ACES - Master Calendar of Technology Events

ACES - Master Calendar of Technology Events

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    • 9:30 - 10:30 am    4/24/2025
    • 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    4/24/2025
    • 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    4/24/2025

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Thur afternoon    4/24/2025
    • 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    4/24/2025

    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 naming tables, labeling header cells and workbook titles and sheets, creating accessible links, and working with colors and color testing tools.

    • 11:00 - 11:55 am   Fri morning    4/25/2025

    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

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am    4/29/2025

    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    4/29/2025
    • 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

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Tue afternoon    4/29/2025

    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 - 11:55 am   Wed morning    4/30/2025
    • 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

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am    5/1/2025
    • 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    5/1/2025
    • 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    5/1/2025

    • 12:00 pm    5/1/2025
    • Zoom

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Thur afternoon    5/1/2025
    • 330 Armory or online

    Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.

    • 11:00 - 11:55 am   F morning    5/2/2025

    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.

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Tue morning    5/6/2025
    • 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.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    5/6/2025

    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.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Tue afternoon    5/6/2025
    • 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.

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am    5/8/2025
    • 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    5/8/2025
    • 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.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    5/8/2025

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Thur afternoon    5/8/2025
    • 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    5/13/2025

    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=5885

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am    5/15/2025
    • 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

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    5/15/2025

    • 1:00 - 2:55 pm   Thur afternoon    5/15/2025
    • 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.

    • 2:00 - 3:30 pm    5/20/2025

    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=5885

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    5/22/2025

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    5/27/2025

    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.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm    5/29/2025

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    6/3/2025

    Get up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Excel and then jump right into practice. By the end of this workshop, you’ll be well on your way to creating inclusive spreadsheets that meet State and Federal accessibility standards.

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