Spring 2013

January 22 – February 22, 2013 (exclude holidays)

Location: AC – 4G01

For workshops on Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007, please contact Ashley Harper by email.  She will schedule a session for you.

Topics:

Online/Hybrid Course Orientation:  

1. study skills required to be successful in an online or hybrid course;
2. academic integrity;
3. all topics listed in Blackboard/CUNY portal workshops;
4. activate and use York Email. 

Blackboard/CUNY Portal:  

1. register for a CUNY portal account and access Blackboard;
2. Blackboard basic features such as updating email address, viewing and downloading course documents, viewing and submitting assignments, taking quizzes, posting and replying to messages on Discussion Board;
3. how to submit a SafeAssignment if your course instructor requires;
4. how to work with wiki if your course instructor requires –

• what is wiki
• how to create a wiki page and add text content
• how to add web links, images and Youtube videos to a wiki page
• how to create table of content for your wiki site
• how to use table to present data on a wiki page and to lay out content
• how to comment on a wiki page

• what is blog
• how to create a blog post and add text content
• how to add web links, images and Youtube videos to a blog post
• how to comment a blog post

WordPress Blog/ePortfolio:

1. log in to WordPress;
2. understand dashboard;
3. change theme;
4. set up privacy level for your site;
5. create a blog post and add multimedia content;
6. add tags;
7. monitor comments;
8. add, remove widgets;
9. create pages.

York Email: 

1. activate your York email;
2. read, send, reply, forward an email message;
3. attach a file on your email;
4. access SkyDrive, create folder, upload to and download files from your SkyDrive;
5. use calendar.

York Network ID

1. activate your York Network ID and sign on computers on campus using your Network ID;
2. understand what you can do with your York Network ID;
3. save, upload and download files to your York network drive;
4. access library databases via VPN at home using your network ID;
5. printing on campus using your network ID;
6. access ePortfolio and the College website.