Research IT Master Calendar

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

    • 9:00 am - 4:15 pm   Tuesday
    • 330 Armory or online

    This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
    • Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign), room 202

    Explore new career paths in a collaborative group

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

    • 11:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning

    We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    • 2203 Beckman Institute

    • 7:00 pm
    • The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820

    The little-known and less loved insects doing the work that bees and butterflies can't... May Berenbaum will be speaking as part of Pollinator Week. Come out to hear this talk and learn about how awesome pollinators are!

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Monday, June 23, 2025

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    • 2203 Beckman Institute

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.

    • 1:30 - 2:30 pm
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    We'll kick off the summer course design series with an overview of backward design, a simple course design method that will help you ensure proper alignment of objectives, assessments, and activities within your course.

    • 2:45 - 3:45 pm
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    In this session, you will consider the constraints your course might be operating under. Is it part of a larger curriculum? Does your department, college, university, or accreditor require specific outcomes for the course? What are your students likely to expect from your course? What limits might that might place on your course design? But constraints inspire creativity.

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Friday, June 27, 2025

Monday, June 30, 2025

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Friday, July 11, 2025

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Friday, July 18, 2025

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Friday, July 25, 2025

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

    • 2:00 - 3:30 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Saturday, October 4, 2025

    • 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
    • Multiple locations

    Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Monday, November 3, 2025

Friday, December 5, 2025

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Monday, March 30, 2026

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Thursday, May 7, 2026