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Welcome to the IT Training Center!

The IT Training Center offers access to free on-campus and online workshops that focus on business, creative, technology, data and human literacy skills. On-campus and online trainings are available to all FIU faculty and staff while various online resources are available to all FIU students.

We offer our face-to-face workshops in convenient one to two hour sessions in computer training labs on the Modesto Maidique and Biscayne Bay campuses. They afford meaningful interaction and individual assistance. We also host online webinars using the web conferencing tool Zoom.

Discover all of the workshops available on the university-wide software applications and technologies using the tabs above.

Canvas LMS workshops are available for faculty who want to receive hands-on instruction needed to build, teach, and manage a course.

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Canvas Essentials
How to navigate Canvas, use its main features and navigate courses
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Course Design
How to design pages, manage files and organize content in modules
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Assignments & Quizzes
How to create quizzes and different types of assignments including Turnitin
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Grading & Progress Monitoring
How to use the gradebook and monitor student progress
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Advanced Features
How to improve collaboration and student interaction
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Training Evaluation

We request that you provide feedback on our training sessions. It will help us improve our training services.

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Training is available for the following instructional technologies:

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VoiceThread
How to create media-based discussions for students to watch, comment on or create their own
Training is periodically announced in the
FIU Calendar | Recording

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Zoom
How to communicate and collaborate online using our web conferencing tool solution
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LinkedIn Learning (LiL) is an online training solution to enhance business, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. FIU faculty, staff, and students can access LiL from anywhere and at any time to achieve personal and professional learning goals.

LinkedIn Learning

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Faculty, staff and students have free access to Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2016 online courses in LinkedIn Learning. The courses include videos to learn how to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook.

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Microsoft 365
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Office 2016
Office 2016
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*You may need to log in to LiL first before accessing these pages.

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The university Digital Accessibility Policy establishes standards and guidelines to follow for creating learning environments that consider the wide variability of learners in higher education environments. Visit the FIU Accessibility Website and read what is required of us for additional information. Trainings are available for FIU supported accessibility tools.

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Accessibility Quick Guides
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Professionals from the IT training center can design and deliver custom workshops and training sessions (based on our current offerings) that target your specific team, work processes and learning needs. We can also bring one of our public workshops to your lab. A custom workshop requires a minimum of 6 people.

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Training Evaluation

We request that you provide feedback on our training sessions. It will help us improve our training services.

Evaluation Form

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