CITES Academic Technology Services

Monday, December 2, 2024

- 9:00 - 10:15 am
Get in the Flow: Promoting Student Learning Engagement

Being fully engaged 100% of the time is not a realistic expectation, but there are a variety of ways to promote student engagement so they can get the most out of their learning. This workshop will focus on concepts underlying student engagement and practical strategies to engage our students across diverse formats.
- Conference/Workshop

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Canvas Courses Accessible

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.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 4:00 pm
- Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building
Innovation Studio Open Hours

Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
- Other

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your Moodle Courses Accessible

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.
- Conference/Workshop

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Canvas open office hours
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Quick Start Workshop: Using the Pope Tech Accessibility Tool

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.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 4:00 pm
- The Armory, room 172
Innovation Studio's Fun Reading Day Activities

Visit CITL's Innovation Studio (Armory 172) between 12 and 4 pm to play video and board games, interact with generative AI, create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, make a video in our invisibility cloak, or drive our Robomaster. And snap some photos with our mascot of the day… Hodgepodge the hedgehog! McKinley staff will provide wellness support.
- Festival/Celebration

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Quick Start Workshop: Checking Documents for Accessibility

Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 4:00 pm
- Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building
Innovation Studio Open Hours

Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
- Other