March 31, 2023

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CIC Presents Lunch & Learn Series for CBC Faculty

February 24th, 2023 will kick off the start of professional development sessions for faculty at CBC! Please join the Cougar Innovation Center for the CIC Lunch & Learn Series. This first series will focus on Rubrics. Whether you’re a seasoned rubrics user, or just getting started with rubrics, we hope that you will find something to take away with you at the end of each session. 

RSVP for the CIC Lunch & Learn! 

Details for this first series are contained in the table below: 

Date & Time Location Topic  Blurb  
Friday, February 24, 2023   11:30am Beeville: Elam 115  

For faculty attending from Alice, Kingsville, or Pleasanton, the link is: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/17132
Rubrics 101 – Types & Uses  In this session faculty will discover the three types of rubrics, single point, holistic, and analytic, and how they are used.    Appropriate Modality: Face-to-Face, Teleconferencing, and Asynchronous Courses    Objectives:  By the end of the session faculty will have discussed and determined one rubric type that they can implement in current or future courses.  
Friday, March 10, 2023  TBD Rubrics & Transparent Assignments  In this session faculty will learn how the use of rubrics creates equitable and transparent assignments for students.    Appropriate Modality: Face-to-Face, Teleconferencing, and Asynchronous Courses    Objectives:  By the end of the session faculty will co-create a rubric and an assignment using transparent design methods  
Friday, March 31, 2023  TBD Rubrics & Blackboard  In this session faculty will learn how to add and implement rubrics their Blackboard course.    Appropriate Modality: Face-to-Face, Teleconferencing, and Asynchronous Courses    Objectives:  By the end of the session faculty will have the steps needed to use, create, import, and copy over rubrics in Blackboard  
Friday, April 14, 2023  TBD Rubrics & Assessments  In this session faculty will learn how to use rubrics in Blackboard to collect and assess data for College Assessments.    Appropriate Modality: Face-to-Face, Teleconferencing, and Asynchronous Courses    Objectives:  By the end of the session faculty will have the steps needed to implement and pull Assessment data for College Assessments.  

This faculty development Lunch & Learn Series is part of the Creating a T.R.A.I.L. to Success Title III Grant funded by the US Department of Education. One goal of this grant is to provide enhanced professional development and support faculty to innovatively reimagine and develop their online courses. 

For more information, contact Dr. Aurelia Rocha at agrocha@coastalbend.edu or (361) 354-2282.

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