Jean's Calendar

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Monday, June 16, 2025

Tuesday, June 17, 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

Thursday, June 19, 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

    • 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, 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 - 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

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

    You will want to set fair, clear, and manageable course policies that you can explain and defend the entire semester. In this session, we'll identify a few questions you need to answer to have good course policies, and then you will create policies that are consistent with your course design so far.

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

    This workshop ties the topics of the previous workshops together by discussing and crafting a syllabus for your newly designed course. We focus on the necessary logistical information for the syllabus, items to include to set student expectations, syllabus language and tone, and how to craft a course schedule with assessments, readings, and other ancillary materials.

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Friday, July 4, 2025

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Friday, July 11, 2025

Tuesday, July 15, 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

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Tuesday, July 22, 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, July 23, 2025

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    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.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Thursday, August 7, 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

    • 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.

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Monday, August 25, 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

Monday, September 1, 2025

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Friday, November 28, 2025

Monday, December 1, 2025

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Friday, December 12, 2025

Monday, December 22, 2025

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Friday, December 26, 2025

Monday, December 29, 2025

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Friday, January 16, 2026

Monday, January 19, 2026

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Monday, March 23, 2026

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Friday, May 8, 2026

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Monday, May 18, 2026

Monday, May 25, 2026

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