Ed Tech Canvas/Moodle Support Office Hours
2025-03-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-18 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-15 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-22 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-29 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-06 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Scholars Hall, 4000 College Ave, Manistee, MI, United States
Join Ed Tech in the second floor faculty lounge for 1-on-1 support for all of your Canvas, Moodle, and Panopto needs.

Ed Tech Canvas/Moodle Support Office Hours
2025-03-06 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-13 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-10 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-17 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-24 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-01 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Science & Math Offices
Join Ed Tech in the Science& Math common room for assistance on all of your Canvas, Moodle, and Panopto needs.

Friday Forum: Understanding Generational Differences
2025-03-07 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Osterlin 205
Bridget Munroe and Katie Sommer-Ford will share their popular presentation from October Conference, “Understanding Generational Differences.” Friday Forums, sponsored by the Center for Instructional Excellence, are held on the first Friday of the month. Faculty and staff are welcome to join us for lunch and PD programming.

CIE Coffee Club
2025-03-21 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Library Reading Room

Spring Canvas Cohort Monthly Check-In
2025-03-27 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Detroit), 2025-04-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | https://nmc.zoom.us/j/97469334078?pwd=[REDACTED]
This optional monthly meeting is for instructors using Canvas during the Spring 2025 semester. Each session will start with a brief Canvas update from the NMC Ed Tech department, followed by ample time for instructors to share their ongoing experiences teaching in Canvas and ask questions to the cohort and Canvas support team.──────────
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Friday Forum: Up Your Accessibility Game and More!
2025-04-04 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | IC 104/05
Join us for the April Friday Forum featuring a presentation on Title II updates and implications for accessibility, compliance, and best practices. This is a valuable opportunity to stay informed and ensure we continue fostering an inclusive learning environment and practice effective design of assignments, newsletters, websites, or other communications. As a bonus feature, our Ed Tech presenters will debut their latest video. You don’t want to miss this one! In addition, CIE will distribute our summer book read, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick. This is a quick, informative read that will give us a framework for next year’s PD on GenAI. Friday Forums, sponsored by the Center for Instructional Excellence, are held on the first Friday of the month. Faculty and staff are welcome to join us for lunch and PD programming.

AI Prompting…the best way to get started using AI
2025-04-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Detroit)
Are you curious about AI and how it can help you? Learn about working with the AI Large Language Models (LLM’s like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.ai) to brainstorm, summarize, explain topics, find information on the web, respond to complex prompts, and logical reasoning. Come to this hands-on practice session on AI Prompting!
To register via NEOED Learn, please follow these instructions: NeoEd Learn – Registering for Courses Instructions – for Quick Bytes
All courses are offered via Zoom. Please ensure your camera is on during our session to support collaboration and connection.

AI Toolkit: Applying AI to your workflow
2025-04-15 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit)
This is a workshop designed to explore LLM’s (like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity.ai) to streamline routine tasks, facilitate literature review, create educational content, and improve communication. You will learn how LLM’s can be tailored to your specific role and area of expertise. (Please take AI Prompting before signing up for this class.)
To register via NEOED Learn, please follow these instructions: NeoEd Learn – Registering for Courses Instructions – for Quick Bytes
All courses are offered via Zoom. Please ensure your camera is on during our session to support collaboration and connection.

Coffee Club -- Reflections Strategy: AI Edition
2025-04-18 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Library Reading Room
Reflection Strategies: AI Edition + Canvas Vice Episode 2
Encouraging students to be thoughtful in their reflection writing can be a challenge, a situation made even more difficult by AI.
Luckily, Brandon Everest and Kristy McDonald from the Experiential Learning Institute have a number of strategies to make reflection more authentic and meaningful for students. Join them this Friday for a discussion on how to energize all types of reflection assignments while avoiding use of AI for this critical part of the learning cycle. Bring your ideas to share!
Coffee Club meets at 10 a.m. in the Library Reading Room on April 18. We’ll have coffee, birthday cake, and the premiere showing of Canvas Vice Episode 2! You don’t want to miss this one!

Google’s Notebook LM and Intro to Learn LM
2025-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Detroit)
Google Notebook LM can automatically generate a summary, briefing doc, or other docs of your uploaded documents and/or create a podcast from your uploaded documents. Your personal data is not used to train Notebook LM, so any private or sensitive information you have in your sources will stay private, unless you choose to share your sources with collaborators. Additionally, this course will provide an introductory overview of LearnLM, Google’s initiative focused on developing AI models tailored for education, highlighting its potential to personalize learning experiences and enhance pedagogical tools, paving the way for future AI-driven educational advancements.
To register via NEOED Learn, please follow these instructions: NeoEd Learn – Registering for Courses Instructions – for Quick Bytes
All courses are offered via Zoom. Please ensure your camera is on during our session to support collaboration and connection.

All About Google Forms & Form Approval
2025-04-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Detroit)
You can gather information, upload files, and add pictures to forms for your class, your clients, or your department and analyze it using Google Forms and Google Sheets. Great for exit forms, collecting topic or student information on your phone with a quick form. Also a quick overview of the Form Approval Add-On for creating workflows for approvals, signatures, and more!
To register via NEOED Learn, please follow these instructions: NeoEd Learn – Registering for Courses Instructions – for Quick Bytes
All courses are offered via Zoom. Please ensure your camera is on during our session to support collaboration and connection.

Grades Due at 11 AM
2025-05-07 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York)

Canvas Camp
2025-05-12 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Detroit), 2025-05-13 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | TBD
