Workshops

Spring '25 events

All events will be held in the Bowman Faculty Center. You can always book a virtual or in-person meeting with Academic Technology at lnk.mcla.edu/bookactech.

Spring Courses Drop-in Support

Wednesday, January 15
12PM-3PM
Freel Library

Working on getting your courses ready for the new semester? Join us January 15, 12-3pm in Freel Library! We’ll have coffee, tea, doughnuts, and a team of folks ready to help make sure your digital course materials are clear, navigable, and mobile-friendly. Stop by to talk through challenges, get some technical support, and generally catch up after the break over hot beverages.

Freel Library, the Office of Disability Resources, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Center for Academic Technology will be on hand to support with:

• Creating accessible scans of print materials with the book scanners
• Requesting new digital scans of articles via inter-library loan
• Checking and addressing PDF accessibility
• Running UDOIT checks in Canvas and making high-impact fixes
• Adding video captions in Stream and embedding videos in Canvas
• Adding textbooks via Follett Discover
• Running accessibility checks in Word and PowerPoint
• And more!

Curious about what assistive technology does? We’ll have some on-hand to demo how they work with different kinds of digital content. 

Faculty Learning Community: Artificial Intelligence

This year, AcTech and CTL are co-facilitating a Faculty Learning Community exploring AI and teaching. We’ll meet twice a month through the Fall and Spring. No prior AI experience is necessary; this will be a chance to learn together and design course assignments and materials that respond to this technology.