Welcome to CIT Training & Events
Tool Time Workshop Series
This series will offer ways to incorporate new learning tools and best practices in your Plato courses.
Certificates will be provided for each workshop upon request.
– Each workshop is synchronous in format.
– Resources and training recorded video will be provided in CIT Tool Time Trainings on your Plato course list!
– Certificate of Completion for workshop will be emailed to participant upon request.
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Check out our 2022 Training schedule for these fun new tools.
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Panopto Part 1 Training – New Video Library Software System
This training will look at the tool structure and how to access and use your Panopto Video Library in your Plato/Blackboard course Join us Thursday, June 16 from 10am to 11am in the CIT Zoom Training Room. https://westfield-ma.zoom.us/j/95351417497 Panopto Part 2- Faculty Video creation – Tuesday, July 12, 2022 10am to 11am in the CIT Zoom Training Room. Panopto Part 3 – Lecture Capture – (TBA)- Media Services —————————————————————————————————— |
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As teachers dabble into the flipped classroom philosophy, EdPuzzle is the perfect enhancement tool for videos to be watched at home instead of eating up valuable class time.
EdPuzzle and Persusall a Social Annotation Tool – Thursday, July 28, 2022 from 10am to 11am in the CIT Zoom Training Room. —————————————————————————————————— |
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Perusall is a social reading platform available to students and is now integrated into Blackboard. This cool tool allows students (and teaching staff) to digitally annotate readings (with text, links, and embedded content).
Persusall a Social Annotation Tool and EdPuzzle- Thursday, July 28, 2022 from 10am to 11am in the CIT Zoom Training Room. —————————————————————————————————— |
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Class adds a new level of classroom to Zoom. Instructors can facilitate virtual real time learning in this awesome new collaborative working space.
Class for Zoom Training – Tuesday, July 26, 2022 from 10am to 11am in the CIT Zoom Training Room. —————————————————————————————————— |
New to Plato? Register for the Virtual Instructor Plato Training Course (50 minutes)
Learn all PLATO has to offer you and your students in your face to face courses or remote learning.
After completion you will get a sandbox (a Plato course shell) to experiment in.
Register here
Virtual Web Camp (ongoing rolling start)
This course is available for those who would like to move their courses to the online, online synchronous, hybrid, and hybrid flex format ($750 stipend upon completion of the course) Contact Lynn Zayac for the application process and more detailed information at lzayac@westfield.ma.edu
2021 Sessions
You can find all of these trainings in the Tool Time Training course on your Plato course list. If you do not see this course please contact us at cit@westfield.ma.edu
7/15 All about Instructor Created Videos – ScreencastOMatic, storing, streaming and sharing your videos; ADA Compliance of Course Videos and Materials
7/16 All about Discussions
7/22 All about Groups
7/29 VoiceThread
8/5 Assignments Hoonuit, SafeAssign, and Grading
8/6 BB Collaborate – Video Conferencing Training, attendance reports, polling, breakout rooms, and more features. Intergration with Voice Thread
8/12 Assessments BB and Respondus Test Creation, Online Surveys ,Online Proctoring, ADA Accommodations, and Course Rubrics
8/13 Zoom – Web Conferencing in Online Courses and Video Lecture Capture in Lab Courses on Campus – ATS –
Chris Hirtle, Lynn Zayac, Nick Wojtowicz, Robert Chatt
8/19 Grade Center Final grades, Testing Authentication, and Academic Honest- Respondus Monitor and or Respondus Lock Down Browser
Tool Time Trainings –Links will be provided the day of the workshop on this site
Individual Coaching Sessions are always available. Just shoot us an email at cit@westfield.ma.edu