1UP Your Service with the KB: Easy Mode
John Cowsert, AITS; Wesley Pate, AITS; Allison Payne, ACES
Take an easy mode lesson in the University KnowledgeBase (KB) by learning the basics of document creation and sharing as well as some bonus levels. This 2 hour hands on session will level you up in the KB. Tour the application powers so you too can take your information to new heights. Attendees will learn the basics of the University KnowledgeBase. We will have a demonstration site set up so that attendees will be able to create, share, and view their documents in a real-time learning experience. Topics include: creating and sharing documents, dashboard elements, document lifecycle, and image management.
Track: Multiplayer Adventures - Collaboration and Coordination
1UP Your Service with the KB: Hard Mode
John Cowsert, AITS; Michael Curtin, Technology Services; Allison Payne, ACES
Engage Hard Mode: tackle advanced levels and hidden secrets. In this advanced session, we'll level you up to an advanced level of the University KnowledgeBase (KB) by learning advanced levels for document development. Learn how to get the top score out of this application and its powers so you too can raise your game in the KnowledgeBase. In this 2 hour hands-on session, attendees will learn advanced tools of the KnowledgeBase. Attendees must have basic working knowledge of the KB in advance. We will have a demonstration site set up so that users will learn how to use Java Scripting, advanced sharing, the include document, document security, version control, user management and HTML to get the most out of the KB.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
Advanced Git
Maxim Belkin, National Center for Supercomputing Applications; Dena Strong, Technology Services
For those who are already familiar with the basics of Git and would like to explore more advanced uses and real world collaboration methods, Maxim Belkin of NCSA goes beyond the basics in order to explore the power of collaborative version control. Branching, rebasing, checkout, and other Git tools help you find the version you want of the section of code you want, isolate development code from test and production code, and reintegrate when a feature is ready for prime time. You'll need to be comfortable with the command line and with Git basics in order to benefit from this class. If you already have Git on a laptop, you can bring it with you, or you can borrow one of the Linux computers available in the computer lab where the workshop will be held.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
AWS Certified Solutions Architect -- Associate Review Session
Chris Kuehn, Technology Services; Brent Tuggle, Technology Services; Phil Winans, Technology Services
Preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect -- Associate exam? We'll run through the exam topics, discuss the most important aspects of each, and answer questions. This session is targeted toward individuals who have already studied and are planning to certify.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
Campus cPanel Service for Web Professionals, IT Support Staff, and Admins
Julieanne Chapman, Technology Services; Stephen Butler, Technology Services; Dena Strong, Technology Services
The Campus cPanel Web Hosting Service is a new offering providing flexible web hosting to students, faculty, staff, and departments. You can install WordPress, Drupal, and an array of development options with a single click, and Softaculous-managed sites will be automatically updated. Campus IT Pros may choose to use cPanel themselves, may support unit customers with cPanel sites, or may wish to coordinate sites for their unit as resellers. The first half of this workshop will focus on the features of cPanel, including how to create an account and launch a website in cPanel. The second half will focus on reseller functionality. IT Pros who support customers in the creation and management of websites can learn about the available features and decide whether becoming a reseller is right for their units. Hands on labs will be included for customer, support, and reseller tasks and features.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
Communicate with Impact - Elevate Yourself as a Leader
Olinda Hubbs, Office of Information Technology
Although bright, brilliant, and even articulate, many IT professionals (including executives) struggle with communication - a skill that when lacking can diminish success and stifle a career. Understanding that communications skills are critical to you as a technology professional, and taking action to improve your skills will add to your success within any organization and throughout your career. Better yet - what if could communicate with impact? Would you be better equipped to: * Manage difficult personalities or situations? * Build strong relationships with colleagues? * Build consensus among stakeholders? * Gain support for initiatives? * Strengthen your teams? * Justify budget increases? * Sell your ideas? * Elevate yourself as a leader? There are nuances to communication that give messages real impact. This session provides techniques to communicate in person and to create email, presentations, and other written documents that have impact, encourage action, and create results. Bring a document that needs "adjustment."
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
Creating Personal Learning Plans for Tech Skills
Elizabeth Wickes, School of Information Sciences
Overwhelmed by trying to sift through long wish lists of skills and tools you need to learn or the number of unread technical manuals on your desk? As technology grows and our jobs evolve, so must our professional development. Prioritizing and organizing these items is the only way to survive. This workshop will guide participants through a completely hands on activity to categorize items by priority and time, work through dependencies, and unpack broad goals. Completed learning plans are meant to be living documents that are revisited and updated. Participants in any technology role are welcome, as are management and coordination staff who use regularly use advanced technical skills.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
From Ordering to Desktop Deployment, How to Mac @ UIUC
Paul Roberts, Technology Services; Matthew Childress, Math; Keith Mountin, Apple, Inc.
Using Apple DEP and Airwatch you can deploy macOS and iOS devices to your customers with ease. We will go thought how to request your device be enrolled in DEP and Airwatch. -How to apply profiles and settings. -Security policies -Lost mode -Activation Lock (remove) -Remote Wipe Installing Apple Apps Bring your question burning Airwatch questions. To have the full benefit of the workshop Please bring a DEP Mac and be provision in the Airwatch.
Track: Game On - IT Pros Vs. Team Chaos
Getting Started Creating Content for PrairieLearn LMS
Dave Mussulman, Engineering IT; Matt West, Mechanical Engineering; Craig Zilles, Computer Science
This workshop follows our presentation about PrairieLearn: an online problem-driven learning system for creating homeworks and tests. It allows questions to be written using arbitrary HTML, JavaScript, and Python, thus enabling very powerful questions that can randomize and auto-grade themselves, and can access client- and server-side libraries to handle tasks such as graphical drawing, symbolic algebra, and student code compilation and execution. Participants should bring a laptop running Docker (https://www.docker.com/community-edition), a git client (https://desktop.github.com/), and a code-editor like Atom (https://atom.io/). We will get you bootstrapped using those tools to create course content for PrairieLearn. We'll walk through examples of basic questions with randomization and auto-grading and more complicated scenarios like client-side JavaScript and containerized grading environments.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
How to use CPanel and PIE to Build Your Website
Sarah Holmes, University of Illinois; Ed Delaporte
We will cover how to build your website using CPanel or Pie. Session Information: Hour 1: Build Your Website Using CPanel and PIE Hour 2: How to Design Your Website and Create Website Content Geared Towards Your Target Market Hour 3: Keep Hackers Out! Securing Your Website and Q&A
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
Introduction to Bash and the Unix Shell
Samniqueka Halsey, School of Integrative Biology; Maxim Belkin, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
If you're new to the command line or spend most of your time on Windows machines, our campus Software Carpentry instructors will teach you about the Unix shell (specifically Bash). Topics covered will include navigating files and directories, searching with grep and find, using pipes and filters to combine commands, using loops to perform the same actions on many files, and using shell scripts to store your commands. For a general outline of the workshop, see http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/ . You can bring your own laptop if you wish (even Windows -- you may want to install Git Bash if you're interested in the Git workshops as well). We plan to offer this lesson in a computer lab if you'd like to use a Linux system. If you're interested in the Git lessons but haven't had much command line experience, we recommend taking this workshop before the Introduction to Git workshop.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops
Introduction to Git
Maxim Belkin, National Center for Supercomputing Applications; Dena Strong, Technology Services
For those who've wondered about Git and GitHub, but haven't had the opportunity to work with it, campus Software Carpentry instructors will provide guided hands-on experience. You'll learn how Git-style version control works, how to get started, the differences between adds and commits, the differences between pushes and pulls, what a pull request is good for, and basic conflict resolution. This introductory workshop is for people who are either new to Git or unclear about the way the different commands work. The next workshop, Advanced Git, will delve into topics like checkouts, rebasing, branch management, and the ways developers use Git for collaboration in the real world. Basic familiarity with the command line will be helpful. You can either bring your own laptop (including Windows or Mac machines) or use one of the Linux machines available in the computer lab where we plan to hold this workshop.
Track: Level 2 - Second day workshops