Social media plays a vital role in how we share information and connect with our communities—but not everyone can access content equally. This one-hour training will provide a practical overview of digital accessibility in social media, including how to improve color contrast, write meaningful alternative text, and add captions to videos. Participants will also learn best practices for font use, content formatting, and why it’s important to avoid sharing text-heavy PDFs on social platforms...

This course will show you how to utilize applications in a channel, meeting, or chat to extend the capabilities of your team. We will talk about using personal applications to help streamline and organize your work within Microsoft Teams. The apps covered in this course include OneNote, Forms, Planner, and Viva Learning. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team, or...

Join us this spring for a celebration of the easy-to-use platform of Pressbooks. It is a software that allows you to create Open Educational Resources (OER), including eBooks, handbooks, student work collections, portfolios, anthologies, and more. This event will showcase a range of projects from University of Iowa faculty and staff. This will be followed with an interactive panel session for questions and discussion. Panelists include:Micah Bateman, assistant professor, School of Library and...