Technology Services Calendar
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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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Join us on Tuesday, June 17 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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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
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Which company will win the coveted golden paddle? Could it be yours? Sign up for one of the year's most anticipated events in Research Park: The 14th Annual Table Tennis Tournament.
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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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Which company will win the coveted golden paddle? Could it be yours? Sign up for one of the year's most anticipated events in Research Park: The 14th Annual Table Tennis Tournament.
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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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.
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2025 Research Park Softball League.
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Join us on Tuesday, June 24 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Join us on Thursday, June 26 from 2-3 p.m. for a workshop on Content Planning Made Easy for Marketing Success at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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Join us on Thursday, June 26 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, June 27 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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This workshop focuses on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework as a means for making design choices that ensure that all students are able to meet course and developmental goals
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Once the groundwork for your course is set, it is time to start building in earnest. In this session, you will learn the basics for crafting good learning objectives, and then start developing the objectives that will guide the rest of your course design.
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This workshop focuses on developing assessments designed to help students achieve the learning objectives of your course. We will examine different types of assessments and consider their respective strengths and downsides. You will then set to work choosing the assessments for your course.
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In a good course, your activities should count as good practice for your assessments, and since your assessments are well-aligned with your objectives, your activities will also help your students achieve their learning goals. Come learn a few activities in this workshop, how to find even more activities, and then start selecting activities to include in your course.
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2025 Research Park Softball League.
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Assemble your teams! Join us on Tuesday, July 1 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM for the Research Park Hackathon. This one-day hackathon is a team competition open to anyone working for an organization in the Research Park. This is an exciting and fast-paced event where teams can create together.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 1 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.
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Join us on Wednesday, July 2 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for the Research Park Blood Drive at EnterpriseWorks.
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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.
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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.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 8 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.
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Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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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.
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2025 Research Park Softball League.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 15 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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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
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Join us on Thursday, July 17 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2025 Research Park Softball League.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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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
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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.
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Join us to on Thursday, July 24 from 4 to 5:30 PM on the Atkins Patio to recognize and celebrate the amazing work of student interns working in the Research Park.
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Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, July 25 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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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.
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Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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Learn the accessibility requirements for videos for your departmental or course videos and audio files. This training will cover video accessibility requirements, designing videos with accessibility in mind, captioning, audio descriptions, and transcripts, as well as what to look for when choosing software or a vendor for in-house or outsourced captioning.
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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.
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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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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
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Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, August 20 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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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.
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Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.
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Join us on Thursday, August 21 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, August 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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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
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Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, September 12 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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Join us on Thursday, September 25 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, August 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, October 10 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 22 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, August 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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Join us on Thursday, October 30 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
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Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, December 10 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, December 12 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
