Upcoming Events
CIDI Workshop - Use Video Effectively in Teaching
Workshop/Training
This workshop will help you enhance your teaching with video.
Drop-in Resume Reviews
Workshop/Training
Get your resume reviewed and ready for the Huntsman Virtual Mock Interview Day! Stop by the START Desk (located on the main floor between EBB and HH) and get help from trained student mentors and our Career Specialists. We are doing drop-in reviews every weekday between January 30th to February 9th from 9 am to 4 pm.
Lunch & Learn - New Year, New You: Creating Sustainable Nutrition & Fitness Goals
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well along with Registered Dietitian, Brooke Lister and Certified Strength Coach, Tony Popoca present a lunch and learn on creating sustainable health goals. The new year is filled with new resolutions to lose weight, but they often don't last past January. Although losing weight can be good for overall health, focusing on weight loss alone can lead to cycles of losing and regaining weight, lower self-esteem, and a preoccupation with food and body image. You'll find more success if you set goals that focus on health instead of weight loss only. This presentation will discuss behaviors, goals, and strategies that will lead to more sustainable outcomes in the way you look and feel! *Presentation is available in person and virtually and will be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
Aetna Webinar - Thriving In Your Empty Nest
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider, presents a Resources For Living webinar on thriving in your empty nest. Have your children flown the "nest"? Do you sometimes feel sad and lonely? If so, you may have "empty nest syndrome" – a common feeling for parents when adult kids leave home. Join this webinar to find out what your feelings are about, why separation can be complex and painful, and what you can do to feel better and succeed in this new stage of life. *Presentation recording will be available on the EAP site. Visit the hr.usu.edu/aggies-thrive for more information.
CIDI Workshop - Digital Badging Using Canvas Credentials (previously Badgr)
Workshop/Training
Digital badges are sometimes called microcredentials. They can be awarded to students for various accomplishments and then shared by students on social media and elsewhere as an indicator of their accomplishment or competence. Canvas has an integrated digital badging tool called Canvas Credentials (previously called Badgr). This workshop addresses how to create, award, and track digital badges.
Linear Algebra Review
Workshop/Training
Engineering-focused review of Linear Algebra.
Drop-in Resume Reviews
Workshop/Training
Get your resume reviewed and ready for the Huntsman Virtual Mock Interview Day! Stop by the START Desk (located on the main floor between EBB and HH) and get help from trained student mentors and our Career Specialists. We are doing drop-in reviews every weekday between January 30th to February 9th from 9 am to 4 pm.
CHaSS Research Workshop: Faculty Book Proposal Charrette
Workshop/Training
This CHaSS Research Workshop will take the format of a charrette (a hands-on, collaborative peer-review workshop) specifically focused on in-progress book proposals. Participation in the workshop is by application and limited to 12 CHaSS faculty (at any rank or campus), including lecturers and post-docs. Preference, however, will be given to early career scholars and those soon seeking promotion. Participation can also happen via Zoom.
JEDI EcoLunch_ Field safety for folks of diverse identities (Field Inclusive)
Workshop/Training | Diversity, equity, and Inclusion
In case you missed Field Inclusive week, JEDI will be hosting EcoLunch on Friday Feb 3rd at 12:00 pm in NR 204. We will be screening a field safety webinar (featuring folks of diverse identities) by Field Inclusive.
Drop-in Resume Reviews
Workshop/Training
Get your resume reviewed and ready for the Huntsman Virtual Mock Interview Day! Stop by the START Desk (located on the main floor between EBB and HH) and get help from trained student mentors and our Career Specialists. We are doing drop-in reviews every weekday between January 30th to February 9th from 9 am to 4 pm.
Drop-in Resume Reviews
Workshop/Training
Get your resume reviewed and ready for the Huntsman Virtual Mock Interview Day! Stop by the START Desk (located on the main floor between EBB and HH) and get help from trained student mentors and our Career Specialists. We are doing drop-in reviews every weekday between January 30th to February 9th from 9 am to 4 pm.
Nutrition For Real Life - Resources for Students
Workshop/Training
Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
Allies Training
Workshop/Training
Want to know how to support the LGBT+ community? In this two hour training, participants learn about key terminology, microaggressions, state laws, and other key topics that impact this community. Participants have the opportunity to take a commitment pledge and receive an allies sticker. Register for the training here: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bskLpbfwwUFA4mh Participants will receive link day of the training.
CIDI Workshop - Designing Assessment for Learning
Workshop/Training
This workshop will help you create or re-design assessment to align with your overall course goals.
Ecology Center Workshop: Data visualization with baseR
Workshop/Training
This workshop is for folks who are interested in getting a more in-depth understanding of the data visualization, plotting, and figure-making capabilities of baseR. This workshop will be taught be the EC's own Michael Stemkovski, a PhD student in BIOL. This workshop will cover: Beautifying your base-R plots Setting up plotting windows Multiple panels Touching up figures outside of R Animating figures Sign-up occurs on a first come-first serve basis, and we will be capping attendance at 25-30 attendees!
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Online Classes
Workshop/Training
Learn how to set up an online course in Canvas using a Canvas template. This workshop addresses the process of beginning with a course map, importing a Canvas template, and then developing and organizing course materials into modules.
AIS Data Engineering Workshop with Emma Cherrington
Workshop/Training
Emma Cherrington will be visiting Utah State as a past Alumni to present to the AIS Club, showcasing SSIS tools and creating automated processes.
Differential Equations Review
Workshop/Training
Engineering-focused review of Differential Equations.
Drop-in Resume Reviews
Workshop/Training
Get your resume reviewed and ready for the Huntsman Virtual Mock Interview Day!
Stop by the START Desk (located on the main floor between EBB and HH) and get help from trained student mentors and our Career Specialists. We are doing drop-in reviews every weekday between January 30th to February 9th from 9 am to 4 pm.
CIDI Workshop - Managing and Editing Lecture Recordings
Workshop/Training
With all the recordings you have probably been creating lately, your MyMedia account may be in need of some attention. This workshop will take you through the first steps to becoming a media master: learn how to tag and add descriptions to your recordings to make them more easily searchable, discover the power of playlists, and become familiar with the basic editing tools that are available through MyMedia.
CIDI Workshop - Creating Inclusive, Accessible Courses
Workshop/Training
Your Canvas course already has great content, but have you considered how usable and accessible that content is?
Drop-in Resume Reviews
Workshop/Training
Get your resume reviewed and ready for the Huntsman Virtual Mock Interview Day! Stop by the START Desk (located on the main floor between EBB and HH) and get help from trained student mentors and our Career Specialists. We are doing drop-in reviews every weekday between January 30th to February 9th from 9 am to 4 pm.
CIDI Workshop - Running Secure Exams in Canvas with Proctorio
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to create exams in Canvas, plus tools and methods for protecting quiz content and ensuring academic integrity when in-person proctoring isn't an option. (Includes discussion of Proctorio, question banks, time limits, question design, and more.)
Lunch & Learn - Getting Ready for Tax Time
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Extension's Empowering Financial Wellness Program present a lunch and learn on getting ready for taxes. Are you dreading the task of gathering all your documents for tax filing, but you don’t know where to start? While everyone's tax situation is different, we'll help find a starting point and a strategy to organize your documents that you can apply year after year! Being organized in preparation for tax time can not only save you time, but also money! *Presentation will be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
Aetna Webinar - Matchmaker Matchmaker: Surviving The Dating Scene
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider, presents a Resources For Living webinar on surviving the dating scene. Dating is different for each of us so finding out what is important to you is key when stepping out to connect with others. Learn how to communicate what you are looking for, navigate the world of online dating and set boundaries that work for you. *Presentation recording will be available on the EAP site. Visit hr.usu.edu/aggies-thrive for more information.
USU HELP - Student
Workshop/Training
USU HELP - Student
Drop-in Resume Reviews
Workshop/Training
Get your resume reviewed and ready for the Huntsman Virtual Mock Interview Day! Stop by the START Desk (located on the main floor between EBB and HH) and get help from trained student mentors and our Career Specialists. We are doing drop-in reviews every weekday between January 30th to February 9th from 9 am to 4 pm.
CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks
Workshop/Training
Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.
CIDI Workshop - Digital Badging Using Canvas Credentials (previously Badgr)
Workshop/Training
Digital badges are sometimes called microcredentials. They can be awarded to students for various accomplishments and then shared by students on social media and elsewhere as an indicator of their accomplishment or competence. Canvas has an integrated digital badging tool called Canvas Credentials (previously called Badgr). This workshop addresses how to create, award, and track digital badges.
Nuts about Nuts!
Workshop/Training
This is a cooking demo where you will get to sample all of the recipes made. Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
Front & Center: DEI Update Webinar
Workshop/Training
How Student-Facing Staff Can Advance USU's Commitment to a Diverse, Equitable, & Inclusive Institutional Culture.
Gen Z: What’s Not to like? Understanding the new generation of learners and how to unlock their potential
Workshop/Training | Sparkshops
Gen Z will most likely not remember a time before smartphones and social media. They gravitate towards 10 to 15 seconds worth of content (thanks TikTok) and were forced to be online learners (thanks pandemic). This Sparkshop will identify characteristics of Gen Z and explore teaching strategies to increase engagement.
Stress & Anxiety Workshop Series Part One: The Real Reason You Are Stressed Out
Workshop/Training
Part one of this six series workshop will focus on learning about the mind/body stress response and help identify your personal triggers for stress and anxiety. You will start to create an action plan to effectively manage stress. Attend all of the workshops in the series or just a couple. Either way you will have a new approach to stress. All workshops in the series are interactive and experiential.
Trans Allies Training
Workshop/Training
Want to know how to support the trans and non-binary community? In this two hour training, participants learn about key terminology, microaggressions, state laws, and other key topics that impact this specific community. Participants have the opportunity to take a commitment pledge and receive a trans allies sticker. Register for the training here: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bskLpbfwwUFA4mh Participants will receive link morning of the training.
CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.
CIDI Workshop - Exam Security in Canvas Without Proctorio
Workshop/Training
If you want to run a secure exam without using Proctorio, your options are to use a testing center or design your exam in a way that removes the benefits of trying to cheat. This can take some extra work and creativity, but often results in better exams overall. We'll discuss question design, timing, question banks, and the way the USU testing center network works.
Thesis and Dissertation Information Session
Workshop/Training
Thesis and dissertation format information sessions provide a thorough survey of USU thesis and dissertation format requirements and guidelines, journal and other departmental format options, and tools that may be useful in the preparation of a thesis or dissertation including the publication guide.
Aetna Webinar - Intuition: Hearing and Trusting Your Inner Voice
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider, presents a Resources For Living webinar on intuition and your inner voice. When used correctly, your inner voice can work like a personal compass, pointing you in the right direction. This webinar will review the science behind your intuition, how to tune into your inner voice, and when to listen to your gut (and when not to). *Presentation recording will be available on the EAP site. Visit hr.usu.edu/aggies-thrive for more information.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Classes in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.
CIDI Workshop - Managing and Editing Lecture Recordings
Workshop/Training
With all the recordings you have probably been creating lately, your MyMedia account may be in need of some attention. This workshop will take you through the first steps to becoming a media master: learn how to tag and add descriptions to your recordings to make them more easily searchable, discover the power of playlists, and become familiar with the basic editing tools that are available through MyMedia.
CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints
Workshop/Training
Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.
Eating Intuitively: Where do I start?
Workshop/Training
This event is part of Powered by Your Body Week which aims to raise awareness to and prevent disordered eating and body distress struggles among college students. This workshop specifically will go into the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating and also give you concrete ways to start implementing Intuitive Eating into your daily life to help improve your relationship with food! It will be held in the Library, Room 154.
Building Balanced Meals
Workshop/Training
Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
Aetna Webinar - Your Body Language Speaks Volumes
Workshop/Training
Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider, presents a Resources For Living webinar on body language and communication. Communication is important. But are you missing an important part of it? Join us to learn how you can use the power of body language to understand others and send the message you want. We'll discuss the power of non-verbal communication, how you can better understand others' feelings, and ways you can use your body language to your advantage. *Presentation recording will be available on the EAP site. Visit hr.usu.edu/aggies-thrive for more information.
Sress & Anxiety Workshop Series Part Two: Just Breathe
Workshop/Training
Ever hear the phrase “just breathe” and wonder what good breathing actually does (besides keeping you alive)? Come to this workshop to see why breathing is effective in managing stress and anxiety.
What are Eating Disorders?
Workshop/Training
Eating disorders are often confused or overlooked due to society's idealization of thin bodies and dieting, but eating disorders are serious, life-threatening mental illnesses. This workshop will explore signs, symptoms, and causes of eating disorders, options for seeking care, and how you can support someone going through an eating disorder.
USU HELPS - Faculty and Staff
Workshop/Training
USU HELPS - Faculty and Staff
Body Acceptance
Workshop/Training
Negative body image is a common issue among college students. The term, “body image,” refers to the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs you hold about your body, as well as how they affect your daily life. Body acceptance is a way to build a healthier relationship with your body. In this workshop, we will explore what body image distress and body acceptance is and tools to help you move towards a place of body acceptance.
This workshop is available on zoom and in the Library room 154.
CIDI Workshop - Designing a Flipped Classroom
Workshop/Training
Utilize Canvas and its features to create more time in class for demonstration or discussion.
Backpack to Briefcase: Preparing for Graduate School
Workshop/Training | Focused Friday
You've decided to go to graduate school, but what now? In this episode of Backpack to Briefcase, we'll ask our panelists to discuss their experiences with the application process and what they did to prepare. From exams to letters of recommendation, do not miss this B2B where you'll hear from several Huntsmen alumnus.
Join live via the Huntsman YouTube Channel.
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
Debunking Diet Culture
Workshop/Training
Diet culture tells us that our appearance and body shape are more important than physical, psychological, and general well-being. It's the idea that controlling your body, particularly your diet—by limiting what and how much you eat—is normal. This workshop will explore the harmful effects of diet culture, debunk the myths it tells us about our food and bodies, and how to take of ourselves in a world surrounded with diet culture.
This workshop is available on zoom and in the Library room 154.
CIDI Workshop - Advanced Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.
Easy & Affordable Meal Prep
Workshop/Training
This is a cooking demo where you will get to sample all of the recipes made. Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
CIDI Workshop - Creating Interactive Activities for OER Texts (Pressbooks)
Workshop/Training
Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It allows teachers and students to find, reuse, author, and publish open content. Additionally, it incorporates tools for creating interactive activities to accompany the text using the open H5P assessment platform. Learn how to create or adopt an open textbook and make it interactive.
Setting & Communicating Healthy Boundaries
Workshop/Training
Front & Center Webinar: How student-facing staff can set and communicate healthy boundaries with students.
Ditch Your Debt and Transform Your Net Worth
Workshop/Training
The Utah Women & Leadership Project invites you to join us for our first Spring workshop of the academic year.
Ditching debt is a powerful way to increase net worth, reduce stress surrounding money, and increase capacity to save and invest for your future. Net worth is a great big-picture measurement of your financial situation. It can take day-to-day work to increase your net worth, but there is a free tool available to help you become debt free! Join Melanie Jewkes, Utah State University Extension Professor, as she guides you on your transformational money journey.
Free - Register Online in Advance Here
Stress & Anxiety Workshop Series Part Four: Visualization & Imagery
Workshop/Training
Imagery and visualization are evidence-based strategies to help reduce stress and anxiety. These techniques may also improve performance anxiety or interpersonal interactions.
CIDI Workshop - Shortcuts and Tools to Take Your Canvas Course to the Next Level
Workshop/Training
You've learned how to use Design Tools, now get to know the amazing tools you didn't know existed! Did you know you could add an alert box to your front page with one click? That's just the beginning of what's to come with this workshop.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
Lunch & Learn - All Work and No Play: Avoiding Burnout
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider present a lunch and learn to avoid burnout. Being burned out means feeling empty, unmotivated and mentally exhausted. At this point, it’s hard to see any hope of positive change. Join us to learn about burnout and how to bring more normalcy back into your life. In this training, we will define burnout and learn how it differs from stress, identify the causes of burnout and eventual outcome, and explore tips for avoiding and recovering from burnout. *Presentation will not be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
NEH Regional Grant-Writing Workshop
Workshop/Training
Save the Date! Utah State University will host a regional grant-writing workshop from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Registration information and a schedule will be released in January.
Springboard to Action! Rethinking Student Assessment
Workshop/Training
The "Springboard to Action!" series events are yearly workshops sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Empowering Teaching Excellence. These workshops are designed for USU instructors to dedicate the day and implement a practice in their teaching that they had been planning on doing. Each Springboard workshop has a different theme. This year's "Springboard to Action Series" is rethinking student assessment with a focus on implementing ungrading practices into course construction. Participants will be presented with several short ignition ideas by facilitators, participate in breakouts, implement their own practices, and receive feedback from their group and designated facilitator.
Beans: The Budget-Friendly Protein
Workshop/Training
This is a cooking demo where you will get to sample all of the recipes made. Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
Nutritious & Affordable Eating
Workshop/Training
Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
Allies Training
Workshop/Training
Want to know how to support the LGBT+ community? In this two hour training, participants learn about key terminology, microaggressions, state laws, and other key topics that impact this community. Participants have the opportunity to take a commitment pledge and receive an allies sticker. Register for the training here: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bskLpbfwwUFA4mh Participants will receive link day of the training.
Stress & Anxiety Workshop Series Part Five: Healthy Thinking
Workshop/Training
Thoughts, feelings and behaviors are connected. When we modify our thoughts, we can change the way we feel and how we respond to our environment. This workshop will discuss specific ways to change negative, unhelpful thoughts into healthy thoughts and reduce stress.
CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.
Lunch & Learn - Ditch Your Debt with PowerPay
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Extension's Empowering Financial Wellness Program present a lunch and learn to learn how to ditch your debt with PowerPay. The economic conditions of the last couple of years may have led to you racking up debt and you’re not sure of the best strategy to pay it off. The best debt payoff plan is the one that works for you as we'll demonstrate options so that you can choose the best one! Join our experts to learn about PowerPay, a free tool that can help you save time and money on the road to becoming debt free! We’ll even share some tips for lowering your interest rates on your debt! *Presentation will be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
Trans Allies Training
Workshop/Training
Want to know how to support the trans and non-binary community? In this two hour training, participants learn about key terminology, microaggressions, state laws, and other key topics that impact this specific community. Participants have the opportunity to take a commitment pledge and receive a trans allies sticker. Register for the training here: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bskLpbfwwUFA4mh Participants will receive link morning of the training.
CIDI Workshop - Shortcuts and Tools to Take Your Canvas Course to the Next Level
Workshop/Training
You've learned how to use Design Tools, now get to know the amazing tools you didn't know existed! Did you know you could add an alert box to your front page with one click? That's just the beginning of what's to come with this workshop.
Teaching Your Child Consent
Workshop/Training
The Utah Women & Leadership Project invites you to join us for our second Spring workshop of the academic year.
Consent is about so much more than sex. Practicing and honoring consent is essential to navigating relationships and interactions throughout our lives. This discussion explores the powerful principles of consent and how they can help us empower children, foster healthy relationships in our families, and reduce the risk of sexual abuse.
Free - Register Online in Advance
USU HELPS - Faculty and Staff
Workshop/Training
USU HELPS - Faculty and Staff
CIDI Workshop - Making Your Online Class More Interactive and Humanized
Workshop/Training
Help your online students get to know and interact with you better. Connect your students to each other through thoughtfully designed discussion boards, peer reviews, and group projects. Use techniques to speed up your feedback process when grading.
Academic Stress: Strategies to overcome distractions in the classroom
Workshop/Training
Struggling to focus? This one-hour workshop will give an overview of what this might look like in the classroom. This workshop will go over strategies to help students focus better in the classroom related to study skills, organizational skills, time management, etc.
CHaSS Research Workshop: Grant-Writing Charrette
Workshop/Training
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS), the Office of Research, and USU Libraries will sponsor a grant-writing charrette - a hands-on, collaborative peer review session. Participation in the workshop is by application and is limited to 9 CHaSS faculty (at any rank or campus), including lecturers and post-docs. Preference, however, will be given to early career scholars and those soon seeking promotion. Apply by February 15, 2023 here: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5o19ZOrIM6tK3mS
Thesis & Dissertation Information Session
Workshop/Training
Thesis and dissertation format information sessions provide a thorough survey of USU thesis and dissertation format requirements and guidelines, journal and other departmental format options, and tools that may be useful in the preparation of a thesis or dissertation including the publication guide.
Getting to know you: finding ways to connect with others as a person on the autism spectrum
Workshop/Training
Struggling to find friends? Not sure how to get your social life going at USU? This workshop is geared towards persons on the autism spectrum who want to build social skills and find new ways to connect with people around them.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
Lunch & Learn - Becoming a Better You
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider present a lunch and learn to becoming better individual's. Personal growth is important. It can lead to new and fun experiences, and it can open doors to success. But what do you do when you feel “stuck”? This training will review barriers to improvement, how to commit to your goals, and ways to become a better version of yourself. *Presentation will not be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
Debunking Nutrition Myths
Workshop/Training
Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
Stress & Anxiety Workshop Series Part Six: Progressive Muscle Relaxation & Wellness Planning
Workshop/Training
Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) is one way to relieve or reduce aches and pains that come up from stress and muscle tension. In this workshop, you will experience PMR and learn how to use it in your every day life. This workshop will also guide you through creating a wellness plan that will outline specific steps you can take to reduce stress and improve quality of life. The wellness plan will focus on several dimensions in life including: sleep, nutrition, academic, relationships and more.
Concurrent Enrollment Workshop
Workshop/Training
This workshop was designed to provide our CE Instructors with insights into what USU resources are available, how they fit into USU's goal of teaching excellence, and building community. During this event, instructors will learn about general education assessments, Canvas basics, and departmental resources.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Online Classes
Workshop/Training
Learn how to set up an online course in Canvas using a Canvas template. This workshop addresses the process of beginning with a course map, importing a Canvas template, and then developing and organizing course materials into modules.
CIDI Workshop - Making Your Online Class More Interactive and Humanized
Workshop/Training
Help your online students get to know and interact with you better. Connect your students to each other through thoughtfully designed discussion boards, peer reviews, and group projects. Use techniques to speed up your feedback process when grading.
Building Confidence Workshop
Workshop/Training
She's Daring Mighty Things presents Building Confidence: How to identify and use your power. Kristyn Allred, the Director of She's Daring Mighty Things, will facilitate a workshop on building confidence followed by three Huntsman faculty who will share their big ideas. Register to attend.
CIDI Workshop - Improve the Canvas Student Experience
Workshop/Training
Learn quick and easy practical tips to make sure your content more usable and easy to learn for the students in your course. In this workshop we will go over how to: · Get rid of extra content in your course and simplify your course navigation. · Get rid of broken links and make sure your content is published. · Embed and caption your videos to make them more usable for everyone. · Provide content in user-friendly formats that work well on mobile devices.
Personalizing a Healthy Diet for YOU
Workshop/Training
This is a cooking demo where you will get to sample all of the recipes made. Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
CIDI Workshop - Creating Interactive Activities for OER Texts (Pressbooks)
Workshop/Training
Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It allows teachers and students to find, reuse, author, and publish open content. Additionally, it incorporates tools for creating interactive activities to accompany the text using the open H5P assessment platform. Learn how to create or adopt an open textbook and make it interactive.
CIDI Workshop - Creating Interactive Activities for OER Texts (Pressbooks)
Workshop/Training
Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It allows teachers and students to find, reuse, author, and publish open content. Additionally, it incorporates tools for creating interactive activities to accompany the text using the open H5P assessment platform. Learn how to create or adopt an open textbook and make it interactive.
CIDI Workshop - Creating Your Own Course Templates
Workshop/Training
This workshop shows how the Design Tools in Canvas can be made to create a customized template that can be quickly implemented.
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Classes in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.
CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
CIDI Workshop - Grading in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)
Front & Center: Your Role in the Future of Higher Education
Workshop/Training
How student-facing staff can help students find academic belonging
CIDI Workshop - Teaching Hybrid Classes
Workshop/Training
A hybrid class replaces some synchronous teaching time with asynchronous learning. It involves both the development of quality online content and interactions and the effective use of live class time. This workshop addresses tips for success in both the online and live components of a hybrid class.
The impact of Trauma on your body
Workshop/Training
This one hour workshop will discuss how trauma impacts the body and discuss what that means for trauma survivors. This workshop will also discuss basic coping and resrouces for seeking treatment.
Mindful Eating
Workshop/Training
Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments
Workshop/Training
Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.
Lunch & Learn - Making the Most of Your Tax Refund
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Extension's Empowering Financial Wellness Program present a lunch and learn to make the most of your tax refund. For the 2021 tax season the average refund in Utah was $2,700. If you are anticipating getting a tax refund this year, what is the best way to use it to maximize the funds you receive? Join us, as we talk about strategies to balance needs and wants with that refund! *Presentation will be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
Getting in Touch
Workshop/Training
How can mindfulness improve our sexual health? Physical intimacy with others and ourselves can be hindered by societal messages - but those aren't the restraints that should be present in our sexual exploration and lives. In this one-hour discussion, we will talk about the relationship between mindfulness and sexual health, and how being intentional, present, and compassionate may unlock a healthier relationship with our own bodies and deepen our connection with others.
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.
Veg Out: Easy Ways to Add More Veggies to Meals
Workshop/Training
This is a cooking demo where you will get to sample all of the recipes made. Register to attend this workshop at https://recportal.usu.edu/. This workshop will be held in the ARC Nutrition Center or room 120.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
Facilitating Students Engagement with Challenging Material: The Power of Literary Learning Circles
Workshop/Training | Sparkshops
Many of us teach required courses that are not at the top of most students' list of classes they are most excited to take. Small group learning circles have been a powerful tool we have used over the past three years to improve student engagement with course material in what we have come to call in Social Work, high resistance topic areas/courses. The response from students has been overwhelmingly positive and the experience of faculty has been equally positive. Come learn about how you might adapt this assignment/tool to enhance your students learning and your own teaching experience.
CIDI Workshop - Create Custom Message Campaigns with Delphinium
Workshop/Training
Delphinium adds a graphical presentation to your Canvas content and adds some game elements to help increase student engagement. It also provides a feature to message students using a form letter approach so you can quickly email students who meet certain criteria and include their name and number of points they have earned to date. This workshop addresses this custom messaging function.
Effective Sleep Habits
Workshop/Training
This one-hour workshop will focus on understanding sleep and the impact sleep has on mental health. We will discuss the difference between acute and chronic insomnia along with different ways to improve sleep (challenging dysfunctional beliefs, relaxation, stimulus control, and sleep hygiene).
CIDI Workshop - Creating Your Own Course Templates
Workshop/Training
This workshop shows how the Design Tools in Canvas can be made to create a customized template that can be quickly implemented.
CIDI Workshop - Grading in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)
CIDI Workshop - Grading in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)
Lunch & Learn - Unplug to Recharge
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider present a lunch and learn to unplug from technology and recharge our lives. Most of us use electronics and social media. While it’s hard to deny the advantages of technology, many have an unhealthy attachment to it. Feeling like you’re caught up in the social media madness and need to recharge? This training will talk about symptoms of technology burnout, physical and emotional effects of connection overload, how to begin a digital “detox”, the positives of unplugging to recharge our bodies and minds, and steps to have a better balance. *Presentation will not be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event will qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints
Workshop/Training
Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
CIDI Workshop - Creating Inclusive, Accessible Courses
Workshop/Training
Your Canvas course already has great content, but have you considered how usable and accessible that content is?
CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
CIDI Workshop - Gamify Your Course with Delphinium
Workshop/Training
Delphinium adds a graphical presentation to your Canvas content and adds some game elements to help increase student engagement. Learn how to set it up for your course in this introductory workshop.
Lunch & Learn - Learning to Embrace Failure
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider present a lunch and learn embrace and learn from failure. Let’s face it – failing often feels bad. It can bring up all kinds of insecurities. But avoiding failure may lead to a lack of growth. Failing can be good for you – personally and professionally. This training will discuss why people are afraid of failure, how failure can help you, and ways to embrace failure and gain more success. *Presentation will not be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an event for the Be Well Rewards program.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
Lunch & Learn - What is Your Money Personality?
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Extension's Empowering Financial Wellness Program present a lunch and learn to discover what your money personality is. Knowing your habits and attitudes about money (habitudes) is a great way to help understand and talk about finances in a fun, constructive way! It helps to pinpoint underlying financial habits, attitudes and motivations to make real behavior changes. Join us to learn how to find out what your unique money personality is and how that can help you reach your goals! *Presentation will be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
CIDI Workshop - Grading in Canvas
Workshop/Training
Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)
Lunch & Learn - Taking Sleep Seriously
Workshop/Training
USU Be Well and Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program provider present a lunch and learn on the importance and benefits of sleep. How important is sleep? Without it you wouldn’t survive. Sleep is an essential part of daily life. It helps us to stay focused, remember things and keeps us energized and able to face the tasks of the day. This training looks at what is considered “normal” sleep, things that might indicate a sleeping disorder, lifestyle influences on sleep, ways to increase your chances of getting a good night’s sleep, and where to go for more information. *Presentation will not be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event will qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.
CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments
Workshop/Training
Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.
CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints
Workshop/Training
Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.
CIDI Workshop - Gamify Your Course with Delphinium
Workshop/Training
Delphinium adds a graphical presentation to your Canvas content and adds some game elements to help increase student engagement. Learn how to set it up for your course in this introductory workshop.
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