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Empowering Educators AI & Accessibility

Thank you for being part of this workshop! This Canvas site is your agenda for the day AND a digital resource to refer back to as needed.

At the end of the day, please take 1 minute to provide your comments and feedback on your experience at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/yFPYrUGdGK

Faculty Development hosted Faculty Tech Bootcamp – Thursday, September 4, 2025, 11 am - 1 pm

Physical Location: McGoogan Library 6th Floor - Room 6033

Session Recording

Session Slides

Session Handouts

Our time together is organized into a "Genius Bar" or drop-in exploratory session (2 hrs.) and an extended learning opportunity for you to complete additional learning experiences and earn a UNMC Faculty Tech Bootcamp Digital Badge! You can spend as much time or as little as you need with each topic.

Subject matter experts will address YOUR questions, such as: What are our UNMC-provided technology building blocks? What is it? I’m new to campus, now what? I know about [insert any tech tool], but I need more details to address my use case and needs.

Remote Attendees: refer to speaker contact information for direct emailing of questions, additional support, and 1:1 consultation requests

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AGENDA

11:00am - 1:00pm, WHM 6033
Refreshments will be provided. You are encouraged to bring your own lunch to eat during the session.

Themes/Topics	Learn: Service/Product	Demonstrate: Earn a Digital Badge
1) Is Your Course Accessible? Julie Gregg	Ally Accessibility Report and Checker (Help for Instructors) Canvas Accessibility Checker Ally Training: Sept. 5 @ 11 through UNL Register in Bridge	1.0 \| Use the Ally Accessibility report to determine course accessibility
2) Cleaning up your Canvas Course Julie Gregg	TidyUP Information & Resources	2.0 \| Clean-up remove old course content
3) Course Readings Alison Bobal	Leganto: Course Readings	3.0 \| Create a Course Readings list and add a citation
4) Making Your Content Accessible Mike Kozak	ADA Training Course: Word, PPT, and PDF	4.0 \| Use the Microsoft Office Accessibility feature to fix issues
5) Enhance Video Lectures with Transcriptions / Captioning Julie Gregg / Matt Rutledge	Access Echo 360 or YuJa through your Canvas course or Echo 360 Log In (outside of Canvas) YuJa Log In (outside of Canvas)	5.0 \| Enhance Video Lectures with Transcriptions / Captioning
6) Video Conferencing [Brett Coleman]	Zoom Log In UNMC Zoom Information & Resources What's New: Echo360/Zoom Integration, Zoom AI Companion	6.0 \| Video Conferecning with Zoom
7) Boost Productivity with AI Mike Kozak	AI Essentials For Healthcare Educators Adobe Express: AI feature Adobe Firefly Microsoft Copilot	7.0 \| Boost Your Productivity with AI
8) Getting Help [Mark Valeika / Skyler Motykowski]	Getting Help 2025 Faculty Tech Bootcamp.pptx ServiceNow Portal Self Service Password Reset Portal	8.0 \| Getting Help: ServiceNow

To begin learning, demonstrating, and earning your UNMC Faculty Tech Bootcamp digital badge, revisit the matrix above, read through the content of all learning modules, and complete the assigned tasks.

Note: this digital badging experience is part of UNMC's internal non-credit digital badging system.

Essential Digital Literacy Skills:

How to submit a Canvas course assignment

- - - - https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-submit-an-online-assignment/ta-p/503Links to an external site.

How to create a screen capture:

How do I screen capture on a Mac OS? <essential skill for any educator creating learning materials>
reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361Links to an external site.

- - - - I most often use the option to select the portion of the screen to capture "shift", "command", and "4" keystrokes
        
        The capture file is most often saved to your Mac OS desktop, so you will have to navigate to upload it as your assignment.

How do I screen capture on a Windows OS? <essential skill for any educator creating learning materials> Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6bLinks to an external site.

- - - - Select Start, search for "snipping tool", then select "Snipping Tool" from the results to open the application.
        
        Within the Snipping Tool, I most often change the mode to rectangular snip so I can draw a box to select the area I wish to capture.

When you have finished the assignment and have your screen capture completed, click the red "Start Assignment button. Progress through the file upload submission process to complete this assignment.

Where can I get additional insight and help?

The UNMC Faculty Commons hosts experts for 1:1 consults. Book a 30 or 50-minute free consultation with Julie Gregg or Mike Kozak from IT Academic Technologies for support with course planning, instructional design, blended learning, remote teaching strategies, educational best practices, using technology in the classroom, remote teaching, and any other topics of interest or need.

Get to Know ServiceNow!

ServiceNow is intended to be your one-stop shop for IT-related support and requests. Visit ServiceNow or via Quick Links on UNMC's intranet.

If your computer or mobile device's internet connection is down, call the IT Service Desk at 402-559-7700.

Faculty and Staff IT TECH Guide

Have you used a specific education technology in prior employment or at another institution and wondered if UNMC has the same or equivalent tool? Reach out to any of the individuals listed; if they don't have the answer, they are resourceful to point you in the right direction.

Attendees are highly encouraged to revisit this Canvas resource and contact the experts beyond this opportunity. We want to be your guide on the side and provide additional support and resources down the road to meet your "just-in-time" needs as they arise throughout the upcoming months.

At the end of the day, please take 1 minute to provide your comments and feedback on your experience at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/yFPYrUGdGK