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Zoom Fundamentals Tuesday, January 27
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Collaborative Annotation with Hypothesis - An Introduction Wednesday, January 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Tips for Teaching in Zoom Thursday, January 29
10:00 am - 11:30 am Setting Up Your Brightspace Gradebook Friday, January 30
10:00 am - 11:30 am Tips for Teaching in Zoom Monday, February 2
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Using Padlet for Communication, Collaboration, and Community Building Tuesday, February 3
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Padlet Now Available in Brightspace
You can now access Padlet directly from Brightspace and create and add Padlet activities to the Content area of your course. From there, you and your students can navigate through your course into padlets without a separate login.
Blackboard Retirement on December 18
CUNY’s Blackboard contract ends on December 18, 2025, at which time access to Blackboard will be discontinued. If you wish to reuse course materials from earlier than Spring 2021, we recommend that you download a copy from Blackboard.
New Faculty/Staff Interest Group (FIG): Screenwriting
Faculty and staff screenwriters – want to meet over Zoom to workshop screenplays in a supportive, creative group? Whether it’s your second or sixtieth screenplay – join us! Contact NaRhee Ahn (Media Arts and Technology) at for more information.
Inquirer Fall 2025 Issue
Please check out the Fall 2025 issue of the Inquirer, a faculty journal devoted to teaching, learning, and scholarship at BMCC. The Inquirer gives us an opportunity to hear from our peers about their experiences and insights, and is complemented by the Inquirer Talks series of presentations by Inquirer authors.