Accessibility Fundamentals for Instructors and Course Designers is a facilitated fully online course designed to provide participants with a broad knowledge of accessibility issues in educational environments. Participants will learn how disabilities can limit access to electronic instructional materials, and what they can do to make their course content as accessible as possible to the greatest number of learners. 

Skills learned in this course are not Blackboard-specific, and can be applied to materials created and deployed in any LMS.

Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 7-9 hrs. 

The goal of this course is to help teachers get started with online course design.Participants will learn about delivery approaches, course structure and flow, design strategies, and best practices for online course design. It provides an Online Course Planning Document to use while planning and designing online courses. A course facilitator will review submitted design documents and provide feedback to course participants.

Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 8-10 hrs.

This course focuses on course design and is not platform-specific; therefore, it is relevant to all users, no matter the system participants plan to use for delivering courses.

Take your courses to the next level by learning the advanced features of Moodle/Open LMS. This course focuses on creating activities that add collaboration, increase interactivity, and gain student feedback. It also covers the Personalized Learning Designer, Open Reports, ways to monitor progress, gamification features such as badges and H5P, groups and groupings, activity grading, outcomes, competencies, select third-party plug-ins, and course building best practices.

Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 14-16 hrs. 

This self-paced course is designed for faculty, teachers, course builders, trainers, and site administrators who are new to Moodle, as well as those who are who are migrating from another Learning Management System and want to understand the core features of Moodle. It includes an overview of Moodle, how to navigate within it, how it may be customized, reviews the basic components of a Moodle course, introduces basic course design and course building information, and introduces course management information. This course is not facilitated.

This facilitated course is designed for the busy professional who needs a flexible way to quickly get up to speed using Collaborate with the Ultra experience. You’ll also have access to an expert Blackboard Collaborate consultant who will help guide you through the course and answer questions along the way. Participants will be able to practice suggested tasks in a Collaborate practice room, and you’ll have opportunities for knowledge checks throughout the course to solidify your understanding of the platform and web conferencing. You’ll be able to share your ideas by contributing to discussion boards and learn from the developing repository of ideas accumulated from other participants, who have previously completed the course.

Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 4-6 hrs. 

The Open LMS TRAIN Select Community allows TRAIN Masters to stay up-to-date on all the latest news regarding TRAIN Select, share experiences with other TRAIN users and ask questions of the larger TRAIN community. The Blackboard Training team will post announcements about upcoming activities, new releases, and updates.

This community is for TRAIN Masters only, which are designated by your institution.