ION Courses Begin
2025-08-18 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)

D2L Basics and Simple Syllabus Refresher (Online Webinar)
2025-08-20 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-11 18:00 - 19:30
Join the Teaching and Learning Center for this online webinar as we get instructors started using D2L.  We’ll demonstrate D2L navigation, how to add and organize content into modules, how to create assignments, basic gradebook functionality, and ways to communicate with your students.

In this webinar, we’ll cover the following:

Introducing the D2L Pulse App and easy notifications to students (sort of like text messaging to mobile phones).

Where to locate your Syllabus and update – using Simple Syllabus

Creating weekly modules and posting a variety of content into those modules (powerpoints, pdf’s, videos, etc.).

Creating assignments (discussion forum, written assignment, online practice quiz) and passing the score to the D2L gradebook.

Basic grading functionality and submitting attendance, midterm and final grades to the student information system.

Various ways to communicate with your students (announcement, emails, students who missed assignments, etc.).

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Online Workshop: Design for All – Mastering Accessibility – Tools and Techniques (.25 PGU's)
2025-08-26 15:00 - 16:00
Join the Teaching and Learning Center for an interactive workshop focused on enhancing course accessibility through Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Learn how to use Ally within D2L to convert content into alternative formats, interpret Ally’s accessibility reports, and improve your course materials for greater inclusivity. We’ll cover tools and techniques to enhance your scores, ensuring all students have equitable access to learning. This workshop session is ideal for instructors looking to improve the accessibility of their content and provide a more inclusive learning environment.

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Online Workshop: D2L Media Library – Upload and/or Record Videos to Meet Accessibility Standards (.25 PGU's)
2025-08-26 16:00 - 17:00
This workshop session on the D2L Media Library will provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively use this robust tool for managing audio and video content within their D2L courses. This workshop will allow instructors to practice recording a short video and uploading a video file, then use the auto transcription feature. The video transcript that is generated can be downloaded by students as additional notes and study support. Providing transcriptions of audio and video is another great example of meeting accessibility standards for your students.

In addition, the training will explore advanced features of the D2L Media Library such as applying chapters to videos for better navigation, use the built-in video editing tools for minor adjustments, and record videos outside of specific D2L course for use across multiple course offerings. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with the skills and confidence to effectively use the D2L Media Library to create dynamic, accessible, and efficient course content.

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Using D2L Gradebook for In-Person, Flex and Online Courses (Online Webinar) (.25 PGU)
2025-08-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-23 14:00 - 15:00
If you are teaching a traditional in-person, flex and online course, students appreciate instructors using the D2L online Gradebook as it promotes:

Faster Midterm, Final and Attendance grade submission from D2L and export to the official Student Information System (Colleague) grade the submitted assignment and scores automatically sync to the D2L Gradebook.

Transparency, Accountability and Timely Feedback (24/7 access to real-time grade totals. Students know where they stand throughout the term.)

Encourages Communication Opportunities (students asking about how to improve grades)

Reduction of Errors (automatically calculates total column)

Promotes Accessibility Accommodations (students can access with screen readers)

Join the Teaching and Learning Center for this online webinar as we get instructors started using the D2L Gradebook.

Here’s what we play to cover:

Demonstrate how assignments, quizzes and discussion forums sync to the Gradebook.

Manually creating Gradebook columns and how to simply enter grades.

Best practices of exporting Attendance, Midterm and Final Grades to the SIS (Student Information System).

If weighing grades, set up categories and apply to the Gradebook columns.

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Holiday - College Closed
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00

Kahoot 101: Getting Started (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-03 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-10-01 09:00 - 22:00
Welcome to Kahoot! 101: Getting Started In this Kahoot! for Schools Webinar, learn how to foster engagement with Kahoot! tools, templates, and features. Kahoot! experts will share strategies for building your first kahoot, exploring ready-made content, Kahoot! question formats, reporting resources. Take away tips, tricks, and tools to bring powerful play to your classroom, no matter what learning might look like! This webinar will last for approximately one-hour and will include a resource review, live-demo, and interactive Kahoot! Game.

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Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, OneDrive & Teams) (Online Webinar)
2025-09-03 10:00 - 11:00
Join the Teaching and Learning Center as we showcase Office 365 – focusing on Outlook (email and calendar), OneDrive (cloud file storage and sharing), and Teams (similar to Zoom).

During this training we’ll showcase how to:

Advanced Teams: Would you like participants to register for your Teams Meeting? We’ll demonstrate the webinar feature registration system as well.

Accessing Outlook from the web (desktop and mobile) and new email and calendar functionality.

Tired of losing documents or only accessing documents from your work computer? We’ll demonstrate OneDrive cloud storage and how documents are available 24/7 from any device, version control (never lose a copy) and sharing and collaborating on working files.

Teams is not just for virtual meetings. We will also showcase Teams as a collaboration tool with your SSC colleagues for private chats, office hours, committees, and projects.

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D2L: Using Practice Quizzes to Prepare Students for Higher Stakes Assignments (Online webinar) (.25 PGU)
2025-09-04 04:00 - 17:00
Join the Teaching and Learning Center for this online webinar as we do a deep dive into D2L Quizzes. If you are an instructor that does not use online quizzes, consider using practice quizzes. Studies show practice quizzes improve students’ preparation for higher stakes assignments.

In this webinar, we’ll cover the following:

Basic online quiz creation and review of various question types.

Improve student engagement by using images and videos in questions and answers.

Importing quiz questions from a publisher’s text bank.

Randomizing exam questions using the Question Library (every student gets a different quiz!).

Reviewing question statistics to determine areas instructors may need to revisit before the higher stakes assignments.

Releasing quiz results to students and D2L gradebook.

Using the Special Access function for students with accommodation or who may need more time.

(source: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/06/07/study-skills.html)

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Engaging Students Through D2L Discussions (Online Webinar) (.25 PGU's)
2025-09-05 10:00 - 23:00
Looking to boost student engagement in your in-person, blended, or online courses? This session explores practical strategies for using D2L discussion forums to foster meaningful interaction, support introverted learners, and streamline grading. Learn how to craft better prompts, encourage participation, and manage your time effectively—even with large classes. Whether you’re new to D2L or just need a refresher, this session will help you make the most of online discussions.

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Elements of Quality Matters: Self-Paced Online Course (.25 PGU)
2025-09-09 08:00 - 17:00
This self-paced course is an addition to the internal Introduction of Quality Matters at SSC course and offers a deep dive into getting your course ready to meet Quality Matters standards. Quality Matters (QM) is the global organization leading quality assurance in online and innovative digital teaching and learning environments. It has advanced quality assurance practices in online teaching and learning for over a decade. This course takes about 2 hours to complete.

Learn more about QM in this self-paced course, including:

QM’s origin, evolution, and scope

Factors that affect the quality of online learning

What it takes for a course to be QM-Certified

How QM certifies online programs

QM professional development and tools to support online teaching.

To Register: https://www.canvas.net/browse/qm/courses/elements-of-quality-matters

Reminder: Once completed, remember to send the TLC (ssconline@ssc.edu) your certification of completion.

12-Week Classes Start
2025-09-15 08:00 - 17:00

8 Week Midterm/Attendance Verification due
2025-09-15 08:00 - 17:00

Getting to Know the Services for Students with Disabilities Office (SSDO) (Online Webinar)
2025-09-16 10:00 - 11:00
Instructors, what do you do when a student provides you with an accommodation password from the Services for Students with Disabilities office?

Join Davina Davis, Manager of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSDO), in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Center, as she walks you through the process.

This virtual workshop will cover the following important topics:

What is an accommodation password and what is expected of the instructor.

Compliance issue and legal responsibilities (federal and state laws).

How to assist students that may need extra support during classtime (service animals in the classroom or pregnant and lactating students, just to name a few).

Where to find test proctoring and other services offered by the SSDO.

Active Learning: test your knowledge by completing “What Would You Do” scenarios with other faculty.

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Accessbility Conference: A Tangled Web of ARIA (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-16 11:45 - 12:15
The Web Accessibility in Mind Conference is presented by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech and is free to attend.

This virtual conference will provide conference participants with content that will help them mature their practice in digital accessibility. Our goals include:

Bring together a cross section of public and private sector technology professionals from organizations large and small.

Provide a diverse range of perspectives from a diverse group of speakers.

Share solutions to accessibility challenges.

Give advice and guidance that helps our participants to actively contribute to providing more accessible digital spaces.

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Accessibility Conference: Understanding Burnout in Accessibility Work (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-16 12:30 - 13:30

Accessibility Conference:Creating Accessibility Documents and Slides: Microsoft, Google, and Canva (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-16 13:45 - 14:30

Accessibility Conference: Actually, Shifting Left: Technical Accessibility for Designers (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-16 15:00 - 16:00
The Web Accessibility in Mind Conference is presented by WebAIM in partnership with Pope Tech and is free to attend.

This virtual conference will provide conference participants with content that will help them mature their practice in digital accessibility. Our goals include:

Bring together a cross section of public and private sector technology professionals from organizations large and small.

Provide a diverse range of perspectives from a diverse group of speakers.

Share solutions to accessibility challenges.

Give advice and guidance that helps our participants to actively contribute to providing more accessible digital spaces.

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https://conference.webaim.org

Accessibility Conference: AI and Alt Text (Webinar Vendor)
2025-09-17 12:00 - 13:15

Accessibility Conference: Never Delegate Understanding: Foundations of Digital Accessibility (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-17 12:30 - 13:15

Accessibility Conference: Practicing Accessibility Research with Confidence (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-17 13:45 - 14:30

Accessibility Conference: Win with Metrics: How to Track and Show the Value of your Program (Vendor Webinar)
2025-09-17 15:00 - 16:00

Regular and Substantive Interaction: New Guidelines from the Department of Education (Online Webinar) (.25 PGU)
2025-09-18 13:00 - 14:00
In this session we will introduce the guidance from the Department of Education as it relates to defining Online Learning. This revised guidance focuses on “Regular and Substantive Interaction” (RSI) as a way of distinguishing online courses from correspondence courses. We will discuss how other institutions and accrediting bodies are interpreting this guidance and look at ways to ensure our online courses are in compliance.

Join the Teaching and Learning Center for this online webinar as we have an open discussion on regular and substantive interaction with students.

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Promethean ActivPanel – Discover Other Creative Usages (Self-Paced Online Course)
2025-09-25 08:00 - 17:00
Are you teaching a course at SSC and your classroom has the Promethean ActivPanel Board? Are you looking for some exciting ways to increase engagement for your students. Sign up for this 30-minute, online self-paced course demonstrating various scenarios that you can use in your physical classroom:

Scenario #1: Covers how to turn your existing resources into engaging lessons, mark up the content, export as a pdf. You can then post this pdf to D2L.

Scenario #2: Build lessons using the built-in templates. The Promethean ActivPanel board has several templates that instructors can easily find under the insert image option. These templates include a Periodic Table, Mindmaps, Fraction Equivalence Strip, T-Chart, Circle Fraction, Geoboards, just to name a few.

Scenario #3: Multi-User Races. Use the built-in timer and alphabet spinner to have two students race to brainstorm words or ideas.

Scenario #4: Rub and Reveal. Upload any image and label certain areas of the image. An example is parts of the human brain. Create a white shape to cover the labels. As you teach, reveal the labels by simply erasing the white shape that covered the labels.

Scenario #4: Build a Story. Upload several images or open up Chromium to capture images from the internet. Showcase those images on the whiteboard. Use the spinner with creative words. Have students build a story based on the images and the words the spinner landed upon.

Scenario #5: Science Lab. Upload scientific images and have students come up to the board circle certain parts based on your question you ask in class.

Scenario #6: Guess Who. Upload a certain image and have students guess who it is by sliding the revealing answer.

Scenario #7: Scavenger Hunt. Use the spinner tool to add certain words. After the spinner lands on certain words, have the students search the internet for images on a laptop they are using in class. Have students share their screens with the Promethean screen sharing tool to share their findings.

Scenario #8: Hundreds Plus. Select the Hundreds Plus template (part of the many templates preloaded). Enable multi-user mode. Add the timer and spinner to have students circle values. Clear all annotations to begin the process with new values from the spinner tool.

To learn about these teaching scenarios that are easy to set up on the Promethean ActivPanel, sign up for this course. Note: You must create a user account with Promethean to sign up for this free course.

To register, visit: https://learn.prometheanworld.com/courses/introduction-to-activinspire/#tab-course-section__overview

Have you created interesting ways of using the Promethean ActivPanel Board? If so, let the Teaching and Learning Center know by emailing ssconline@ssc.edu. We would love to showcase examples of how other instructors are using this technology.

Need assistance setting up any of these creative ideas? Let the Teaching and Learning know (ssconline@ssc.edu) and we can brainstorm ways to make it work.

Reminder: Register for ION Courses that start on 10/13/2025
2025-09-29 08:00 - 17:00
We are continuing to offer the opportunity for instructors to take courses from the Illinois Online Network, a subsidiary of the University of Illinois. Courses begin October 13, 2025 with a registration deadline of October 13, 2025.

Step 1: Decide what course you plan to take. For full course descriptions, visit https://www.uis.edu/cape/professional-development/ion/course-catalog-registration

Step 2: Get Approval from SSC. If you are interested in registering, please complete our TLC application to get started – https://forms.office.com/r/axmQgDiETK (your login for this form is your SSC email address and regular network password).  If you are approved, SSC will cover the cost of your registration.

Once you are approved, you will receive a code to use at registration in Step 3. Using this code allows you to register with SSC paying for the registration.

Step 3: Register for the Ion Course. Visit: https://www.uis.edu/cape/professional-development/ion/course-schedule-important-dates#calendar

On this page you have two options:

Already have an ION Account? If you already have set up an ION account, visit the Continuing and Professional Education self-service portal.

Don’t have an ION Account? Follow the directions to create an account, then proceed to the Continuing and Professional Education self-service portal.

Remember: Use the Code provided in Step 2 during registration. This means that SSC will pay for the course on the instructors’ behalf.

D2L Intelligent Agents: Automate Communication with Students (Online Webinar) (.25 PGU)
2025-09-30 16:00 - 17:00
An Intelligent Agent is a communication tool feature built-in to D2L that can assist instructors in monitoring student activity and automatically sending email reminders to students based on those activities.

For example, instructors can prepare an intelligent agent to automatically email students as follows:

Catch them early by notifying them of tutoring services available if they are receiving a low score in their assignments.

Welcome students when they first access the course.

Remind students they failed to login and access your course within the last week and how important it is to keep up.

Encourage students when they miss deadlines.

Recognize students when they are doing well in the course.

In this webinar, we’ll cover the following:

Creating an Intelligent Agent based on a variety of different criteria mentioned above.

Test an Intelligent Agent with a Practice Run.

Introduce the concepts of Replacement Strings – internal fields that can be used to personalize the communication, such as First Name, Last Course Assess Date, Course Name, etc.

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Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education (Online Webinar) (.25 PGU’s)
2025-10-01 16:00 - 17:00
Join the Teaching and Learning Center for an insightful one-hour webinar tailored specifically for instructors at South Suburban College interested in integrating artificial intelligence, particularly ChatGPT, into their course design and assignment processes. This session will explore how AI can enhance curriculum development and provide a unique perspective on the student experience when using ChatGPT.

Objectives:

Understanding ChatGPT: Learn the basics of how ChatGPT works and its potential applications in education.

Course Design Enhancement: Discover strategies for incorporating ChatGPT into course design, including generating content ideas, creating assessments, developing quiz questions and online discussion prompts.

Student Perspective: Experience a live demonstration of how students are using ChatGPT along with best practices for guiding students in using AI responsibly.

Other Applications: If time permits, we’ll also demonstrate some other applications that may be helpful for course design such as creating images and music using AI software.

Who Should Attend: This webinar is designed for instructors at all levels who want to innovate their teaching methods and enhance student engagement through the use of AI technology.

Takeaways: Participants will leave with actionable insights on how to effectively incorporate ChatGPT into their course design and an understanding of the student’s experience with AI.

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