Super Staff Tuesdays
Super Staff Tuesdays provide dedicated staff with ongoing professional development opportunities tailored to personal, leadership, and technical skills. Whether mastering new technologies, improving communication strategies, or exploring innovative approaches to problem-solving, Super Staff Tuesdays offer a supportive space for growth and learning.
5/13 Creative Design with Adobe Express
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Instructor: Gloria Barron
Description:
During this one-hour session, you’ll navigate the Adobe Express dashboard, explore its key features, and work with templates to create professional-looking designs. You’ll also learn how to customize your projects with text and images and discover practical tips for sharing and collaborating. By the end of the session, you’ll have the skills to design engaging content for teaching, marketing, or personal projects.
No prior design experience is necessary—just bring your creativity!
Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Create visually appealing designs using templates, text, images, and colors.
- Use AI to create unique images from textual descriptions.
- Save, export, and share designs for various purposes, including teaching, marketing, and personal projects.
- Demonstrate practical applications of Adobe Express aligned with institutional branding.
5/13 YuJa Open Lab via Zoom
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Instructors: Michele Knight
Description:
ELITE’s YuJa Online Open Labs are a flexible and convenient way to enhance your video content creation and management skills. These one-hour, informal sessions provide a drop-in opportunity for faculty to engage directly with YuJa experts. Whether you aim to transition from a personal YouTube account to our professional, college-endorsed video platform, wish to provide your students with commercial-free educational resources, or require efficient video editing and transcript generation tools, our Open Labs can help.
You can come and go as you please during the open labs within the hour, making it perfectly tailored to your busy schedule. You’ll receive personalized assistance with YuJa, from uploading commercial-free videos to making minor edits and merging clips without additional software. Our labs offer the flexibility of Zoom, allowing you to connect from anywhere and get the answers you need swiftly and efficiently.
Embrace the convenience of YuJa’s user-friendly interface and college-sanctioned resources to make your video content accessible and engaging for all students. No extensive commitment—just the support you need when you need it.
Outcomes:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Participate in ELITE’s YuJa Online Open Labs to engage with experts, seeking personalized assistance to answer specific questions about using the platform.
5/13 Where Do You See Your Career?
Description:
Do you know your type? Understanding personality type preferences, as identified through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) instrument, can support people in career exploration, development, and decision-making. One of the goals in developing the MBTI assessment was to help individuals find interesting, meaningful, and satisfying careers that support their natural strengths. Research shows that when people work in areas that support their natural strengths and talents, they find the most satisfaction and sense of well-being in the work they do.
Explore your type and how your natural strengths and talents are used or must be stretched to meet the needs of the job you have or the job you want.
NOTE: The MBTI assessment must be taken online and completed by 5 p.m., Thursday, May 5.
Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify your MBTI type
- Consider the natural strengths of your type
- Apply the natural strengths to your current or aspirational job
- Assess the fit between you and your career
5/13 Outlook Open Lab: Inbox & Calendar Management
Description:
This open lab session will introduce a set of specific features and tasks (listed below) in the first half of our time together. The second half is structured as open office hours for participants to practice using the skills introduced and/or ask questions about anything related to Microsoft Outlook.
Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Organize your Outlook inbox with Categories and Folders
- Manage email messages with Sweep, Snooze, and Flag
- Organize your Outlook calendar with colors and Categories
- Identify at least two ways to schedule meetings with multiple people
- Create customized recurring meetings
5/13 Microsoft 365 Cloud Storage and Collaboration Using OneDrive and Teams
Description:
Do you feel safer keeping your money in the bank than in cash under your mattress? If so, then cloud storage is probably the right solution for your files as well! In this workshop, we will briefly discuss the benefits of cloud storage, compare OneDrive vs. Teams, and examine scenarios most appropriate for each. We will then walk you through the basic steps of accessing Microsoft365 (free to all college employees and students), create and organize cloud-based files, and collaborate on a document together. Pacing and content may be adjusted based on participant skill levels and questions.
The workshop will be conducted via Zoom. To fully participate, it is best to join from a device with two screens or from two side-by-side devices so that you can follow the instructor’s demonstrations. See the Microsoft Essentials website for more details on technology requirements.
Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify the benefits of cloud storage and collaboration
- Access OneDrive and Teams using Microsoft365
- Create and manage cloud-based files
- Share and collaborate on cloud-based documents
5/13 Taming Your To-Do List
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Instructor: Philip Bonner
Description:
No one has more time than another, yet some people are more productive. Learn how to create and manage your to-do lists to help you increase your productivity. Upon completion of this session, you will be able to get more accomplished each day with your improved lists.
Outcomes:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Prioritize tasks and manage time more easily
- Reduce your stress related to deadlines and responsibilities
5/13 Blackboard Learn Ultra – 10 Key Tips & Tricks
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Instructor: Anna Donohoe and Paul Miller
Description:
Join the MC Learn Ultra Transition team for a tour of 10 key things everyone needs to know about Blackboard Learn Ultra. From accessibility and setting up overall grades to copying content and scheduling announcements, we will walk you through the highlights of this upgraded system. We will also have time for Q&A at the end of the session.
Outcomes:
On completion, participants will be able to:
- Identify at least three features of Ultra to emulate in their courses
- Access and navigate Ultra resources at MC
- Answer FAQs about our transition