Upcoming Events

08
May

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Drones for Environmental Restoration

Workshop/Training

Drones (UAV / UAS) have revolutionized data collection for environmental restoration. Master data collection, processing, and analysis using drones in this 4-day shortcourse. Students will learn how to collect and analyze data for multiple restoration applications, including wildlife, forest, rangeland, and river systems. Data analysis focuses on the visible, thermal, and multi-spectral sensors commonly mounted on drones and includes photogrammetry, change detection, and classification modeling.

Dates: May 6-9, 2024
Instructors: Dr. Sarah Null & Dr. Curtis Gray
Cost: $800 + $90 CEU fee
For more information, visit the course website

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
09
May

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Drones for Environmental Restoration

Workshop/Training

Drones (UAV / UAS) have revolutionized data collection for environmental restoration. Master data collection, processing, and analysis using drones in this 4-day shortcourse. Students will learn how to collect and analyze data for multiple restoration applications, including wildlife, forest, rangeland, and river systems. Data analysis focuses on the visible, thermal, and multi-spectral sensors commonly mounted on drones and includes photogrammetry, change detection, and classification modeling.

Dates: May 6-9, 2024
Instructors: Dr. Sarah Null & Dr. Curtis Gray
Cost: $800 + $90 CEU fee
For more information, visit the course website

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
09
May

CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas

Workshop/Training

Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
09
May

CEHS Mental Health Webinar Series: What Do ACT, CBT & DBT Teach Us About Helpful Thinking?

Workshop/Training

There are a multitude of ways to go about our thinking, and several types of therapy have different ways of discussing our relationship with our thoughts. But what do these have in common? And how can it help us gain a healthier relationship with our thoughts?

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
09
May

Aetna Webinar – Good Humor=Good Health and More

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Does it help to have a sense of humor? The overwhelming answer is yes! Join this webinar to learn some of the benefits of seeing the lighter side like: * How laughter decreases stress * How humor can help overcome conflict * And why laughter really is the best medicine!

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
09
May

CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
09
May

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
13
May

F & C Webinar: Appreciative Advising--A framework for Supporting Students to Achieve (Pt 1)

Workshop/Training

Appreciative Advising: A Framework for Supporting Students to Achieve Their Dreams, Goals, and Potentials (Part 1 of 2 sessions--2nd session will be May 15) Appreciative Advising is the intentional collaborative practice of asking generative, open-ended questions that help students optimize their educational experiences and achieve their dreams, goals, and potentials. This session is for student-facing professionals at Utah State University (USU) to explore the Appreciative Advising framework, learn from the strategies of student success professionals at USU, and enhance their student success practices.

9:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
13
May

CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
14
May

Habits of Mind Integration

Workshop/Training | Info Session

The Habits of Mind Integration event is sponsored by the Academic Belonging and Learning Excellence Office. Collaborating with learning specialists can help bring evidence-based learning science strategies to their students. In this workshop, Learning Specialists from the Office of Academic Belonging and Learning Excellence will provide instructors with ideas on how to seamlessly integrate Habits of Mind into their existing course structures, assignments, and assessments to foster the mindsets, aptitudes, and dispositions crucial for student success at Utah State University and beyond.

8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
14
May

Front & Center Webinar: Developing a Personal Board of Directors (Leticia Wilson, Del Mar College)

Workshop/Training

DEVELOPING A PERSONAL BOARD OF DIECTORS: RECRUITING BOARD MEMBERS, NURTURING MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS, & IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS. Presenter: Leticia Wilson, Del Mar College What is a Personal Board of Directors? And how do student success professionals support students in building their Board of Directors? This session will address how to approach and recruit Board Members, how to build and nurture mentoring relationships, and how to implement these strategies with students.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
14
May

Lunch & Learn - How to Build Credit and Increase Your Score

Workshop/Training

USU Be Well and Extension's Empowering Financial Wellness Program present a lunch and learn on increasing your credit score. You want to (re)build credit and increase your credit score but you’re not sure where to begin. It can be confusing to understand how certain credit behaviors affect your score and why you may see your score go up and down like a teeter totter. Let us teach you the tricks of the trade so that you can learn how to understand a credit score and your credit report, hacks for increasing your credit score and what factors directly impact it and how to build and protect the credit of your kids and teens.

*Presentation will be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
14
May

CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas

Workshop/Training

Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
15
May

F&C Webinar: Appreciative Advising: A Framework for Supporting Students to Achieve (Pt 2)

Workshop/Training

APPRECIATIVE ADVISING: A FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS, GOALS, AND POTENTIALS (Part 2 of 2 sessions) Appreciative Advising is the intentional collaborative practice of asking generative, open-ended questions that help students optimize their educational experiences and achieve their dreams, goals, and potentials. This session is for student-facing professionals at Utah State University (USU) to explore the Appreciative Advising framework, learn from the strategies of student success professionals at USU, and enhance their student success practices.

9:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
16
May

Getting Started in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students.

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
16
May

Lunch & Learn - Increase Wellbeing: One Burst at a Time

Workshop/Training

USU Be Well and Aetna, USU's Employee Assistance Program present a lunch and learn on increasing our wellbeing through small daily bursts. Life moves fast. Many of us struggle with adding healthy habits to our day or are too exhausted to even get started. Join us for this training where we will discuss what is a burst and explain its benefits, learn about how our thoughts contribute to success, and explain steps for making an action plan and how to keep going. *Presentation will not be recorded. Attendance and participation in this event will qualify as an activity for the Be Well Rewards program.*

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
16
May

Aetna Webinar – Challenges of Working Parents

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Did you know that both parents work in over half of two-parent households? This statistic is even higher for single caregivers. Join this webinar to learn strategies for coping and finding work-life balance. We'll go over tips for: • Time management • Prepping and planning • Making time for you

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
16
May

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
20
May

eLearnX

Workshop/Training

The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.

Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.

*Enrollment cap of 30

9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
21
May

eLearnX

Workshop/Training

The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.

Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.

*Enrollment cap of 30

9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
22
May

eLearnX

Workshop/Training

The eLearnX event is cosponsored by the Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) and by the Center for Instructional Design and Innovation (CIDI). This three-day event provides a hands-on deep dive into the teaching tools and methodologies of online, virtual, and hybrid instruction.

Day 1: Sessions on digital pedagogy and instructor presence.
Day 2: Breakout sessions on edtech teaching tools and practical applications of instructional approaches from USU instructors and instructional professionals.
Day 3: Culminates in each participant designing an activity for their course, and access to other useful resources that can be immediately implemented.

*Enrollment cap of 30

9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Huntsman Hall |
23
May

Aetna Webinar – Tips for Summer Safety

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Join us to learn how to protect you and your loved ones (including pets!) this summer, so you can stay healthy while enjoying all the activities that summer entails. We will discuss sun, water, insects, outdoor activities, traveling and more.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
23
May

Writing Outcomes for Assessment

Workshop/Training

Writing concise outcomes to be used to measure mastery through assessment in your courses.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
23
May

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
24
May

CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments

Workshop/Training

Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
28
May

Use Video Effectively in Teaching

Workshop/Training

This workshop will help you enhance your teaching with video.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
30
May

Advanced Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
30
May

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
31
May

CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks

Workshop/Training

Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
05
Jun

CIDI Workshop - Publishing Open Textbooks with Pressbooks

Workshop/Training

Pressbooks is an open e-book authoring and publishing platform available to USU teachers and students. It integrates with Canvas and allows teachers and students to discover, use, and adapt existing open educational content or author and publish new content. Learn how to use and create Pressbooks content for your course.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
05
Jun

Weber County 4-H Public Speaking, Impromptu, and Demonstration Contests

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Contestants will select a topic for their speech by randomly drawing three questions/statements from a pool of topics. They will select one question/statement and return the other two. A maximum of one minute will be allowed for this process. Topics will be relative to today’s youth and may include current events, 4‐H, and/or social issues. Examples of the type of topics include:  a. If I were an author, I would write about… b. One issue facing teenagers today is… c. If I could describe my personality as a tree, which tree would I be… d. What has being involved in 4‐H taught me? 

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
06
Jun

Aetna Webinar – Understanding and Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Your subconscious attitudes can affect the way you think and feel about the people around you. Even though these attitudes aren’t well-formed, coherent thoughts they can impact your responses to everyday situations. Join this webinar to learn to: -Define unconscious bias and discuss where it comes from -Identify common types of unconscious bias -Learn to recognize and prevent unconscious bias

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
06
Jun

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
10
Jun

CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas

Workshop/Training

Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
11
Jun

Running Secure Exams in Canvas

Workshop/Training

This workshop addresses how to create exams in Canvas, plus tools and methods for protecting quiz content and ensuring academic integrity when in-person proctoring isn't an option. (Includes discussion of Proctorio, question banks, time limits, question design, and more.)

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
11
Jun

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Classes in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
13
Jun

Aetna Webinar – What’s Your Happiness Score?

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. How happy are you? If you're like most people, you might be chasing after the wrong things to be happy. This webinar will provide you with: * The definition of happiness * A snapshot of your own happiness * Tips to feel happier

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
13
Jun

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
20
Jun

Aetna Webinar – Launching Your Kids Into Adulthood

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Learn how you as a parent or guardian can empower your kids to meet early adulthood and beyond with success and confidence. We will discuss life stages and important milestones to reach and how you can help enable your children to launch into their own at any age.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
20
Jun

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
24
Jun

Enhance your Canvas Course with Design Plus

Workshop/Training

USU Design Tools is now Design Plus. This new version of the popular formatting tools for Canvas makes it easy to add a consistent look and feel to your course and enhance the visual appeal of the homepage, content pages, and assignments. You can improve the look of tables, add borders to pictures, insert dividing lines on pages, and much more!

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
24
Jun

Advanced Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
25
Jun

Aetna Webinar – Overcoming the Fear of Commitment

Workshop/Training

Aetna, USU’s Employee Assistance Provider, presents a Resources for Living webinar. Do you have a fear of committing to relationships? Does that fear impact your romantic relationships or connections with family members, friends or coworkers? Join this webinar to learn more about the fear including: • What's the definition of commitment? • The consequences of avoiding commitment • Common fears • Ways to overcome your fears

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
25
Jun

CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
27
Jun

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
02
Jul

CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas

Workshop/Training

Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
04
Jul

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
09
Jul

How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
11
Jul

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
12
Jul

CIDI Workshop - Enhance your Canvas Course with Design Plus

Workshop/Training

USU Design Tools is now Design Plus. This new version of the popular formatting tools for Canvas makes it easy to add a consistent look and feel to your course and enhance the visual appeal of the homepage, content pages, and assignments. You can improve the look of tables, add borders to pictures, insert dividing lines on pages, and much more!

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
15
Jul

CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course

Workshop/Training

Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
18
Jul

Getting Started in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
18
Jul

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
23
Jul

Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester

Workshop/Training

This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
23
Jul

CIDI Workshop - Grading in Canvas

Workshop/Training

Grading is the most important thing to get right in Canvas. To help, this workshop covers: * The basic logic of Canvas grading, with assignments and assignment groups. * Using the SpeedGrader and rubrics * Assignment rules and assignment weighting * Showing and hiding grades * Late work policies * Extra credit scenarios * Pushing grades to Banner * Grades from third-party tools and content (Time permitting) * Outcomes (Time permitting)

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
25
Jul

Weber County 4-H Gunners Club (4-H Shooting Sports)

Workshop/Training | Utah 4-H and Youth

Club focus is on -.22 rifle education. Register on ZSuite.

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
29
Jul

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design

Workshop/Training

This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.

Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
30
Jul

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design

Workshop/Training

This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.

Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
31
Jul

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design

Workshop/Training

This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.

Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
01
Aug

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design

Workshop/Training

This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.

Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
01
Aug

Teaching Classes in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn how to plan, begin, and successfully teach a class over Zoom. This workshop focuses less on Zoom functionality and more on teaching strategies for keeping students engaged and minimizing distractions when teaching in real-time, remotely.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
02
Aug

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Sediment Transport for Restoration Design

Workshop/Training

This course is intended for those who wish to understand and apply the principles of sediment transport to alluvial channel assessment and design. Principles of open channel flow and sediment transport are combined with watershed-scale, hydrologic and sediment source analysis to place channel assessment and design in the appropriate context. Tools for estimating sediment supply at the watershed to reach level are applied in class exercises. Threshold and alluvial channel design methods are presented along with guidelines for assessing and incorporating uncertainty. The course balances advance reading, lecture, field work, and hands-on exercises for estimating sediment supply, calculating sediment transport rates, and forecasting channel response to water and sediment supply. This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic principles of river geomorphology.

Instructors: Dr. Peter Wilcock, Tyler Allred, Dr. Patrick Belmont
Dates: July 29 - Aug 2, 2024
Cost: $1850 ($1600 if registered before June 1st)
Register: Eventbrite. To register for CEU, you must register through USU Continuing Education Portal (CEWA 6900-31725. Opens April 3.)

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
09
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints

Workshop/Training

Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
12
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Building Interactive Learning Activities with Atomic Assessments

Workshop/Training

Atomic Assessments provide 65 question types with multiple delivery and feedback options. They can be embedded nearly anywhere in Canvas, for practice or for points. Options abound for math and science. See how to create the interactive lessons you've longed to provide your students.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
12
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Managing and Editing Lecture Recordings

Workshop/Training

With all the recordings you have probably been creating lately, your MyMedia account may be in need of some attention. This workshop will take you through the first steps to becoming a media master: learn how to tag and add descriptions to your recordings to make them more easily searchable, discover the power of playlists, and become familiar with the basic editing tools that are available through MyMedia.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
12
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Getting Started in Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students.

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
13
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Connect Classes

Workshop/Training

Best practices and tools to use while broadcast teaching. Topics will vary based on attendees and their needs.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
14
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas

Workshop/Training

This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.

10:00 am - 11:00 am | Online/Virtual |
15
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Online Classes

Workshop/Training

Learn how to set up an online course in Canvas using a Canvas template. This workshop addresses the process of beginning with a course map, importing a Canvas template, and then developing and organizing course materials into modules.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
16
Aug

CIDI Workshop - What's New in Canvas?

Workshop/Training

This workshop will walk through new features in Canvas and how to utilize them in your courses.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
16
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Connect Classes

Workshop/Training

Best practices and tools to use while broadcast teaching. Topics will vary based on attendees and their needs.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
19
Aug

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Basic Wetland Delineation

Workshop/Training

Basic Wetland Delineation
Students gain a basic understanding of wetland delineation procedures and the underlying ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological processes that shape them. This course will teach students to apply wetland delineation course material in real-world wetland settings when problem-solving and decision-making in the face of uncertainty are necessary (especially with problematic soil situations)

Instructors: Nate Norman & Dr. Karin Kettenring
Dates: August 19 & 20, 2024
Location: Logan, UT
Format: In-Person
Cost: $745
Registration: Registration opens April 8

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
19
Aug

Advanced Zoom

Workshop/Training

Learn about advanced Zoom options, such as breakout rooms, polls, and using multiple monitors.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
19
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas

Workshop/Training

This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
20
Aug

CIDI Workshop - New Quizzes in Canvas

Workshop/Training

Learn how to leverage New Quizzes in Canvas to create a more dynamic assessment experience. This workshop will include New Quizzes creation, question types, settings, moderating, and editing. Changes to the workshop curriculum can be made based on instructor experience.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
20
Aug

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Basic Wetland Delineation

Workshop/Training

Basic Wetland Delineation
Students gain a basic understanding of wetland delineation procedures and the underlying ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological processes that shape them. This course will teach students to apply wetland delineation course material in real-world wetland settings when problem-solving and decision-making in the face of uncertainty are necessary (especially with problematic soil situations)

Instructors: Nate Norman & Dr. Karin Kettenring
Dates: August 19 & 20, 2024
Location: Logan, UT
Format: In-Person
Cost: $745
Registration: Registration opens April 8

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
20
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester

Workshop/Training

This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
20
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Creating Usable, Accessible Courses

Workshop/Training

Learn quick and easy practical tips to make sure your content more usable and easy to learn for the students in your course. In this workshop we will go over how to 1) get rid of extra content and simplify navigation, 2) get rid of broken links and make sure your content is published, 3) embed and caption your videos to make them more usable for everyone, and 4) provide content in user-friendly formats that work well on mobile devices.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
21
Aug

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Field Botany: Wetland and Riparian Plants

Workshop/Training

Students will learn to apply Field Botany course material to improve problem-solving and decision-making in plant identification. This course will cover terminology and classification related to the botany of wetland and riparian plants and teach students to recognized dominant plant communities in wetland areas. Instructors: Dr. Leila Shultz & Dr. Karin Kettenring Dates: August 21-23, 2024 Location: Logan, UT Format: In-Person Cost: $745 Registration: Registration opens April 8

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
21
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Editing 2+ Courses in one Place with Canvas Blueprints

Workshop/Training

Canvas allows a teacher to create a "blueprint" course, where updates can be made just once and then synced to several associated courses. This can greatly ease the management of multiple versions of the same class. This workshop shows how to use and effectively manage blueprint courses.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
21
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Online Classes

Workshop/Training

Learn how to set up an online course in Canvas using a Canvas template. This workshop addresses the process of beginning with a course map, importing a Canvas template, and then developing and organizing course materials into modules.

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
22
Aug

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Field Botany: Wetland and Riparian Plants

Workshop/Training

Students will learn to apply Field Botany course material to improve problem-solving and decision-making in plant identification. This course will cover terminology and classification related to the botany of wetland and riparian plants and teach students to recognized dominant plant communities in wetland areas. Instructors: Dr. Leila Shultz & Dr. Karin Kettenring Dates: August 21-23, 2024 Location: Logan, UT Format: In-Person Cost: $745 Registration: Registration opens April 8

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
22
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Teaching Connect Classes

Workshop/Training

Best practices and tools to use while broadcast teaching. Topics will vary based on attendees and their needs.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
23
Aug

Restoration Consortium Workshop: Field Botany: Wetland and Riparian Plants

Workshop/Training

Students will learn to apply Field Botany course material to improve problem-solving and decision-making in plant identification. This course will cover terminology and classification related to the botany of wetland and riparian plants and teach students to recognized dominant plant communities in wetland areas. Instructors: Dr. Leila Shultz & Dr. Karin Kettenring Dates: August 21-23, 2024 Location: Logan, UT Format: In-Person Cost: $745 Registration: Registration opens April 8

All Day | Natural Resources Building |
30
Aug

CIDI Workshop - Getting Started With Canvas

Workshop/Training

This workshop covers signing in, creating assignments and setting up the gradebook, using modules, pages, and files, and updating profile and notification settings. Topics are subject to change based on the experience of attendees and what is needed.

9:30 am - 10:30 am | Online/Virtual |
05
Sep

CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is

Workshop/Training

This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
10
Sep

CIDI Workshop - What's New in Canvas?

Workshop/Training

This workshop will walk through new features in Canvas and how to utilize them in your courses.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
19
Sep

CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is

Workshop/Training

This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.

9:00 am - 10:00 am | Online/Virtual |
25
Sep

CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is

Workshop/Training

This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Online/Virtual |
10
Oct

CIDI Workshop - Introduction to Social Annotation with Hypothes.is

Workshop/Training

This workshop will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing.

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
12
Nov

CIDI Workshop - Running Secure Exams in Canvas

Workshop/Training

This workshop addresses how to create exams in Canvas, plus tools and methods for protecting quiz content and ensuring academic integrity when in-person proctoring isn't an option. (Includes discussion of Proctorio, question banks, time limits, question design, and more.)

10:30 am - 11:30 am | Online/Virtual |
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