Illinois Remote Calendar

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Monday, March 31, 2025

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:30 am   Tue morning

    Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    Looking to enhance your online course design? Join us for an engaging session where you'll discover how the Quality Matters (QM) rubric and resources can help you transform your online and hybrid courses. QM provides a rich set of tools and resources to guide you through improving online course quality and optimizing students' learning experiences.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning

    In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • Lincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub

    Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more. Those eligible for the ATLAS Internship Program: Any/All Undergraduate students with a Major or Minor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No GPA requirement,

    • 3:00 - 3:30 pm
    • Lincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub

    This information session will be a short overview of the ATLAS Internship Program, followed by a Q&A session.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Friday, April 4, 2025

  • various craft supplies with the text "Crafting connections at the WRC"
    • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite #213, Champaign IL 61820

    Join us for Crafternoons every first Friday at the WRC.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Train your own LLM and deploy it as a Teaching Assistant and link it with Canvas.  Set it up as a trustworthy tutor that provides instruction, yet does not give away answers to homework problems.  Have it assist you with literature review. This workshop will showcase the creation process of a custom LLM for classroom purposes with Illinois.chat.

Monday, April 7, 2025

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

    • 3:00 - 4:00 pm

    ATLAS wants to gauge your familiarity with Digital Accessibility and learn how our team can help you get your online course materials digitally accessible. We will be hosting four online focus groups in the coming weeks. To facilitate discussion, each session has a limited number of seats, so please register in advance.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Mon afternoon
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Tues morning
    • 330 Armory or online

    Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking. Pre-registration required.

    • 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.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Tue afternoon
    • 330 Armory or online

    During this two-hour session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources. Q & A to follow.

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

    • 9:00 - 9:55 am   Wed morning

    Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • Lincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub

    Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more. Those eligible for the ATLAS Internship Program: Any/All Undergraduate students with a Major or Minor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No GPA requirement,

Thursday, April 10, 2025

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am
    • English Building, Suite 112

    Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Every Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 AM in English Building, Suite 112 or Remote on Teams: https://go.illinois.edu/ATLASDATA-OfficeHours

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning
    • 330 Armory or online

    Join us in an instructor-led session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Thur afternoon
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive manner. Pre-registration is required.  

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    ATLAS wants to gauge your familiarity with Digital Accessibility and learn how our team can help you get your online course materials digitally accessible. We will be hosting four online focus groups in the coming weeks. To facilitate discussion, each session has a limited number of seats, so please register in advance.

Friday, April 11, 2025

  • STEM Women presented by the Women's Resources Center April 11, 2025 12 pm at the WRC, images of school supplies like pencils and paper clips and 4 feminine figures dressed for work as a physicial, chemist, astronaut and construction supervisor.
    • 12:00 pm
    • Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite #213, Champaign IL 61820

    Join the WRC for the launch of our newest workshop, STEM Women. This workshop highlights the incredible history and future of women in STEM and provides strategies for lifting up our peers and creating safe spaces to develop emotional and professional skills for students of all genders. Free lunch for the first 15 attendees!

Monday, April 14, 2025

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    ATLAS wants to gauge your familiarity with Digital Accessibility and learn how our team can help you get your online course materials digitally accessible. We will be hosting four online focus groups in the coming weeks. To facilitate discussion, each session has a limited number of seats, so please register in advance.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

    • 12:00 - 1:15 pm

    Teaching presence strongly impacts the way students build their knowledge in your course. In this session, you will learn how to strategically apply your teaching presence to the critical roles you have as a Teaching Assistant and gain insights from outstanding faculty here at Illinois.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    • 304 English Building

    Join us for a panel discussion on AI in Teaching & Learning as part of the ATLAS Seminar Series, where faculty from across LAS and campus will share their experiences, insights, and lessons learned from the use of AI in their courses.

Tuesday, April 15, 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.

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    ATLAS wants to gauge your familiarity with Digital Accessibility and learn how our team can help you get your online course materials digitally accessible. We will be hosting four online focus groups in the coming weeks. To facilitate discussion, each session has a limited number of seats, so please register in advance.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

    • 2:00 - 3:00 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.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • Lincoln Hall, Lisnek LAS Hub

    Students - Are you looking for internship experience working with technology? Stop by and learn more about opportunities in digital communication, data management/analysis, emerging technologies and more. Those eligible for the ATLAS Internship Program: Any/All Undergraduate students with a Major or Minor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. No GPA requirement,

Thursday, April 17, 2025

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am
    • English Building, Suite 112

    Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Every Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 AM in English Building, Suite 112 or Remote on Teams: https://go.illinois.edu/ATLASDATA-OfficeHours

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    Collaboration is working together on a shared project or goal. Teams collaboration tools can keep projects organized and help get work done. Share files, co-author and edit content simultaneously, and work together in channels.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 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.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Please join us for an overview of what it means for an online course to be certified as part of the LAS Online program. We will explain what certification entails and its advantages for students, instructors, and departments. We will review the certification standards.

Monday, April 21, 2025

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    This hands-on workshop will help you integrate Audio Description (AD) into your workflow, making visual content accessible from the start rather than as a post-production fix. You'll learn to replace vague cues like “As you can see here” with rich, meaningful descriptions that enhance accessibility and reduce technical hurdles.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Tue afternoon
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.

Thursday, April 24, 2025

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am
    • English Building, Suite 112

    Need guidance while looking for campus data? Need help wrangling data for a project or to make decisions? Every Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 AM in English Building, Suite 112 or Remote on Teams: https://go.illinois.edu/ATLASDATA-OfficeHours

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Thur afternoon
    • 330 Armory Building or online

    This 2-hour Outlook Calendar workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we'll work together, hands-on, with practical strategies for managing reading and navigation order, labeling document titles and sheets, creating accessible links in Excel, and using the Excel Accessibility Assistant to locate and fix common issues.

Friday, April 25, 2025

    • 11:00 - 11:55 am   Fri 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

Monday, April 28, 2025

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    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.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Tues morning
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them. Pre-registration required

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    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! 

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Offered in-person or online. Pre-registration required

Thursday, May 1, 2025