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Join us on Wednesday, March 12th for a comprehensive virtual training event designed to help App State staff enhance their technology skills. This event will feature a series of seven training sessions, each focusing on different tools and techniques to support your work on campus.

Event Details:

📅 Date: Wednesday, March 12th ⌚️ Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM 💻 Platform: Zoom (link will be provided upon registration) 🎥 Recordings: All sessions will be recorded. Registered participants will receive links to the recordings, even if they cannot attend live.

✅ Session Topics:

➡️ Pro Tips for Gmail and Google Calendar ➡️ Google Drive Essentials ➡️ Making Google Documents Usable for Everyone ➡️ Using Kaltura MediaSpace ➡️ AI-Powered Tools for Staff ➡️ Mastering Meetings with Tech Tools ➡️ AsULearn for Departments

Don't miss this opportunity to boost your tech skills and make the most of the digital tools available to you. Register now to secure your spot and gain access to all session recordings!

Join Academic Technologies for this online lunch-and-learn workshop that focuses on PDF accessibility. The workshop will teach you about the built-in accessibility checker in Adobe Acrobat Pro. You will learn how to use the tool to check for and fix accessibility issues in your PDF documents.

Discover quick and effective ways to streamline your teaching in AsULearn! In this workshop, we'll explore essential tips and tools to help you make the most of AsULearn’s standard tools. Learn how to stay connected with your learners more efficiently and simplify course management. Whether you're looking to save time or enhance communication, these hacks will make teaching with AsULearn easier than ever.

This workshop will introduce users to Banner Self-Service, Web-Focus Dashboards, and E-print. The main topics covered will include how to access your funds, fund reconciliations, and online budget queries and transfers. The workshop is primarily designed for new departmental administrative staff and includes hands-on instruction and demonstrations.

This workshop is required for App State users who will be working in the Scala Content Management System (CMS) and managing one or more Scala screens. It must be completed before access to Scala CMS will be granted.

This workshop introduces users to the Scala Content Management System (CMS) at Appalachian. Also appropriate for anyone wanting a refresher.

Introduction to and practice of the Wim Hof breathing method (30min to 45min). There will be a short description of benefits from the Wim Hof Method of breathwork and meditation.

Following breathwork will be a 10 to 15 min. silent meditation.

Facilitated by Matthew Cooper, Counseling for Faculty and Staff

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

Led by Appalachian Student Ambassadors, a select group of student leaders, who give personalized tours of Appalachian's campus to VIP alum, prospective students, and staff. Please join us for this event to hear from passionate students about what they love most about App State.

Please contact Dalton Akos at akosde@appstate.edu if you have any accessibility concerns and we will be happy to accommodate.

This workshop is designed to equip Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) with the knowledge and skills necessary to comply with the federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). CSAs play a critical role in campus safety and are responsible for ensuring accurate reporting of campus crime and fostering a secure environment for the campus community.

This training will empower participants to enhance their ability to convey ideas clearly, listen actively, collaborate effectively and improve interpersonal interactions.

Before entering into a relationship with another entity or even preparing a budget under a sponsored project in which another party will provide goods, services, or substantive programmatic work, the nature of the legal relationship must be determined. This is a significant decision because it determines the allocation of responsibilities and influences the appropriate application of indirect costs (IDC), sometimes referred to as F&A costs. This workshop will delve into examples, and checklists for how to identify an entity as a subaward, when working with other Co-PI's, hiring a subcontractor (a vendor,) or when working with a consultant. Please register today for this 1-hour workshop to learn how these entities can relate to your budget and how this information can assist you with successful project management after award!

Effective leadership is critical for the success of any organization. The primary objective of this leadership development program is to equip attendees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively lead teams, drive organizational growth, and achieve strategic objectives. Over two days, the following topics will be covered: EHS for managers, Payroll, Time & leave, Work-Life Balance, Performance Management Fundamentals, Employee Relations, EEODF Overview, & Class/Comp Review. This program will be offered on a quarterly basis and will require attendees to be present for both days of training.

Join Academic Technologies for an online lunch-and-learn workshop on Poll Everywhere accessibility. You will learn which Poll Everywhere activity types are accessible and how to create accessible polls for all students.

Develop/Expand your Quiz Question Pool with the assistance of CoPilot and NotebookLM: A participatory workshop. Intended to for small groups of 2-8 faculty where we will meet either in person or Zoom to interactively create quiz questions to expand your question bank. After evaluating the quality and accuracy, we will import the questions into AsULearn, arrange them in categories and/or linked to learning objectives and explore ways to use these as formative assessment instruments. Please identify a specific course, content, learning objectives and ideally have some questions previously developed or imported from a publisher to get started.

Interested in submitting a proposal to lead a faculty-led education abroad program? The Office of International Programs will explain the proposal process and answer any questions you may have.

Description: Attention all Faculty and Staff! Are you interested in contributing to App State’s mission to create an environment free of discrimination and harassment? If so, you are invited to join Equal Opportunity for an essential session. To discuss employees' obligations for mandatory reporting. You will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to accurately receive and report incidents of prohibited conduct and receive resources.

A Faculty Transfer Mentor is a faculty or staff member interested in developing supportive, academic relationships with prospective and new Appalachian transfer students. Mentors, ideally in the student's area of study, will provide help in understanding the curriculum and the student's remaining required coursework as well as provide guidance, support, and referral to resources that will benefit new students in a new environment. Mentors have the ability to influence, encourage, and guide transfer students to enhance their academic success. During the training participants will learn about the characteristics and needs of transfer students, the transfer student population at Appalachian, and what you can do to support transfer students and to be a successful transfer mentor.

In this interactive session we’ll demystify the secrets to recording high-quality, engaging videos and screencasts from your home or office. You’ll learn how to:

• Prepare your recording space by creating a professional backdrop, and minimizing distractions. • Dramatically improve your audio and video quality with simple tips and techniques that can be implemented on any budget. • Use a technical script template to keep your content focused and impactful. • Gracefully recover from mistakes during recording, turning potential pitfalls into seamless transitions. • Effectively highlight on-screen elements, making complex information accessible and engaging for all learners. • Polish and publish your recordings with ease, integrating them into your courses for maximum learning impact.

Whether you’re new to video creation, or just looking to refine your existing skill set, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to elevate the impact of your videos.

🚨THIS SESSION WILL BE RECORDED.🚨

Learn from Fulbright alumni on how to navigate a Fulbright award with your family.

This workshop builds on the introductory Banner Finance Training by digging deeper into the monthly fund reconciliation process. The main topics covered in Fund Reconciliation Training include the reasons fund reconciliation is essential, what to reconcile, sourcing information and understanding the reports, how to complete the reconciliation process, and setting up systems for success.

Please come prepared with a fund to reconcile during the workshop

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

Health Promotion for Faculty and Staff (HPFS) provides Appalachian State University staff, faculty, retirees, and their spouses/domestic partners with programs and services that help to promote a healthier lifestyle and a better quality of life. Major components of the program include health and fitness, preventive care, and outreach programs. Our facilities are available to all faculty, staff, retirees, and their spouses/domestic partners at no charge.

How to find the "Hidden Gem" (AKA Varisty Gym): If you enter the gymnasium from Rivers Street, immediately upon entering the glass doors, take the stairs (down) to your left (next to the water fountain). There is a "Health Promotion for Faculty and Staff" poster, at the top of the stairs.

If you enter Varsity Gym from the campus side, you are greeted with the Military Science trophy case. Go down the stairs (two flights), pass vending machines (on your left). Walk across the gymnasium floor (short side) toward Rivers Street. Once you are in the lobby, take the stairs (down) to your right (just past restrooms and water fountain).

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

Come to learn a general overview of Information Technology at App State - support, security, hardware/software and Google tips and tricks.

Any App State user can create and share appropriate university-wide messages with campus. Having a Scala system is not required.

This workshop introduces participants to the guidelines for creating and sharing digital slides at App State, including communications planning, slide design standards, and side sharing and distribution.

This workshop is appropriate for anyone who wants to create digital slides for distribution to campus.

Interested in integrating service-learning or community-based research into a new or existing class? This workshop will serve as an introduction to curricular-based service-learning for faculty who have been considering adding a service component to their classes. Service-learning has been shown to improve student learning in a number of areas. We’ll cover the basics of service-learning syllabus design and discuss resources available through the office of academic civic engagement. Faculty in all disciplines are welcome.

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

Join us for a tour of Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences and learn about the innovative labs and classrooms as well as the clinical services and faculty/staff supports offered in this building! We'll meet at the Welcome Desk in the Lobby / Atrium area. Anyone with a faculty/staff parking permit can park in the Levine Hall lot.

Come learn some basics for making accessible PDF tables that can be understood by screen readers.

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

All App State alumni are automatically part of the Alumni Association! Come learn about the programs and support we provide for our nearly 145,000 alumni.

Join us for an introduction to the office of Environmental Health, Safety, and Emergency Management (EHS&EM). All new employees on campus are required to take this course in support of App State's commitment to campus safety and security. During this session, we'll cover the basics of safety and emergency management on campus and indicate areas where specific position types may have extra responsibilities.

App State is a nationally recognized leader in global engagement. The Office of International Programs (OIP) oversees the university's global engagement activities. Join us in this engaging workshop to learn more about the work of OIP and how you, as an employee, can get involved globally.

This hands-on workshop will provide you with the step by step process for completing an employee self-appraisal. We will also provide tips and strategies for setting goals and giving performance-related feedback. If available, please bring your laptop!

Personal and Professional Resilience: A Three-Part Lunch and Learn Series about Compassion Fatigue
Series Description: As the larger world becomes increasingly complex, so do our university campuses. For many of us, our work involves interacting with or supporting others through crises, mental health concerns and periods of stress. As we strive to be increasingly responsive as a university community, we may find ourselves being impacted emotionally, psychologically, and/or physically by our frequent and intense involvement with these situations. We can mitigate the impact of this daily intensity through the practice of resilience tools, and by increasing our own social and environmental support systems. This class will review theory on compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect and make a personal resiliency plan.  Additionally, this class will review "best practice" environmental and systemic structures that help facilitate professional resilience and longevity.

This Lunch and Learn event is part of a three-part series on the topic of compassion fatigue. Part I is titled: Personal Resilience Practices that Increase Work Vitality and Longevity.
Part I will share theory and information about what personal practices mediate the impact of “people work,” and what we can do individually to cultivate work vitality and longevity. Part I will occur on January 28th, face to face - or online, on February 14th.

Part II will occur on February 18th and is entitled: Professional Resilience Tools That Mediate The Impacts of Helping. Part III is scheduled for March 25th and is entitled: Resilient Systems - Organizational Practices That Increase Employee Retention and Work Satisfaction.

Join us for an in-depth training session where we’ll walk you through how to seamlessly integrate Poll Everywhere with AsULearn for streamlined attendance management, roster synchronization, and efficient course management. You’ll learn how to automate attendance tracking, sync your course rosters effortlessly, and use Poll Everywhere to create engaging activities that enhance your AsULearn courses. Whether you're a new user or looking to optimize your current setup, this training will help you get the most out of Poll Everywhere in your AsULearn environment.

Optimize your professional wellbeing through implementing professional boundaries so that you as an employee feel respected, valued and satisfied.

Ungrading is a term used to describe a set of practices that deemphasize grades while emphasizing feedback, student agency, and reflection. There are many forms of upgrading and specifications grading is one of them. If you are interested in the idea of ungrading, specifically specifications grading, but have been hesitant to try it, this session might be right for you. We’ll explore benefits and drawbacks of specifications grading, as well as how to design a course or a portion of a course that uses specifications grading.

This workshop is designed to help you understand common roadblocks to effective communication. We will explore contributing factors and actionable strategies to help you improve overall communication effectiveness.

The Hurricane Helene Roll-Call Research Feature Session spotlights the collaborative work of Adam Hege, PhD (Public Health), Maggie Sugg, PhD (Geography and Planning), and Jennifer Tyson, MPH (Public Health). Their work addresses the health impacts of Helene on local, vulnerable populations.

Supporting COllaborative Research across the Enterprise (SCORE) is a collective initiative between the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), the Research Institute for the Environment, Energy, and Economics (RIEEE), and the Appalachian Institute for Health and Wellness (AppWell). Its purpose is to highlight and support collaborative research happening at App State.

SCORE’s mission is to empower and celebrate collaborative research efforts of Appalachian State’s faculty and staff through research talks, agency information sessions, and support service highlights. SCORE aims to foster successful research and creative collaborations by providing services and frameworks to navigate administrative processes, build connections, and execute successful projects.

Mandatory T-Card Training for All T-Card Users

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

The Department of Theatre and Dance is one of seven departments housed in Appalachian's College of Fine and Applied Arts. Its mission is to facilitate transformative experiences for students and the public, which cultivate compassionate, creative, and collaborative communities through theatre and dance. The department also offers coursework for integrated learning through the arts to the general university student population. Its dynamic co-curricular production program provides exemplary theatre and dance experiences to departmental students, the university community, and the region.

Your Campus Connection event takes place in the venerable Valborg Theatre, home to Theatre and Dance productions and campus events since 1994. After an info session and overview of various T&D programs, includes a backstage tour of the Chapell Wilson Hall which opened in 1938 as Appalachian High School before becoming part of the university in 1965. The building was constructed through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression and was, among many other things, the first home of our campus radio station, WASU.

Learn about the PDF tags tree, an essential part of digital accessibility. Gain knowledge in properly formatting PDFs to they can logically be understood by a screen reader.

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

University Sustainability offers many wonderful programs and services to the campus community such as the Free Store, Food Pantry, Campus Gardens, and many sustainable energy initiatives. Join us for this event to learn How You Can Get Involved.

Campus Connections are short 1-hour meet ups at various locations around campus. These events are designed to inspire you and the students you serve to become engaged campus citizens and form lasting relationships. The investment you make now will serve you well as you continue your service at AppState!

Please join us for this exciting campus connection at University Recreation (UREC). University Recreation's (UREC) mission is to facilitate an inclusive environment where recreation and wellness opportunities transform, engage, and care for the App State community to enhance student learning and development. This event features a tour of the Student Recreation Center, overview of each facility (Quinn Rec Center, Mt. Mitchell, Bike App, Camp Broadstone and State Farm fields), membership information, and overview of programs and services (aquatics, fitness, sports, and outdoor programs).

February Session: In this session, participants will have an opportunity to begin identifying (or revisiting) their core values and examine how those values influence and shape their teaching, research, leadership, and service. If you are working on your annual review or other reviews of your professional portfolio, this session may help you shape the narratives of your academic portfolio.

March Session: In this session, participants will read/view excerpts from teaching philosophy statements, syllabi, assignment guidelines, graded assignments, and LMS sites to analyze how those academic pieces reflect the values of their faculty writers/creators. Then, participants will have opportunities to bring/share/analyze their own teaching evidence to see how those reflect their values.

🎉 AsULearn will be upgraded in Mid-May 🎉

✅ YES, this session WILL be recorded. We'll send the link to the recording to everyone who registers, so sign up even if you think you can't make it!

➡️ Who should attend? Whether you're a seasoned AsULearn user, or new to the platform, this faculty-focused webinar will catch you up on all the great new improvements you gained this summer.

➡️ What's happening? This summer's upgrade to AsULearn brings over 55 exciting new features and improvements to your courses. In this 40-minute webinar we'll demo many of these features and improvements, from streamlined course layout tools and an easier-to-use Assignment interface, to long-requested features like course subsections and allocated grading in the Quiz activity. We'll also preview the new AI subsystem Academic Technologies is currently testing and evaluating. This session will provide you with the resources and knowledge to get even more out of AsULearn this fall.

➡️ In this webinar, you will: • Discover the Latest Features: Get an sneak preview of the new functionalities designed to enrich your teaching and learning experience. • Find More Resources: We'll let you know where to find more self-paced, media-rich resources to learn about all the new features. • Engage with Experts: Have your questions answered by our knowledgeable team, ready to help you smoothly navigate these changes.

👇 Hey! Click the "More information" link down here to self-enroll in our "What's New in the AsULearn - Summer 2025" resource course.

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce users to Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Receipts, and Invoices in YoMart. The workshop is a hands-on workshop designed for administrative staff.

This workshop looks at creating and submitting Contract Requests and the Contract creation process. The workshop is a hands-on workshop designed for administrative staff.