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Accessibility: Optimizing Word and PowerPoint Files

Accessibility: Optimizing Word and PowerPoint Files

NOTE: IT Learning and Development documentation that focuses on creating documents that meet the Accessibility guidelines of the PSU Accessibility Office.

Faculty
Staff
Documentation
Accessibility
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft O365
Canvas Brown Bag Sessions

Canvas Brown Bag Sessions

This series of 1-hour demonstration sessions are scheduled online during a typical lunch hour.  They deal with a variety of advanced topics in Canvas such as large enrollment classes, rubrics, and integrations.  To view the upcoming session topics and course descriptions, visit the Learning Resource Network and search for “Canvas Brown Bag.”

Faculty
Staff
Live Training: Online
Teaching and Learning
Canvas
Canvas Learning Center and Learning Path

Canvas Learning Center and Learning Path

Penn State's Canvas Learning Center serves as a gateway for faculty and support staff to get the most out of using Canvas for teaching and learning. The learning path is housed within a Canvas course and designed to be your one-stop-shop for learning how to use Canvas, whether you do so at your own pace or through live training!

Visit The Canvas Learning Center and Learning Path

Faculty
Staff
Learning Path
Teaching and Learning
Canvas
Canvas: Optimizing Courses for Accessibility

Canvas: Optimizing Courses for Accessibility

This hands-on session prepares Canvas users to optimize content for accessibility.  Participants learn to identify accessibility issues within content, use the Rich Content Editor, create extended deadlines for quiz and assignment submissions, and use recommended guidelines for accessible quizzes.

Faculty
Staff
Live Training: Online
Accessibility
Teaching and Learning
Canvas
Choose the Tool to Fit Your Needs (documentation)

Choose the Tool to Fit Your Needs (documentation)

Faculty
Staff
Documentation
Collaboration
Communication
Other
Microsoft O365
Excel: Data Management

Excel: Data Management

In this hands-on workshop, participants will become familiar with the basic tools for data management in Microsoft Excel 2016. Participants learn how to import, extract, and manipulate spreadsheet data. Participants will also use some of Excel’s tools to help manage multiple worksheets, visually compare workbooks, and work more efficiently in Excel.

Objectives

• Create tables and pivot tables
• Explore workbook and worksheet protection
• Import, sort, filter and validate data
• Create built-in and custom lists

Faculty
Staff
Students
Live Training: Online
Data
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft O365

G Suite for Education

Submitted by anj5053 on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 12:37
G Suite for Education is a cloud-based collection of productivity and collaboration applications. These applications will create learning opportunities, challenge users to think critically, and help streamline administrative tasks anywhere on the go to enhance teaching, learning, and research for students, faculty, and staff.
Faculty
Staff
Students
Learning Path
Collaboration
Communication
Creative
Teaching and Learning
G Suite for Education
Other
Gartner for Technical Professionals

Gartner for Technical Professionals

The Gartner research library, available via a Penn State Libraries subscription, provides articles and information for technical professionals. Gartner, Inc. is the world's leading research and advisory company. The company helps business leaders across all major functions in every industry and enterprise size with the objective insights they need to make the right decisions.

Staff
Other online resources
Information Security
Service Management
Teaching and Learning
Other
Major Incident Training for IT Staff

Major Incident Training for IT Staff

This video is intended for Penn State staff who support IT Services. The primary topic is the Major Incident Process. Recent improvements to this process have resulted in more streamlined steps and clear lines of responsibility and communication. You will walk away with visual reference materials describing this process and your role in it.

Staff
Video
Service Management
Other
ServiceNow
Other
Microsoft Teams: Getting Started with Online Collaboration

Microsoft Teams: Getting Started with Online Collaboration

Collaborating and communicating online has become an integral part of our day-to-day lives, but it’s often messy and hard to navigate across multiple apps and devices. Join us for a brown bag session to learn how to create and organize a virtual collaboration space with Microsoft Teams. You’ll have a chance to explore relevant features available in Teams (channels, apps, tabs etc.) and walk away with tips for setting up, organizing, and managing your Team to make collaboration more seamless.

Faculty
Staff
Live Training: Online
Collaboration
Communication
Microsoft Teams

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