Technology

05/29/2025

❤️🎓💛 To our graduating senior student employees: THANK YOU.

Whether you were answering support tickets, running cables, designing content, staffing events, or just stepping up when it mattered, you made campus better, more connected, and more supported every single day. 🙌

Your impact won’t be forgotten, and we can’t wait to see what you do next.

From all of us in Elon IT: we’re proud of you, and we’re cheering you on. 🎉

03/06/2025

❤️💛 Happy from Information Technology!!

05/28/2024

❤️🎉💛We’re incredibly grateful for the effort our senior student employees offered during their time at Elon. They took on extra work to support their classmates and the campus community, build personal career experience, and assist the progress of IT at Elon. Sincerely, thank you for everything, and we couldn't be more excited to see how you forge your path!!
(Photo 1) TLT Student Consultants: Chase Albritton, Hannah Blackmore, Brian Kata, Spencer Graham, and Skye Cady
(Photo 2) Maker Hub Consultants: Hughie Headley, Cole Carney, Charlotte Czel, Zarz Peterson, Alyssa Teresi, Virginia Morrison, Bethany Marzella, Bozica Nedeljkovic, and Seth Wolter (NP: Sarah Clarke)
(Photo 3) Service Desk Assistants (Campus Technology Support): Sarina Smith, Ryan Reese, Emma Russello, Charles Beveridge, Victor Gaspar, and Angel Bilal
(Photo 4) Event Office Staff: Steven Mmari, Sarah Adams, and Sam Katz
(Photo 5) Student Classroom Technicians: Will Thompson and Joshua Cole
(Photo 6) Gear Room Operations Assistants: Tim Houlahan, Ted Tsoubris, Quinn Hammond, Zach Scott, and Declan McGeady (NP: Fabienne Van Rijssen)
(Photo 7) Media Services Operations Assistants: Jake Levin, Caleb Martin, Sophie Halish, and Ainsley O’Quinn
(Photo 8) Graphic Design Assistant (IT Communications): Emilia Stirling + Video Production Assistant: Dylan Pfeifer
(Photo 9) Video Production Engineers: Harrison Hunter, Britt Mobely, and Joshua Cole (again)
(Not Pictured) Phoenix Card Student Assistant: Morgan Collington

05/15/2024

❓❓ Do you find Moodle gradebook challenging? Have questions about categories, weights, and final grades? Get personalized assistance from the Teaching and Learning Technologies team in this Moodle Gradebook Help session on Friday, May 17, from 10am-12pm in the TLT Suite (Belk Library 115).

Drop in for one-on-one support where we can tackle your gradebook queries and make those calculations crystal clear. We kindly ask that you register for the session so we have an idea of how many people to expect, but feel free to stop by at your convenience within our two-hour window to get the help you need - https://www.elon.edu/eventsmgmt/events/default?id=3786150

05/14/2024

🤔 Teaching this summer term? If you have any questions about Moodle or technology for your course, TLT staff will be available for drop-in hours on Thursday, May 16th, from 10am-12pm in the TLT Suite (Belk Library 115)!

We kindly ask that you register for the session so we can prepare accordingly, but feel free to stop by at your convenience within our two-hour window to get the help you need - https://www.elon.edu/eventsmgmt/events/default?id=3786149

05/08/2024

One week later, and we're still excited about the creativity 🎨 the ingenuity 🛠️ and the connectivity 🔥 we experienced at the 5th annual Maker Takeover.

It was everything we could’ve imagined, and it’s all because of you, our fellow faculty and staff, celebrating our students' inventiveness with us! Thank you for coming out to explore and celebrate with us and the Maker Hub!

05/07/2024

📸 Join TLT this Friday, May 10, 2024, from 11 am-12 pm for our Adobe Photoshop workshop! Perfect for faculty, staff, and students who are new to Photoshop, this session will introduce you to the essentials of enhancing your digital materials. Register at: https://www.elon.edu/eventsmgmt/events/default?id=3786133

✅ Discover how to crop and color correct;
✅ Navigate through various filters and learn to retouch photos; and
✅ Start your digital art journey with a guided tour of creating simple graphics.

This hands-on experiential workshop is for anyone looking to learn the basics of Photoshop and apply these skills to build your confidence and enhance your academic work, professional presentations, or personal photos. We hope to see you there!

04/24/2024

🤩 The 5th Annual starts in one week!! Celebrate student creativity and see what imaginative, innovative, and fun pieces Maker Hub consultants and the 2024 Kickbox recipients produced! This includes 3D-printed telescopes, made-from-scratch musical instruments, and prototype inventions to help others navigate life more easily.

🙌 But don't just celebrate; participate!! You can make buttons and stickers, design a t-shirt, and join a collaborative art project. Or elevate your home-life skills, like lawn care and basic plumbing, and join an Adulting Workshop (https://www.elon.edu/eventsmgmt/events/eventtype?id=82&cid=206).

📆 It's all happening Wednesday, May 1, from 4:30-6:30 in the Moseley Student Center! Read for more info ⬇️

Maker Takeover is the Maker Hub’s largest annual celebration that brings students, staff and faculty together to showcase their creative projects, including made-from-scratch musical instruments, custom designed clothing and furniture, and much more.

04/23/2024

🚨 Have you completed your required Security Awareness training for 2023-2024?

There are still workshop sessions you can join that will fulfill your annual requirement (Due May 31), including:
👾 Sec__ity: UR at the Center - April 24 - 9:00 - Zoom
👾 Phishing for Complements - April 25 - 3:00 - Zoom
👾 Sec__ity: UR at the Center - April 29 - 3:00 - Zoom

These are the final Security Awareness workshops of the academic year, but if you can't make them, you can still complete your training on Moodle at https://moodle.elon.edu/course/view.php?id=64058.

Awareness

04/22/2024

Do you:
➡️ Teach a class that asks students to create presentations?
➡️ Supervise students who may need a little guidance elevating their presentation skills?

✅ The Elon University Belk Library and Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) present a student-focused workshop to help students develop skills in presentation creation. If you know a student who could elevate their skills or wants to nail their next class presentation, feel free to tell them about this opportunity and encourage them to join!

They can register at: https://elon.libcal.com/event/12345659

04/10/2024

🎨 Join TLT this Friday, April 12, 2024, from 11 am-12 pm for our Adobe Illustrator workshop! Perfect for faculty, staff, and students who are new to Illustrator, this session will introduce you to the essentials of creating and editing documents. Register at: https://www.elon.edu/eventsmgmt/events/default?id=3786100

✅ Discover how to start a new file;
✅ Navigate through various presets; and
✅ Customize your canvas for different projects.

What else? Learn to move around your workspace with ease, master the basics of creating and manipulating shapes, and explore the selection tool to move, resize, and rotate your designs.

This hands-on experiential workshop is for anyone looking to learn the basics of Illustrator and apply these skills to enhance their academic work, professional presentations, or personal artwork. We hope to see you there!

03/15/2024

✅ It’s time to reclaim your time by automating scheduling! Join this workshop next Wednesday (March 20 at 2 p.m.) to make it happen: https://ow.ly/l0Wp50QQxvo.

Imagine the ease of sharing a personalized link with your colleagues and students that allows them to schedule meetings based on everyone’s availability – all without the hassle of emailing back and forth. Microsoft Bookings automates the back-and-forth communication needed for scheduling, so time is given back to you!

In this workshop, you will:
-- Learn what Bookings is and how to access it.
-- Identify how Bookings can save time.
-- Customize and set up a Bookings page.

Light refreshments will be served!

Note: This is a hands-on workshop. Laptops are strongly encouraged. Attendees who do not have a laptop can reserve one in advance and pick it up from Media Services in Belk Library.