Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. This hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You’ll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 1: Getting Started »

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 »

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 »

Welcome back and Happy New (School) Year! This session is divided into two halves: The first half is an introduction to accessibility best practices in MS Word, Canvas, and Google. The second half focuses on remediation tools such as Panorama, Grackle and MS accessibility Check. This session will take place at the main center of the Language Resource Center (NQ 1500).

Welcome back and Happy New (School) Year! This session is divided into two halves: The first half is an introduction to accessibility best practices in MS Word, Canvas, and Google. The second half focuses on remediation tools such as Panorama, Grackle and MS accessibility Check. This session will take place at the main center of the Language Resource Center (NQ 1500).

Welcome back and Happy New (School) Year! This session is divided into two halves: The first half is an introduction to accessibility best practices in MS Word, Canvas, and Google. The second half focuses on remediation tools such as Panorama, Grackle and MS accessibility Check. This session will take place at the main center of the Language Resource Center (NQ 1500).

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. In this workshop, you will build on the skills you gained in Part 1 by exploring DesignPLUS interactive components and content. You’ll also … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 2: Interactive Content & Course Building »

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?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Educators will explore Canvas New Quizzes, covering everything from dynamic question types, moderation settings, and recent platform updates. Attendees will also learn key differences between Classic and New Quizzes, including how interactive question formats and randomized item shuffling naturally help deter unauthorized student AI use. Audience: Instructors, Staff Recommended Prerequisites: A. Getting Started with Canvas Zoom join URL: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98888582214

Session for new faculty and visiting scholars in area and global studies introducing U-M library resources, services, and expertise to support your research and teaching.

Welcome back and Happy New (School) Year! This session is divided into two halves: The first half is an introduction to accessibility best practices in MS Word, Canvas, and Google. The second half focuses on remediation tools such as Panorama, Grackle and MS accessibility Check. This session will take place at the main center of the Language Resource Center (NQ 1500).

Welcome back and Happy New (School) Year! This session is divided into two halves: The first half is an introduction to accessibility best practices in MS Word, Canvas, and Google. The second half focuses on remediation tools such as Panorama, Grackle and MS accessibility Check. This session will take place at the main center of the Language Resource Center (NQ 1500).

Discover the power of Gemini Notebook, 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,  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 Gemini Notebook for Education »

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 the … Continue reading Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

The TrustEd Apps Management Suite (TAMS), is a 1EdTech web app that helps organizations and vendors independently verify they follow 1EdTech standards and that their data works smoothly with third‑party services. Key features include: A searchable catalog of LTIs available in Canvas Clear descriptions of each tool’s purpose and typical instructional uses Notes on availability limitations (unit-specific access) and any prerequisites Links to guidance/training and … Continue reading TAMS: A Canvas-Integrated Catalog of External (LTI) Tools to Enrich Teaching and Learning »

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?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

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 »

Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey U-M Maizey is a tool that enables U-M faculty, staff, and students to use custom datasets to enhance their GenAI experience, helping them extract insights, discover patterns, and gain deeper knowledge from the data. 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 … Continue reading Streamline Daily Work Tasks with U-M Maizey »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. This hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You’ll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 1: Getting Started »

Curious about whether GIS is right for your project? GIS tools and best practices are applicable across many disciplines, from history to public health! This hour-long lecture-style workshop will introduce participants to basic GIS concepts such as vector and raster data types and map projections, and demonstrate some commonly-used tools such as clips and buffers. Intended for those with no experience with GIS. This workshop … Continue reading What is GIS? »

Ready to put what you learned in Rethinking PDFs: Using EPUB for More Accessible Academic Documents into practice? This applied working session provides dedicated time and support to create or convert your own academic materials into accessible EPUBs.  Rather than presenting new concepts through a traditional workshop format, this session concentrates on learning through doing. Participants will work independently or alongside facilitators to apply skills … Continue reading EPUB Working Session: Putting Accessible E-Publishing into Practice »

Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build, style, and scale high-quality courses – making learning engaging and accessible. In this workshop, you will build on the skills you gained in Part 1 by exploring DesignPLUS interactive components and content. You’ll also … Continue reading Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS, Part 2: Interactive Content & Course Building »

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?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about research services and spaces for graduate students, and to get comfortable in your new academic home. In this informal walking workshop, you will get a guided tour of the Harlan Hatcher Library, U-M’s largest and most historic library. During the tour, you’ll … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Library Spaces and Services »

Generative AI chatbot tools like ChatGPT or U-M GPT can suggest sources to be cited in academic works. They can also summarize and create a bibliography of those sources. Unfortunately, those AI-suggested articles may not actually exist, or their citations may contain errors. Citing a fake article, even inadvertently, significantly undermines the trustworthiness of the content and the academic research process as a whole. In … Continue reading Verifying the Accuracy of Citations Generated by AI Chatbots »

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 »

This 90-minute session will include a broad overview of what is available to you through the U-M Library for your GIS needs, including tools and data from ESRI (the creators of ArcGIS), with a focus on two sources of data/basic analysis that the Library subscribes to: Social Explorer, and PolicyMap. There will be brief demonstrations of the capabilities of some of these tools. No experience … Continue reading Introduction to Library GIS Resources – Social Explorer & PolicyMap »

Come explore the creative possibilities of maze books while making Maze & Blue, a miniature U-M–themed accordion artist’s book designed by Lara Unger! You’ll learn a variety of book-arts techniques as you assemble this more complex accordion structure, featuring a folded map, two small sewn-in sections, and miniature reproductions of U-M–related ephemera. During this hands-on workshop, you’ll get an introduction to maze-book construction, the Hungarian … Continue reading Maze & Blue Mini Book »

Come explore the creative possibilities of maze books while making Maze & Blue, a miniature U-M–themed accordion artist’s book designed by Lara Unger! You’ll learn a variety of book-arts techniques as you assemble this more complex accordion structure, featuring a folded map, two small sewn-in sections, and miniature reproductions of U-M–related ephemera. During this hands-on workshop, you’ll get an introduction to maze-book construction, the Hungarian … Continue reading Maze & Blue Mini Book »

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?  This is a weekly guided meditation drop-in session so prior knowledge of meditation is needed. The session involves 3 simple steps: Breathing Relaxation Meditation Deep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body … Continue reading Heartfulness Meditation »

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 »

In this workshop: You will learn about two major United States Census datasets: the decennial census, done every 10 years, and the ongoing American Community Survey. You will explore the different demographic and housing related questions asked in these two surveys, and how these have changed over time. You will see how the data can be mapped from the state all the way down to … Continue reading Accessing and Mapping Census Data »

Ever wondered if Zenodo is a data repository that would work for your data? Join us to learn more about Zenodo, what data the repository works with, how to include it in your data management plan, and how to deposit data. The workshop will include a demo and/or screenshots of each step of the deposit process, and we’ll also have time for questions and answers.

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 »

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 the … Continue reading Introduction to Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about research services and spaces for graduate students, and to get comfortable in your new academic home. In this informal walking workshop, you will get a guided tour of the Harlan Hatcher Library, U-M’s largest and most historic library. During the tour, you’ll … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Library Spaces and Services »

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 »

Looking to advance your skills in Excel? Are you wondering how to analyze data with an easily accessible program? Few programs are as prevalent or as powerful as Microsoft Excel for working with data. Excel enables you to transform raw data, create summary statistics, and develop clear visualizations. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use advanced Excel formulas to turn rows of … Continue reading Data Analysis with Excel »

The NSF has a new format for Data Management & Sharing Plans. This workshop will walk through the new template’s, required fields and offer ample time for your specific questions. The Zoom URL for this session will be included in the confirmation message you receive 5-10 minutes after you register, as well as in an automatic reminder message sent two days prior to the session.

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 »

OVERVIEW Intro to GPU & CUDA Programming This course is hosted remotely over Zoom.  A Zoom link will be provided to all registrants. 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. PRE-REQUISITES Participants should be familiar with programming and how to … Continue reading Intro to GPU & CUDA Programming »

Are you interested in finding research funding opportunities and don’t know where to start? In this workshop, we will explore the database Pivot and identify funding opportunities relevant in your research area. You will learn about: How to construct search strategies How to save search results How to set up email alerts What support is in place for finding research funding at U-M Please note: … Continue reading Finding Research Funding using Pivot »

Georeferencing is taking a digitized historic map (or other inherently spatial thing that cannot yet be used in its spatial context) and assigning it to the place in space where it belongs, so that it can be viewed in the context of other geospatial elements. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to turn a historical map into usable GIS data in ArcGIS Online. … Continue reading Georeferencing Maps »

Are you working on or considering beginning a systematic review, meta-analysis, scoping review, or other literature review project? Learn to use the software Covidence, which is free for U-M faculty, staff, and students (and any project collaborators from other institutions). Covidence can help you: – Deduplicate your literature search results set – Share your literature search results with your collaborators – Keep track of your … Continue reading Introduction to Covidence: A Systematic Review Software Tool »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about how the library supports graduate students’ research in different disciplines. In this session, we’ll demonstrate: Aspects of Library Search, the library’s search engine, including how and when to use Catalog Search and Articles Search, as well as how to interpret your results. … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Discipline-based Library Research Tools »

This hybrid session offers general guidance for students and scholars who are planning to conduct research in archives, libraries and other cultural institutions abroad. Instructors will focus on identifying collections and materials of interest, gathering required documents and permissions for access, making contacts with local experts and institutions, travel and safety considerations, and technology planning. Followed by Q&A. The Zoom URL for this session will be included … Continue reading Preparing for Research Abroad »

Library Launchpad is a series of library workshops aimed at graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus. Join library experts to learn about how the library supports graduate students’ research in different disciplines. In this session, we’ll demonstrate: Aspects of Library Search, the library’s search engine, including how and when to use Catalog Search and Articles Search, as well as how to interpret your results. … Continue reading Library Launchpad: Workshop Series for Graduate Students: Explore Discipline-based Library Research Tools »

Are you planning a digital project but don’t know where to start? In this workshop we will cover conceptualizing a research project guided by specific research questions, outcomes, objectives, and deliverables. Participants will gain practical advice to plan for success throughout the whole project lifecycle.   The Zoom URL for this session will be included in the confirmation message you receive 5-10 minutes after you register, as … Continue reading DS 101: Conceptualizing & Planning Your Digital Project »

This hybrid session offers general guidance for students and scholars who are planning to conduct research in archives, libraries and other cultural institutions abroad. Instructors will focus on identifying collections and materials of interest, gathering required documents and permissions for access, making contacts with local experts and institutions, travel and safety considerations, and technology planning. Followed by Q&A. The Zoom URL for this session will be included … Continue reading Preparing for Research Abroad »

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 »