New Fall Training Calendar Online

The October-December training schedule has been posted to the CIT website. New classes include: iModules for creating USF electronic newsletters, a Blackboard Jumpstart series for new users, Turnitin with Grademark, Echo360 Personal Capture, and the iWorks suite (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers). Click here to review our class offerings.

lynda.com Online Training Now Available

In an effort to provide additional technology training support to faculty, staff and students, USF has subscribed to Lynda.com, a popular web-based technology training service. Using lynda.com, university members can now improve their technology skills by accessing the hundreds of high-quality tutorials, including Microsoft Office, Adobe, Blackboard, SPSS, and many more. This service is accessible through USFconnect, under the Learning Technologies tab. Questions? Email cit@usfca.edu. [ IMPORTANT: Do not attempt to login directly through the lynda.com website. This service is accessible only through single-sign-on in USFconnect.]

New Staff Announcement

We are happy to announce a new member to our CIT family, Xavier Gomez. Xavier is the new instructional designer who will be working with faculty teaching in the new online programs for USF. Xavier has many years of higher-ed experience in curriculum design and online course development. He previously worked at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State.

Do you know about 'GradeMark' in Blackboard 9?

Blackboard 9 offers many updated and new features including Turnitin's GradeMark. With Turnitin and GradeMark, instructors can do the followings: view an originality report, grade a Turnitin assignment online (the grade automatically transfers to the Blackboard course Grade Center), provide the student detailed inline highlighting of text, and offer generous instructor comment.

Instructors can opt to not use the originality report and may just choose to use GradeMark for easy and quick online grading. To learn more about how Turntin and GradeMark work, join us for a workshop or visit the Blackboard 9 wiki. Workshops will be offered on Oct. 5 from 3-4pm, Nov. 3 from 3-4pm, Nov. 29 from 11-12pm, and Dec. 8 from 2-3pm.

iWork Suite Training -
Keynote, Pages, and Number

This new series of workshops will teach the basics of using Keynote for presentations, Pages for easy word processing and page layout, and Numbers for spreadsheets. These classes will introduce Mac users to an alternative to the Microsoft Office Suite.

Instructional Design -
"Adventures in eLearning"

As with any new technology, it takes time and effort to discover the value that it may hold for us, and the same holds true for online learning. Every day that we access information through the Internet we are striving to learn something new, to interact with others and develop knowledge in a constructive way. To those of you with curiosity and sense of adventure to do so, let's harness today's students' inclination to interactive learning and community-building, and develop an innovative learning experience that will take your classroom into the 21st century. Read more