Discover the potential of the Google tools included in your UMass Gmail account.

Complete four of these workshops to earn this badge:

• Google Classroom Basics: Discover how to create your own classroom including adding assignments, resources and more. 

• Google Drive: Uncover the collaborative and practical capabilities of your Drive storage.

• Google Slides as a Collaborative and Interactive Presentation Tool: Learn to create collaborative and professional slide presentations that can be shared in a variety of formats.   

• Google for Collaboration: Learn tips and tricks to get the most out of your Gmail, Google Docs, Slides and leverage them to collaborate with others.

• Google Sites: Use this user-friendly tool to design your own website to be used in presentations, as a portfolio or many other ways.

Build your student toolbox by joining our Online Learner series.

Complete four of these workshops to earn this badge:

• Blackboard 101: Blackboard Basics for Students: Make submitting your assignments and accessing vital information easy by learning the basics of your learning management system.

• Online Academic Resources for UMass Global Students: Gain knowledge of the academic resources available for UMass Global Students.  

• CII/OWMC Resources 101: UMass offers robust tutoring and EdTech services that are included with your student experience. Come check out what is available.   

• Hosting & Attending Zoom Meetings: Our Zoom expert will go over some of the basics of hosting great virtual meetings and classes using this dynamic software.

• Advanced Zoom: Tips and Tricks: Uncover the advanced settings zoom offers that will help you personalize your Zoom office while making it more secure.

• Using E-Readers as a Study & Research Paper Tool: Teach students how to navigate and use their e-book as a research tool. 

• Kaltura Basics For Students:  Discover how students can use Kaltura to create and submit video assessments.

Complete four of these workshops to earn this badge:

• UMass Global Library Overview: Best for new library users. Learn how to navigate the library’s website, start a basic search, and get research assistance.

• Getting Started with Research: Learn tips for doing background research, narrowing your topic, and developing a research question.

• Finding Scholarly Articles: Learn how to identify scholarly sources and where to find them.

• Evaluating Sources: Learn techniques for determining whether the sources you find are relevant to your dissertation and how they support your research.

• Advanced Search Techniques: Discover some strategies to make your searches more precise and quickly find the information that is most relevant to your research question.

• Using the Zotero Bibliographic Management Tool: Learn how to organize, annotate, and format sources using Zotero, which also helps you easily create bibliographies. Zotero is free to use and includes limited free storage space. 

• Creating Annotated Bibliographies: Find out what an annotated bibliography is and what it looks like. Learn to write effective annotations and format your sources correctly.  

• How to Incorporate Sources in a Research Paper: Learn tips for writing a research paper and how to seamlessly quote outside evidence in your work.

• APA 7 Formatting & Style Basics: Learn how to meet the standards and expectations of collegiate-level APA formatting and style basics.

Sharpen your research skills, while making your dissertation journey a smoother process. 

Complete four of these workshops to earn this badge:

• Library Resources for Your Dissertation: Learn how to access specialized resources appropriate for doctoral-level work.

• Research Strategies for Your Dissertation: Rather than spending hours searching with few or no results, discover how to efficiently find the information you need for your dissertation and learn what to do if you’re stuck.

• Conducting Literature Reviews for Your Dissertation: The literature review section of your dissertation demonstrates your understanding of current and historical trends, perspectives, and research in your discipline. Attend this workshop to learn strategies for finding and incorporating sources into your literature review. 

• Reference Management Tools: A reference management tool allows you to easily collect, organize, annotate, and format research material that you find in library databases and on websites. It also enables you to automatically format bibliographies in a variety of styles.  Attend one of these workshops based on your needs:

  • • Using Zotero: This workshop provides an overview of Zotero, a citation management program that is free to use and includes free limited storage space.

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• Using EndNote: This workshop provides an overview of EndNote, a citation management program that has a subscription fee and is required for some courses at UMass Global. 

In this series, learners will develop skills to increase their awareness of cybersecurity. Learners who successfully complete the workshops and assessment will earn a Cybersecurity Awareness Certificate.  

Complete all workshops and the Cyber Security Assessment to earn this badge:

• Password Security: Learn how to create a secure passwords to keep your information safe for all of your accounts. 

• Safe Web Browsing: Avoid falling victim to internet and email scams by learning about safe web browsing. 

• Multi-Factor Authentication: Add an extra level of security to your accounts by learning about multi-factor authentication. 

• Intellectual Property: Understand the basics of intellectual property rights including copyright, patents, trademarks and trade secrets. This knowledge will keep you, any organization you are affiliated, safe from hackers, while ensuring you are respecting other's intellectual property and following the law. 

• Public Wifi: Learn the risks of using public wifi including the loss of private information, stolen passwords and account information, and even malware. This workshop will review what is safe and not safe if you must use public wifi. 

• Phishing: Become knowledgeable about spotting fake emails used to infect your computer with malware that could compromise your information.