Generative AI Basics: This workshop is designed for instructors, students, and staff interested in learning the basics of generative artificial intelligence and its applications in academic and everyday settings. Attending this workshop will give participants a basic understanding of common GenAI tools and its relevance to  various educational and professional contexts. Additionally, participants will be introduced to high-level privacy, ethical, and equity issues, which will … Continue reading Generative AI Basics Workshop »

Join us for an immersive session on “Courage” , the 4th of the Five C’s of well-Being: Contentment, Calmness, Compassion, Courage, and Clarity. These are states of Being and form the foundation of psychological balance, emotional wellness, and mental clarity, leading to a life filled with happiness, fulfillment, and purpose. Courage is the mental or moral strength to take action in the face of danger, … Continue reading Unlocking the 4th Cornerstone of Well-Being: Courage »

Master the Art of Prompting with U-M GPT: Learn to prompt effectively using U-M GPT by exploring techniques for GenAI prompt engineering. This workshop offers hands-on activities and advanced applications in conversation manipulation and creative AI interaction. Dive deep into conversational prompts, rephrasing prompts, prompt style and tone, inserting text/data, and much more on your way to becoming a master of AI prompt engineering.  Level: Intermediate/Advanced … Continue reading Master the Art of Prompting with U-M GPT »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Gain insight into the resources and services available at the U-M Library and learn strategies for efficiently finding information for your research projects. Join a U-M Librarian as the questions below are explored: How can I access library resources remotely or in person? What kind of technology help can I get at the library? How can I find scholarly books and articles? What are some … Continue reading U-M Library Basics – Central Campus »

Start the New Year by setting a goal to enhance your mental well-being through meditation. Discover three simple techniques—relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation—in just three master classes. Relaxation brings your body into a calm, steady state, fostering physical stillness and preparing the mind for meditation. Rejuvenation clears the mind, helping to release stress and complex emotions, leaving you feeling light and refreshed. Meditation is a mindful … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

Spark your Digital Creativity! Curious about Generative AI and how it’s integrated into Adobe products? Learn how to write descriptive prompts to quickly and easily generate extraordinary image content with Adobe Firefly, Adobe Express, and DALL-E 3 in U-M GPT. No experience is needed. As a reminder, Michigan is an Adobe Creative Campus which gives students, faculty, and staff access to Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe … Continue reading Leveraging Generative AI to Create Imagery »

Transform Video Watching into Active Engagement Using Annoto (Winter 2025 Prep) Say goodbye to passive student video watching and hello to active video learning, empowering students to ask questions, share insights, and connect with course video content with Annoto, an in-video annotation tool for MiVideo/Kaltura in Canvas. Incorporate video-based feedback into assessments,  create in-video quizzes or meaningful discussions by letting your students add time-based annotations, use it as a … Continue reading Transform Video Watching into Active Engagement Using Annoto (Winter 2025 Prep) »

Getting Started with U-M Maizey: Do you want an around-the-clock assistant for your data, such as Canvas courses or cloud files? It’s possible with U-M’s Maizey GenAI tool! In this workshop, the benefits of Maizey will be explained- ranging from indexing a Canvas course to personal Google Drive or Dropbox files. This workshop will demonstrate a step-by-step process of setting up a Maizey project, as … Continue reading Getting Started with U-M Maizey »

Classes are incorporating more and more multimodal projects that ask students to produce final products that are public-facing. Accessibility is an essential component to creating digital content available on the internet. It is important that instructors are incorporating accessible design into their teaching and requirements of public-facing projects. This session will cover what accessibility is, why it is important, and guidance on what to teach … Continue reading Digital Accessibility Considerations for Public-facing Student Work »

1:1 Drop-In Office Hours- Teaching with Generative AI and ITS AI Services Join drop-in office hours with ITS Teaching & Learning and the ITS AI Service Teams to get your questions about teaching with Generative AI and AI tools at U-M answered. We will use the remote office hours queue tool to offer quick, 10-15-minute, 1:1 drop-in sessions to answer questions and offer support. Visit … Continue reading 1:1 Drop-In Office Hours- Teaching with Generative AI and ITS AI Services »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Boosting Teaching and Work Productivity with Generative AI: Ready to transform your teaching and work tasks and free up valuable time? Join our interactive workshop and discover how Generative AI (GenAI) tools can streamline your approach to teaching tasks, work tasks, course data, and administrative tasks. Get ready to boost your productivity and gain more time to engage with your students!  Level: Intermediate/Advanced Recommended Prerequisites: … Continue reading Boosting Teaching and Work Productivity with Generative AI »

This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell, also generically referred to as “the command line”. Topics include: a brief overview of Linux, the Bash shell, navigating the file system, basic commands, shell redirection, permissions, processes, and the command environment. The workshop will also provide a quick introduction to nano a simple … Continue reading Introduction to the Linux Command Line »

Tailoring U-M Maizey: Your Personalized Digital Assistant: Want a customized assistant for your data? Elevate your Maizey skills as we dive into the craft of ‘system prompting’ within the U-M Maizey interface. System prompts allow users to personalize how their Maizey will interact with end users, giving a Maizey project a custom persona. This workshop will also explore how to customize the temperature and chunk … Continue reading Tailoring U-M Maizey: Your Personalized Digital Assistant »

Accessible course materials play an important role in creating an equitable learning experience for all students. Accessible documents are ones that are available to all viewers and interpretable by assistive technology such as screen readers. In this session, you’ll learn how to structure documents with headers, use styles for consistency and meaningful structure, choose accessible colors or fonts, choose meaningful link text, and save a … Continue reading Creating Accessible Text Documents »

From Data to Action: Harnessing Learning Analytics in Your Course Delve into the world of learning analytics with this session designed to enhance your teaching and learning strategies. We’ll start with the basics, defining learning analytics and how it can inform educational practice. Explore readily available tools like Canvas New Analytics, MiVideo Analytics, and My Learning Analytics (MyLA- more info below) that offer actionable insights … Continue reading Cancelled – From Data to Action: Harnessing Learning Analytics in Your Course »

1:1 Drop-In Office Hours: Teaching with Generative AI and ITS AI Services Join drop-in office hours with ITS Teaching & Learning and the ITS AI Service Teams to get your questions about teaching with Generative AI and AI tools at U-M answered. We will use the remote office hours queue tool to offer quick, 10-15-minute, 1:1 drop-in sessions to answer questions and offer support. Visit … Continue reading 1:1 Drop-In Office Hours: Teaching with Generative AI and ITS AI Services »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Accessible course materials play an important role in creating an equitable learning experience for all students. But how do we do it? In this session, you’ll learn how to create more accessible images (including best practices for charts and diagrams) and video by considering alternative text, color and contrast, sizing, captioning and transcripts, and even the tools we use to create and share our content. … Continue reading Creating Accessible Images and Videos »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

OVERVIEW Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster This course is remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants. This workshop will introduce you to high performance computing on the Great Lakes cluster.  After a brief overview of the components of the cluster and the resources available there, the main body of the workshop will cover creating batch scripts and … Continue reading Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

Are you planning a digital project but don’t know where to start? Conceptualizing and planning for a digital project so that the research goals guide the technology and project, instead of the other way around can sometimes be difficult. In this workshop we will cover conceptualizing a research project with specific scholastic outcomes, objectives, and deliverables and learning the steps needed to plan for success. … Continue reading Digital Scholarship 101: Designing and Planning Your Digital Project »

OVERVIEW Advanced Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster This course is remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants for those who choose to attend remotely. This workshop will cover some more advanced topics in computing on the U-M Great Lakes Cluster.  Topics to be covered include a brief review of common parallel programming models and basic use of Great … Continue reading Advanced Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Start the New Year by setting a goal to enhance your mental well-being through meditation. Discover three simple techniques—relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation—in just three master classes. Relaxation brings your body into a calm, steady state, fostering physical stillness and preparing the mind for meditation. Rejuvenation clears the mind, helping to release stress and complex emotions, leaving you feeling light and refreshed. Meditation is a mindful … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

In advance of the deadline for applications to the Rackham International Research Awards (Feb 15), this hybrid session will offer general guidance for students and scholars who are planning to conduct research in archives, libraries and other cultural institutions abroad. The instructors will focus on identifying collections and materials of interest, gathering required documents and permissions for access, making contacts with local experts and institutions, … Continue reading Preparing for Research Abroad »

Celebrate Love Data Week by learning more about a way you can “love” your data and share it out more widely! Data articles are a type of publication where researchers can share detailed information about a data set. In this workshop, you will receive an introduction to data articles, what information is included in them, and how they differ from traditional journal articles. We will … Continue reading Love Data Week: Increase Your Data’s Impact With A Data Article »

Join us for an immersive session on “Clarity” , the 5th of the Five C’s of well-Being: Contentment, Calmness, Compassion, Courage, and Clarity. These are states of Being and form the foundation of psychological balance, emotional wellness, and mental clarity, leading to a life filled with happiness, fulfillment, and purpose. Clarity is the state of being where one is free from duality and delusions and … Continue reading Unlocking the 5th Cornerstone of Well-Being: Clarity »

Data, what is it, how and why is it managed, and why do granting agencies care? In this workshop we will talk about what counts as “data” from various definitions, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. Participants will go over the ethical concerns and considerations covered and answered by a data management plan, as well as the practical skills needed in developing and writing … Continue reading Digital Scholarship 101: Managing Your Data »

This workshop is an introduction to GPU programing for scientific and engineering applications. The basics of GPU architecture will be presented. Parallel programing strategies will be discussed followed by actual programing examples. Participants should be familiar with programming and how to use the Great Lakes computing cluster.  C/C++ examples will be provided to try on the Great Lakes GPU nodes.

From Data to Action: Harnessing Learning Analytics in Your Course Delve into the world of learning analytics with this session designed to enhance your teaching and learning strategies. We’ll start with the basics, defining learning analytics and how it can inform educational practice. Explore readily available tools like Canvas New Analytics, MiVideo Analytics, and My Learning Analytics (MyLA- more info below) that offer actionable insights … Continue reading From Data to Action: Harnessing Learning Analytics in Your Course »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

LSA is holding a grant showcase event on February 21 from 10:00am to 11:30am. All faculty, students, and staff are welcome! Recipients of LSA Teaching and Learning grants will present their grant projects and share some of their results. Grant recipients will present a 5 minute overview of their project. Presenters will then be available to sit down at tables, take questions and chat one-on-one … Continue reading 2025 Grant Showcase »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Introduction to GenAI: Unpacking Key Concepts This mini-workshop introduces instructors, students, and staff to the basics of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and its applications in academic and everyday settings. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of common GenAI tools and their relevance in various educational and professional contexts. Workshop Outline: What is GenAI? Definition and Overview Introduction to U-M GPT Exploring Key Concepts and Terminology … Continue reading New Mini Workshop: Introduction to GenAI: Unpacking Key Concepts »

Are you struggling to organize the sources that you’ve found for your research (journal articles, books, websites, reports, videos, and more)? Do you want to share those sources with your colleagues around the world? Do you spend hours trying to format your bibliography? Join us for this workshop to learn about Zotero, a free citation management tool! You will learn to: – Create and organize … Continue reading Introduction to Zotero for Citation Management »

You are an expert in your field, but you may not be an expert in Rackham’s rules around properly formatting your dissertation or thesis. In this online workshop, the experts from ScholarSpace will introduce you to lesser-known features of Microsoft Word that will help you ensure consistent formatting through the document, as well as manage margin size, insert captions, and create an automatic Table of … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

Introduction to GenAI: Unpacking Key Concepts This mini-workshop introduces instructors, students, and staff to the basics of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and its applications in academic and everyday settings. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of common GenAI tools and their relevance in various educational and professional contexts. Workshop Outline: What is GenAI? Definition and Overview Introduction to U-M GPT Exploring Key Concepts and Terminology … Continue reading New Mini-Workshop: Introduction to GenAI: Unpacking Key Concepts »

While physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness is essential to living a happy, productive life. What you will learn?  The Guided Meditation practice involves three simple steps: Relaxation Rejuvenation Meditation Relaxation brings your body to a calm, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Customize the U-M Student Experience with MiMaizey and the Go Blue App This workshop introduces you to MiMaizey, the University of Michigan’s personalized AI assistant, and the new Go Blue App. Discover how MiMaizey and Go Blue can enhance your campus experience with features like class information, dining menus, student organization finder, campus navigation, and more. Learn about the newest Go Blue App, which includes … Continue reading New Mini-Workshop: Customize the U-M Student Experience with MiMaizey and the Go Blue App »

This workshop is intended for people with little or no experience using R, and little or no experience programming. In this workshop, you will learn how to use the RStudio interface and scripts to code in R; what are and how to use “objects”; how to use and write basic functions; and how to work with numerical vectors. And you will do all of this with RStudio’s convenient interface. Note that … Continue reading Intro to R with RStudio »

Start the New Year by setting a goal to enhance your mental well-being through meditation. Discover three simple techniques—relaxation, rejuvenation, and meditation—in just three master classes. Relaxation brings your body into a calm, steady state, fostering physical stillness and preparing the mind for meditation. Rejuvenation clears the mind, helping to release stress and complex emotions, leaving you feeling light and refreshed. Meditation is a mindful … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

Critical Challenges in Generative AI: Exploring Privacy, Ethical Implications, Integrity, and Bias This mini-workshop focuses on the limitations of generative artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on privacy, ethical considerations, academic integrity, and equity and bias concerns. Participants will be introduced to high-level issues in these areas, preparing them for further extensive training opportunities. Workshop Outline: Academic Integrity The role of GenAI in maintaining or … Continue reading New Mini-Workshop: Critical Challenges in Generative AI: Exploring Privacy, Ethical Implications, Integrity, and Bias »

Customize the U-M Student Experience with MiMaizey and the Go Blue App This workshop introduces you to MiMaizey, the University of Michigan’s personalized AI assistant, and the new Go Blue App. Discover how MiMaizey and Go Blue can enhance your campus experience with features like class information, dining menus, student organization finder, campus navigation, and more. Learn about the newest Go Blue App, which includes … Continue reading New Mini-Workshop: Customize the U-M Student Experience with MiMaizey and the Go Blue App »

Tackle writing your research papers, conference abstracts, and even your dissertation with greater ease! This workshop explores powerful but often-overlooked features in Google Docs and Microsoft Word that streamline writing, formatting, and organization. You’ll also learn how to enhance document accessibility, ensuring your work meets WCAG 2.1 and ADA guidelines. This session will be valuable for anyone handling complex academic writing, not just graduate students. … Continue reading Essential Tools for Grad Students: Mastering Docs & Word »

Critical Challenges in Generative AI: Exploring Privacy, Ethical Implications, Integrity, and Bias This mini-workshop focuses on the limitations of generative artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on privacy, ethical considerations, academic integrity, and equity and bias concerns. Participants will be introduced to high-level issues in these areas, preparing them for further extensive training opportunities. Workshop Outline: Academic Integrity The role of GenAI in maintaining or … Continue reading New Mini-Workshop: Critical Challenges in Generative AI: Exploring Privacy, Ethical Implications, Integrity, and Bias »

This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell, also generically referred to as “the command line”. Topics include: a brief overview of Linux, the Bash shell, navigating the file system, basic commands, shell redirection, permissions, processes, and the command environment. The workshop will also provide a quick introduction to nano a simple … Continue reading Introduction to the Linux Command Line »