New learning management system training opportunities

[John Locke]

As the first step in the campus transition to the Brightspace learning
management system, this summer, our SUNY Online Degrees at Scale (SODaS)
accounting degree completion program will move from Blackboard
to Brightspace. It's been an "all hands" effort, in order to get the
courses ready for this fall. TEL will be working with the participating
faculty over the next few weeks with respect to course conversion and
development, and providing information on best practices specific to
teaching in Brightspace.

For the rest of our campus community, our plan is as follows:

   - *August 2022*
      - TEL will offer the last “Teaching Online with Moodle” multi day
      workshop for faculty who need immersive training in Moodle.
   - *Fall 2022*
      - Faculty will be given the opportunity to select which of their
      Moodle sites they’d like to see imported into Brightspace.
      - TEL will offer workshops on how best to prepare Moodle sites for
      the move to Brightspace.
   - *Winter 2023*
      - TEL will create development sites for all faculty in the
      Brightspace environment; materials that had been targeted for migration
      from Moodle will be moved to Brightspace.
   - *Winter/Spring 2023*
      - TEL will offer workshops on editing imported content in
      Brightspace, developing new course content in Brightspace, and a range of
      sessions on Gradebooks, Quizzes, Assignments, and Forums.
      - A full-day "Brightspace: migration in a day" workshop will make
      frequent appearances on the TEL workshop schedule, designed specifically
      for faculty already certified to teach online.
      - A new multi-day hybrid "Teaching Online with Brightspace" workshop
      will make its first appearances on the TEL workshop schedule.
   - *Summer 2023 and beyond*
      - All online, hybrid, and web-enhanced course content will be
      delivered via Brightspace: Moodle will no longer be available as
a learning
      management platform.
      - TEL workshops will be focused on Brightspace.

Please note: this schedule pertains to both academic courses, as well as
other training and team-based Moodle sites.


Please visit the Workshop Web page
<https://facweb.plattsburgh.edu/workshops/> frequently for all
scheduled TEL and Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) workshops.


*For those of you who would like to get a jump on Brightspace training, *SUNY
Center for Professional Development is offering a series of sessions that
look particularly promising, and I would encourage those interested to sign
up:

*July 25 – 28, 2022*

The SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD)
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OTTER
Institute is an opportunity for online practitioners to learn more about
the innovations, trends, and challenges with online education. This year we
are responding to the DLE Implementation and focusing all our programming
on the new Brightspace Learning Environment.  See examples of best
practices for course design and delivery within Brightspace. Learn about
the tools and features within Brightspace that will help you create and
deliver effective and engaging digital course content.

The OTTER Institute is free to all SUNY campus members.  Please follow this
link to register. <https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/otter-22/>

The webinars will be recorded and the recordings will be available on the DLE
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*Please note: Unless you are teaching in the SUNY Online Degrees at Scale
Accounting Degree Completion program this fall or in spring 2023, you will
continue to use Moodle as your learning management system until summer
2023.*

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¡Salud!

John


John Locke, Ph.D., :~{)>
Coordinator, Technology Enhanced Learning and Distance Education
Information Technology Services
SUNY Plattsburgh / Feinberg Library, Room 303
2 Draper Avenue, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
518-564-4537
Certified Equity Advocate
Chair, Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Committee
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