Announcing OPEL Fellows for 2025-2027
OPEL Fellows for 2025-2027
Online Graduate Salute 2025
Congratulations Graduates!
UIS Online grads, we are proud of you -- of your achievements, of your resilience, of your tenacity. Earning your degree online requires tremendous self-discipline and determination: juggling schedules, keeping organized, studying late into the night, and rising early to make deadlines.
Enjoy this day. Be proud. You've worked hard to earn it, and we salute you!
Candidate Sessions for Chief Online Learning Officer and Director of Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
Online, Professional, and Engaged Learning (OPEL) will host four finalists for the Chief Online Learning Officer and Director of Center for Online Learning, Research and Service. This position will lead the strategic vision, development, and implementation of online learning initiatives, collaborate with faculty, staff, and external partners to foster a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement in online education, enhance and expand the university's online education programs, and ensure high-quality learning experiences.
Copyleaks Overview Demo
Join Laina Haymes from Copyleaks for an in-depth demo of the new Copyleaks Overview tool. Laina will be able to answer questions about how this tool works and how it can impact grading experiences for instructors.
Meeting ID: 82531555326
Passcode: 264545
Fix it: Headings, Styles, and Color for Formatting Document Structure
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service in the next installment of the Fix-It series. This workshop focuses on using headings, styles, and color for formatting document structure. We'll cover steps to create accessible documents structures for all readers.
Meeting ID: 816 9660 5177
Password: 732122
Fix it: Tables
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service in the next installment of the Fix-It series. This workshop focuses on creating accessible tables.
Meeting ID: 816 9660 5177
Password: 732122
Accessible Files for Websites and Canvas
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service in the next installment of the Fix-It series. This workshop focuses on creating accessible documents for websites and Canvas courses. We'll cover steps to create accessible documents and how to identify and remove unused Canvas content and files.
Meeting ID: 816 9660 5177
Password: 732122
Clean Up Canvas Files and Content
TidyUp from Cidi Labs is a content cleanup tool for Canvas courses. It provides a quick way to view all your course content and clean out anything that is no longer needed. You can identify and delete extra files, folders, pages, or assignments that are no longer needed to make your course easier to manage and more usable for you and your students!
Copyleaks Faculty Listening Session
Join staff from ITS and COLRS to share your experiences with Copyleaks as a plagiarism and AI detection tool. What is working? What is not working as expected? What have you heard from students?
Join the Zoom meeting
Meeting ID: 816 9660 5177
Password: 732122
Fix it: Errors for Canvas Content copied from Word
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service in the next installment of the Fix-It series. This workshop is focused on the issues that arise when copying text from Word to Canvas. We'll cover how to avoid them from the beginning and how to fix them after the fact.