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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

Anthology Ally is a powerful tool in your ICON courses. It provides instructors guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials. Join us to learn how this tool works, how you can make your course sites more accessible, and how it can increase students' ability to engage with your course materials.

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The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

HPC Workshop: Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 10:00am to 4:00pm
University Capitol Centre

ITS - Research Services hosts an one-day intensive workshop on Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP. This workshop will be led by experts from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and will take place in a training room equipped with two-way video communication between participants and the lecturer.

Please note that all participants must be present at the hosting location, as there will be no option for individual remote participation via video call (e.g., Zoom). ITS-RS staff will assist...

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Microsoft Teams: Webinars

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 10:00am to 10:45am
Virtual

This session provides a step-by-step guide to planning, configuring, and running webinars in Microsoft Teams. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course.

Design Your Own Copilot Agent: Custom AI for Everyday Tasks

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Hands-on with Microsoft Copilot Agents: create, customize, and collaborate using everyday AI.
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Course Help for Accessibility in ICON (CHAI)

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 11:00am to 1:00pm
Virtual

This time is for in-person and online accessibility support. OTLT staff will be available to help instructors make ICON course sites and digital documents, including PDFs, more accessible. They'll also assist instructors in taking advantage of tools like TidyUP and Ally to simplify the process.

Instructors are invited to drop in anytime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. during these sessions.

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PDF Fixes for Accessibility

Thursday, March 12, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

This training session will teach you about the pitfalls of PDF files and how to replace or remediate them to help make your materials meet digital accessibility standards. We will learn about the tools we have on campus to help with this process and provide a demo on how to fix PDFs and make your documents better.

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The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON...

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Course Help for Accessibility in ICON (CHAI)

Thursday, March 12, 2026 11:00am to 1:00pm
Virtual

This time is for in-person and online accessibility support. OTLT staff will be available to help instructors make ICON course sites and digital documents, including PDFs, more accessible. They'll also assist instructors in taking advantage of tools like TidyUP and Ally to simplify the process.

Instructors are invited to drop in anytime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. during these sessions.

Register for event.

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Artificial Intelligence Lightning Talks

Thursday, March 12, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
March AI Lightning Talks

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Thursday, March 12, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Designed for users who already understand the basics, this session dives deeper into prompt engineering techniques to generate more precise, creative, and impactful generative artificial intelligence responses.
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Destination PDF: Basic PDF Remediation

Friday, March 13, 2026 10:30am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Tools and features to help you make your PDF content more accessible.