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Survey Accessibility in a Flash: Universal Design for Universal Insight

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00pm to 12:50pm
Virtual
Join the Center for Social Science Innovation and the Office of Civil Rights Compliance for a quick introduction to survey accessibility, with a focus on the importance of accessibility in survey research and best practices during survey recruitment, development, and deployment. The workshop will introduce participants to general principles of digital accessibility and use Qualtrics to demonstrate best practices for developing accessible recruitment materials and surveys. The strategies learned from this workshop will be applicable to a range of survey design needs, including for research purposes and for distributing general feedback surveys.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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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What Your Students Wish You Knew About ICON

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

This session will cover ways to set up and organize your ICON site so students can easily navigate it, complete work, and monitor their progress.

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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, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa...

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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Thursday, April 16, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual

This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department...

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot: How AI Can Assist You

Friday, April 17, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
An introductory training on Copilot
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PDF Fixes for Accessibility

Friday, April 17, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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...

Introduction to ChatGPT Edu: Key Features and Best Practices

Monday, April 20, 2026 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
An introductory training to ChatGPT Edu
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LaTeX Accessibility with MathJax and Pressbooks

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

LaTeX markup language is an efficient and powerful way to prepare mathematical equations and formulae to share with others, but PDF outputs of LaTeX don't meet important accessibility standards. This training will demonstrate how to transform your LaTeX files into HTML, use MathJax to make them more accessible, and share them with others in the Pressbooks platform.

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The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and...

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Generative AI 101: Foundations and Use Cases

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
This introductory training will help participants learn about generative AI in practice
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Microsoft Teams: Webinars

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 11:00am to 11:45am
Virtual

Microsoft Teams offers powerful tools for delivering large-scale events--including webinars and town halls. This session provides a step-by-step guide to planning, configuring, and running large events. Participants will learn how to choose the right Teams format, manage presenters and attendees, and apply best practices for smooth, accessible, and interactive experiences.