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This session will introduce EndNote to the campus and it covers building an EndNote Library, knowing where a few important preferences are, manual data entry with a rundown on how all the special fields work, and the different ways of importing references. The second part covers using Cite while you write in Word. The afternoon part will be an advanced Q&A session. The session agenda is:
9:00-10:30: Building an EndNote Library
11:00-12:30: Using EndNote Cite While You Write
1:00-2:30: Advanced EndNote Q&A
Creating Activites with StudyMate
To increase your student engagement level of your classes with interactive activities or games you will find StudyMate to be an excellent tool.
Based on a single list of questions - many already provided by many textbook authors - you can create ten activities and games including crossword puzzles, word problems and fact cards. You can publish these activities to your SacCT course or students can easily download them to their iPods or even Sony Playstation Portable. You can have them graded or use them as study exercises.
Also, you may import existing content from Respondus, MS Word, and from the Publishers Test Bank. StudyMate is a tool for someone with no experience in programming and Flash to create an activity or game.
View Examples of StudyMate. Or view by typing the URL http://www.csus.edu/atcs/tools/studymate/examples.stm Fill in a form to request StudyMate software. The URL is http://www.csus.edu/atcs/tools/studymate/request-form.stm
Creating SacCT Quizzes with Respondus
Respondus is a Windows-based application that makes it easy to create
quizzes, surveys, and self-tests for SacCT. Quizzes can be created offline
and then uploaded into SacCT. During this workshop, you will create quizzes,
format questions, and manage quizzes. Please have a SacCT course available
in which to publish practice quizzes.
Prerequisites: A SacLink account, SacCT training, or experience creating
quizzes within SacCT.
Teaching in a Computer Lab - Effectively Managing Student Computers
This workshop will focus on showing instructors how to make use of the GenevaLogic Vision application, which allows instructors to control and enhance their teaching environment. The workshop facilitator will demonstrate the most commonly used modes of instruction, including: how to demonstrate from the teacher's station, how to see what is on your student's computer screen, how to control a student's computer, how to use the MasterPointer drawing option, how to share files and collect student's feedback. This software is available on all CCLS managed lab computers.
Requirement: none
Prerequisites: Basic Computer Skills.
Teaching in a Smart Classroom
Are you teaching in one of our traditional "smart" classrooms this fall and want to familiarize yourself with the technology found in these classrooms? Join us for a one hour orientation session that will provide you with an overview of the equipment available for use in a smart classroom and see a demonstration of how to use this equipment. During this one hour session you will learn how to connect either your Windows or Macintosh laptop to the video projector, playback a DVD, VHS tape or campus TV, switch video source between laptop or DVD/VHS player, adjust the audio volume, turn closed captioning on and off, understand the cables you need to connect your laptop, and learn how to report a problem or request assistance.
Teaching in a Technology Assisted Classroom
Are you teaching in one of our new "technology assisted" (e.g. SQU 301, SQU 316 or BNC 1025) this fall and want to familiarize yourself with the technology found in these classrooms? Join us for a 1.5 hour orientation session that will provide you with an overview of the equipment available for use in a technology assisted classroom and see a demonstration of how to use this equipment. During the 1.5 hour session you will learn how to use the Windows based PC, connect either your Windows or Macintosh laptop to the video projector, playback a DVD, VHS tape or campus TV, use the document camera, switch video source between laptop, DVD/VHS player and document camera, adjust the audio volume, turn closed captioning on and off, understand the cables you need to connect your laptop, learn how to report a problem or request assistance.
The new Technology Assisted Classrooms are located in SQU 301, SQU 316 and BNC 1025. Equipment and connections are conveniently installed in the podium. In addition, they have a Windows PC and document camera, which are NOT available in a traditional "smart" classroom.
Office Productivity Series
Adobe Acrobat: Creating Accessible PDFs
Providing equivalent access to electronic documents for all students,
faculty, and staff at Sacramento State is a requirement for all CSU
campuses. Accessibility in terms of electronic documents generally refers
to facilitating the use of technology for people with disabilities. Learn
how to ensure that your PDF documents are accessible during this two hour
workshop. During this workshop, we will cover the process that should be
followed in order to create accessible PDFs. You will also learn how to
check for PDF accessibility and how to make existing PDFs accessible
following CSU requirements.
Adobe Acrobat: An Introduction to Creating & Editing PDFs
An Introduction to Creating & Editing PDFs Acrobat can be used for much more than viewing PDF files. In fact, Acrobat
is probably one of the most used but least understood applications today.
This workshop will provide practice using the essential elements of Acrobat,
which include PDF creation, interface and navigation tools, PDF bookmarks
and hyperlinks. The workshop also includes short segments on the basics of
creating PDF forms and accessible PDF documents.
Adobe Acrobat: An Introduction to PDF Forms
Designed to give you a head start in the process of creating PDF forms, this hand-on workshop will cover the basics of forms development using Adobe Acrobat OR LiveCycle Designer, which comes packaged with Acrobat 7.0 or higher. Mac users: LiveCycle Designer is a PC-only application that is only included in the PC version of Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or higher. For basic forms, Acrobat can easily be used to create PDF forms, without the assistance of LiveCycle Designer.
Prerequisites: To get the most out of this workshop, workshop attendees should participate in the following workshop before attending this session: “Adobe Acrobat: An Introduction to Creating & Editing PDFs”. Demonstration of equivalent knowledge might also be acceptable.
Demo Session: Building an EndNote Library & Using EndNote Cite
This session will introduce EndNote to the campus and it covers building an EndNote Library, knowing where a few important preferences are, manual data entry with a rundown on how all the special fields work, and the different ways of importing references. The second part covers using Cite while you write in Word. The afternoon part will be an advanced Q&A session. The session agenda is:
9:00-10:30: Building an EndNote Library
11:00-12:30: Using EndNote Cite While You Write
1:00-2:30: Advanced EndNote Q&A
Excel 2007 PC Platform: Formatting
In this workshop the following topics will be covered: advanced formatting, formulas, templates, charts, lists, and using Excel data in Word.
Prerequisites: Experience with Excel.
Excel 2007 PC Platform: Macros and Pivot Tables
In this workshop the following topics will be covered: description of Pivot Tables, creation of Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts, description of macros, and recording of macros.
Excel 2007 PC Platform: The Basics
In this workshop the following topics will be covered: basic spreadsheet components, data entry, data formatting, managing a workbook, and printing.
Express Help: Making Instructional Materials Accessible
Want a head start in making your documents accessible for all students? Bring your original documents in an electronic format (Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or Adobe PDF) and join your fellow faculty members to get one-on-one consulting help from ATCS professional staff. We'll help you add the proper formatting and structural elements needed to make your documents accessible.
Outlook 2007 PC Platform: Basics
In this hands-on Windows-based workshop, learn how to attach files in mail messages, organize messages, use address books, and create distribution lists. Review calendar basics including how to create appointments and schedule meetings. Customize the Outlook environment and discover the advantages of having calendar, e-mail, and contacts components available in a single product.
Outlook 2007 PC Platform: For the Web
In this hands-on Window-based workshop, learn how to navigate Outlook for the Web. This course will help you accomplish the same tasks you are used to performing with the Outlook Basic while using the Web interface.
PowerPoint 2007 PC Platform: Create Brisk Presentations
The look and feel in PowerPoint 2007 for the PC is new. The tools and features enable you to "browse, pick, and click" rather than select from dialog boxes.
The Agenda for this workshop is as follows:
Know your way around the interface. Understand the office button, quick access toolbar, ribbon, tabs, and context-sensitive names.
Create presentations from a blank, installed templates, installed themes, another presentation or application. Also we will explore tips on creating instructional slides.
Save your created slides not only as PowerPoint presentations but also as PDF, HTML, and for an iPod.
PowerPoint 2007 PC Platform: Design to Engage
PowerPoint presentations potentially loose audience when it does not appeal to them. Yet PowerPoint has the tools to create presentations that can pull your audience to interact with the content you create. This workshop is for you if you want to learn how to use PowerPoint as an instructional tool to create interactive engaging presentations.
The Agenda for this workshop is as follows:
Work with Slide Layouts and Textboxes.
Work with Pictures, ClipArt, Photo Album, and SmartArt.
Create Hyperlinks to slides as well as to Web pages and emails.
Work with Tables and Charts.
PowerPoint 2007 PC Platform: Incorporate Audio, Video, & Animation
You will gain information in how to use audio, video and animation within PowerPoint.
The Agenda for this workshop is as follows:
Insert sound and record your voice.
Link a video. We will look at file formats and talk about the size of videos. Also how to make a YouTube video play in a PowerPoint presentation.
You will also gain ideas in how to animate objects and SmartArt in a creative manner to teach your content.
PowerPoint for ALL: Create Accessible Presentations
Create PowerPoint slides which are readable, usable, and navigable to your audience. The objective for this workshop is to gain understanding of the main problems encountered by students with disabilities. The aim is to incorporate accessibility guidelines into learning and teaching materials. We will visit why we are looking at accessibility, Section 508 and legislation, facts and figures here at Sac State, range of disabilities to be aware of, guidelines for creating accessible PowerPoint presentations, and share useful resources you can use.
Word 2007 PC Platform: Advanced
So you have mastered the basics, understand the new ribbon design tools in MS Word and know how to apply style sheets to make sure your documents are accessibile, what's next? Take this class so that you move to the next step: automation. This class will discuss table of contents in multi page documents, using and creating Word templates and understanding how to automate repetitive tasks using Word Macros. And lastly, you will learn how to dazzle your colleagues when you write them personlized letters from a single document template using mail merge. This class will graduate you into the world of writing more efficiently if not creatively!
Prerequisites: Participants must have attended both, MS Word Essentials and MS Word Style Sheet and Formatting.
Word 2007 PC Platform: Essentials
The buttons have changed, the interface has changed, the format has changed, and that means you have to catch up! This workshop introduces you to the newly redesigned Word 2007. It is designed with the novice user in mind, particularly because Word has an updated interface making document creation easier. For the intermediate user, this workshop will also cover the new ribbon interface introduced by Microsoft and will guide you in the updated locations of often used features, don't get lost trying to find that one menu you are accustomed to use. Also understanding the new document format and how to save for compatibility will be a plus. You will learn how to create, save, and design documents; and you will be able to add images, tables and apply basic formatting to your documents. You will be able to use the built in and develop your own customized spell checker for your particular writing style.
Word 2007 PC Platform: Style Sheets and Formatting
If you make changes to lots of documents this class is for you! If you are required to meet the Accessibility Technology Initiative by producing accessible documents this workshop can help. If you want to automate the formatting of generic documents without having to learn programming and Visual Basic this workshop will provide you with you the basic tools. Style Sheets and Formatting are concepts that you will apply to create readily accessible and beautiful documents. Learning how to integrate pagination, layout, headers and footers will give you a head start; but having to make documents consistant for accessibility using Style sheets will make you a star.
Word 2007: Creating Accessible Word Documents
Learn how to create accessible word documents by applying basic structural and formatting elements in Microsoft Word to your base documents. Creating an accessible base document in Microsoft Word will allow you to convert your documents to accessible PDF and HTML document formats as well. You may bring your syllabus or other word files to apply the formatting and structural elements needed in an accessible Word document.
See how fellow colleagues are using Flashlight 2.0 to create online surveys in this 1-hour demo session. In addition to allowing for the creation of multi-question type, anonymous surveys, this recently-released version of Flashlight introduces several new important features, such as matrix surveys (one survey designed for different respondent groups), paging, messaging capabilities, and collaborative authoring and management.
Accessible Syllabus: Using the Accessible Syllabus Template
This workshop applies the concepts of creating accessible word documents to the creation of an Accessible Syllabus. Accessible Syllabus Templates incorporating elements of accessibility such as structure, styles and formatting and effective reading order of contents will be used as the main tool for you to create a syllabus that is accessible to all of your students, including students with disabilities. We will cover various scenarios of how you may use the syllabus template including: entering content directly into the template, copying and pasting existing syllabus information into the template correctly, modifying styling of template, and how to save the syllabus template styles into your Microsoft Word program and apply these to existing and new syllabi.
Camtasia: Screen Capture
Description: Learn how to record, edit and share your demonstrations and presentations online using Camtasia Studio. This Windows-only application records your computer screen, capturing your cursor movements, menu selections, typing, and pop-up windows. It can even record PowerPoint presentations with audio! Come participate in this hands-on workshop to show you how to teach your students using screen recordings.
Requirement: Participants must have a SacLink account.
Prerequisites: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows OS environment.
Deliver Live Virtual Classrooms with iMEET
Learn to extend your SacCT course with iMEET, a real-time learning and collaboration tool. You will learn how to use iMEET’s chat, whiteboard, web tour and application share tools to deliver a class online. We will walk you through the process of setting up your course for iMEET and how to create sessions to deliver lectures, for meetings, group projects or any other use specific to your course. You will also learn how you can access and use your recorded iMEET sessions in your course or website.
Demo Session: iMEET: Make Recordings and Publish Online
If you are using iMEET to deliver classes online, for class or department presentations, advising sessions, office hours, etc. you can Record these sessions and Publish them online. You can also store recordings in an archive that is ready to use. In this workshop you will learn how to use iMEET to record a session and how to publish recordings into audio and/or video files that can be used on a website or SacCT course.
Prerequisites: Users must have a working knowledge of scheduling and moderating/participating in an iMEET session, or have attended an iMEET workshop, iMEET: Deliver Live Virtual Classrooms with iMEET or Live Business Meetings.
Demo Session: Online Surveys with Flashlight 2.0
See how fellow colleagues are using Flashlight 2.0 to create online surveys in this 1-hour demo session. In addition to allowing for the creation of multi-question type, anonymous surveys, this recently-released version of Flashlight introduces several new important features, such as matrix surveys (one survey designed for different respondent groups), paging, messaging capabilities, and collaborative authoring and management.
Demo Session: Secure Exams with LockDown Browser
How secure are your online exams and quizzes? Reduce the likelihood of students cheating on your assessments in SacCT by using the new Respondus LockDown Browser. It prevents students from printing, copying, going to another website, or accessing other applications during an assessment. Come see a demonstration of this new software and see how easy it is to work with your SacCT exams and quizzes.
Requirement: Participants must have a SacLink account.
Prerequisites: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment. In addition, participants should have a basic understanding of the functions available in SacCT.
Flashlight 2.0: Dare to Assess - Using Online Surveys to Improve Practice
What are you assessing? Is your goal to improve your practice or to rate it? No matter your intentions, come join us in this hands-on, thought-provoking workshop, designed to give you a head start in the online survey creation process. We’ll show you how to build an online survey, but will also discuss the “what” and “why” of online assessment. Current users of Flashlight beware! Like the original version, this new version of Flashlight allows for the creation of multi-question type, anonymous surveys. However, this recently-released version introduces several new, over-the-top features, such as matrix surveys (one survey designed for different respondent groups), paging, messaging capabilities, and collaborative authoring and management.
iMEET for Business
Learn how you can use iMEET, a real-time learning and collaboration tool, for business meetings and presentations. You will learn how to use and combine iMEET tools such as chat, whiteboard, video, application share, and web tour to hold a meetings with colleagues, students, guest presenters or other users, on or off campus. We will walk you through the process of setting up an iMEET session and ways your meeting participants can access sessions you have created. Lastly, you will learn how to make meeting recordings available to other users of interest, via a website or email.
iMovie '09: Video Essentials (Mac users)
This workshop is designed for faculty who would like to add video clips to their online course material. Faculty will participate in hands-on activities such as editing a video file, adding titles, and publishing the video to the Web.
LockDown Browser: Securing Your Online Exams and Quizzes in SacCT
How secure are your online exams and quizzes? Reduce the likelihood of students cheating on your assessments in SacCT by using the new Respondus LockDown Browser. It prevents students from printing, copying, going to another website, or accessing other applications during an assessment. Come see a demonstration of this new software and see how easy it is to work with your SacCT exams and quizzes.
Requirement: Participants must have a SacLink account.
Prerequisites: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment. In addition, participants should have a basic understanding of the functions available in SacCT.
SacCT: Administer File Management and Organize Course Content
This workshop will introduce participants to the tools used to manage and display content in SacCT. Participants will upload and manage files in SacCT, learn how to use Folders, Content Links, and Learning Modules. Instructors attending this workshop will gain knowledge in how to organize their course content, as well as learn how to customize the look of their SacCT pages.
Requirement: A SacCT course to work with during the exercises Basic understanding of the SacCT homepage and editing functions Basic knowledge of file and folder listing in the Macintosh or Windows environment.
SacCT: Communicating Online
Various communication tools in SacCT such as discussions, mail, chat, announcements, and calendar allow you to interact with and inform students in your course. In this workshop you will learn about which tools are most appropriate during different communication scenarios, understand your level of involvement throughout the use of these various communication tools, and choose the communication tools that are appropriate for your course and that will benefit your students' learning process.
Prerequisites: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment. In addition, participants must have a SacLink account.
SacCT: Evaluate Your Students Using the Assessment Tools
How well are your students learning what you've been teaching them? Evaluate your students in SacCT by using online quizzes or exams, or by setting up the assignment tool for students to submit assignments online. Topics for this workshop include: setting up SacCT assignments, submitting an assignment as a student, viewing and grading assignment submissions, setting up SacCT quizzes, taking a quiz as a student, viewing quiz results, editing quiz results and analyzing quiz reports. We will also discuss options you can implement as an instructor to make your online quizzes more secure.
Requirement: A SacCT course to work with during the exercises Basic understanding of the SacCT homepage and editing functions Basic knowledge of file and folder listing in the Macintosh or Windows environment.
Prerequisites: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer
skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to
effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment. In addition,
participants must have a SacCT course and a basic understanding of the SacCT
homepage and the editing functions available in SacCT. Participants must
have a SacLink account.
SacCT: Manage Students, Point Values, and Final Grades in Grade Book
The SacCT Grade Book is much more than a simple spreadsheet to keep track of student grades and point values. You can use it in creative ways, such as providing feedback to individual students, keeping track of student absences and section numbers, totaling quiz scores, and calculating final grades. Topics include: viewing your student roster, managing students, adding Grade Book columns, importing grades from Excel, and creating Grading Forms (rubrics). In addition, we will review scenarios to creatively use the Grade Book in real situations.
Prerequisites: A SacCT course to work with during the exercises Basic understanding of the SacCT homepage and editing functions Basic knowledge of file and folder listing in the Macintosh or Windows environment.
SacCT: Quick Start
Get started with your SacCT course by learning how to use basic tools to set up and manage your course. You will learn the basics of maintaining a course, uploading documents, sending email and creating a class discussion.
Requirement: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment. In addition, participants must have a SacLink account.
SacCT: Timesaver Tips & Tricks
Share and Learn! Come learn what other SacCT users are doing to save time designing, grading, and instructing in SacCT. Does it take you two days to grade Discussion postings? Several hours to download those assignments? Many days to locate that one email message? Share YOUR secrets and learn from your colleagues in this 1-hour, hands-on session!
Prerequisites: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment. In addition, participants must have a SacCT course.
Web Design & Editing
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
Improve your Web editing skills by learning the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This workshop introduces you to the fundamentals of creating and editing style sheets. Topics include: what is a style sheet, style sheet syntax, different kinds of style sheets, using styles in Dreamweaver and resources for further exploration.
Requirement: Individuals taking this workshop should have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS X environment. Familiarity with HTML and a Web Editor, such as Dreamweaver, is highly recommended.
Dreamweaver: Introduction to Editing Web Pages
Want to learn how to create your own Web pages or brush up on your Web editing skills? Creating Web pages and managing your Web site with Dreamweaver is easier than you might think. This workshop introduces you to the Dreamweaver environment and its basic Web editing tools. Topics include: creating a new Web document, defining a site, adding new content and importing existing text from Microsoft Word, formatting text and inserting images.
Prerequisites: Individuals taking this workshop should also have basic computer skills, knowledge of the Web, basic Web browser skills, and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment.
Dreamweaver: Links and Tables
Need to create a list of resources to other content on the Web? Want to find out how to control the layout of your Web site? This Dreamweaver workshop teaches you how to take advantage of the Web by adding hyperlinks and tables. Hyperlinks - links for short - allow your Web visitors to connect to additional Web pages in your site or to other sites on the Web. Tables help you arrange content and control spacing on your Web pages. Topics include: creating hyperlinks for text and images, inserting an e-mail hyperlink, generating an anchor and an associated hyperlink on the same page, and inserting and modifying tables.
Requirement: Individuals taking this workshop should also have a working knowledge of Dreamweaver, browsers, the Web and the ability to effectively work in the Windows or Macintosh OS environment. Participants will be expected to know how to perform all skills taught in the Dreamweaver: Introduction to Editing Web Pages workshop with little assistance.
Images for the Web
Learn the steps to create and prepare an image for use on the Web. Participants will be introduced to basic terminology used in the graphics industry and on the Web.
Web Accessibility: Evaluations and Advanced Techniques
This course is a continuation of the introductory course for designers and developers. Topics include: tableless layouts, complex forms, and image replacement. Special focus on tools and testing.
Prerequisites: Web Accessibility: For Designers and Developers or must pass SacCT quiz about accessibility for designer/developers and content editors.
Web Accessibility: For Content Editors
This course is for anyone who writes for the web. The goal of this course is to provide a basic understanding of accessibility issues and solutions. Special emphasis on simplicity. Topics include: Sac State and accessibility, how disabled users experience websites, tips for creating accessible pages, how to check accessibility, and where to get help.
Web Accessibility: For Designers/Developers
This course is for HTML/CSS developers and graphic designers. Topics include: Sac State and accessibility, how disabled users experience websites, how to structure web pages and forms, checking for compliance, and where to get help.
Prerequisites: Basic to intermediate understanding of HTML/CSS.
Web Content Management System
Learn how to create, edit, and publish pages using the new Web Content Management system. No web authoring software is necessary to manage your department, unit or college web sites using the WCM.
Web Design: An Introduction
Are you new to Web design? Not sure how to update your Web site? This introductory workshop explains the Web design process at CSUS and contains useful tips to guide you through the creation and implementation of your Web pages.
are designated specifically for faculty.