Events
Nov 11, 2025 - Nov 18, 2025
Quick Start Workshop: Using the Pope Tech Accessibility Tool
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.
Lindsey Sharp
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82495297362?pwd=1wwaXsmDrto9cyZU35ZFAKWfAFCioW.1
Jean Drasgow
https://choose.illinois.edu/register/?id=eb4495a7-8770-4ce0-b403-06e2d3212ef0
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/85970622537?pwd=ZFlUZHk5K09ZQjZXZTN0MFFHcUFhZz09
Master Course in Online Teaching (MCOT)
CITL's Master Course in Online Teaching (MCOT) is a deep dive into online teaching strategies that extends what was presented during previous teaching academies. Prior participation in an instructional development series is not required but professional experience with university level instruction is strongly encouraged.
David Favre
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88046400884?pwd=wPU6eRLb6uuIvywB5Cn7q9QP1BshUg.1
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your MS Excel Spreadsheets Accessible, Part 2
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.
Lori Lane
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81668147748?pwd=VSuHEPePFKKzatOqo3TwbzIwTaorxN.1
The Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Fame Fireside Chat
Illini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
Hands-on Introduction to Generative AI
This workshop gives participants a grounded, practical understanding of generative AI. Through a series hands-on exercises participants will explore how these tools generate responses, where their limits show up, and how to use them creatively without overestimating their abilities.
Jim Wentworth
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81792928204?pwd=TYY6HerWj4CadepxHD1edXSwqgdSJR.1
Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.
Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building
Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.
Innovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building
Cultivating Learning Communities
Learning communities are a powerful way for people to come together to achieve common learning goals. However, fostering conditions that promote productive social knowledge construction can be daunting to even the most experienced facilitators. Please join us as we discuss effective ways to establish and grow valuable learning communities.
David Favre
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87468304937?pwd=ZEZqcmeZlsR4IlnDaHh74SjNSNr9Wk.1
Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible, Part 2
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
Ky Merkley
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86490683055?pwd=rZ85lg59xK2s1UuITmR2HZKmdBltoK.1