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Apr. 22: Intro to Adobe InDesign

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

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, “Intro to Adobe InDesign,” is scheduled from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. on Apr. 22 (Friday) on Zoom at this link.  (The link will not be live until the event.)

A Grid View of Adobe InDesign 2020 GUI

 

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Mar. 28: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

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.

ETDR Landing Page at K-State
https://www.k-state.edu/grad/academics/etdr/

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, Mar. 28.    

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Mar. 25: Exploring Advanced Features of Qualtrics

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

“Exploring Advanced Features of Qualtrics” is scheduled 1:30–3:30 p.m. Friday, March 25, 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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Mar. 18: Intro to NVivo

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

NVIVOAn “Intro to NVivo” training is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Mar. 18, 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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KSIS Class Scheduler training available for Spring 2022

Posted on by Fred Darkow

KSIS Class Scheduler training is now available for sign-up in HRIS. Sessions are designed for employees new to the Class Scheduler process as well as refreshers for employees who have previously updated class schedules.

Topics include:

  • Printing the Class Schedule report
  • Updating room locations
  • Updating instructors
  • Updating the section status
  • Other course-related details

All sessions are held on Zoom. The dates and times for the Class Scheduler sessions are:

New Class Scheduler

  • Tuesday, March 8, 1-2:30 p.m.
  • Friday, March 11, 9-10:30 a.m.

Class Scheduler Tools (NEW)

  • Monday, March 21, 9-10 a.m.
  • Thursday, March 23, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Registration through HRIS is required. See Using HRIS to register for classes. If the current dates and times do not match your schedule, contact Fred Darkow at fdarkow@ksu.edu for more options.

Feb. 28: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

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., Monday, Feb. 28.    

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Mar. 4: LIWC for Computational Text Analysis

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

LIWC“Using LIWC for Computational Linguistic Analysis” will be presented from 1:30-3:30 p.m., Friday, Mar. 4, via Zoom. (Link will not be live until the event.)

The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC, pronounced “luke”) 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. 18: Intro to Adobe Photoshop

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

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. 18, 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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KSIS Training sessions for Spring 2022 available

Posted on by Fred Darkow

KSIS training dates and times are now available for spring 2022. Instructor-led training is available for faculty, academic advisors, and staff at no charge. However, registration through HRIS is required. For step-by-step instructions, view the Using HRIS to register for classes knowledge base article.

KSIS training now available

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Jan. 31: Getting Started with ETDR Templates

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

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., Monday, Jan. 31.    

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