The OIT LearnIT@Lunch series is an opportunity to learn about technology in a relaxed environment during the lunch hour. This series runs during the fall and spring academic semesters. All Duke students, staff and faculty are welcome to participate. No pre-registration is required.

Lunch is not provided. 

 

 

 

Spring 2023 Training Schedule

January 11           
7 Canva Tips for Social Media Managers
Anyssa Queen
Recording: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=bd6de643-566c-408a-ab52-af870148a5f0

Do you manage social media for your department or group? Come and pick up a few tips and tricks for creating social media posts that your followers can engage with! This session will include information on making beautiful graphics, utilizing time saving features, and developing on brand content. All experience levels welcome.

January 25  
Am I Being Watched?: AirTags Pros and Cons   
Nick Tripp
Location: Perkins LINK 087 (Classroom 3)  - in person

The past year and a half has seen a slew of news headlines related to cyberstalking using low-cost tracking technology such as Apple's AirTags. The IT Security Office feels that it’s important for Duke faculty, staff, and students to understand the current threat landscape and how they can best manage their own personal exposure.

February 8          
How to Stay Organized with 'Microsoft To Do'
Becca McDaniel

Recording: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=329d0d66-a967-4749-87d8-afa3012e3939

Let’s share some knowledge around Microsoft To-Do and Microsoft Tasks! Learn the differences between Microsoft To-Do and Microsoft Tasks and when you might use each, visualization within Microsoft Tasks using Kanban boards, transparency and appropriate security (i.e. permissions and notifications), general tips, tricks and lessons learned. For folks who want to effectively manage a meeting with Tasks, and/or integrate meeting notes with Tasks using the MeetingCaptureApp in Teams.

February 22
Zoom Events: A Complete Virtual Conference Option
Debbie Suggs

Recording: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=40664bf2-36a8-40e8-8096-afb1012f5991

Come join us to see Zoom Events in action. This is an all-in-one virtual conference solution that includes a Lobby with chat and live-streaming of sessions, a rich agenda that supports both meetings and webinars (concurrent and consecutive), speaker and vendor profiles, and an "Expo" floor where attendees can virtually visit booths. We will demonstrate all those features and show what it's like to configure and host a Zoom Event.

March 8
The Logic of Qualtrics
Camille Jackson

Recording:  https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e78a62db-6a8c-4abd-b323-afbf012f9ad2

Need to create an online survey quickly without getting into the weeds? Or do you want to gather specific information from an audience after an event? This session will include tips for building a basic survey, customizing the ‘look and feel’ (branding), as well as an overview of Qualtric’s most-used features. We will walk through building a survey, step by step, and make sense of Qualtric’s display logic to solicit the data you need and keep tabs on your survey respondents, before, during, or after an event. Beginners welcome.

March 22
Creating Great Media Productions using the Bryan Center Studios
Mich Donovan

Recording:   https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=28bdb5da-1dfa-4562-8394-afcd011337d8

In this Learn IT at Lunch session, the Academic Media team will give you a live, guided tour of the Bryan Center Studios and show off the media production resources that are available to the Duke community. This will include overviews of:

• Studio 1 – A large production studio for media professionals to record polished video with visiting guests, local experts and VIPs
• Studio 3 – A DIY video studio to self-record presentations and video documentation
• Studio 4 – An audio production suite equipped to record a podcast with up to 4 speakers
• Hotel Suite – A media editing workstation with the Adobe suite, Final Cut, Camtasia, and other post-production software.

Along the way, we’ll also visit the offices of the Academic Media Production team and discuss their role in creating instructional video for Duke. From green screens to mixing machines, this session will have something for everyone, regardless of any prior media experience.

April 5 
CANCELLED: Using Airtable to herd your cats
Isabel Valls

Are you using numerous spreadsheets and other files to manage a project, service, or program? Do you have trouble reporting on how many widgets of what type you have where? Do you have a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing? Airtable can help! Airtable is a powerful cloud-based relational database with a friendly user interface that can give you and your team insight into whatever you are managing, whether a database of service users, project tasks and deliverables, or any other set of records with associated variables. Join Isabel Valls for an intro to Airtable, which is transforming program management for the Code+ summer program.

May 3
Canva for Events Planners
Anyssa Queen

Link:  https://duke.zoom.us/j/94173484281?pwd=UUI4b3Rhbk43MzVGYTE1RGhReVB5Zz09&from=addon

Discover how to build a custom brand for your next event as we discuss five ways to use Canva as an Event Planner. You will learn about features and templates that will help you create an event that wows. All experience levels welcome!

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Fall 2022 Training Schedule

September 7          
How to Manage your Zoom Recordings

September 21          
Web Accessibility for Developers
Zoom link: https://duke.zoom.us/j/98603270590?pwd=UHRrQkU2VVhWL3Fmd0hRUVkrN1RkZz09

Learn how to implement Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) standards into your code. Get a sneak peak into WCAG 2.1 AA criteria. Make everyone feel welcome on your website so it is inclusive, accessible, and compliant. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions, please contact web-accessibility@duke.edu in advance.
Joel Crawford-Smith, Senior Web Accessibility Administrator

October 5          
Introduction to Panopto
Recording: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=94a6de13-d940-4b73-a1a7-af25011d6079

Panopto is Duke’s enterprise platform for recording and sharing video. Did you know that in addition to automated recording in over 150 classrooms at Duke, Panopto offers powerful software tools for creating and editing recordings, and can integrate with Zoom and Sakai? In this session, we’ll cover:

• Setting up a Panopto account and creating folders to house your recordings
• What is a Panopto Site Administrator and when would I need one?
• How to record your lectures and accompanying slide presentations using Panopto’s software and browser-based recording clients
• Making basic adjustments in Panopto’s editor
• How to share recordings with members of the Duke community and beyond
• Viewing content in Panopto’s Rich Media Player 
• Scheduling automated recordings in Duke classrooms
• Connecting Panopto to your Sakai course
• How to integrate your Zoom account with Panopto and what are the benefits of doing that
• Using Panopto’s multi-faceted search tools
• Using Panopto’s analytics to understand the reach and impact of your materials

Todd Stabley, Sr. Media Engineer

 

October 19          
Box’s New Look and New Features
Recording: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9ef2707f-4fe8-4bfd-a2cf-af330120abee

Box at Duke gets a new look.  What that new look comes several new features.  Come learn about organizing items into Collections and adding notes with Annotations.  Then join us for a discussion of how you can make the most out of Box.
Matt Royal, Enterprise Systems Support

 

October 26        
Intro to Qualtrics
Recording:  https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=16f5c7fc-0d30-4cdb-98f9-af3a011a441f

Many of us know the basics of creating surveys and online forms using Qualtrics, but there's so much more that you can do including putting your survey behind Shib (Duke NetID) login, using the survey to send customized emails, setting up quotas, and collaborating with others at Duke and beyond. This session will show you these cool tricks within Qualtrics and more...including some tips for building effective surveys and thoughts about how platform (phone, tablet, computer) affect user experience and data collection. Learn IT @ Lunch is designed to be an opportunity to learn about technology in a relaxed lunch environment. Each session includes a presentation followed by Q & A.
Kim Manturuk, Associate Director of Research, Evaluation, and Development, Duke Learning Innovation

 

November 2          
Using Zoom for Team Building Activities
Recording: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7caa7234-e00c-4f36-bf6f-af41012496b9

Join us as we discuss ways you can build up your team virtually using Zoom. We will talk about general meeting activities that engage all participants, games to break the ice, and technology options to increase team engagement.

 

November 16     
Canva Basics

Recording: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ff09400e-5f75-4a13-9b57-af4f012f1553

Blythe Tyrone, Communications Strategist for Duke Learning Innovation, will provide a tour of Canva’s major features, including how to create graphic materials both from scratch and customizing templates available in Canva. Examples of the types of content that may be made using Canva include (but are not limited to): infographics, logos, graphic syllabi, presentation slides, animated GIFs, and social media graphics. Note that some of the features she will showcase are only available to users with paid Canva accounts, but even users new to the free version of Canva will learn something new.

 

November 30         
OptiSigns - The Next Generation of Digital Signs
Zoom link: https://duke.zoom.us/j/98803538130?pwd=ckJ3RGN4em9TNGxlMmxxWlh3SHZDQT09

OIT is seeking to decommission its current digital signage solution, Four Winds Interactive by December 31, 2022. They have a low cost, easy to use alternative called OptiSigns. This presentation will cover all the costs and detail the technology to help you deploy cost effective and engaging digital signage for your University school or department (OptiSigns is not currently available to the Health System)

 

December 14
CANCELLED
Intro to Kuali Build: Empowering Individuals to Transform Workflows

It’s a fact of life in support of higher education – somebody provides information that then needs to be reviewed and approved by somebody else.  Kuali Build can help groups take control of their forms and workflows themselves, without requiring extensive programming resources.  Join us to learn more about this latest tool to help the University community manage requests.

 

Spring 2022 Training Schedule

May 4 
Accessible PDFs from Adobe InDesign
Access recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3851c3b3-c427-44a4-a456-ae8b011cdab9
Joel Crawford-Smith, Senior Web Accessibility Administrator

April 21
Managing your Zoom recordings
Access the recordings here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2faa66a0-b6d2-432b-9875-ae82014cf148
It's easy to record your meetings but at Duke, Zoom is not intended for long-term storage. If you don't "clean up", these recordings can get out of control. You have options to move this content to other locations like Panopto where the user viewing experience is even better. Come to this session to learn how easy it is to automatically move new recordings to Panopto. We will also discuss options for moving your previous recordings.

April 20          
Microsoft To-Do
Access the recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=834c3bd7-f494-4edf-a75d-ae7f00e4268c
Steve Gray, Enterprise Systems and Support

April 19
Managing your Zoom recordings
It's easy to record your meetings but at Duke, Zoom is not intended for long-term storage. If you don't "clean up", these recordings can get out of control. You have options to move this content to other locations like Panopto where the user viewing experience is even better. Come to this session to learn how easy it is to automatically move new recordings to Panopto. We will also discuss options for moving your previous recordings.

April 13
Managing your Zoom recordings
It's easy to record your meetings but at Duke, Zoom is not intended for long-term storage. If you don't "clean up", these recordings can get out of control. You have options to move this content to other locations like Panopto where the user viewing experience is even better. Come to this session to learn how easy it is to automatically move new recordings to Panopto. We will also discuss options for moving your previous recordings.

April 6
Box’s New Look and New Features CANCELLED
Box at Duke gets a new look. With that new look come several new features. Come learn about organizing items into Collections and adding notes with Annotations. Then, join us for a discussion of how you can make the most out of Box.
Matt Royal, Enterprise Systems and Support

March 23       
Using Team Building Activities in Zoom
Access the recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=aa7b0abd-452f-47d1-961a-ae6101217e13
Join us as we discuss ways you can build up your team virtually using Zoom. We will talk about general meeting activities that engage all participants, games to break the ice, and technology options to increase team engagement.
Debrah Suggs, Enterprise Systems and Support

March 9          
Making Your Meetings More Accessible
Access recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a62630db-ea82-4cb7-8cb4-ae530121f5ba
Be part of the solution. Help provide equal access to people with disabilities by learning a few essential web accessibility best practices. Learn how to make everyone feel welcome on your website so it is inclusive, accessible, and compliant with WCAG standards. Request For Accommodations Duke University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions, please contact web-accessibility@duke.edu in advance of your participation or visit. Requests should be made by March 1, 2022.
Joel Crawford-Smith, Senior Web Accessibility Administrator

February 23   
Options for Managing Your Zoom Recordings
Access recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=06339ec2-b1a8-43ff-aeba-ae4501305972
It’s easy to record your meetings but at Duke, Zoom is not intended for long-term storage. If you don’t “clean up”, these recordings can get out of control. You have options to move this content to other locations like Panopto where the user viewing experience is even better. Come to this session to learn how easy it is to automatically move new recordings to Panopto. We will also discuss options for moving your previous recordings.
Debrah Suggs, Enterprise Systems and Support

February 9      
Enhance Your Skills for Professional Success with LinkedIn Learning     
Access recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7ae30dd6-abf9-4ce3-b5f0-ae37012c99af
In today’s ever-changing workplace, having the most in-demand skills remain a top priority. Find out how you can use LinkedIn Learning to develop and gain the skills you need to achieve professional success here at Duke.
Elma Clarke, Senior Customer Success Manager at LinkedIn Learning

January 26     
How to Make a Video from Beginning to End
Access recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c6ed2fac-68b6-4728-bf2d-ae29012c8bad
No matter your corner of the university, if you want to create compelling video that people will watch, the process is the same – write, storyboard, create content, edit, distribute. In this session, we’ll talk about how to plan your video, from writing a simple script to using existing tools to record video and/or your screen right at your desk. You can also make an appointment to use our self-service studio on campus. Bring technical questions and deep curiosity.
Stephen Toback, Academic Services and Research Computing

January 12     
Microsoft Teams: The Basics and Beyond
Access recording here: https://duke.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1d610adf-8861-4d62-bdd9-ae1b01215749
Microsoft Teams is more than just a chat client. Please join us on Teams (rather than Zoom) and learn about some basic to advanced features.
Steve Gray, Enterprise Systems and Support