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.
4/8 Organizational Skills for Efficiency
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Instructor: Cynthia Mauris
Description:
Do you waste time trying to find what you need? Do you rewrite tasks from one list to another multiple times? Does time slip through your hands? Enhance your methods of organizing your day and space to manage workloads effectively, improving efficiency and job satisfaction.
Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify what you do currently that reduces efficiency
- Apply several practices that will help you become more efficient and productive
- Remove clutter from your space and your mind
4/8 Excel Open Lab: PivotTable Basics
Time: 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Instructor: Anna Donohoe
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 Excel.
Outcomes:
On completion of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Identify use cases for PivotTables to summarize and visualize data
- Create a simple PivotTable using example data provided by your instructor
- Recognize when pre-processing is needed to transform data prior to inserting a PivotTable
4/8 Microsoft Teams Essentials Plus
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Instructor: Megan Calvert
Description:
This hands-on, small-group workshop will build on the foundational skills of Microsoft Teams Essentials with a focus on intermediate and advanced-level tasks. Participants do not need to have taken Microsoft Teams Essentials but should already know how to navigate the interface comfortably and perform basic tasks such as those listed in the Teams Essentials competencies.
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 <https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/offices/elite/microsoft-office-essentials.html> for more details on technology requirements.
Outcomes:
Outcomes will be adjusted based on a participant survey and may include:
- Adjust advanced settings and notifications
- Use advanced features of posts and messages, such as loop components, marking posts and messages as urgent or important, tags, and @mentions
- Organize and manage shared files for better collaboration
- Use Planner to manage shared tasks and projects
- Adjust meeting settings to create specialized meeting types and use unique features of live meetings
4/8 Blackboard Learn Ultra – 10 Key Tips & Tricks
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Instructors: 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:
By the end of this session, 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