ELMS User Group Meeting
Date: July 9, 2007
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Summary:
 Agenda: Discussion on OIT training at the College of Education and faculty-tofaculty demonstrations.
 Workshops that were suggested to be held here at the College of Education are the
Introduction to Blackboard and the open workshops for instructors that are
offered over in OIT.
 If you want to sign up for courses that are offered at OIT go to
http://www.training.umd.edu/
 Click class catalog
 Then click OIT institute for instructional technology. The courses offered
by OIT are as follows:
- IIT-ELMS Assessment and Evaluation in Blackboard
- IIT-ELMS Blackboard Bootcamp (2 days)
- IIT-ELMS Collaboration and Communication in Blackboard
- IIT-ELMS Course Management in Blackboard
- IIT-ELMS Managing Course Content/Content Collection in
Blackboard
- IIT-ELMS Open Workshops for Instructors
- IIT-ELMS, Getting Started with Blackboard Academic Suite
 Faculty who are sending email to ELMS@umd.edu should CC: coe-webservices@umd.edu so that Web Services are a front line support for faculty. In
addition, this will also let Web Services know how well ELMS is working.
 Suggestions:
 George MacReady suggested that we should have a workshop on Wimba.
Wimba is an audio and visual presentation tool, which can be added on to
blackboard. This allows professors use a 'virtual classroom,' and is
especially helpful for distance learning applications. The best person to
contact about this in OIT is Jun Yang.
 Having a general meeting where Web Services explains their services to
faculty and OIT explains what services they have to offer for faculty.
 Examples and demonstrations before getting into the full Blackboard
environment to show faculty what ELMS can really do.
 Having a mixed model of using Blackboard, where the teaching is online
and face-to-face also.
 Blackboard is more of a communication and distribution tool.
 Suggested Speakers for faculty-to-faculty demonstrations:
 Alvestad, Kathy
 Berham, Amy
 Corninger, Bob
 Egel, Andy
 Slater, Wayne
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Having a meeting with the Dean and Chairs of the departments to figure out a list
of people that are using blackboard actively in their courses.
Next meeting or demo in August or September.