August is all about leveling up your instructional design skills and prepping for a strong start to the fall semester. From mastering Canvas strategies to collaborating with designers on course planning, these sessions are built to help you design smarter, teach with confidence, and launch the new term with clarity and momentum.
Featured Webinars
UNCG Canvas Crash Course
Whether you’re new to Canvas at UNCG or looking to strengthen your foundational skills, this “crash course” is designed with you in mind. Perfect for new faculty and anyone seeking a clearer, more confident start with Canvas.
Sync Up for Success: Using Canvas + Teams to Schedule Class Meetings
As of the end of Spring 2025, Microsoft has retired the Microsoft Teams Classes and Microsoft Teams Meetings tools previously available in Canvas. But don’t worry—scheduling class meetings is still simple with the updated Sync process.
Backward Design: Planning your course with Instructional Designers
The ITS: Learning Technology Instructional Design team collaborates with faculty to develop courses using a backward design process. Working on your course with a team may be a new experience for many instructors.
Smart Start: Canvas Shortcuts for a Smoother Term
Replace Canvas-related stress with smart strategies and time-saving shortcuts. As you prepare your courses for the upcoming semester, join us to explore practical tips that will help you start strong.
Building Community Online
Building a course community can help enhance student engagement with their peers, instructor, and course concepts. We’ll discuss best practices for building student-to-student and student-to-instructor community and engagement within a course (online or f2f with online components).
Ctrl + Alt + Access: Building Accessible Canvas Content
We will introduce you to basic accessibility principles that apply to many types of instructional materials – but is specifically designed to support you with the technical “how-to” so you can begin putting some of those accessibility fundamentals into practice in Canvas.
AUGUST
8-5 UNCG Canvas Crash Course
8-7 Instructional Videos in Microsoft 365 – When to Use What
8-13 Sync Up for Success: Using Canvas + Teams to Schedule Class Meetings
8-14 Backward Design: Planning your course with Instructional Designers
8-15 Smart Start: Canvas Shortcuts for a Smoother Term
8-21 Instructional Videos in Microsoft 365 – When to Use What
8-25 Building Community Online
8-26 Ctrl + Alt + Access: Building Accessible Canvas Content
September
9-9 Instructional Video Production in Microsoft Stream & Clipchamp
9-11 Feng Shui Your Files: Streamline Your Digital World with M365
9-18 Copilot Productivity Powerup
9-23 Instructional Video Production in Microsoft Stream & Clipchamp
9-24 Prompt Writing – A Conversation with Technology
9-30 Feng Shui Your Files: Streamline Your Digital World with M365
October
October is Cyber Security Month! Stay tuned for our upcoming security-themed sessions.
November (preview)
(Registration starting September 1.)
Getting Started with Cognito Forms
Getting Started with WordPress at UNCG: The Basics
Infographics with Everyday Tools: Part 1 & 2
Kickstart Your Creativity with Adobe Express
UNCG Web Theme: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for UNCG Web Managers
LINKEDIN LEARNING RECOMMENDATIONS
ADOBE FIREFLY ESSENTIAL TRAINING
In this course, Bart Van de Wiele—expert designer and author—guides you through the innovative Adobe Firefly AI technology and its seamless integration within Adobe Creative Cloud. Discover how to generate images and videos from text prompts, expanding your creative possibilities effortlessly.
Learning Path: Develop Your Prompt Engineering Skills
Every day, more and more professionals are working with language models, making prompt engineering a vital skill for the future of work. In this learning path, you’ll learn how language models work, how to interact with them, and how to fine-tune your skills with advanced techniques.
ADOBE EXPRESS ESSENTIAL TRAINING
Whether you’re a creative pro, marketer, presenter, or social media manager, Adobe Express can help you deliver consistently great-looking content in a flash with ease.
Have questions or suggestions? Email: itscomm@uncg.edu
