Equity focused workshop to be held during PDD

The Inclusivity Speaker Series and Workforce Equity Initiative are proud to host a 90-minute workshop during Spring Professional Development Day entitled “Engaging with equity: Identifying and applying inclusive practices in your role at LLCC.” This session will be held from 8:30-10 a.m. on March 30.

Participants will explore practices, strategies and action steps they can take to positively impact LLCC’s inclusivity and campus climate. The workshop will consist of a short presentation, a breakout session to engage in prompt-driven small group discussion, and a facilitated exercise designed to highlight and outline action steps and strategies faculty and staff can engage as they strive to utilize more equity-conscious and inclusive practices. This workshop will be facilitated by the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Facilitators are: Dr. Marci Rockey, Dr. Chaddrick James-Gallaway and Angel Velez.

We encourage all members of our faculty and staff to join us. You don’t have to be in a leadership or administrator role to impact real change at LLCC. This workshop will challenge participants to identify ways that we can be more inclusive in our everyday practice, regardless of your position.

Early-bird registration has been sent an email to faculty and staff who work directly with our WEI students; sign up soon to ensure we save a seat for you! Contact Candace Silas (candace.silas@llcc.edu) for further questions about early bird registration.

Open registration will be available to all faculty and staff on Wednesday, March 17. A link to register will be sent out via LincIn. If you have any questions about open registration or this workshop, please contact Jacob Deters (Jacob.deters@llcc.edu).

03.03.21

OneDrive and SharePoint training

The IT department is offering free workshops in March in conjunction with Microsoft. Each session will be 60 minutes in length and attended via Teams. Registration for each session is required and managed by Microsoft, not IT. After registering, you will be sent the link in a join the event via email.

Should you have questions about the training sessions, please email Jeris.Creasey@llcc.edu.

March 3, 2-3 p.m. – Microsoft OneDrive for Business L100

OneDrive for Business and Microsoft 365 make it easy to access, share and collaborate on files from anywhere.

Objectives:

Learn why OneDrive for Business is a reliable place to store your important personal work files.
Examine the advantages and convenience of having all your data available to you at any given time with all the different ways to access your OneDrive.
Keep your data constantly backed up with Automatic Backup to OneDrive.
Maximize your local storage space with Files On-Demand.
Securely share your files by configuring Access Management and Settings.

March 16, 2-3 p.m. – Microsoft SharePoint Online L100

This course focuses on SharePoint team sites. Attendees will learn how to share and manage content, find information and collaborate across their organization.

March 30, 1:30-2:30 p.m. – Microsoft SharePoint Online L200

This course expands on more advanced features of SharePoint sites, focusing on site ownership and architecture. Attendees of this course can expect to learn about sharing and permissions, workflow management and content types.

03.02.21

Tech Tip: Digital Inclusion and Accessibility

Ensuring our digital content is accessible and available to everyone is crucial. A number of our colleagues will be training on how to build accessible files to enhance the availability of our digital information.

When creating documentation for digital publication, we should take into consideration several factors and plan for a universal design. It is not only considered best practice, but also the right thing to do. LLCC is required to conform to website compliance standards as found in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The WCAG is an ISO standard and recognized as the go-to source for implementing digital accessibility.

What Is Inclusion?

To be inclusive means to embrace disability from the very beginning; from the earliest planning stages, to publication, to updates. It is important to note that one part of inclusion involves creating true accessibility, rather than simply providing accommodations. Accessibility should be built in.

Inclusive or universal design considers as many people’s needs as possible. Creating digital content with inclusivity, content should be accessible by a diverse range of individuals and designed to accommodate a variety of experiences and ways that individuals access it.

What Is Accessibility?

Accessibility is used to describe whether a product can be used by people of all abilities and making special considerations for people with disabilities.

People have a wide range of skills and abilities, so how people interact with technology varies greatly. For example, if you have low vision, it can be challenging to navigate a website that isn’t accessible. Similarly, following along in a meeting can be challenging if you have a hearing disability, or if you do not speak the same language as the person presenting. It is important for all products and devices to be designed with accessibility in mind so that people of all abilities can have an enjoyable and engaging experience.

Accessibility means having a place, environment, or event that is set up from the start to be accessible to all individuals. An accommodation is a change that is made so that a person with a disability can fully participate.

While accommodations will always be necessary in some capacity, universal designs and true accessibility lessen the burden of constantly needing to request and push for having access needs met.

03.02.21

Include 2021

Microsoft is offering an all-digital event on diversity and inclusion on March 17. In the free, livestream event, guest speakers will address concepts like allyship, covering, privilege, identity and intersectionality. Participants will be able to pick from a line-up of sessions throughout the day and attend the ones that are most meaningful to them. Experts will share their research-based insights to help participants explore topics like the evolution of how we think and talk about gender, how to ensure a thoughtful approach to mental health in the workplace and how organizations can support and advance the global conversation on race. Get more information on Include 2021 and register.

03.02.21

Monday Morning Mentor program

Each week, Academic Innovation and eLearning is sending out a link to a different Monday Morning Mentor program by MAGNA Publications. Each topic is presented by respected academic peers and covers timely and relevant topics in only 20 minutes — brief enough to fit busy schedules, but long enough to deliver valuable, actionable content.

This week’s topic: How Can I Guide Online Learning by Engaging With Students?
https://www.magnapubs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-Spring-MMM-03-01.pdf
Presentation date: March 1, 2021 and on-demand for one week
Link to the presentation: mondaymorningmentors.com

From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material. These materials are only available for the week of the presentation.

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Becky Parton for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

03.01.21

OneDrive and SharePoint training

Should you have questions about the training sessions, please email Jeris.Creasey@llcc.edu.

March 3, 2-3 p.m. – Microsoft OneDrive for Business L100

OneDrive for Business and Microsoft 365 make it easy to access, share and collaborate on files from anywhere.

Objectives:

Learn why OneDrive for Business is a reliable place to store your important personal work files.
Examine the advantages and convenience of having all your data available to you at any given time with all the different ways to access your OneDrive.
Keep your data constantly backed up with Automatic Backup to OneDrive.
Maximize your local storage space with Files On-Demand.
Securely share your files by configuring Access Management and Settings.

March 16, 2-3 p.m. – Microsoft SharePoint Online L100

This course focuses on SharePoint team sites. Attendees will learn how to share and manage content, find information and collaborate across their organization.

March 30, 1:30-2:30 p.m. – Microsoft SharePoint Online L200

03.01.21

This week’s AIeL workshops

LLCC Academic Innovation & eLearning spring 2021 professional development workshops are being offered in three different formats: online, live via Zoom and on-demand. Workshops cover both teaching topics and instructional technology tools. There are also many opportunities, both live and on-demand, to learn to use the new Canvas learning management system. Access links and view the spring 2021 AIeL workshop schedule.

In addition to the workshop schedule you will also find additional offerings from the Faculty-to-Faculty Support Team, including the new Virtual Faculty Break Room, offered twice a month, and Trivia Night – Pandemic Style.

This week the following workshops are being offered:

Monday, March 1, 3:30-4:30 p.m. – Virtual Faculty Break Room
Monday-Friday, March 1-5, Online via Canvas – Active Learning Through Group Work — Online!
Thursday, March 4, 10-11 a.m. – AIeL Virtual Open Lab

02.26.21

OneDrive and SharePoint training

Please watch for additional announcements and the registration links in LincIn. Should you have questions about the training sessions, please email Jeris.Creasey@llcc.edu.

March 3, 2-3 p.m. – Microsoft OneDrive for Business L100

OneDrive for Business and Microsoft 365 make it easy to access, share and collaborate on files from anywhere.

Objectives:

Learn why OneDrive for Business is a reliable place to store your important personal work files.
Examine the advantages and convenience of having all your data available to you at any given time with all the different ways to access your OneDrive.
Keep your data constantly backed up with Automatic Backup to OneDrive.
Maximize your local storage space with Files On-Demand.
Securely share your files by configuring Access Management and Settings.

March 16, 2-3 p.m. – Microsoft SharePoint Online L100

This course focuses on SharePoint team sites. Attendees will learn how to share and manage content, find information and collaborate across their organization.

March 30, 1:30-2:30 p.m. – Microsoft SharePoint Online L200

02.24.21

Tech Tip: Add branching logic to your Microsoft form

Now that you have created a form to be used as a quiz or survey, you may find that some questions may not be relevant to all respondents. Rather than adding a n/a answer option, branching logic can be applied to any question within your form, even if you have added sections. See add sections to your form for details.

To access the Forms application, start by opening your Outlook – Office 365 web account. Click on the waffle icon (nine small boxes) in the upper-left corner. Select Forms, or if you do not see the application, select All apps. The forms that you have created, pinned as a favorite or that have been shared with you as collaborator are listed. Open the form you want to add branching logic to.

In a survey or quiz that branches, questions appear only if they are relevant to the respondent. If the questions do not apply, the respondent is redirected to a different set of questions or will skip them altogether.

Add all questions to your form before you add branching.
Select the appropriate question to open for editing.
Select More settings for question … , and then choose Add branching.
Select the drop-down arrow to the right of Next at the Go To option.
Select the question or section that you want to branch to when this answer is chosen. When selecting a question or section, you are limited to one branch per answer within a question, and must be a question or section not yet completed by the respondent.
Add additional branches to your form as needed.
Select Preview at the top of the design window to see how branching works in your form on a computer or mobile device.

View a video on Branching Logic to a Form from the Microsoft Office Trainer Center.

02.23.21

Monday Morning Mentor program

Each week, Academic Innovation and eLearning is sending out a link to a different Monday Morning Mentor program by MAGNA Publications. Each weekly topic is presented by respected academic peers and covers timely and relevant topics in only 20 minutes — brief enough to fit busy schedules, but long enough to deliver valuable, actionable content.

This week’s topic: How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
https://www.magnapubs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-Spring-MMM-02-22.pdf
Presentation date: Feb. 22, 2021 and on-demand for one week
Link to the presentation: mondaymorningmentors.com

From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material. These materials are only available for the week of the presentation.

NOTE: You will need to enter a password in order to view the program. See Monday’s email from Becky Parton for the password, or contact becky.parton@llcc.edu.

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