Technology Consultations and Courses
The Center for Integrated Professional Development and its partners offer a variety of consultations on teaching with various types of software. Browse the categories on this page for additional information. We and our partners also offer workshops on select topics covering common applications used by both faculty and staff on campus.
Technology Courses
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Registration for events is now handled through iPeople, unless otherwise specified. When registering from off campus locations, users may be asked to complete Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Users can see what they have previously registered for and cancel registrations by logging in to this tracking page.
If you have questions about the content of a workshop or need an accommodation to fully participate, please email ProDev@ilstu.edu. If you receive an error message while attempting to register, please contact the Technology Support Center.
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Consultations
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Teaching Technology
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Microsoft Office
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Adobe Creative Cloud
To schedule a one-on-one consultation to learn more about a particular tool and how you can use it to help enhance your course and student learning, please fill out this form to request a consultation with a member of our team.
To find basic how-to or troubleshooting guides for these technologies, visit Technology Solutions’ Help Center. If you currently are using one of the tools listed below and are experiencing any issue, please contact the Technology Support Center.
Canvas
Canvas is the learning management system at Illinois State University. You can use Canvas to facilitate assignments, discussions, grades, syllabi, course materials, tests and quizzes, course-related communication, and more.
Canvas Studio
Canvas Studio is a video-hosting tool integrated with Canvas that allows you to record, edit, and share videos. Studio can be used for sharing video lectures with students, creating vlog posts, and more.
Padlet
Padlet is a web-based program that allows you to organize content for students in multiple layouts, such as websites, bulletin boards, blogs, or portfolios.
Nearpod
Nearpod is a web-based teaching tool replacing classroom clickers at Illinois State. Nearpod can be used to create interactive lessons and assessments to engage students online and in the classroom.
Zoom
Zoom is the University's online conferencing platform. Zoom can be used for leading synchronous class sessions online, recording lectures, small group meetings, and more.
Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) is a collection of apps and communication tools, including Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), available to all current students, faculty, and staff at Illinois State University.
The Center for Integrated Professional Development can offer guidance on using the Microsoft suite to help enhance, organize, and communicate when teaching.
To learn more about a particular tool and how you can use these tools to help enhance your course and student learning, please email ProDev@ilstu.edu to request a one-on-one consultation with a member of our team.
To find basic how-to or troubleshooting guides for these technologies, visit Technology Solutions’ Help Center. If you currently are using one of the tools listed below and are experiencing any issue, please contact the Technology Support Center.
Excel
Excel is a multipurpose spreadsheet tool used that can be used to format, organize, and calculate data.
Forms
Microsoft Forms is a quick, easy, mobile-friendly way to create sign-up forms, polls, and surveys.
OneDrive
OneDrive allows you to upload and sync files to cloud-based storage and then access the files from a web browser on your computer or mobile device. OneDrive is strongly recommended for the storage of individual University files. Files stored in OneDrive are backed up and secure. They are also available from any connected device, and can be synced automatically to and from your primary device, allowing for offline usage.
OneNote and Class Notebook
OneNote is a digital notebook application that allows multi-user collaboration. It is a note taking tool that also allows users to share notes, drawings, screen clippings, and more.
Class Notebook lets you as the instructor quickly set up a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities, all within one powerful notebook.
PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a tool to create compelling slide shows for classes, conferences, and more. PowerPoints can include video, voiceovers, and other mutlimedia elements to more effectively communicate information.
Teams
Teams is a chat-centered workspace in Microsoft 365. Teams puts together people, conversations, files, and other tools so groups can collaborate on projects or assignments and everyone has instant access to everything they need.
Word
Microsoft Word is a word processing tool that allows you to create, edit, and share documents. It is useful for sharing course content, collaborating with others when writing, and more.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services that gives users access to a collection of software for graphic design, video editing, web development, and photography, along with a set of mobile applications and some optional cloud services.
The Center for Integrated Professional Development can offer guidance on using the Adobe Creative Cloud to help create, edit, and share digital multimedia when teaching.
To learn more about a particular tool and how you can use these tools to help enhance your course and student learning, please email ProDev@ilstu.edu to request a one-on-one consultation with a member of our team.
To find basic how-to or troubleshooting guides for the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of tools, visit Adobe at Illinois State. If you currently are using one of the tools listed below and are experiencing any issue, please contact the Technology Support Center.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Create compelling media with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, a browser-based, mobile-friendly graphic design app (formerly called Adobe Spark).
Adobe Portfolio
Adobe Portfolio is an easy-to-use portfolio website creation and management tool.
Adobe XD
Adobe XD is an application used for prototyping apps designed for smart phones, tablets, or the web. It can be downloaded from the Adobe Creative Cloud as part of ISU's Adobe license.
Illustrator
Illustrator allows you to make compelling graphics with this comprehensive layout tool.
InDesign
InDesign is a page layout editor that allows you to place and move graphics and text to create an aesthetically pleasing format for printing.
Photoshop
Photoshop is a powerful digital image editing program.
Premiere Rush
Premiere Rush is a comprehensive video editing tool that supports cutting, color correcting, adding text to your videos, and much more.
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Canvas and Online Education Courses
Grading and Feedback
Register by:
Monday, October 7
Synchronous session:
Tuesday, October 8 • 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Online
Register by:
Wednesday, October 9
Synchronous session:
Thursday, October 10 • 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Online
Facilitators:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional
Development
Addy Lamb, Center for Integrated Professional Development
This is a hands-on tour of how you can use the Canvas Grades features to communicate with your students. You will get a tour of sorting data in the gradebook, using SpeedGrader and the annotation and comments feature. You will have time to try out your skills during the workshop and learn how you can use this a way to motivate your students. Registration is required.
Create Videos Within Canvas
Register by:
Friday, October 11
Synchronous session:
Monday, October 14 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitators:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development
You do not have to be a video production specialist to incorporate video into your Canvas courses. Import videos from your computer or record video from your webcam or screen capture—quickly and easily. All videos will be automatically closed captioned. You can record videos once and embed them into multiple courses for teaching, assignments, assessment, and feedback. You can also see how long each of your students has watched your videos. You will also learn how to easily edit your videos and share them with users inside and outside of ISU. Registration is required.
Canvas Studio: Engage Students with Instructor Video
Register by:
Wednesday, October 16
Synchronous session:
Thursday, October 17 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitators:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Greg Maier, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Students report that courses which incorporate instructor videos into their Canvas courses are much more engaging and effective than those containing only text and still images. In this workshop, you will learn how to build interactivity into your videos by inserting hyperlinks and test questions--turning videos into graded assignments. You can also create assignments where students can record videos within Canvas and submit them as gradable assignments in Canvas SpeedGrader. You can also create video-based discussion boards. This workshop assumes that you have attended the “Create Video Within Canvas” workshop or have used Canvas Studio. Registration is required.
Building Regular and Substantive Interaction into Your Online
Register by:
Wednesday, October 23
Synchronous session:
Thursday, October 24 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Tony Piña, Center for Integrated Professional Development
Explore ways to increase interactivity and engagement within your online courses, while also meeting federal regulations for distance education. Regular and substantive interaction (RSI) is a federal requirement for all online courses that distinguishes “distance education” from “correspondence education”—the latter is ineligible to be paid for by federal financial funding (i.e., the University must return all financial aid tuition used for the course). Come and learn what constitutes RSI and how you can build RSI into your courses. (Hint: You are likely already doing some of this.)
Registration is required.
Quick Start for Canvas
Register by:
Friday, November 1
Synchronous session:
Monday, November 4 • 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional
Development
New to teaching in Canvas? Still working on building out your Canvas site and need a quick crash course as the semester begins? This workshop packs a lot in just 90 minutes. Learn how to get started with the most important settings and tools, create basic course content using Pages and Modules, communicate with students using Announcements and Inbox, create Assignments, and navigate the Gradebook. The Quick Start for Canvas workshop is a fast-paced combination of several of our most popular workshops all in one. Registration required.
Canvas Tips All Instructors Should Know
Register by:
Tuesday, November 5
Synchronous session:
Wednesday, November 6 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Steve Travers, Center for Integrated Professional
Development
Instructors at ISU who are using Canvas have had a year to familiarize themselves with using the LMS. In this workshop, we will briefly discuss several “tips and tricks” that can enhance your Canvas courses. These tips can help you address minor troubleshooting questions, enhance your course design, and streamline your Canvas experience. Registration is required.
Canvas: Gradebook Clinic
Register by:
Friday, November 30
Monday, December 2 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online
Register by:
Tuesday, December 3
Wednesday, December 4 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Allison Hauser, Center for Integrated Professional
Development
This workshop will focus on how the tools in Canvas can help you grade more effectively and quickly! In addition to covering the basics of entering grades, organizing and weighing assignments, and setting gradebook policies, you'll learn how to use SpeedGrader to quickly view, annotate, and grade a variety of assignments. This workshop will focus on tips, tricks, and features that will help you tackle grading in no time! Registration is required.
Technology Courses
Creating Articles for News.IllinoisState
Wednesday, December 11 • 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Register by December 9)
Thursday, January 23 • 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Register by January 21)
Wednesday, February 12 • 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Register by February 10)
Tuesday, March 18 • 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (Register by March 17)
Thursday, April 10 • 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Register by April 7)
Online
Facilitator:
Kevin Bersett, University Marketing and Communications
Learn how to use the News.IllinoisState.edu content management system, powered by WordPress, to add news articles, tag them to feed to multiple locations (including your website), insert images, photo galleries, and more. This workshop is open to faculty and staff only. Registration is required.
Please note: To participate in one of these events, please email Kevin Bersett (kdberse@IllinoisState.edu) before the registration deadline. He will provide you with the relevant Zoom link and a document to review prior to the session, which will be a quick review of the materials and an opportunity to ask questions and receive clarification on any directions that may be unclear.
Omni CMS (OU Campus)
Thursday, August 8 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Thursday, September 12 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Thursday, October 10 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Thursday, November 14 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Thursday, December 12 • 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Online
Facilitator:
Dan Stanislaus,
WEB and Interactive Communications
Learn how to use Omni CMS (formerly OU Campus), Illinois State's primary content management system for department and college websites. This training covers all the basic vocabulary of websites and goes over how to edit and publish content. You'll also learn how to request more complex website updates from the WEB staff, such as layout changes, adding pages, navigation, and more.
Registration is required.
To learn more about other web-based platforms such as our About websites or Digital Measures, request assistance from the
Technology Support Center.