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March 26: Exploring the Advanced Features of Qualtrics

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“Exploring Advanced Features of Qualtrics” is scheduled 1:30–3:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, online on Zoom. All students, faculty, and staff who use this research suite are welcome to attend.

The Qualtrics tool that powers K-State Survey is one of the most sophisticated online survey and research tools on the market. At K-State, it is used for research, teaching assessment, event registration, large-scale policy compliance trainings, late TEVAL evaluations, and more. There is also an integration from Qualtrics to NVivo for direct access to online survey data for qualitative and mixed methods analysis.

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March 19: Intro to NVivo training

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NVIVOAn “Intro to NVivo” training is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, March 19, for all faculty, graduate students, and staff who may be using this qualitative (and mixed methods, multimethods) data analysis tool.  This session will occur on Zoom.

This presentation, which covers NVivo 12 Plus / NVivo (newest) basics, will address the following:

  • The basic parts of the NVivo 12 Plus interface
  • How to start and structure a research project (including a team project)
  • How to set up a project around a base language (Chinese/PRC, English/US, English/UK, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese/Brazil, and Spanish
  • How to ingest various multimedia file types (and curate heterogeneous and semi-structured digital data and digitized contents)
  • How to ingest some social media contents
  • How to begin manual and/or automated coding various media file types
  • How to run data queries in the tool and analyze resulting data visualizations (word clouds, word trees, matrices, geographical maps, bar charts, and others)
  • How to back up the .nvp / .nvpx project file

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Mar. 5: LIWC2015 for Computational Text Analysis

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LIWC“Using LIWC2015 for Computational Linguistic Analysis” will be presented from 1:30-3:30 p.m., Friday, Mar. 5, via Zoom. (Link will not be live until the event.)

The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) tool enables users to conduct computational linguistic analyses on single texts, collections of texts, and text corpora, in order to better understand the latent data.

 

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Feb. 22: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

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ETDR TrainingAre you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has created templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 22.    

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Feb. 19: Intro to Adobe Photoshop

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Are you a graduate student who uses digital imagery (photos, data visualizations, and others) in a master’s thesis, master’s report, or doctoral dissertation (in an ETDR application)? Are you a faculty or staff member who integrates photographs into slideshows, imageset, or videos?

Join this “Intro to Adobe Photoshop” on Feb. 19, from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. on Zoom. This session introduces Adobe Photoshop as the leading software for editing and creating raster images (although it can output vector ones, too). This session will introduce the general graphical user interface (GUI) for this software. Then, it covers some basic uses and shows some walk-throughs of work sequences.

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Feb. 12: Exploring the Advanced Features of Qualtrics

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“Exploring Advanced Features of Qualtrics” is scheduled 1:30–3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, online on Zoom. All students, faculty, and staff who use this research suite are welcome to attend.

The Qualtrics tool that powers K-State Survey is one of the most sophisticated online survey and research tools on the market. At K-State, it is used for research, teaching assessment, event registration, large-scale policy compliance trainings, late TEVAL evaluations, and more. There is also an integration from Qualtrics to NVivo for direct access to online survey data for qualitative and mixed methods analysis.

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Jan. 29: Exploring Microsoft Excel (Essentials)

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Exploring Microsoft Excel (Essentials) training is scheduled 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, on Zoom.  

About Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is the foremost spreadsheet program in use today.

It is commonly used to:

  • Conduct calculations
  • Clean data
  • Graph or plot data (to identify data patterns)
  • Create data visualizations (both static and interactive)
  • Apply visual styles to data tables and data visualizations
  • Create interactive data visualizations (interactive pivot tables, interactive dashboards with sliders, and others)
  • Create simple macros for continuing data handling (with Visual Basic programming language)
  • Process data for analytics in other software programs
  • Enable the share-ability of information
  • Access online survey data (in analyze-able format), and more…

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Jan. 25: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

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ETDR TrainingAre you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made available templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 25.  

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Nov. 30: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

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""Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made available templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting. “Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1-2:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 30.  

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Nov. 20: Intro to Adobe InDesign

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Adobe InDesign is the premiere layout tool for various electronic and print publications, designs, artifacts, interactive PDFs, forms, and other contents. This session introduces how to get started with InDesign (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud) by setting up workspace, beginning a publication, placing text and imagery, and exporting a file in the proper format.

InDesign also has a cloud-based aspect for publishing to the Web (and file-sharing for feedback).

This session is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20 on Zoom at this link.  (The link will not be live until the event.)

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