Seminars of Interest

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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

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Friday, June 13, 2025

Monday, June 16, 2025

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Friday, June 20, 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

    • 10:00 - 10:30 am
    • Beckman Institute Center Atrium

    Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the Atrium! Gather in the Garden will take place every Tuesday from 10-10:30 a.m.

    • 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

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

    Explore new career paths in a collaborative group

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.

    • 12:00 pm
    • Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower

    Join us at noon on Wednesdays this spring for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!

    • 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.

    • 2:30 - 4:30 pm
    • TBD

    • 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

Friday, July 4, 2025