Technology Services Calendar

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Monday, April 14, 2025

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    ATLAS wants to gauge your familiarity with Digital Accessibility and learn how our team can help you get your online course materials digitally accessible. We will be hosting four online focus groups in the coming weeks. To facilitate discussion, each session has a limited number of seats, so please register in advance.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 12:00 - 1:15 pm

    Teaching presence strongly impacts the way students build their knowledge in your course. In this session, you will learn how to strategically apply your teaching presence to the critical roles you have as a Teaching Assistant and gain insights from outstanding faculty here at Illinois.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Join us on Monday, April 14 from 1 to 2 PM for a Zoom webinar on "Startup Incorporation: The What, When & How" with Alan Singleton.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    • 304 English Building

    Join us for a panel discussion on AI in Teaching & Learning as part of the ATLAS Seminar Series, where faculty from across LAS and campus will share their experiences, insights, and lessons learned from the use of AI in their courses.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

    • 9:00 am - 4:15 pm   Tuesday
    • 330 Armory or online

    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.

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    ATLAS wants to gauge your familiarity with Digital Accessibility and learn how our team can help you get your online course materials digitally accessible. We will be hosting four online focus groups in the coming weeks. To facilitate discussion, each session has a limited number of seats, so please register in advance.

    • 12:00 - 4:00 pm
    • Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building

    Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free! 

    • 2:00 - 3:00 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.

    • 6:00 pm
    • Illinois Field, 601 E Kirby Ave, Champaign, IL

    Employees who work in the Research Park are invited to join our staff once a month for a series of networking socials throughout the community.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Thursday, April 17, 2025

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am
    • 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

    • 10:30 - 11:30 am

    REDCap users can schedule 15-30 minutes for discussions of general REDCap matters or items related to a specific REDCap project. Sign up for remote office hours with a REDCap Application Specialist.

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    • 11:00 am - 12:00 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.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Please join us for an overview of what it means for an online course to be certified as part of the LAS Online program. We will explain what certification entails and its advantages for students, instructors, and departments. We will review the certification standards.

Friday, April 18, 2025