Illinois Events

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Friday, June 6, 2025

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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    • 10:15 am - 12:00 pm
    • Room 1040, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801

    • 10:15 am - 12:00 pm
    • Room 1040, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Join us at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for an Academic Writing Workshop this June to learn about communicating science to policymakers, how to build an engaging poster presentation and citation management. This workshop is sponsored by NCSA’s Software Working Group. Light refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees.

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

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

    • 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

    • All Day

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    • 7:00 pm
    • 25 O'Clock, 208 W Griggs St Suite 101, Urbana, IL 61801

    Buzz on over for a night of fun and facts at our Pollinator Trivia Night one of a series of events for National Pollinator Week! Join us at 25 O’Clock Brewing Company for four rounds of pollinator-themed trivia (10 questions each). Come for the drinks and stay for the nerdy science trivia. Teams of up to 6, free to play, prizes for the winners.

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 - 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