The GenAI Educational Landscape: Best Practices for Instructors This workshop is designed to equip faculty with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively integrate Generative Artificial Intelligence into the classroom setting. Faculty members will explore its impact on students and instruction, learn how to discuss Generative AI (GenAI) with students and receive guidance on writing a GenAI syllabus statement. Although this workshop is designed for … Continue reading The GenAI Educational Landscape: Best Practices for Instructors »

Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation, rejuvenation, and inner connect in just three session. Meditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration, heightened awareness, and presence … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

Each U.S. federal funding agency has its own policies and processes for making federally funded research publicly accessible making for a confusing landscape for researchers and administrative staff. This workshop will provide grantees and administrative staff with: A clear understanding of the New Public Access Policy for different federally funding agencies for major funders of Engineering  Research An explanation of the policies, who and what … Continue reading New Federal Public Access Policy Requirements for Published Research »

Join us for this workshop to learn about EndNote, a citation management tool! You will learn to: – Create and organize personal and group libraries, – Invite collaborators to view or contribute to those libraries, – Annotate the PDFs you read, – Add a bibliography and in-text citations in your Microsoft Word document. Please note: EndNote is NOT a free tool, and it is NOT … Continue reading Introduction to EndNote for Citation Management »

Are you longing to hear your students’ authentic voices instead of AI?  Peer review offers a way to break student dependence on AI, not through more policing, but by fostering real connection.This session will look at how peer feedback can help students rely less on AI and more on each other. When students share their work face-to-face and give authentic feedback, they learn to value … Continue reading Promoting Authentic Student Voices: How Peer Feedback Can Reduce AI Dependence »

Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey Enhance your productivity by harnessing U-M Maizey for various staff-related tasks, including managing Dropbox, Google Drive, and public website data efficiently. This workshop is aimed at staff members who want to utilize Maizey to streamline their workflows, manage large data sets, and automate routine tasks. Participants will learn how to set up and configure Maizey projects, customize system … Continue reading Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey »

Properly captioning video and audio for Title II compliance

Tackle writing your research papers, conference abstracts, and even your thesis or dissertation with greater ease! This online 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 engaged in complex academic writing … Continue reading Essential Tools for Grad Students: Mastering Docs & Word »

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 »

Join Asia Library and International Studies subject specialists for a session designed for faculty and graduate students in area and global studies! Searching for research materials in non-English languages and non-Latin scripts presents unique challenges. We’ll demonstrate practical techniques for the library catalog and similar tools to help you conduct searches more effectively and efficiently. In addition, we will introduce complementary library resources, services, and … Continue reading Research in International Studies: An Introduction to Library Resources and Search Strategies »

Your research tells a story! StoryMaps is one of the most commonly used GIS resources on our campus across disciplines. This workshop will be an introduction to what StoryMaps are and whether one is right for your project. There will be time for Questions and Answers at the end where we can talk about participants’ specific projects, but this is not required. This session will … Continue reading Introduction to ArcGIS StoryMaps »

U-M Library’s repositories, Deep Blue Documents and Deep Blue Data, provide access and preservation services for the research, teaching, learning, and creativity created by U-M researchers on all campuses. These free repositories can help you preserve and publicly share your scholarly works. This session gives an overview of each repository, including how to determine which repository best meets your needs. Learning outcomes After attending this … Continue reading Sharing and Preserving Your Scholarship in the U-M Library’s Deep Blue Repositories »

Harness U-M Maizey and MiMaizey for Teaching and Learning Discover how to enhance your classroom with U-M Maizey by integrating it seamlessly with Canvas and using it as an innovative assistant for supporting student learning. This workshop is designed for instructors who wish to leverage Maizey as a class tutor, homework helper, and more. By the end of the session, you will have the skills … Continue reading Harness U-M Maizey and MiMaizey for Teaching and Learning »

Streamline Tasks & Amplify Learning with Instructor Tools Reimagine your teaching and course design with U-M’s innovative suite of generative AI Instructor Tools, powered by Maizey. This workshop introduces five innovative tools—each built to streamline your workflow, enrich student learning, and enhance your effectiveness as an educator.  In this workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience with 5 GenAI Instructor Tools:   AI Prompt Coach: Learn to craft … Continue reading Streamline Tasks & Amplify Learning with Instructor Tools »

Ever wondered if ICPSR is a data repository that would work for your data? Join us to learn more about ICPSR, what data the repository works with, how to include it in your data management plan, and how to deposit data. The workshop will include demos and/or screenshots of each step of the deposit process, and we’ll also have time for questions and answers. Instructors … Continue reading Fit check: Is ICPSR suitable for your data? »

Discover the power of NotebookLM, the advanced AI-powered research and note-taking assistant available to all University of Michigan faculty, staff, and students. Designed to help you understand and synthesize information from your own documents, NotebookLM transforms your lesson plans, lecture notes, and research papers into a dynamic knowledge base. By grounding its responses entirely in your sources, it becomes your most trusted research partner. Recent … Continue reading Exploring NotebookLM for Education »

Got an idea for a digital project but not sure how to get it off the ground? Curious about how to do digital scholarship research while navigating an increasingly uncertain, unethical, and biased digital world? This workshop covers an introduction to Anti-racist research frameworks and digital scholarship principles. Participants will leave the workshop with a road map for developing an ethical, sustainable, and justice-oriented digital … Continue reading ARDRI 101: Introduction to Anti-Racist Digital Scholarship »

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 the Library 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 … Continue reading Take Command of Your Dissertation with Microsoft Word »

This workshop will help you improve your use of H5P and integrate it into your Canvas assignments. H5P continues to expand as a powerful tool for creating engaging, interactive assignments that support language teaching and learning. In this one-hour Zoom workshop we will showcase a variety of H5P activities that can be integrated into language courses, highlight new features such as Smart Import (AI-assisted assignment … Continue reading [Zoom] Enhancing Language Learning with H5P »

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 Customize the U-M Student Experience with MiMaizey and the Go Blue App »

This workshop will help you improve your use of H5P and integrate it into your Canvas assignments. H5P continues to expand as a powerful tool for creating engaging, interactive assignments that support language teaching and learning. In this one-hour Zoom workshop we will showcase a variety of H5P activities that can be integrated into language courses, highlight new features such as Smart Import (AI-assisted assignment … Continue reading [Zoom] Enhancing Language Learning with H5P »

Boost Work Productivity with GenAI Ready to transform your work tasks and free up valuable time? Join our interactive workshop and discover how Generative AI (GenAI) tools can streamline your approach to work tasks, course data management, and administrative tasks. Enhance your productivity and increase your time engaging with your colleagues and higher-order tasks. Workshop Outline: Effortless Content Creation: Using GenAI to generate materials such … Continue reading Boost Work Productivity with GenAI »

In this session, we’ll review design considerations for creating clear and eye-catching research presentation posters. We emphasize understanding the goal of your presentation and tailoring the poster to help you tell that story. While this workshop focuses on general principles, we’ll also discuss a few applications for creating a poster, like Illustrator and PowerPoint and their pros & cons. Lastly, we provide additional resources and … Continue reading Designing Effective Research Presentation Posters »

Boost Teaching and Learning Productivity with GenAI Ready to transform your teaching and free up valuable time? Join our interactive workshop and discover how Generative AI (GenAI) tools, specifically U-M GPT, can streamline your approach to creating syllabi, assignments, rubrics, and lesson plans. Dive into practical ideas for designing assignments and instructional materials in a GenAI era, and engage in hands-on opportunities using U-M GPT … Continue reading Boost Teaching and Learning Productivity with GenAI »

Tackle writing your research papers, conference abstracts, and even your thesis or dissertation with greater ease! This online 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 engaged in complex academic writing … Continue reading Essential Tools for Grad Students: Mastering Docs & Word »

Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation, rejuvenation, and inner connect in just three session. Meditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration, heightened awareness, and presence … Continue reading Learn to Meditate in 3 days »

Learn the best practices for creating descriptive audio.

Ever wondered if Open Science Framework (OSF) is a data repository that would work for your data? Join us to learn more about OSF, what data the repository works with, how to include it in your data management plan, and how to deposit data. The workshop will include demos and/or screenshots of each step of the deposit process, and we’ll also have time for questions … Continue reading Fit check: Is OSF suitable for your data? »

What is Remote Sensing? The discipline of remote sensing concerns processing and analysis of any imagery obtained from satellites, drones, or other airborne sensors. Remote sensing tools and best practices can be used to investigate land use change, check agricultural crop yields, monitor wildfires, and more. This session will introduce basic concepts used in the discipline of remote sensing such as image collection and interpretation, … Continue reading Remote Sensing 101 »