Faculty Development Training Schedule & Registration
ÒùÆÞÉç Online provides comprehensive technical training and course design development offerings. Choose the training option that best suits your course development goals. Offerings rotate throughout the year, so we invite you to check here often or reach out to us at UTLV@utoledo.edu for your Blackboard course needs!
All ÒùÆÞÉç courses are now in Ultra Course View. See training offerings and registration links below.Ìý
Please note that all registration forms and access to Teams webinars require UTAD authentication. Teams webinars will populate to your ÒùÆÞÉç Outlook and Teams calendars with a join link after registration.Ìý
Technical Training
Demo: Transition from Collaborate to MS Teams for Live Class Sessions
This Teams webinar will assist faculty with using Teams Meetings for live class sessions using the Microsoft Education Blackboard integration. This session will demonstrate:
- Enabling Microsoft Education in Blackboard
- Teams Meetings for live class sessions in Blackboard
- Downloading Collab recordings and uploading to Echo360 for permanent storage
- Embedding Echo360 videos in your Ultra course
Format/Location:ÌýVirtual (via Teams)
Session Length:Ìý45 minutes total: 30-minute demo, 15-minute Q&A
Dates & Registration:Ìý
Improving Course Accessibility with Ally in Blackboard
Join ÒùÆÞÉç Online for one-hour webinar focused on usingÌýAlly in BlackboardÌýto identify and remediate accessibility issues in your course content. This session will include a live demonstration showing how to locate Ally accessibility scores, review instructor feedback, and access alternative formats available to students.
Participants will also see practical examples of how to address common remediation needs, including creating proper heading structures, adding effective alternative text for images, and ensuring transcripts are available for audio and video content. As institutions prepare for upcomingÌýTitle II accessibility requirements, this session will highlight how Ally can support proactive compliance while improving the overall learning experience for all students.
Format/Location:ÌýVirtual (via Teams)
Session Length:Ìý1 hour total: 50-minute demo, 10-minute Q&A
Dates & Registration:
- Spring sessions have concluded. Check back here for the next offering this summer!
Managing Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra
Description: This 1-hour webinar will provide faculty with a comprehensive overview of the Blackboard Ultra Gradebook. The session will demonstrate key features, including setting automatic zeros, adding and organizing grade columns, managing overall grade calculations, and hiding inactive students for a clearer view of course data. Participants will also learn best practices to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and transparency in grade management. A live Q&A will follow the demonstration, allowing faculty to address specific questions and scenarios.
Format/Location: Virtual (via Teams)
Session Length: 1 hour total: 45 min demo, 15 minute Q&A
Dates & Registration:
- Check back here for our next offering of this session this summer!
Instructional Design Webinars
Assessing Student Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Description: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly changing how students learn, create, and demonstrate their learning. Many faculty report increased student use of AI tools, alongside growing concerns about academic integrity, originality, critical thinking, and overreliance on automated systems.
Rather than framing AI solely as a threat, this workshop invites faculty to re‑examine the strategies and purpose of assessment in an AI‑rich learning environment. Participants will explore how AI is reshaping what it means for students to demonstrate learning and consider practical strategies for designing assessments that remain meaningful, authentic, and aligned with course learning outcomes—whether AI use is intentionally integrated or thoughtfully constrained.
The session emphasizes assessment design choices that foreground learning processes, higher‑order thinking, and student agency, while acknowledging the evolving role of AI as a tool that students are already using.
Format/Location: Virtual (via Teams)
Session Length: 1 hour
Dates & Registration:
Advancing Learner Interaction with the Ultra A.I. Design Assistant & A.I. Conversations
Description: Integrating Generative AI (GenAI) into education promises a transformative shift in how learners engage with content, peers, instructors, self, and real-world contexts. This workshop explores how the Blackboard Ultra AI Design Assistant and AI Conversations can enhance five critical educational interactions: learner-content, learner-faculty, learner-learner, learner-self, and learner-client.
Format/Location: Virtual (via Teams)
Session Length: 1.5 hours total: 1 hour demo, 30 minutes Q&A
Dates & Registration:
- Check back here for the next offering of this session!
Department Training (By Request)
Description: ÒùÆÞÉç Online offers departmental group technical training upon request. To help us better serve you, please provide detailed information by completing the request form linked below.
Please Note: Customized training requires at least 2-weeks advance notice and a minimum of 8 participants. For in-person sessions, the department is responsible for securing a location (computer lab required). The maximum time of a training session is 2 hours.
Format/Location: In-Person or Virtual
Pathway Program Courses
The Pathway to Master Online Instructor Program is a series of free professional development courses for ÒùÆÞÉç faculty and teaching assistants developed and offered by UToÂledo Online. In this program, you will learn the fundamentals of online course development and delivery and current trends in the field of online learning. The program is comprised of five courses offered throughout each academic year. Upon successful completion of all five courses, participants are recognized as Master Online Instructors. These are the current semester courses being offered in the series for Spring 2026:
Online Course Design Certificate
Description: This four-week online course prepares faculty and teaching assistants at The University of Toledo to effectively design instructional materials, learning activities and authentic assessment for online delivery. Participants will gain insights about online pedagogy and best practices through a wide range of authentic tasks. A capstone project enables participants to demonstrate what they have learned in an applied setting, while building a foundation for additional course development in Blackboard.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Online Teaching Certificate course.
Please Note: This is not a self-paced course. Participants will complete scheduled course activities with due dates.
Format/Location: Online via Blackboard
Session Length: 4 weeks
Dates & Registration:
- Monday, June 1 – Sunday, June 28, 2026. Invitation to register will be sent by email only to those who have completed the
prerequisite course.
ADA Compliance in Online Courses
Description: This three-week online course prepares faculty and teaching assistants at The University of Toledo to address accessibility when designing and developing their online courses. This course covers topics such as cultural and legal aspects of ADA, course design considerations for accessibility, and includes hands-on activities in formatting electronic documents and preparing multimedia content with accessibility in mind.
Please Note: This is not a self-paced course. Participants will complete scheduled course activities with due dates.
Format/Location: Online via Blackboard
Session Length: 3 weeks
Dates & Registration:
Online Teaching Certificate
Description: This three-week online course prepares faculty and teaching assistants at The University of Toledo to effectively facilitate teaching and learning in an online environment, through discussion and active learning activities. The course also enables participants to practice using various online communication and assessment tools as they complete learning activities from the student perspective.
Please Note: This is not a self-paced course. Participants will complete scheduled course activities with due dates.
Format/Location: Online via Blackboard
Session Length: 3 weeks
Dates & Registration:Ìý
- This course has concluded for spring. Please watch here for the next semesterly offering of this online course.
Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (two format options are available)
Option 1: Virtual Workshop
Description: This spring, the Ohio Quality Matters Consortium is offering multiple sessions of QM’s flagship workshop, Applying the Quality Matters Rubric. This workshop is included as part of ÒùÆÞÉç Online’s . Participants will learn about the QMÌýHigher Education Rubric, the course review process, the concept of alignment, and how to draft helpful recommendations for course improvement.
Format/Location:ÌýVirtual. Participants will be provided with workshop access information via email prior to the workshop date.ÌýParticipants must log in on time, participate throughout, and stay for the duration of the workshop to earn a Certificate of Completion.
Session Length: 1 full day with break for lunch
Dates: Ìý
- Friday, April 24 | 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Registration: If you are interested in registering for a virtual workshop, please contact Rachel Barnes, Lead Instructional Designer and Coordinator for Quality Assurance, at Rachel.Barnes@utoledo.edu at least 3 days prior to the workshop date. Spots are limited!
Option 2: In-Person Workshop
Description: Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) is QM’s flagship workshop and is included as part of ÒùÆÞÉç Online’s . Participants will learn about the QMÌýHigher Education Rubric, the course review process, the concept of alignment, and how to draft helpful recommendations for course improvement.
Format:ÌýIn Person. Participants must attend on time, participate throughout, and stay for the duration of the workshop to earn a Certificate of Completion.
Location: Rocket Hall 1550
Session Length: 1 full day. Lunch will be provided.
Date & Registration: This session has concluded. Watch here for the next offering of the in-person APPQMR.
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