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Is your AsULearn course accessible?

Join our upcoming workshop to explore powerful AsULearn tools and features that ensure equal access for all learners. This workshop focuses on built-in tools used to check the accessibility of AsULearn course environments.

Here's what we'll cover:

• TinyMCE's Editor's Accessibility Checker
• Brickfield's Accessibility+ Toolkit for AsULearn

Explore the power of innovative tools that can transform your teaching approach and enhance student engagement. In this workshop, we will discuss Respondus, LinkedIn Learning, and VoiceThread—three versatile tools that can be seamlessly integrated into any AsULearn course. These tools offer unique features to support assessment integrity, curate extensive educational resources, and facilitate meaningful student interactions. Learn how to leverage these tools to save time and improve your teaching effectiveness. Gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience to implement these tools effectively in your teaching practice.

ℹ️ This is a two-part workshop, with two complementary sections on different days. You can register even if you only intend to attend one section. Both sections will be recorded, and the recordings will be sent to everyone who registers.

In this workshop series, participants will learn how to effectively create quizzes in AsULearn, one of the most versatile assessment tools in the platform.

1️⃣ The first section will focus on creating and managing questions in your course Question Bank. We'll also share a tool for rapidly creating new questions and importing them into AsULearn.

2️⃣ The second section will cover the process of creating and configuring the Quiz activity, selecting quiz settings, and exploring advanced options to enhance quiz functionality.

Whether you’re assessing student understanding with multiple-choice questions or offering tailored feedback, this workshop will provide practical tips to streamline quiz creation By the end, participants will feel confident in building their own quizzes and utilizing features like automatic grading and feedback.

As the fall semester approaches, join us for a focused 40-minute virtual workshop designed to help App State faculty efficiently prepare their AsULearn (Moodle) courses. This session will provide you with a practical checklist to ensure your courses are ready for a smooth start.

➡️ What We'll Cover: In this session, we'll walk you through essential steps to get your AsULearn courses up-and-running, including:

• Summer Upgrade Features: Get acquainted with the latest features and enhancements introduced during the summer AsULearn upgrade and how they can benefit your teaching.

• Content Import Strategies: Learn the best practices for importing content from previous courses, saving you time and effort.

• Setting Up Metalinks: Understand how to effectively use metalinks to combine multiple course sections, streamlining your course management.

• Course Content Review: Discover which key areas of your course content you should review and update to ensure accuracy and relevance for the upcoming semester.

➡️ Session Details: This will be a 40-minute virtual session held via Zoom. The session will be recorded. Everyone who registers will receive a link to the recording, even if you can't attend live.

Don't miss this opportunity to get a head start on fall semester preparations and ensure your AsULearn courses are ready for success!

🚨 All sessions are VIRTUAL and will be RECORDED. 🚨

Everyone who registers will receive links to all recordings! Register for the full day, or just the sessions you're most interested in.

Join us for the “Academic Technologies Learning Lab” on Monday, August 11th, 2025, a comprehensive professional development day packed with seven interactive sessions designed to enhance your teaching with technology. Learn about the latest updates in AsULearn, discover best practices for starting the semester successfully, catch up on the latest improvements to AsULearn, and learn about the AI-powered tools now available to support your work.

🥳 9:00-9:40 - What’s New in AsULearn 🦻 9:50-10:30 - Essential Accessibility for Everyone 🎬 10:40-11:20 - Starting the Semester Successfully ✍️ 11:30-12:10 - An Intro to Hypothesis 📝 12:20-1:00 - An Intro to Turinitin 🤖 1:10-1:50 - AI Options at App State 💻 2:00-2:40 - AsULearn Tips and Tricks

Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your skills and connect with colleagues. Register today to take your teaching to the next level!

Interested in sending your students into the community to address local issues and help them learn course content? Curious about new initiatives around civic literacy and civil discourse? This session will help faculty to consider various forms of civic engagement and service-learning as well as ways to add civic literacy into course materials.

This session explores the rapidly evolving role of generative AI in higher education and how faculty can review and modify current practices, designing assignments that promote authentic learning and reduce the risk of unwanted AI-enabled submission. We'll introduce a simple framework (red/yellow/green light) for communicating clear AI use policies to students.

Join Academic Technologies for a short workshop focused on AsULearn accessibility. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and technical skills needed to create accessible AsULearn courses. You will learn about basic features that make online courses accessible and how to check and improve the accessibility of existing courses. This workshop will cover how to create accessible content within AsULearn and how to use the Brickfield+ Toolkit to check the accessibility of your course content.

Maximize the potential of the Assignment activity in AsULearn to create engaging, efficient, and impactful assessments for your students. This 40-minute webinar will walk you through the entire process—from setting up an assignment to evaluating student work and providing meaningful feedback.

During this session, you’ll learn how to: ➡️ Create Effective Assignments: Customize assignment settings to match your course objectives, including submission types, deadlines, and grade categories. ➡️ Streamline Submission Management: Use AsULearn tools to handle individual and group submissions, set up late submission policies, and manage file types. ➡️ Grade with Ease: Explore the grading interface, including rubrics, grading guides, and the quick grading feature to efficiently assess student work. ➡️ Provide Feedback That Matters: Leverage annotation tools, audio/video feedback, and private comments to enhance student learning. ➡️ Monitor Student Progress: Use built-in analytics to track assignment submissions and identify students needing additional support.

This webinar is ideal for faculty members seeking to make the most of AsULearn’s Assignment activity. Whether you’re new to AsULearn or looking to refine your existing assignments, this session will provide actionable insights and tips for enhancing your teaching and assessment practices.

Join us to discover how AsULearn Assignments can simplify your workflow while supporting student success!

Tired of spending hours creating quiz questions? This interactive workshop will show you how to leverage AI tools like Gemini and NotebookLM (provided by AppState) to quickly develop and expand your quiz question pools for any course.

In this participatory Zoom session, you'll learn the fundamental procedures for using AI to generate questions based on your specific course content and learning objectives. We'll then quality-check the AI-generated questions for accuracy and import them into AsULearn, organizing them into categories or linking them to learning objectives.

To get the most out of this workshop, please come prepared with a specific course in mind, a sample of relevant content, and your learning objectives. Having some existing questions (either self-developed or from a publisher) would also be helpful as a starting point.

Join us for a brief introduction to Carolina Captioning’s Live Captioning program (CART). In this 30-minute session, you will learn what CART in-class captioning is and how it can be utilized for students who receive this accommodation from the Office of Disability Resources. This workshop is open to all faculty and staff, not just those faculty currently using CART. We encourage anyone interested in learning more about CART to attend.

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 Case Management team within the Office of the Dean of Students welcomes you to attend this session in order to engage in learning and dialogue regarding assisting students in need of support.

Teaching multiple sections of the same course? Don't want to have to post course materials multiple times in multiple AsULearn course sites? Done this before, but heard about our new 'Metagroup Sync' tool and want to use it? Attend this webinar and learn to use the "course meta link" to combine enrollments from multiple sections or courses into ONE AsULearn course site, while still being about to sort your grade book by section, and send announcements to separate sections if needed, and use group overrides to control release times of the same activities based on section (group). Typically, we take a volunteer and completely walk through the setup, and all can follow along and do their own setup as we go. Hopefully, everyone is all set by the end!

This professional development session will be conducted entirely in a Zoom meeting. Thanks!

This workshop will serve as an introduction to developing a research agenda for both new and seasoned faculty members. During this session, we will define "the research agenda" and discuss why it is important and various ways to establish and implement it successfully. Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:1.) Articulate why having a research career plan can be beneficial for developing your career as a faculty member; 2.) Describe what models and strategies can be used to develop a new research agenda; and 3.) Identify components of a research career plan that fit who you are and what you want to do.

In this workshop, we will explore strategies to foster a supportive and active classroom environment. Participants will learn practical techniques to enhance student engagement, collaboration, and a sense of belonging in your courses.

This workshop is for chairs of the following: departments, college curriculum committees, college councils, Professional Education Council, Provost Council, Departmental Honors Program Council, and AP&P committees. You will see how using the Curriculog agenda feature can help with your meetings and approve proposals.

Learn how to add, modify, or delete a course in Curriculog.

Learn how to add, modify, and delete a program proposal in Curriculog.

Learn best practices for reviewing proposals in Curriculog. This workshop is great for committee members, advisors, or anyone who reviews proposals.

Drop in and bring your AP&P proposals and questions to lab hours and let the Curriculog Support Team help you. (If you have graduate program proposals, please contact Anna Basnight to set up an appointment.)

Come check out Curriculog and how it will be used in the AP&P Process! This workshop is for anyone that has a role in curriculum changes, may want to see curriculum changes as they go through the process, or just view proposals.

Join Academic Technologies for flexible, drop-in style digital accessibility consultations designed App State faculty and staff. Whether you are just beginning to explore accessibility or looking to refine your digital materials, this open session offers personalized guidance on making digital content more inclusive for all learners. Faculty and staff are encouraged to bring questions, documents, or other course materials for real-time feedback and support. Topics may include accessible document formatting, multimedia captioning/transcripts, AsULearn accessibility features, inclusive course design strategies, etc.

How can you motivate and engage your students throughout the semester? Using Universal Design for Learning strategies, we can design for our students to engage with the material, with their fellow students, and with us. This workshop will offer ways to connect with your students when you are all together synchronously (online or in person) and throughout the week. We will look at in person techniques that require no tech at all and also incorporate some free and easy tools to create touch points throughout the semester. You'll leave with at least one new idea to try right away!

This workshop explores strategies and activities that foster a culture of conversation in the classroom and online. We will cover a range of structured activities and conversation starters, sharing insights into what has worked well (and what hasn’t) in diverse teaching contexts.

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.

Join the Office of Research and Innovation, the Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Student Research on Monday, August 11 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in John E. Thomas Hall room 387, for a program to support faculty who are mentoring research students at Appalachian State University.

Join your colleagues to work through a curriculum that offers case studies and the opportunity for discussion around mentoring students in research. Upon completion, you will receive an Entering Mentoring certificate for your personnel file, documenting six hours of mentoring training. Light lunch will be provided.

Many funding agencies require training in research mentoring and we are offering the "Entering Mentoring” program curriculum provided through the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) to supplement those requirements. The program will cover the following topics:

Introduction to Mentor Training Aligning Expectations Promoting Professional Development Maintaining Effective Communication Assessing Understanding Fostering Independence Cultivating Ethical Behavior Articulating Your Mentoring Philosophy and Plan

You must attend the entire six hours between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM in person on App State’s Boone campus to participate in this program.

The content of each session is designed to address the key concerns and challenges identified by research mentors. Each topic has learning objectives and participants will have the opportunity to engage in conversations, identify a mentoring network, and build knowledge and skills in each area.

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.🚨

Discover the essentials of App State’s Learning Management System, AsULearn, in this online workshop designed for new and returning faculty. This session will cover key topics such as activities, resources, and course settings to enhance your online teaching experience. Learn how to create assignments, quizzes, and forums, effectively utilize course materials, and manage course settings to suit your teaching style. By the end of this workshop, you'll be equipped with the tools to create a dynamic and interactive online learning environment. Whether you're new to Moodle or looking to refresh your skills, this workshop is perfect for you.

This workshop will cover the basics of using Kaltura to host videos for delivery in AsULearn. Participants will learn how to upload videos to Kaltura, record new videos using Kaltura Capture, and add Kaltura Video resources and Media Assignments to their courses.

In this interactive workshop, faculty will learn how to review and improve the accessibility of their online courses. We will explore common accessibility issues and provide actionable insights for remediation. Participants will be introduced to practical resources for improving accessibility in their courses, covering key areas such as color contrast, link formatting, closed captioning, document structure, etc. Whether you are new to accessibility or looking to refine your approach, this session will equip you with the tools and knowledge to create a more inclusive learning environment.

Creating engaging online courses is not easy. In many text discussion-board based courses, students feel isolated and disconnected from their instructors and classmates. VoiceThread bridges the gaps in social presence typically found in online courses. In this workshop, educators will learn how to establish a social presence and connect with their students using VoiceThread to improve course satisfaction and student learning. We will cover all of the basic VoiceThread features, demonstrate how everything works in Moodle, showcase a variety of examples from actual courses, and have an open Q&A throughout the training.

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.

The goal of this informal panel discussion is to provide a space in which international faculty members who are new to App State and to western North Carolina can ask questions of others who have successfully made the transition. It will also serve as an opportunity to make connections and build community among App’s international faculty.

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.

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.

The purpose of the Milestone Mutual Mentoring Workshop series is to create a welcoming and safe environment to support faculty as they pursue career milestones that are personally and professionally meaningful. In Session 1, facilitators will orient faculty participants in identifying and exploring relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines associated with their next career milestone, uncovering questions and/or discussion points for conversations with members of the home department/unit. In Session 2, we will discuss what evidence participants might use to demonstrate their skills, experiences, and expertise in areas of the dossier related to teaching, service, research, and leadership. Facilitators will share ideas, and participants will be invited to share ideas and questions. In Session 3, participants will identify a writing goal that they can work on during our time together. Most of the session will be spent with individuals working. During the last part of the last session, we will share progress and questions/challenges.

Required training to obtain a T-card through Appalachian State University.

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.

Vision: This group is intended to be a support network for staff with kids birth to eight years old. It can be challenging to work full-time and parent full-time, so let’s support each other as we chug along on this journey. We hope that this group offers an opportunity for members to share their experiences, recommend resources, celebrate milestones, commiserate about the challenges, and build relationships with other staff who are parents of young children. We hope that this group allows for community building among staff that are in the trenches of dirty diapers, tantruming toddlers, kids learning to read, and never ending laundry. This group is supportive of Queer and non-traditional family types and all parent (or kid) gender identities and expressions.

Intended Audience: Staff members with children between the ages of birth to 8 years.

This workshop is designed to equip Campus Security Authorities (CSAs) with the knowledge and skills necessary to comply with the federal Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act ("Clery Safety 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.

In today’s hyperconnected world, technology has resulted in a conundrum for students in the classroom: it can be used for learning engagement but is also a source of distraction. In this workshop we’ll talk about why digital distraction contributes to fragmented attention and how we might be able to cultivate attention. Faculty will examine real-world scenarios, share experiences, and consider possible policies and activities to decrease digital distractions and cultivate attention. Participants will leave with practical tools to design distraction-aware learning environments that support academic success.

Introducing Sponsored Programs’ new budget template for all new grants, contracts, and sponsored agreements! This workshop will explain how to use this new Excel template to develop a basic budget. This single template replaces multiple former templates and is designed for use with all sponsors. Participants will learn how to navigate this customizable template to meet different sponsor guidelines. Please join us to learn about this simplified and more user-friendly budget planner!

How can you draw students into your topic and course on the first day of class and set an inviting tone for a great semester? We will discuss several ideas that you can employ to engage your students, get them (and you!!) excited about your class, and start the semester off on the right foot. See some new ideas and be ready to share your own!

This workshop is designed to empower professionals with the tools, strategies, and frameworks needed to master time management, enhance productivity, and build sustainable organizational systems. Participants will learn to optimize their workflow, minimize inefficiencies, and create personalized systems for long-term success.

Ever feel like your students aren’t quite sure what you’re asking for—or why it matters? You’re not alone. This workshop is all about creating more transparency in your teaching—something that’s been shown to boost student success (Winkelmes et al., 2016). We’ll break down what transparency really means in the classroom and share simple, practical ways to apply it to your course design and assignments. Whether you’re looking for quick tips or just want to think out loud about your teaching style, this is a great space to explore transparent teaching.

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.

Conversations around AI in Higher Education usually revolve around whether students should or should not use artificial intelligence. In this session, we will take that conversation a step further by exploring multiple scenarios and discussing when it is "okay" for students to utilize AI tools. We'll consider the advantages, downsides, and ethical implications of using AI in various situations and explore how to craft a syllabus AI Policy in order to clearly communicate our expectations with students. Join us as we continue to explore the role of AI in Higher Education in this interactive workshop.

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.