ITC Training Classes

Blackboard Tools

This class examines the operation of the Discussion Board, Forum, Virtual Classroom and the Assessment Tools of Blackboard. Prerequisite: Blackboard Training.

Blackboard Archive

Blackboard’s Archiving feature allows instructors to save course materials for future use and/or reference. Your archived files can easily be uploaded into course areas that are created each semester.

Digital Photography

Learn simple digital techniques in order to produce high quality images that can be used in publications, web development and much more.

Blackboard Basics

Blackboard is Colorado State University - Pueblo’s online teaching and learning environment. This course introduces you to tools and features available through Blackboard

Just In Time Teaching (JiTT)

JiTT blends active learning with the internet. This course introduces you to the JiTT concept and offers suggestions for incorporating it into your classroom.

Word - Beginning

Learn to work with files and text as well as formatting paragraphs, inserting and manipulating graphics and creating lists.

Word - Intermediate

This course will take a more in-depth look at MS Word. Learn to create tables, format pages, design macros and more.

Excel Introduction

In this beginning course, you will learn how the MS Excel spreadsheet is organized, and how you can use it to efficiently list data, whether it is numeric or alphanumeric.

Photoshop Workshop

Learn how to digitally enhance photos, create .gif and .jpg images using innovative and state of the art tools. Photoshop images help you add life to documents and web pages.

Hybrid Course

This workshop introduces the hybrid course and outlines its potential advantages and disadvantages. We will also explore ways to enhance instructor / learner interaction using Blackboard and other online delivery methods.

FrontPage Training

The class enables you to create a personal web of pages, teaches you how to add text, graphics and images, and then how to hyperlink to a page as well as the world wide web. Finally, you’ll send your page to the server for www access.

PowerPoint Primer

This hands-on training course includes how to build a slide show and the variety of tools available in PowerPoint to do this. Learn to add text and images, use sound, embed special effects and even short movies.

Netting the Plagiarist

The workshop helps professionals in developing a course specific methodology for detecting “appropriated” work by using the medium where most of the cheating originates: the Internet.

Learning Objects (LO)

LO are, "discrete reusable collections of content used to present and support a single learning objective." They are a new way of building course content from a repository of learning modules. This workshop will show you how to locate existing LOs in your discipline, and how to build your own.

Excel Expansion

If you know how to use spreadsheets to manipulate data, then learn about the many tools available to present your data. Prior significant experience in Excel spreadsheet use is required.

Digital Video

This class introduces you to the wonderful world of digital video. Learn the process of acquiring, editing and preparing digital video material for distribution over the or on optical disk, both CD and DVD.