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All members of the FHC (Faculty Hearing Committee) shall complete annual training on the policies and regulations governing all types of faculty employment issues and hearings, the procedures for faculty hearings, as well as training on evaluating evidence, the standards of evidence utilized in different cases, reporting findings and shaping recommendations, and other elements pertinent to their service.

All members of the FAC (Faculty Assistance Committee) shall complete annual training on the policies and regulations governing all types of faculty employment issues and hearings, the procedures for faculty hearings, as well as training on evaluating evidence, the standards of evidence utilized in different cases, reporting findings and shaping recommendations, and other elements pertinent to their service

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

Post-webinar discussion (30 minutes) of the National Humanities Councils (NHC) webinar: Grant Writing 101 for Humanities Faculty. We will discuss useful information gleaned from the webinar.

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.

Securing research funding is a critical yet complex process, and artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform the way scholars navigate grant writing. This panel brings together the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), Information Technology Services (ITS), App State's AI Enablement Team, and University Libraries, to explore how AI can enhance proposal development and improve funding success rates. Join us for a panel discussion on AI-driven tools, ethical considerations, and best practices for integrating AI into the grant writing process. This session offers valuable insights into harnessing AI’s capabilities to support research advancement at App State.

Panelists: Brooke Gowl, Research Development Specialist - Proposal Development and Competitive Intelligence, Office of Research and Innovation Michael Vaughn, Academic Technologist, Information Technology Services Michael Friese, AI and Data Governance Business, Information Technology Services Stephanie Bennett, Library Collection Management, University Libraries

🎥 This session will be recorded.

Join us for a virtual, 40-minute workshop designed specifically for faculty at App State University. In this session we'll explore Microsoft Copilot, a secure AI chatbot powered by the same technology as ChatGPT.

You’ll learn about the benefits and challenges of integrating Copilot into your teaching and learning practices. This workshop also includes a live demonstration and walkthrough of Copilot, showcasing practical ways you can use it for teaching and learning tasks. Whether you’re new to AI tools, or looking to enhance your current workflows, this workshop will provide valuable insights and hands-on experience to help you make the most of this innovative technology.

Everyone who registers will receive the following, even if you can't attend live:

➡️ A link to the session recording ➡️ A collection of over 40 prompts to use ➡️ Resources for using Copilot for teaching and learning tasks ➡️ Resources to help craft an AI syllabus statement ➡️ Resources to engage students in conversation about how to appropriately use AI

ℹ️ This session WILL be recorded.

Join us for a focused 30-minute virtual workshop designed to help you leverage the unique capabilities of Google Gemini at App State University! While App State provides access to several AI tools, this session will specifically cover the features that set Gemini apart from platforms like Microsoft Copilot.

During this workshop, we'll explore Gemini's Deep Research feature, demonstrating how it can enhance the ways you engage with research articles and materials. For example: Creating clear overviews of takeaways and themes from articles, generating infographics, creating interactive quizzes, and producing podcast-style audio overviews from your uploaded research articles.

We'll demonstrate how to use Gemini's Canvas feature to collaboratively write and revise documents with AI. We'll also cover how to connect Gemini to your G Suite to ask it questions about documents in Google Drive, email in your inbox, and events on your calendar.

This workshop will be delivered via Zoom and will be recorded. We encourage everyone to register, even if you can't attend live, as all registrants will receive a link to the recording for convenient on-demand viewing.

Join us for a 40-minute webinar where we’ll explore how Google’s NotebookLM can support your research and note-taking processes.

🎥 This session will be recorded.

NotebookLM is an AI-powered tool designed to help you synthesize information from multiple, diverse sources, including PDFs, Google Docs, YouTube videos (if captioned), and web pages. It serves as a virtual research assistant, capable of summarizing content, explaining complex ideas, and generating new insights based on your selected materials. You can even share your assistant with students, allowing them to ask questions about the resources you've chosen to share.

In this session, we’ll cover: ➡️ Introduction to NotebookLM: Understand the core features and benefits of using this AI-driven platform for research and note-taking. ➡️ Uploading and Managing Sources: Learn how to import documents, web links, and other materials into NotebookLM to create a personalized AI assistant tailored to your research needs. ➡️ Interactive Q&A with Your Documents: Discover how to ask specific questions about your uploaded content and receive detailed, citation-backed responses. ➡️ Generating Study Guides and Summaries: Explore the capabilities of NotebookLM in creating concise summaries, FAQs, timelines, and more to enhance your understanding of complex topics. ➡️ Utilizing Audio Overviews: Experience the innovative feature that transforms your documents into engaging, podcast-style audio discussions, making information more accessible and easier to digest. 

This webinar is ideal for faculty members seeking to leverage AI technology to streamline their research workflows and enhance their academic productivity.

By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to effectively integrate NotebookLM into your research practices, making information synthesis more efficient and insightful.

❗️NOTE: NotebookLM does not currently support raw data analysis.

Join us for this workshop dedicated to helping faculty align their assessments and learning activities with course learning objectives. Through this informational and interactive session, participants will learn strategies to ensure that every aspect of their course supports and reinforces their learning goals. By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped with the tools and techniques to transform their teaching approach and enhance student outcomes through intentional course alignment.

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!

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.

This course is designed as initial training or annual retraining to meet the requirements of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Bloodborne Pathogen Standard.

This course will provide an overview of bloodborne pathogens diseases and their symptoms, how they are transmitted, exposure prevention and response.

Does the thought of building a sponsored project budget fill you with dread? Are you worried you will forget an important item? Not sure what you can or can’t ask the sponsor to cover? This 1.5-hour workshop covers budget development basics. Topics include policies that guide budget development and general budget terms applicable to a variety of federal, non-profit, and private sponsors (note: the workshop does not cover specific program budgets such as NIH modular budgets). This workshop also addresses individual workshop participants' questions about budget planning for specific projects.

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.)

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.

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.

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.🚨

This workshop is for faculty that are interested in exploring a Flipped Classroom approach for their courses. The Flipped Classroom, generally speaking, is where students consume content (usually through videos, articles, or infographics) before class sessions, which opens up class time for projects, individualized feedback sessions, and other collaborative work. Research shows that the Flipped Classroom approach can lead to more student engagement, increased student interactions, and better learning outcomes. Come see if Flipping your Course is right for you!

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

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.

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.

Once you’ve designed your research study, the next step is to set up your survey and database in a way that will allow you to answer the questions you’ve asked. In this workshop, you’ll learn the basic principles of database management for quantitative data, with an emphasis on creating surveys and files that can be easily understood by team members and, if desired, the public. In general, we will focus on concepts and skills that translate across software platforms, but will include screenshots from commonly used platforms, like Qualtrics, Excel, SPSS, or R.

Appropriate for faculty researchers seeking a refresher in the foundation of research design, graduate students, or staff beginners

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.

Have you ever thought, "This meeting could have been an email.." Make meetings work for you, your team or your audience by learning simple and useful skills.

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.

This 30-minute, virtual workshop introduces you to the new Grackle Workspace accessibility checker for Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets. The new Grackle Workspace Chrome extension makes it easy to check and fix Google accessibility issues. It takes the guesswork out of creating accessible Google documents. By the end of the workshop, participants will know how to activate and use Grackle Workspace in Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets.

➡️ Hands-on portion - Stay after the initial information session for a hands-on portion where you will have an opportunity to practice using Grackle to check the accessibility of your Google files.

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.

A quick and impactful information series designed to connect researchers with the tools, services, and support offered by the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI). Each 30-minute session highlights essential resources for research development, proposal preparation, lab setup, and more—helping you make the most of what ORI has to offer, without taking up your whole day.

Excellence in teaching is one of App State’s core values. Requirements of annual review, reappointment, promotion, and tenure include peer observations as one measure of effective teaching practices. Additionally, peer observation is frequently used in a formative setting aimed at professional growth. Peer observation can have numerous benefits, for both the observer and observee; however, inaccurate, inequitable, and unhelpful reports often result when peer observers are inadequately prepared for the task (Tugman et al, 2025). This AppLC aims to address these circumstances.

Tugman, B., Stephens, L. E., Olsen, T., & Bundrick, A. E. (2025). Creating effective peer observation faculty training through a community of practice. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, 44(1) 53-70.

This workshop will cover the basics of using Poll Everywhere - signing in, updating your profile, creating activities, and presenting activities via the web or using slides.

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.

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.

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.

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!

This workshop is designed to guide employees through the process of submitting Student Referrals for identified students in need of support. The goal of a student referral is to empower the campus community to proactively support student success by leveraging a centralized student referral system that facilitates timely interventions, strengthens cross-unit collaboration, and promotes institutional readiness through data-informed practices. Presenters represent Student Success and Dean of Students Office to provide a holistic overview.

The Localist/University Calendar Training will incorporate several topics to help get you ready to submit your events for publication to a calendar.

Event calendars for the university will be created using the Localist, and event information will be pulled from 25Live (space management system). Topics covered in training will help you understand how to best enter and approve events so that they populate onto the Localist calendar correctly.

Some topics will include:

Where to find Help Documentation Reviewing the new Event Form Questions in 25Live Image Requirements and the Canva Template Using Registration in Localist Creating a Conference in Localist Using Speakers in Localist and more!

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).

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.