Craving Quiznos? As a reminder, Quiznos in the lower level of Menard Hall is open with modified hours of Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. You are encouraged to use the Quiznos mobile app for ordering as much as possible. Please note, per Illinois guidelines, no personal cups are allowed to be used to fill at the beverage machine. This includes drinks and ice.
LLCC Podcast
Listen to an interview with LLCC’s Jamil Steele, director of adult education and literacy, in Episode 2 of the Lincoln Land Community College Podcast.
Webinar: Humanizing the Online Environment
Illinois Community Colleges Online (ILCCO) is sponsoring a free webinar for Illinois community college faculty and staff. “Humanizing the Online Environment: Increasing Instructor Presence and Enhancing Student Engagement” with Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock will be held Wednesday, Sept. 23, at noon. This is the rescheduled keynote from February’s ILCCO Growing Online Learning Conference.
There has been a change to increase the seat capacity. Registration is available at https://form.jotform.com/202366974689069.
Humanizing is a pedagogical approach that supports the non-cognitive components of learning and increases the success of more students in online courses. In this presentation, we will consider why supporting the non-cognitive dimensions of learning is so important for students from marginalized groups and look at examples of humanized online teaching strategies. You will see how we are inspiring — not requiring — faculty to humanize their online courses through faculty-centric professional development in California.
The live link for the session, and the recording, will be available on the ICCB COVID faculty resource page.
Writing in environmental sciences
Each month, the LLCC Writing Center will emphasize writing in various career fields. For September, we are highlighting environmental sciences. We hope you enjoy viewing our Padlet presentation and encourage you to share it with your students: https://llcc.padlet.org/lauriemyers/h91chh46yu8vvjpi.Students can schedule Zoom or in-person appointments with the Writing Center by calling us at 217-786-2341. If you would like the Writing Center to support your students by conducting a remote classroom visit or creating materials related to writing in your discipline, please let us know!
LLCC’s 25,000th banded bird
The 25,000th bird was banded the morning of Aug. 31 at the LLCC Bird Banding Station! It was a warbler called a Northern Waterthrush (a fairly common migrant in central Illinois). Tony Rothering, professor of biology, and net-check assistants banded a total of 19 birds of seven species that morning.
In addition, a small segment of an interview Professor Rothering did in conjunction with a May bird banding event at Julbilee Farm is now available on the Jubilee Farm Facebook page.
In the news
Jolene Lamb, coordinator, LLCC Culinary Institute, wrote today’s Epicuriosity 101 column in the State Journal-Register, “What do I want to eat?”
Important notice regarding accounts payable vouchers
Three new forms have been posted to the Accounts Payable SharePoint page that will replace the older versions of the C+R and blanket forms. Moving forward, we ask that you only use these three forms when submitting vouchers for payment and that you please submit them electronically per the instructions on the forms. These forms are:
Pease fill these forms out entirely before submitting them for payment. Vouchers should only be submitted via email to Elyse.Calhoun@llcc.edu and your budget manager(s). If you have any questions, please reach out to Elyse Calhoun in LLCC Accounts Payable at Elyse.Calhoun@llcc.edu.
Thank you for your cooperation during this transition!
What is OneDrive?
Microsoft Office 365 is comprised of online applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive and Teams. All active LLCC accounts (students, faculty, adjunct faculty and staff) have access to cloud storage with OneDrive. OneDrive is accessible on any smart device using a web browser or corresponding downloaded app.
With OneDrive, you can upload and store your LLCC documents and set permissions to share with other active LLCC users all from one location. There are no restrictions on the types of files that you can upload to OneDrive, and each account is granted 1024GB (1TB) of storage space.
Sync OneDrive to your PC or Mac, so you can access your files even when you’re offline. With sync, your PC (File Explorer) or Mac (Finder) files are always up-to-date. Any time that you edit a document, it is then synced via the cloud to your other devices and/or people you’ve shared with.
How do you access OneDrive?
- Sign in to office.com with your LLCC email address and password.
- You can also sign into your LLCC email via the web, and in the upper-left corner select the waffle icon, then OneDrive.
- Select OneDrive.
Additional tech tips will be added to LincIn. Go to the Employee Portal > IT > Remote Access Knowledge Base > OneDrive folder for additional documentation and to view a Getting started with OneDrive.pdf.
Happy birthday to those celebrating in September
See which faculty and staff have birthdays in September.
LLCC Connect is now live!
LLCC Student Life is proud to announce the new LLCC student engagement app, LLCC Connect, is now live for students to download on the Apple and Google Play stores! Students will receive access information in their LLCC email.
As a reminder, LLCC Student Life has discontinued the production of the Success Planner (student calendar/planner). All information included inside the student planner will now be located in the new app. In addition, the app will include other ways for students to stay connected and up-to-date. It will house important dates and events such as the academic calendar, student life events and other campus activities and has a social networking opportunities within the app.
Access has only been sent out to current LLCC students. Faculty and staff can request access to LLCC Connect by emailing studentlife@llcc.edu. Since the nature of this app is student engagement focused, we ask that faculty and staff only request access if they intend to use app information to keep students informed on what is happening in the campus community.
For more information and to get a sneak peek at what the app looks like, check out www.llcc.edu/llcc-connect.