Research Instruction & Information Technology Group

Past Events

Canvas Training Session

May 11, 2017 from 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM Trading Room,
ANGEL will be decommissioned at the end of Summer 2017. To assist you with your adoption of Canvas, we have scheduled additional training opportunities in the Business Building. Please click the registration link to sign up for the session.

Canvas Training Session

May 10, 2017 from 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM Trading Room,
ANGEL will be decommissioned at the end of Summer 2017. To assist you with your adoption of Canvas, we have scheduled additional training opportunities in the Business Building. Please click the registration link below to sign up for the session.

Canvas Training Session

May 09, 2017 from 08:30 AM to 11:30 AM Trading Room,
ANGEL will be decommissioned at the end of Summer 2017. To assist you with your adoption of Canvas, we have scheduled additional training opportunities in the Business Building. Please click the registration link below to sign up for the session.

Canvas Training Session

May 08, 2017 from 08:30 AM to 11:30 AM Trading Room,
ANGEL will be decommissioned at the end of Summer 2017. To assist you with your adoption of Canvas, we have scheduled additional training opportunities in the Business Building. Please click the registration link on the page to sign up for the session.

Canvas Training Session

May 04, 2017 from 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM Trading Room,
ANGEL will be decommissioned at the end of Summer 2017. To assist you with your adoption of Canvas, we have scheduled additional training opportunities here in the Business Building. Please click the registration link to sign up for the session.

Canvas Training Opportunity

Jan 03, 2017 from 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM Trading Room,
ANGEL will be decommissioned end of summer 2017. To assist you with your adoption of Canvas, we have scheduled additional training opportunities.

Postponed: Box at Penn State Training Session

Feb 24, 2016 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
***Postponed*** We will be holding an Adobe meeting session to cover the Box at Penn State offering. We will go over the basics as well as discuss some of the new features available to you including Box integration with Microsoft Office, organizing your Box folders, sharing and communicating with Box and more.

Canvas Camp

Jan 06, 2016 from 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM 11B, RIIT Group Conference Room,
Canvas Camps (walk-in, one-on-one support) are for any questions you may have following the Canvas trainings.

Canvas Camp

Jan 05, 2016 from 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM 11B, RIIT Group Conference Room,
Canvas Camps (walk-in, one-on-one support) are for any questions you may have following the Canvas trainings.

Canvas Camp

Jan 04, 2016 from 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM 11B, RIIT Group Conference Room,
Canvas Camps (walk-in, one-on-one support) are for any questions you may have following the Canvas trainings.

Canvas Camp

Jan 04, 2016 from 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM 11B, RIIT Group Conference Room,
Canvas Camps (walk-in, one-on-one support) are for any questions you may have following the Canvas trainings.

Smeal Studio Open House

Nov 17, 2015 from 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM
Learn about the various media creation services and solutions that are available to you, see examples, ask questions, and check out our latest technology addition: the Smeal "Lightboard."

TNT Lunch: New Turnitin Features & ANGEL Integration

Nov 17, 2015 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
Learn about new updates to Turnitin - the University's web-based writing assessment toolkit which allows instructors to provide feedback to students through markup tools, rubrics, proofing tools and originality reports to detect plagiarism.

Smeal Studio Open House

Nov 12, 2015 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Learn about the various media creation services and solutions that are available to you, see examples, ask questions, and check out our latest technology addition: the Smeal "Lightboard."

Smeal Studio Open House

Nov 12, 2015 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Learn about the various media creation services and solutions that are available to you, see examples, ask questions, and check out our latest technology addition: the Smeal "Lightboard."

Smeal Studio Open House

Nov 12, 2015 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Learn about the various media creation services and solutions that are available to you, see examples, ask questions, and check out our latest technology addition: the Smeal "Lightboard."

WRDS Sessions

Nov 05, 2015 from 02:00 PM to 03:30 PM
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us on Thursday, November 5, in the Trading Room, 115 Business Building, to learn about enhancements to Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) resources for research and teaching.

WRDS Sessions

Nov 05, 2015 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us on Thursday, November 5, in the Trading Room, 115 Business Building, to learn about enhancements to Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) resources for research and teaching

TNT Lunch: Lynda.com, New Features Greater Possibility

Oct 13, 2015 from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Join us for a TNT Lunch as we highlight tips for using new features and (as lynda.com is free to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff) explore how they can be incorporated into classroom pedagogy and used to facilitate student learning in new ways. Plus, we will share information about the assessment feature that is currently in development for lynda.com and give you an opportunity to provide input that we'll bring back to the development team! Above all, we'll be available to answer any and all questions you might have, so please feel free to come with as many questions as you would like.

TNT Lunch: Sites at Penn State

Apr 08, 2015 from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
This overview will focus on the Sites at Penn State tool. Emphasis will be placed on the ways the Sites at Penn State tool can be used to create a personal or course blog, department, event, or course website, or an ePortfolio. Discussion of best practices for managing text, posts, pages, media, and themes while exercising best practices in site design will take place.

LearnIT: Cool Apps

Oct 20, 2014 from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Check out some cool apps that may help facilitate your day to day use of your computer or mobile device.

LearnIT: Qualtrics - Look and Feel

Sep 25, 2014 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
If you’re using Qualtrics but would like to learn more about the options available for branding it or choosing different options for backgrounds, text, delimiting options, etc., please plan on attending our Qualtrics look and feel session.

LearnIT: Qualtrics - The Basics

Sep 23, 2014 from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Qualtrics is an easy-to-use survey tool for creating and conducting online surveys available to all Smeal faculty and staff. This session will provide an overview of Qualtrics, discuss its benefits and drawbacks, and explore best practices for use.