Office of IDEAS
Training Opportunities
Below you will find our upcoming workshops and training opportunities. Please register
to attend the sessions that interest you.
Don't see what you need or can't attend during the scheduled time? Let us know and
an Instructional Designer can meet individually with you.
Department Chairs: The IDEAS Instructional Designers are available to come to your next department meeting (or other scheduled time) to train your faculty. Here's a list of potential topics we can present to your group: Project Based Learning; Active Learning Tools (options include Flip, Perusall, Jamboard); any and all aspect of Canvas including course building, mobile app, templates, new quizzes; What's New with Zoom; Academic Integrity; Digital Badging; and, Panopto (recording, uploading, Zoom integration, adding quizzes and additional content).
Interested? Shoot us an email at ideas@mail.fresnostate.edu.
Spring 2025 AI Workshop Series
This workshop series is a mix of topical, discussion-based sessions and hands-on how-to sessions about generative AI tools and is open to Fresno State faculty and staff. These workshops have concluded. See you next time!
- Creating Learning Content with AI
Learn strategies for creating a variety of learning content to enhance courses and training programs, including: quiz questions, case studies, and assignments. - AI & Universal Design for Learning
Explore AI tools that support the integration of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into your learning design to foster accessibility, engagement, and personalized learning experiences. - AI Playtime: Magic School AI
Dive into a hands-on session exploring Magic School AI, a platform designed to assist educators with lesson planning, content generation, and instructional support. - AI Playtime: NotebookLM
Discover how NotebookLM, Google’s AI-powered research assistant, can help streamline note-taking, organization, and synthesis of information for teaching and learning. - Preparing Students for an AI-Enabled Future
Explore how to prepare students for a world shaped by AI, focusing on career readiness, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Gain practical strategies to integrate AI literacy into your teaching and empower students for success. - Navigating the Intersection of AI & Equity
Examine how AI can perpetuate bias and how it may address systemic bias in higher education. Strategize how to leverage AI responsibly while keeping equity and access at the center of education. - AI Playtime: Microsoft Copilot
Experiment with Microsoft Copilot, an AI-powered assistant designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows across various applications in education and research. - Innovating Collegiate Writing in the Age of AI
Unpack the evolving role of writing in higher education with AI. This session will challenge traditional writing assignments and explore how AI can be leveraged for critical thinking, revision, and research while maintaining academic integrity. - Research Engineering with AI
Explore AI-driven research methodologies and tools that can enhance academic inquiry, literature reviews, data analysis, and the research writing process.
DISCOVERe Essentials is a self-paced online training required for faculty who wish to be certified to offer DISCOVERe-tagged classes.
The training features online modules with some flexible in-person sessions required.
Self-Enroll in DISCOVERe Essentials
Open Educational Resources is a self-paced course to introduce faculty participants learn to create, reuse, remix, redistribute, revise, and retain open-licensed content to combat course material costs and improve content relevance for students.
Growing with Canvas is a self-paced online tutorial for faculty who are new to using Canvas LMS who prefer to learn on their own, can't attend face-to-face workshops, or would like to review how to accomplish a certain task.
You may also want to enroll in the Faculty Toolbox to get the latest information and suggestions from the Office of IDEAS: https://fresnostate.instructure.com/enroll/CLR7ER
Organizational Excellence
Organizational Excellence creates and leads organizational and professional development programs designed to nurture a culture of change, continuous improvement, and innovation and build organizational and individual capacities within the Fresno State community. We support efforts to pursue excellence as a learning organization committed to innovation, improvement, workplace quality and wellness. We create opportunities to collaborate, innovate and develop in order to encourage learning, facilitate engagement and build community.
Fresno State is committed to developing our employees by providing training opportunities that will help participants LEARN personal and professional leadership skills, IMPROVE Fresno State and reduce administrative burden, SHARE ideas for improvements, innovations, and best practices, and CELEBRATE accomplishments, years of service, and success stories.
Panopto has many recorded webinars that start with the basics and move on to more advanced features.
Perusall Academy offers three different educational webinars, each hosted by a Perusall expert.
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- Kickstart
- Next Level
- Mastery
- CSU Learn
- CSU Learn is Fresno State's one-stop shop for on-campus and cross-campus learning
opportunities.
- CSU Learn is Fresno State's one-stop shop for on-campus and cross-campus learning
opportunities.
- Microsoft 365 Training Library
- Access tutorials and templates for a range of Microsoft Office products such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and One Note.
- Office of Organizational Excellence
- Organizational Excellence creates and leads organizational and professional development programs designed to
nurture a culture of change, continuous improvement, and innovation and build organizational
and individual capacities within the Fresno State community.
- Organizational Excellence creates and leads organizational and professional development programs designed to
nurture a culture of change, continuous improvement, and innovation and build organizational
and individual capacities within the Fresno State community.
- Fresno County Public Library
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Anyone with a Fresno County address can sign up for a Fresno County Public Library card electronically, to get immediate access to electronic resources and ebooks. To check out physical items, you will need to visit an FCPL branch to activate your account.
FCPL digital resources include Mango Languages, Kanopy, Overdrive eBooks, Peterson's Test Prep (online test prep/practice tests including GRE), and several digitized local history collections. If you don't live in Fresno County, check your local public library system's online resources. All libraries in the San Joaquin Valley Library System (SJVLS) allow residents of their services areas to sign up for an electronic card online, and many offer access to their online resources.
FCPL Resource Spotlight: LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning is an online tutorial service available through FCPL. It offers thousands of videos teaching everything from Adobe Photoshop to Microsoft Word & Powerpoint to Business and Finance.
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