom is the leader in video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, and telephones. Zoom is used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Come join us for a training session… Continue Reading Zoom Workshop for Faculty & Staff (webinar)
During this discussion-based workshop, faculty will learn tips and strategies for preventing plagiarism. Faculty will also explore how to leverage tools to potentially detect plagiarism. More info on Turnitin.
Gain an understanding of the free software, Zotero, and Fordham’s licensed software, Endnote, for creating and using bibliographies in your classroom and for your own research. Learn how to use these citation tools to easily import references from Fordham’s library databases, organize references, and seamlessly insert footnotes, endnotes, and in-line citations into the articles, papers,… Continue Reading Reference and Bibliography Tools, including Zotero and Endnote (webinar)
Learn the basics of Excel, including Excel's layout and navigation in Macs and PCs, basic formulas, and table creation and analysis. This workshop is part of Fordham IT's series of instructional technology workshops designed especially for graduate students looking to broaden their knowledge and skill with digital tools for the classroom, research, and professionalization. It… Continue Reading Introduction to Excel (grad students only)