We offer a variety of workshops for faculty. If you would like to attend any of these workshops, please send an email to the ATC@bentley.edu. You will receive a confirmation via e-mail that you are registered.
Blackboard
- QuickStart
With Blackboard, your course is always available to your students through course documents, assignments, and on-line discussions with your class. Learn how to easily post and maintain your own web course in this introductory workshop.
- Advanced: Using the Assessment Tools
Now that you've created a Blackboard course, become more proficient with the Site Management tools and learn to use the Assessment and Pooling features. Create quizzes and surveys and learn to use the pooling tool to store and re-use them. This session is only for those who have maintained a Blackboard site and are very familiar with the interface.
- Advanced: Using the Communication Tools
Now that you have been using Blackboard in your course, learn some of the advanced features. You can conduct threaded discussion with the Blackboard Discussion Group, communicate in "real time" using the Chat tool, and organize your students to work and communicate in workgroups with Group Pages. This session is only for those who have maintained a Blackboard site and are very familiar with the interface.
- Electronic Assignments using Blackboard
Would you like to collect assignments from your students electronically, without receiving or managing emails, dealing with lost email attachments, or needing to back up files? With Blackboard’s electronic Assignments features, students electronically view and submit assignments in one place, and submitted assignments are stored in one single location. You’ll be able to • Stop using email to send and receive assignments • Download all submitted assignments with a single-click • Get a date/time stamp of submitted assignments • Easily add, send, and store grades and comments.
- Blogs and Wikis using Blackboard
Integrated Blogs and Wikis Tool - Have you heard about blogs and wikis, but are unsure about how they might be used for students to keep online journals or to support teamwork/collaboration in your classes? Or have you been using them, but wish that grading student contributions to them were easier? The ATC has just purchased a blog and wiki plug-in to Bb that has an impressive array of easy-to-use features. Come learn about this new tool, and hear how some Bentley faculty use blogs/wikis in their classes.
- Turnitin.com: Plagiarism Detection and Academic Writing Skills Improvement Tool
Have you ever questioned the academic honesty of a student's essay? If so, how successful were you in actually identifying which passages were plagiarized and from what sources? Bentley has purchased a site license with Turnitin.com, an online resource specifically used to detect plagiarism, and to develop quality writing and research skills. Turnitin.com's search capabilities include articles from more than 4.5 billion web pages, millions of academic journals and published books from ProQuest databases, and over 10 million papers submitted to Turnitin by other students.
Statistical Packages
- SPSS: User-Friendly Statistical Analysis
SPSS is one of the easiest to use and learn of the popular statistical software packages. Come learn the basics to enable you to use data analysis in your teaching or research. Learn how other faculty are using SPSS in class and in research projects. After attending this workshop, participants will be able to open databases or spreadsheets in SPSS and perform statistical analyses on data.
- SPSS: Text Analysis Software for Surveys
SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys software is designed specifically to analyze qualitative data produced from surveys, i.e. comments and responses to open ended questions. The software integrates with SPSS statistical software, but can also be used independently. Come and learn how to analyze your open-ended survey questions without reading them! SPSS Text Analysis is a user friendly, fun to use and very helpful software.
- NVivo 8: Software for Qualitative Research
The new version of NVivo has many new features: incorporating audio and video files into projects, importing and coding pdf files, working with pictures, etc. This workshop is appropriate for faculty members who are new to NVivo or to those who have used previous versions of the software.
- Statistical Analysis Using Stata
Are you trying to find a statistical package that is suitable for managing analyzing, and graphing your data? Please come to this introductory workshop that focuses on Stata, which may be used either as a point-and-click application (similar to SPSS) or as a command-driven package (similar to SAS). We will cover some of the advantages and disadvantages of Stata compared with SAS or SPSS. For example, Stata is superb for analyzing cross-sectional time series data, handling complex survey data, and running logistic regression.
- WRDS (Access to Research Databases Simplified)
There are three ways of working with Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS): 1. Web query, 2. Unix system (SSH client), and 3. PC/SAS. You will be able to extract the same exact data using any of the methods, however they have different strengths. In this workshop we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
Teaching in the Era of H1N1
The ATC is offering a new workshop to help faculty plan for significant student absences due to the H1N1 flu virus or even an emergency campus closure preventing on-campus classes from meeting physically for any period of time.
Teaching in the Era of H1N1 is designed provide an overview of some newly-acquired and current Bentley tools that extend learning beyond the physical classroom. These "outside of classroom" learning experiences may utilize our new Blackboard Plug-in, Wimba Pronto, to hold live online voice and/or video meetings, posting video lectures or narrated PowerPoint presentations/screen recordings (including a ridiculously easy-to-use voice-over narration/screen recording tool). The ATC will loan webcams and microphone headsets to any interested faculty. An overview of online teaching tools is available at: http://atc.bentley.edu/h1n1. We strongly recommend you familiarize yourself with these tools to help you form a "plan of action" for your class in case you cannot meet in person with some or all of your students/classes.
