Information Services offers various opportunities for professional development for faculty, staff, and students throughout the year. Please see below for current options, including schedule and registration information.
Please let us know if you'd like to arrange for any customized group instruction or individual mentoring.
See the Staff Council's Professional Development page for other training topics.
All of the sessions below will be offered in Corns 109 (unless otherwise noted), and led by our Instructional Technologist, David Soliday, unless noted otherwise. Workshops include lunch for all who register by the evening before the event. Information Services also provides customized group instruction and individual training upon request.
The registration form will return in the fall. (Login to OWU BishopApps required.)
Spring 2019 |
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| Date | Time | Workshop Title and Description |
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| Tues., 2/5 | Noon to 1 PM |
New BishopMail/Gmail Interface Stay composed--a fresh, updated interface for OWU BishopApps Mail on the web is here. Do more without leaving your Inbox: the new view helps you get more done by presenting action buttons--like Mark as Read--and attachment links in the Inbox view. You can also hide the folder list to give you more room to work with your mail. |
| Fri., 2/15 | Noon to 1 PM |
Google Course Kit in Blackboard Learn Course Kit allows educators to use BishopApps tools, like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, within Blackboard Learn without disrupting classroom management or work flows. Course Kit features a built-in grading tool that allows you to manage all feedback in one central place. Best of all, it supports the single document, cloud-based platform, without any downloading, uploading, or converting files. |
| Tues., 2/19 | Noon to 1 PM |
BigTree Intermediate Dig deeper into callout blocks, templates and modules. Or just bring your questions about our main website’s content management system. Focus on livening up your web pages. |
| Fri., 2/22 | Noon to 1 PM |
Starfish Starfish is an online student success system that provides a comprehensive view of student interactions campus-wide. This service, available to students, faculty, academic advisors, and student support staff, streamlines workflow to provide the best service for students while increasing the ability for instructors and advisors to provide feedback or react to student needs. |
| Tues., 2/26 | Noon to 1 PM |
BishopApps/Google Calendar Come and learn how to take advantage of the communication and collaboration features that are integrated throughout OWU BishopApps: Calendar, BishopMail, Hangouts, Contacts, and more. |
| Thurs., 2/28 | Noon to 1 PM |
Examity Test Proctoring in Blackboard Examity online proctoring, used in summer online courses, is available for traditional semester courses as well--whether or not you're using Blackboard for the course. It increases the efficiency, security, and convenience of online testing by verifiing student identity and and observing them taking the test while also recording the video, thus preventing cheating. This service may be used as an alternative to the Testing Center for students with accommodations or otherwise unable to take a test in class. |
| Tues., 3/5 | Noon to 1 PM |
Google Drive File Stream and Team Drives Come learn about Google Team Drives--shared spaces where your teams can easily store, search, and access their files anywhere, from any device. Team Drive files belong to the team instead of an individual. Even if members leave, the files stay exactly where they are so your team can continue to share information and work. And then Google Drive File Stream allows you to access all your Drive files from your computer, as if they were actually ON your computer. |
| Thurs., 3/7 | Noon to 1 PM |
Examity Test Proctoring in Blackboard Examity online proctoring, used in summer online courses, is available for traditional semester courses as well--whether or not you're using Blackboard for the course. It increases the efficiency, security, and convenience of online testing by verifiing student identity and and observing them taking the test while also recording the video, thus preventing cheating. This service may be used as an alternative to the Testing Center for students with accommodations or otherwise unable to take a test in class. |
| Wed., 3/20 | Noon to 1 PM |
Wordpress WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app, for a course, club, or for your own professional web presence. 28% of the web uses WordPress, from hobby blogs to the biggest news sites online. This intro session will get you started and up to speed. |
| Tues., 3/26 | Noon to 1 PM |
BigTree Intermediate Dig deeper into callout blocks, templates and modules. Or just bring your questions about our main website’s content management system. Focus on livening up your web pages. |
| Thurs., 3/28 | Noon to 1 PM |
What's New in Ad-Astra for Room Reservation Come and learn how to use schedule.owu.edu to request a room reservation, along with how to filter calendars by building or room to see if they're available. |
| Tues., 4/2 | Noon to 1 PM |
Google Forms Forms, part of our OWU BishopApps suite of online collaboration tools, is easy to use for web forms and online surveys or quizzes. You can use an OWU logo or your own image, choose from a bunch of question types with page branching or question skip logic. It's responsive, so it works well on your mobile devices. Responses are neatly and automatically organized into summary charts and graphs. Come and learn how to use it alone or with collaborators. |
| Thurs., 4/4 | Noon to 1 PM |
Degree Audit Introducing Degree Audit, our online degree planning and audit system. Students and advisors may use it for individual degree audits, “what if?” scenarios, and student planning. This session will introduce its basics and answer other questions you may have about it. |
| Tues., 4/9 | Noon to 1 PM |
WordPress Visual Form Builder VFB Pro is a WordPress plugin that helps you build beautiful, fully functional web forms in only a few minutes without writing code. It features conditional logic for field display and notifications. Come learn how you can easily incorporate this plugin into your WorPress site. |
| Thurs., 4/11 | Noon to 1 PM |
Examity Test Proctoring in Blackboard Examity online proctoring, used in summer online courses, is available for traditional semester courses as well--whether or not you're using Blackboard for the course. It increases the efficiency, security, and convenience of online testing by verifiing student identity and and observing them taking the test while also recording the video, thus preventing cheating. This service may be used as an alternative to the Testing Center for students with accommodations or otherwise unable to take a test in class. |
| Wed., 4/17 | Noon to 1 PM |
BigTree Intermediate Dig deeper into callout blocks, templates and modules. Or just bring your questions about our main website’s content management system. Focus on livening up your web pages. |
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Please return in August for fall training information. |
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NOTE: We may cancel workshops for insufficient registration. We will send notice of cancellation by the end of day before the session.
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