Want to make your online course content more welcoming and accessible for every student? Join UCF accessibility professionals to identify common barriers and demonstrate quick, effective strategies to improve course design. We'll work through interactive activities that will test and hone your digital accessibility knowledge. Additionally, we will demonstrate some free and simple-to-use tools and services available to you to enhance your course.In this workshop, you will:* Recognize common accessibility barriers in online courses, such as missing captions, unclear headings, and lack of alt text, and their impact on students. * Apply practical strategies to design accessible, student-friendly courses. * Identify UCF resources and tools to support ongoing accessibility improvements in your courses.This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff and GTAs. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1560106744269?aff=oddtdtcreator

This hands-on, bring-your-own-device workshop will explore generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a collaborative setting. Join us to play with prompt design, try out features in UCF's Enterprise Copilot Chat, and share ideas for enhancing teaching, productivity, and everyday workflows. Working together, we'll co-create useful outputs such as structured data and simple custom bots. Let's experiment, explore, and imagine what's next for our classrooms and projects.In this workshop, participants will:* Explore UCF's Enterprise Copilot Chat and brainstorm practical ways to integrate GenAI into teaching, learning and daily work. * Develop and refine prompts to generate structured and repurposable AI outputs. * Collaborate and co-create custom tools, structured datasets, and ideas to inspire new workflow possibilities.This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff and GTAs. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1560106744269?aff=oddtdtcreator

Employees who try to work too hard or do too much can become overly stressed. The final stage of this stress response is burnout, which is a concern for employers who want to maintain productivity in the workplace. Presented by UCF's Employee Assistance Program provider, Health Advocate, this workshop teaches participants about the physiological and emotional dangers of stress and burnout, as well as how to develop more efficient and effective coping skills.Virtual Location URL: Zoom link will be sent to those who register. Registration Link: https://www.myworkday.com/ucf/email-universal/inst/15972$2633/rel-task/2998$26720.htmld Registration Info: Register in Workday. Zoom link will be sent to those who register.

Are you interested in learning more about research? Not sure where to start or how to navigate all the programs available? This workshop will discuss how to expand your academic experience through undergraduate research, including how to get started by finding a faculty mentor.Questions? Feel free to contact the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR@ ucf.edu)Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.joinhandshake.com/events/1792800/share_preview Registration Link: https://ucf.joinhandshake.com/stu/events?collection=ALL&categories=7,3&eventFormat=HYBRID&sort=RELEVANCE&date=ALL&keyword=get%20started%20in%20research&postedBySchool=true&careerCenterIds=325 Registration Info: Search for "Get Started In Research" on Handshake's Events. Register to secure your spot.

Bring your laptop or tablet to review gradebook settings and receive hands-on assistance configuring your gradebook and ensuring that you have everything in place to submit your final grades. Learn ways to weight and curve grades, and how you can use Grading Schemes to help automate your final grade submission process. This workshop will also cover how to calculate your final grades outside of the gradebook and how to manage settings to reduce student confusion.* Discover the most common issues related to students' understanding of grading. * Explore and create Grading Schemes to help ease the grade submission process. * Manage your grades outside the gradebook, depending on how you weight and curve your grades.This workshop is limited to UCF faculty, staff and GTAs. Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1560106744269?aff=oddtdtcreator