Course Descriptions

Following is a list of courses offered by Instructional Design. Click on the course title to find some of the course materials and links.

Call Pilot Web-based Voicemail

Access voicemail from your PC

Captivate

Rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, scenario-based training, and robust quizzes without programming knowledge or multimedia skills.

CPS

Using “clickers” to make your classroom instruction more interactive

Introduction to CPS

Install CPS at home

Create a class

Create and open a database

Delivery modes and options

Notify students

Add students to a class

Create lessons

Edit a class

Edit lessons

Import a class

Engage a lesson

Engage PowerPoint presentations

Import lessons

Components of the response system

Set up the response system

Engage verbal questions

CPS session setup

Attendance

Advanced CPS

Engage team activities

Export a class

Engage multiple lessons

Create rubrics

Merge sessions

Print reports

Re-grade assignments

View results & use data slicing

Download assessments

Gradebook

Generate reports

Team activities

Export reports to WebCT

Dreamweaver

Design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications.

Elluminate

Online synchronous conferencing and file-sharing

Flash

 Concepts, uses, and easy converters

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

Scan, import, resize, and display graphic images.

Impatica

Reduce the file size of your enormous audio-enhanced PPT by 95%, and make it web-friendly.

Internet Explorer and Google: Search Smart

Navigate with tabbed browsing. Search smarter with  Google as your default search engine.

Moviemaker

Free video editor

Smartboard Software with

Sympodium Interactive Display

Use a pen to control your computer and present to audiences large and small.  SMART Board software offers an array of tools and digital resources that enriches presentations and adds interactivity to any training or learning environment.

Softchalk Lessonbuilder

Easily create exciting, interactive web-ready content for your online/blended course.

Studymate

Easily create Flash interactive study aids and games for your online/blended course.

TurnItIn

Access Blinn’s subscription to this powerful plagiarism prevention system.

WebCT: Discussion

Set up asynchronous or synchronous interaction among the students in your online course.

WebCT: Gradebook

Manage your course grades, create classroom statistics and grade curves, transfer grades to Excel spreadsheets, and publish grades to students.

WebCT: Grading Forms (Rubrics)

Clarify your expectations to students using rubrics, which also aid automated grading.

WebCT: Respondus

Use Respondus to create tests for use in WebCT. Repondus Lockdown Browser provides a secure testing environment within WebCT.

Microsoft Excel (2007) Part I

Microsoft Excel 2007 for beginners

Setting up a workbook

Printing

Working with data and data tables

Creating a grade book

Performing calculations on data

Get grades from WebCT

Changing document appearance

Export grades to WebCT

Charts and graphics

Microsoft Excel (2007) Part II

Microsoft Excel 2007 for intermediate users

Using filters

Protecting workbooks and worksheets

Reordering and summarizing data

Hyperlinks

Combining data from multiple sources

Saving workbooks in html format for the web

Analyzing alternative data sets

Macros

Sharing data lists

Conditional formatting

Tracking changes & comments

Pivot tables

Microsoft Outlook on the Exchange Server

Exploring Microsoft Outlook features, particularly those that are unique to the Exchange server

MAPI, IMAP, POP, Exchange- Which do I have?

Tracking tasks

Managing contact information

Gathering information (Notes, Journaling, linking)

Sending e-mail messages

Collaborating with other people

Handling e-mail messages

Working away from your office

Managing your inbox

Personalizing your workspace

Managing appointments, events, & meetings

Customizing and configuring Outlook

Managing your calendar

Microsoft PowerPoint (2007)

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 for beginners

Creating and editing slides

Adding Sound and Video

Working in Outline view

Themes and Templates

Presentation and Handout Notes

Collaborating

Presenting

Taking your presentation on the road

Charts & SmartArt

Microsoft Word (2007) Part I

Microsoft Word 2007 for the new user, or intermediate/transitioning from 2003

The Word environment

Customizing Word

Viewing a document

Working with Templates

Creating a document

Headers & Footers

Saving a document

Columns & Tables

Printing a document

Graphics, Symbols, & Equations

Editing and proofreading documents

Diagrams & Charts

Formatting text and paragraphs

Adding Hyperlinks

Changing a document’s Theme

Creating and Modifying a Table of Contents or Index

Microsoft Word (2007) Part II

Microsoft Word 2007 for the more advanced user. Call for specific topics.

Adding Bookmarks & Cross-references

Mail Merge: form letters, labels, and personalized email messages to multiple recipients

Adding sources and compiling a Bibliography

Collaborating with others: Tracking changes, using the comments feature, comparing documents, protecting a document from changes