Available courses

Creating Digital Newsletter with Smore

Welcome to Creating Digital Newsletters with Smore, a specialized professional development module designed specifically for administrative assistants across all Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) campuses and Family Island sites.

This course empowers you to independently plan, design, distribute, and archive high-quality digital newsletters. By mastering Smore, you will enhance your department's internal and external communication, reduce reliance on central production hubs, and play a vital role in building a verifiable, standard-aligned evidence trail for future institutional accreditation and reporting.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this professional development course, you will be able to:

  • Master the Smore Platform: Navigate your institutional account and utilize template workflows confidently.

  • Design & Publish: Build engaging, professional, and visually consistent digital newsletters tailored to your department's needs.

  • Analyze Engagement: Locate, interpret, and leverage built-in newsletter analytics (views, clicks, and reach).

  • Archive for Accreditation: Correctly save, organize, and retrieve published newsletters and data to serve as institutional evidence.

Course Structure & Delivery

To accommodate participants across multiple islands, this course utilizes a flexible hybrid delivery model scheduled during the institutional leave period to minimize disruptions:

💻 Asynchronous E-Learning (Self-Paced)

The core of the training is housed right here on Moodle. You can work through interactive software simulations, multimedia demonstrations, and guided tutorials independently and at your own pace.

🕒 Synchronous Walkthroughs (Live Support)

Participate in scheduled, real-time virtual sessions featuring facilitated walkthroughs, hands-on practice opportunities, and live Q&A support.

Learning Tools & Resources

This module incorporates modern instructional design principles (ADDIE, Multimedia Learning, and UDL) to ensure an accessible, engaging experience. Inside the course, you will find:

  • Interactive Tutorials: Step-by-step simulations built in Adobe Captivate.

  • Visual Job Aids: Downloadable graphics and checklists created in Canva to assist you during production.

  • Knowledge Checks: Low-stakes, embedded quizzes to verify your understanding as you progress.

🏅 Completion Requirements

To successfully complete the course and receive professional development credit, participants must:

  1. Complete all asynchronous Moodle learning modules and interactive checks.

  2. Attend or review the synchronous facilitated sessions.

  3. Complete the Culminating Performance Task, where you will independently create a newsletter, distribute it, and locate its analytics.

Digital Literacy for Educational Administrators

This Digital Literacy for Educational Administrators course is a practical, two-week professional development series specifically designed for school leaders. Recognizing the busy schedules of administrators, the course focuses on high-impact mastery of two essential workplace tools: Microsoft Word and Zoom. Through a "learning by doing" approach, you will move from foundational basics to administrative confidence. In Week 1, you will master professional document creation, formatting, and advanced editing in Word. In Week 2, you will transition to virtual leadership, learning to independently schedule, manage, and record professional Zoom meetings. This course is a supportive, judgment-free environment intended to streamline your daily administrative functions and enhance your professional digital presence.

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