Open LMS Training Center

The Open LMS training library provides unlimited access to our catalog of courses that teaches learners how to use their Open LMS platform and design online courses. The self-paced training courses include, but are not limited to, topics related to site administration settings and course building tools. Completion of these courses will help you reach your fullest potential, increasing both the use and the effectiveness of your institution's courses.

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Did you know that you can license our training materials to provide your organization with unlimited seats and usage of our training materials? Our TRAIN Select and On Demand solutions include our most popular online course and other materials designed to support faculty, teachers, course builders, and your team of master trainers, IT support staff, and teachers. Once logged in, you have access to the TRAIN On Demand course catalog.

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Accessibility Fundamentals for Instructors and Course Designers

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. 

Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Getting Started with Online Course Facilitation

The goal of this facilitated course is to help participants with online course facilitation. This course will introduce participants to the many facets of online facilitation to build skills in four areas: technical, managerial, social, and pedagogical. Finally, to synthesize all you have learned, you will build a Facilitation Checklist to help guide your ongoing facilitation needs.

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

Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 6-8 hrs. 

Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Getting Started with Online Course Design

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.

Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Open LMS Site Administration Essentials

This self-paced course teaches you not only to configure your site but also how to be an effective and efficient site administrator in the long term. With topics aligning to each area of the site Administration panel, you will learn about managing users and courses, configuring your site to be secure, and more!

 Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 15-20 hrs.

Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Open LMS Course Building Beyond the Basics

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.

Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Open LMS Course Building Essentials

Get started in Open LMS by learning how to navigate in the system and use its basic functionality to build courses. This course focuses on topics such as building resources and activities, configuring the gradebook, managing files, tracking completion, restricting access, adding videos, communicating with students, and using course management tools. You will also learn best practices to follow as you build your online courses and how to grade using the activity graders and the Open Grader.

Delivery Mode: Facilitated | Time Investment: 16-18 hrs.

Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Introduction to Moodle

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.

Open LMS Gradebook Beyond the Basics

This course is designed for the course builder and course facilitator, taking you from ground zero to full on grading and facilitation, utilizing the most efficient pieces of the gradebook and grading methods. Learn how to set up your gradebook, choose aggregation methods that meet your course goals, create and grade with advanced and alternative grading methods, and more!

Delivery mode: Facilitated | Time investment: 10-12 hrs.

Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Blackboard Collaborate with the Ultra Experience

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.

Connect Community

The Blackboard Connect Community allows you to stay up-to-date on all the latest news regarding Blackboard Open LMS, share your experiences with other Open LMS users, and ask questions of the larger community. The Blackboard Training team will keep you updated on the upcoming upcoming releases, training updates, and other news.

Facilitator: Brigitte Baquero
Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Open LMS TRAIN Select Community

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.

Facilitator: Brigitte Baquero
Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth

Open LMS TRAIN On Demand Community

The TRAIN On Demand Community allows TRAIN Masters to stay up-to-date on all the latest news regarding your TRAIN materials, share experiences with other master training teams, and ask questions of the larger community. The TRAIN Support team will post announcements about upcoming activities, new releases, and updates here as well.

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

Facilitator: Brigitte Baquero
Facilitator: Michael Chynoweth