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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. Pre-registration required
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This two-hour session will introduce you to Access, Microsoft's relational database application. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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In this 2-hour class, explore the interface while we type text on a page, fix spelling errors, change spacing, page margins, and save our work. Practice selecting text to make revisions; and move text by cutting & pasting. Format text including the use of Format Painter; and finish up with bulleted and numbered lists.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield, Urban Institute) will deliver a lecture over Zoom titled “Non-arrival: The Spiritual Dispositions of the Urban Surrounds.”
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Join Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Salwa el-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Samuel Llano, Kimberly Holton, and Michael Christoforidis for an event celebrating the release of "Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain: Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula."
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 9 am.
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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.
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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.
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Designing a new course or redesigning an existing one can seem like a long and winding journey. Principles of good course design can provide you with a roadmap to chart your course and know that you are on the right path. Join our interactive workshop where we will explore best practices in course design and perhaps spark your interest to explore these topics more deeply.
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Dr. Ferreira will discuss experiences of mutual-aid economies in community-engaged research initiatives that she has co-created as a popular educator and community-engaged scholar. She will reflect on the role of scholars of economic justice in perpetrating or dismantling the intellectual industrial complex...
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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.
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating with others in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Registration closes 1 hour prior
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Participants can choose in-person or online.
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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In this 2-hour hybrid workshop, we will explore the mail merge features in Microsoft Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. We will also learn about email merge.
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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.
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In this 2-hour hybrid course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In this two-hour workshop, learn how to create and work with Access tables. We will create a table using application parts and from scratch. We will create a primary key and start entering data. We will work with fields in a table (adding, deleting, re-arranging and setting field properties). We will finish up by using lookup fields and calculated fields in a table.
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In this two hour online workshop attendees will learn how to create and work with Access forms. We will create a new form using the form wizard and explore the layout view and the design view. We will learn how to modify the controls in the form as well as add new controls, including a calculated control and lookup control.
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Join us online on the first Thursdays of the month from 12pm - 1pm as we welcome new faculty, new stories, and new ways of thinking about the art of teaching.
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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 Adobe Illustrator.
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Join us for a discussion on the challenges and benefits of incorporating artificial intelligence into your writing assignments in a range of disciplines. This interactive presentation, led by Rhetoric Program faculty, will focus on generative writing technologies like ChatGPT. We'll provide recommendations for talking about these tools with students, for handling instances
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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In this 2-hour online course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.
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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
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We welcome walk-ins or scheduled appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays from 12-4 pm in the CITL Innovation Studio (Armory 172) or virtually. visit https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/instructional-spaces-technologies/teaching-with-technology/generative-artificial-intelligence/gen-ai-training-and-consultations/ for more information
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A properly designed database makes it easier to work with up-to-date, accurate information. Investing the time required to learn the principles of good relational database design ensures that you will end up with a database that meets your needs and can easily accommodate change. This workshop provides guidelines for planning an Access database.
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with selections in preparation to edit images. Participants can select online or in-person.
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In this two-hour class, learn how to create and work with Access reports. Create a basic report and explore the layout and design view. In design view we will add controls and set the properties for those controls; learn about calculated controls, apply the sort & group feature to the data in the report, and finish up with graphics (themes and conditional formatting).
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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 with Auto-connect.
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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.
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will cover working with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Participants can choose in-person or online.
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In this 2-hour hybrid workshop we will explore features for managing information in tables. These features make typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever. Topics will also include removing duplicate data; and applying professional-looking formatting.
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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.
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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.
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking at the 2024 American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco, CA about his new book.
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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.
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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.
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Join Dick Simpson and Betty O'Shaughnessy and contributors for an event celebrating the release of Chicago's Modern Mayors: From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot.
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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.
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the San Francisco Bay Area Institute for Historical Study about his new book.
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Join Patrick Wohl, author of Down Ballot: How a Local Campaign Became a National Referendum on Abortion, for a book talk at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites", will be signing books and speaking at the Fountaindale Public Library District about their new book.
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Claudia Lennhoff (Champaign County Health Care Consumers) and Wanda Ward (Executive Associate Chancellor for Public Engagement) will talk about the Hope Village Project.
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Leta Miller, author of "Union Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality", will be signing books and speaking virtually with the Osher Lifelong Learners Institute at UCSC about her new book.
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Swami Tyagananda will be presenting a public lecture at Spurlock, “Learning from Rāmāyana.”
