These 50-minute professional development sessions for faculty and staff are designed to provide you with resources to help you use technology more efficiently in your job (and possibly your life). All sessions will include time for Q&A. Some topics are being offered twice. Register for Tech Tuesday sessions.

Making the IT Service Portal Work for You
Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 10 a.m.

The IT service portal is a place to find answers to frequently asked technology questions and to request help when needed. Find out how easy it is to make and track requests. Whether you’ve used the IT Service Portal or not, we’ll help you understand how to use it more effectively, and how it can make your work life easier. Participants will receive 1 hour of BUILD credit for attending this session.

Enhancing Communication through Blackboard
Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 10 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Learn to promote, create, and maintain open communication channels through using a variety of tools in Blackboard. We will focus on learning more about automated notifications from the system as well as other means to communicate and collaborate.

Using Office365 for Educational Information and Collaboration
Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 10 a.m. or 1 p.m.

What is Office365? What tools are included in the suite? How can you use them for student access and collaboration? How can you leverage these tools and bring mobile technologies into your classroom?

Register for these sessions and learn about future sessions by going to drake.edu/its/techtuesdays.

Carla Herling, ITS