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Starfish for Academic Alerts – Ask Anything!

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Last offering:

Dec 6, 2023
8:30 am–9:30 am

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At RIT, Starfish is the software used for sending academic alerts or kudos to students in your courses. Come ask a question about how to send an alert or kudos to a student, complete an academic progress report, locate where follow up for students is documented! 

This session is intended for all RIT academic and support advisors, faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Sue Frizzellsmfiao@rit.edu
Staff Faculty Students

Zoom New ASL Interpreter Feature

Registration closed
When:

Dec 7, 2023
2:00 pm–2:30 pm

Zoom now allows for a specialized Sign Language Interpreter Role to be given to interpreter staff so they have a dedicated video feed. Participants have a more flexible view of the interpreter during the meeting and in cloud recordings. While this training is about how to use the new Zoom interpreter feature, attendees needing interpreting services should contact Access Services.

In this training, you will learn how to:

  • Properly schedule Zoom meetings as a meeting host to enable this feature.
  • Assign interpreters to the new Zoom Interpreter role as a meeting host.
  • View the interpreter during a Zoom meeting as a meeting participant.
  • View the interpreter in a Zoom cloud recording.

This session is intended for RIT faculty, staff and students. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Katie BushKatie.Bush@rit.edu
Monica Cormiermdctls@rit.edu
Staff Faculty Students

Starfish for Academic Alerts – Ask Anything!

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60 seats available
When:

Dec 13, 2023
8:30 am–9:30 am

At RIT, Starfish is the software used for sending academic alerts or kudos to students in your courses. Come ask a question about how to send an alert or kudos to a student, complete an academic progress report, locate where follow up for students is documented! 

This session is intended for all RIT academic and support advisors, faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Sue Frizzellsmfiao@rit.edu
Staff Faculty Students

Zoom Ask Me Anything

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19 seats available
When:

Dec 19, 2023
10:00 am–11:00 am

Ask me anything about Zoom at RIT. We will cover existing, new and advanced features and how they can be used in a Zoom meeting or online class.

This session is for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants and is held via Zoom.  Participants should request access services if needed.

Presented by:
Monica Cormiermdctls@rit.edu
Staff Faculty Student Employees

Strategies for Working in the Slack Redesign

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19 seats available
When:

Dec 19, 2023
11:00 am–11:30 am

Where:

https://rit.zoom.us/j/99660107843

Slack's redesign on December 19th is intended to help you stay organized, focused, and productive. With this change there are some new strategies you will want to use in Slack.

In this training, you will learn how to:

  • Use filters to adjust what channels or conversations show in your sidebar
  • Create custom sections in your sidebar
  • Perform channel cleanup such as renaming and archiving

This session is for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Katie BushKatie.Bush@rit.edu
Monica Cormiermdctls@rit.edu
Faculty Student Employees

Starfish for Academic Alerts – Ask Anything!

Register
60 seats available
When:

Dec 20, 2023
8:30 am–9:30 am

At RIT, Starfish is the software used for sending academic alerts or kudos to students in your courses. Come ask a question about how to send an alert or kudos to a student, complete an academic progress report, locate where follow up for students is documented! 

This session is intended for all RIT academic and support advisors, faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Sue Frizzellsmfiao@rit.edu
Staff Faculty Students

Strategies for Working in the Slack Redesign

Register
20 seats available
When:

Jan 5, 2024
10:00 am–10:30 am

Where:

https://rit.zoom.us/j/99660107843

Slack's redesign on December 19th is intended to help you stay organized, focused, and productive. With this change there are some new strategies you will want to use in Slack.

In this training, you will learn how to:

  • Use filters to adjust what channels or conversations show in your sidebar
  • Create custom sections in your sidebar
  • Perform channel cleanup such as renaming and archiving

This session is for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Katie BushKatie.Bush@rit.edu
Monica Cormiermdctls@rit.edu
Faculty Student Employees

Zoom New ASL Interpreter Feature

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24 seats available
When:

Jan 5, 2024
12:00 pm–12:30 pm

Zoom now allows for a specialized Sign Language Interpreter Role to be given to interpreter staff so they have a dedicated video feed. Participants have a more flexible view of the interpreter during the meeting and in cloud recordings. While this training is about how to use the new Zoom interpreter feature, attendees needing interpreting services should contact Access Services.

In this training, you will learn how to:

  • Properly schedule Zoom meetings as a meeting host to enable this feature.
  • Assign interpreters to the new Zoom Interpreter role as a meeting host.
  • View the interpreter during a Zoom meeting as a meeting participant.
  • View the interpreter in a Zoom cloud recording.

This session is intended for RIT faculty, staff and students. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Katie BushKatie.Bush@rit.edu
Monica Cormiermdctls@rit.edu
Staff Faculty Students

myCourses Ask Me Anything

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15 seats available
When:

Jan 8, 2024
2:00 pm–3:00 pm

myCourses can be used to help your students be successful no matter the course mode. Bring your questions about using the Content tool, Discussions tool, Assignments tool, Quizzes tool, Grades tool, Rubrics tool, Announcements tool, Classlist tool, Class Progress tool, and more.

IMPORTANT: In order to make the best use of our time during this session, we encourage you to explore the following resources before attending this session. These items cover some of the basics of the tools and may be able to answer some of your questions:

This session is intended for RIT faculty, including adjuncts and teaching assistants. Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
Katie BushKatie.Bush@rit.edu
Staff Faculty

Spring SHED Faculty Training

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87 seats available
When:

Jan 9, 2024
9:00 am–11:00 am

Where:

SHED-3300

In this session, instructors will gain a deeper understanding of the benefits and challenges of the SHED flexible learning spaces. A panel of instructors who taught in SHED in Fall 2023 will provide class activity examples and share their insights from teaching in these spaces. Bring your questions!

Panel members will be announced at a later date.

Instructors are welcome to stay after this session to try out the technology in the SHED rooms.

This session is intended for instructors assigned to teach in the SHED classrooms in Spring 2024 or are interested in teaching in SHED classrooms in the future.

Participants should request Access Services, if needed.

Presented by:
CTL Staffctl@rit.edu
Staff Faculty