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Microsoft Teams: Meetings

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 10:00am to 10:45am
Virtual
This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To...
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Microsoft Teams: Structure and Manage Your Team (Best Practices)

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 10:00am to 10:45am
Virtual
This course is designed for anyone who creates a team or has been given the team owner role in an existing team. Team owners have access to settings and capabilities that members do not see. This training will discuss how best to create a team, choose settings based upon your needs, and manage the team throughout its existence. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team...
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Syllabus Savvy: Communicating AI Expectations

Thursday, June 26, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
College of Pharmacy Building
Learn how to model clear instructions about AI use, ways to create AI disclosure statements, and suggestions for maintaining ongoing conversations about your AI policies.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...
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Accessibility Workflow: Remediating Inaccessible PDFs

Thursday, June 26, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Making an inaccessible PDF more accessible can seem like a heavy lift. In this session, we'll explore reliable techniques for remediating PDF documents to make them more accessible for all users. Using Adobe Acrobat Pro and PAC 24, we'll take very inaccessible documents and make them more usable, easier to navigate, and a better addition to your website or ICON course. In the process, we'll also take a realistic look at alternatives to PDF and what you can do when an old document simply can't be...
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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Thursday, June 26, 2025 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Virtual
The University of Iowa is currently in the process of migrating from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams for telephony services. This course will show you how to place calls, transfer calls, set up voicemail, assign delegates, and more.
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Microsoft Teams: An Introduction

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training...
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Microsoft Loop: Getting Started with Loop Components

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Virtual
Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will focus on Loop components, which are portable components that move freely and stay in sync across Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 tools.

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot: How AI Can Assist You

Thursday, July 3, 2025 10:00am
Virtual
Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe. This introductory level...
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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 11:00am to 11:45am
Virtual
The University of Iowa is currently in the process of migrating from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams for telephony services. This course will show you how to place calls, transfer calls, set up voicemail, assign delegates, and more.
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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 11:30am to 1:00pm
Virtual
Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to...