Technology Services Calendar

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  • Images of one male and one female grad student with text "Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation"
    • All Day    3/1/2024

    New option for graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to graduate students in almost every Grainger Engineering program. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am    3/1/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    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. 

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    3/1/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, March 1 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. The user group aims to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking.

    • 1:30 - 3:00 pm    3/1/2024
    • Room 182, Armory Building (east side of the building)

    Do you want to learn more about using Generative AI pedagogically? Are you interested in getting a better understanding of how these tools and platforms might help with classroom engagement and practice? Here is an interactive, engaging workshop for you.

    • 12:00 - 7:00 pm    3/4/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks and Illinois Conference Center

    Held in tandem with the AgTech Innovation Summit, AgTech Industry Connect provides an opportunity for teams to network with hundreds of attendees and representatives from major agricultural companies.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/4/2024
    • Room 1040 NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm    3/4/2024
    • 4029 Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)

    Join us for a panel of inspiring women engineers and entrepreneurial leaders, followed by a networking reception with refreshments, fun, and door prizes!

    • All Day    3/5/2024
    • Illinois Conference Center, 1900 S First St, Champaign, IL

    One of the premier AgTech hubs in the nation, Champaign-Urbana is uniquely positioned to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and industry for learning, networking and advancing this sector. 

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Tues afternoon    3/5/2024

    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).

    • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm    3/6/2024
    • Room 182, Armory Building (east side of the building)

    How well are you measuring student learning? Assessment is one of the most complex and stressful responsibilities of an instructor. Is your assessment fair? Valid? What would your students say? Come learn best practices for constructing a test.

    • 1:00 - 1:55 pm   Wed afternoon    3/6/2024

    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

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Wed. afternoon    3/6/2024

    In this 2-hour online course you will learn how to use some of the data analysis features and tools using Excel. Topics will include learning how to subtotal a list of data; set up data validation rules; use Goal Seek, Solver, and Scenarios and basic data tables.

    • 12:00 pm    3/7/2024

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    3/7/2024

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    3/8/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Join the AI User Group on Friday, March 8 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Tues afternoon    3/12/2024
    • 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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Wed afternoon    3/13/2024
    • 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.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    3/14/2024

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Thur afternoon    3/14/2024
    • 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.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    3/15/2024

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Mon. afternoon    3/18/2024
    • 329 Armory / online

    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.

    • 9:00 am - 4:15 pm   Tuesday    3/19/2024

    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.

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm    3/19/2024

    Learn the basics of Illinois REDCap and how it can be used for the collection of research data, including how to create projects, instruments, and surveys and how to start collecting research data.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm   Wed morning    3/20/2024

    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.

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Wed. afternoon    3/20/2024

    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.

    • 2:30 - 3:30 pm    3/20/2024

    • 9:30 - 10:45 am    3/21/2024
    • Remote workshop via Zoom

    Developing skills and knowledge that can be used to succeed at real-world tasks is a strong source of motivation for many students. Authentic assessments conceptually mimic these tasks and are a more valid means of measuring learning objectives compared to conventional means of assessment.Join us as we investigate using authentic assessment effectively in our courses.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    3/21/2024

    • 10:00 - 11:30 am    3/22/2024
    • Armory Building, Room 182

    Come to this workshop to begin the process of identifying your teaching philosophy, deciding which parts of it belong in your statement, and avoiding common mistakes.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    3/22/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    3/22/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Join us on Friday, March 22, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for Intro to Pricing Strategies with Illinois Ventures Senior Director Tom Parkinson.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    3/22/2024
    • Armory Building Room 182

    Calling all faculty and teaching assistants who are currently using or are interested in using alternative methods for grading (i.e. Labor based grading, Ungrading) in their courses. Join faculty members Kary Zarate (Education) and Clara Bosak-Schroeder (Classics) for an informal discussion about their assessment practices.

    • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm   Tues. morning    3/26/2024
    • 329 Armory / online

    Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short hybrid course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.

    • 1:00 - 1:50 pm    3/26/2024

    Learn the advanced ways Illinois REDCap can be used to collect research data, including how to build or edit projects with a Data Dictionary, collecting data with repeatable instruments, and collecting longitudinal data with defined events.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    3/26/2024

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Tues. afternoon    3/26/2024
    • 329 Armory / online

    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.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning    3/27/2024
    • 330 Armory

    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.

    • 11:45 am - 1:00 pm    3/27/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Join us on Wednesday, March 27, from 11:30 to 1:00 PM for a Women in Tech Luncheon featuring University of Illinois Chief Information Officer Mairead Martin.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Thur morning    3/28/2024
    • 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.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm    3/28/2024

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    3/28/2024

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    • 3:30 - 4:00 pm    3/28/2024
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 3:30 PM, join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of the different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.

    • All Day    3/31/2024