BLACKBOARD

The UMES Center for Instructional Technology supports the integration of Blackboard into curriculum by: creating and providing faculty and student manuals, delivering both faculty and student training, supporting course websites, assisting faculty in the creation of course websites, providing a supportive workspace, facilitating curriculum development, providing a mini-grant program, multimedia development, online course review, and offering one on one instructional design consultations.

ECHO 360

The UMES Center for Instructional Technology support the use of Echo 360 by providing a location and the necessary technology for faculty to record Echo 360 sessions which involve the capturing of audio/video lectures synched with the screen captures from the instructors computer.

RESPONDUS

The UMES Center for Instructional Technology provides and assists faculty with usage of the Respondus test generation software for the creation of question databases, and/or online examinations.

TRAINING

The UMES Center for Instructional Technology provides training in, and support using the Microsoft Office Suite, select UMES Systems, and various instructional technologies instruction including:  Outlook, HawkWeb, Excel, Word, Blackboard, Echo 360, WebDAV, WebQuests, DreamWeaver, Acrobat, image editing, Publisher, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.