Clickers - Audience Response System
Blackboard Collaborate (Wimba)
Classroom Technology
Welcome to the Classroom Technology website for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This site is dedicated to giving quick and accurate information on each of the classrooms technology enhanced classrooms across campus. For each clickers classroom listed, you find information on seating capacity, seating style, available technology and room specific instructions for operating the technology. To get started, please select a build and a room from the options below.
In addition to room by room information and instructions, we also offer one-on-one training by appointment to help faculty learn how to operate the specific equipment in the room they teach in. For more information on the Hands-On Lab, please see the "Need Help with the Technology?" section on this page.
All of the classrooms listed, unless otherwise noted, are available for scheduling on the Resource25 system. The Resource25 scheduling website can be accessed by clicking here.
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Smart Lectern - Includes AMX touch panel controls, Host PC, DVD/VCR, Document Camera and Ceiling Mounted Projector | ![]() |
Sympodium Display |
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Wimba Ready - The room includes a microphone that may be used for course capture using Wimba Live Classroom. |
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Wireless Microphone |
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Assistive Listening Devices Available |
Need Help with the Technology?
If you are having problems with inoperable hardware or any of the technology in a classroom, please contact the AskIT help desk at 205-996-9999 (6-9999 on campus) or by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Instructional Technology Media Services for Academic Courses
Media Services for Academic Courses
Instructional Technology provides media production and streaming services at no cost to faculty teaching academic courses (must be for material associated with an ACTIVE Banner course). We offer video sessions, creation of synchronized and unsynchronized video presentations, audio conversion and streaming, and DVD/CD creation and conversions. To request media production services please click on the link to the request form below.
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NOTE: Live streaming and archived on-demand streaming services "for-fee" for faculty/staff who are using the service for training, events or community based education initiatives are also available through UAB IT. Click here for more information on the for-fee services.
Instructional Technology Workshops/Support
Technology Workshops and Educational Offerings
Instructional Technology is committed to supporting faculty by providing training and educational resources for developing on-line and blended learning environments as well as providing training and support information for classrooms enhanced with technology. We offer courses on Blackboard Learn, additional tools in Blackboard Learn and Course Design. In addition to our traditional classroom courses we also offer an on-line course on using the “Teach Tab” in Blackboard Learn and two different individual hands-on labs that can be scheduled: Blackboard Learn Blended Learning and Classroom Technology.
For more information about our educational offerings please select the course below.
Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Learn is UAB’s primary learning management system. Instructional Technology has created a series of hands-on training sessions to help faculty and designers use this system. Below are brief descriptions of the workshops offered. Click here for schedule details.
Bb Learn Foundations
The Blackboard Learn foundations course is intended to introduce you to basic best practices for organizing, optimizing, and uploading content into a blackboard course. The course is intended for novice and new users of Blackboard who anticipate limited use of the system in their course offerings.
Bb Learn Basic
The Blackboard Learn Basic is designed for non-experienced users of Blackboard Learn who wish to extend their knowledge of the system. The Basic workshop will cover use and functionality of Vista's essential tools.
Bb Learn Enhanced Workshop
The Bb Learn Enhanced Workshop trains users who have already attended the Bb Learn Basic Workshop or are relatively proficient in their use of learning management systems.
Bb Learn Grade Center
The Bb Learn Grade Center workshop trains participants on how to calculate grades using the grade center. The workshop is for users who have already attended the Bb Learn Basic Workshop or the Bb Learn Enhanced workshop.
Wimba Live Classroom Workshop
Wimba Live Classroom is a fully-featured, live, virtual classroom solution that includes audio, video, application sharing and content display. Its pedagogical design and ease-of-use ensures that educators and students engage as if they were meeting face-to-face. It supports audio, video, application sharing, and content display is just the starting point of Wimba Classroom's capabilities. Advanced features such as polling, whiteboarding, presenter on-the-fly, re-sizable chat areas and participant lists, usage analytics tools, and MP3 and MP4 downloads enable further dynamic interaction between students and educators.
Instructional Technology Training Schedule
Click for a full listing of workshops. This link provides details on registration, session date, time, and location. You can also access training and support materials on UAB’s BBLearn Support site.
Consultation Sessions
Design, Build and Teach
Consultation Sessions are available to provide assistance with design (organizing content, overall course functionality and objectives, creating assessment strategies, constructing effective test questions, fostering academic integrity, etc), building and teaching with technology (use of Blackboard tools, Respondus, Turnitin, Wimba).
To schedule a session, contact Katara Davis at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - 934-0410 , Terry Harrington at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it – 934-0417 , Ronan O’Beirne at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it – 934-0455, or Brian C. Moon at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - 934-8859.
Classroom Technology
Faculty members who teach in technology enhanced classrooms and wish to get more information on how to manage the technology, are invited to our Hands-On Labs. Hands-On labs are consultation sessions available to provide assistance with understanding and operating the technologies available to them in the classrooms, such as computer stations, document cameras, video/dvd players, microphone systems and the control panel.
ePortfolios: A Hands-On Introduction
An ePortfolio (electronic portfolio) is a purposeful and meaningful collection of work which can include text and media files.
Several portfolios can be created to serve different purposes. Each is formatted by its owner to match designated requirements. Students can showcase skills and accomplishments for prospective employers or entrance to graduate/professional programs. The ePortfolio can also serve as a personal archive of documents. Used in a course or program curriculum, ePortfolios can demonstrate student's achievement of required course or program competencies/outcomes as well as the process of getting there.
Contact Terry Harrington to arrange individual or group seminar or consultation session – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 975-6552.
Sloan-C Workshop Series
Sloan-C Online workshops are available to UAB faculty interested in collaborating with peers and experts, worldwide, via real-time and asynchronous meetings to learn more about teaching and improving on line and/or blended courses. There is no cost to UAB faculty and instructional design staff.
For detailed information about each workshop including the objectives, content, dates/schedule and log on information, please visit Sloan – C Workshops.
To register, send a request to Ronan O’Beirne at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the name and date of the workshop.




































































