This workshop aims to ensure that participants do not miss out on the little-known research tools and tricks which can be indispensable for effective graduate level research at Concordia in all subject areas.

Have a quick question about your academic or career path? Want to discuss program change? Drop-by our Zoom room for a 15-minute consult! No appointment necessary, just show up!

Come and get started with Arduino, a user-friendly microcontroller platform that will allow you to build anything from a weather station to a wearable electronics device. This session will provide a fun and friendly overview of electronics prototyping and programming for beginners.

Have a quick question about your academic or career path? Want to discuss program change? Drop-by our Zoom room for a 15-minute consult! No appointment necessary, just show up!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate your reading skills and improve your grades!

For graduate students only. This workshop focuses on the numerous art-related search tools and resources in the library and how to use them in conjunction with Google Scholar and other web tools. You will discover strategies for tracking down hard-to-find materials as well as learn about library services that give you access to an expansive network of resources in Concordia Library and beyond.

This dynamic workshop designed to help you prepare prior to and perform your best on your exam.

Join our workshop to discover proven note-taking techniques, learn how to organize and integrate your notes into your study routine, and explore how AI can enhance your process. Unlock the Skills Most Students Miss!

So you want to model things in 3D, but you’re unfamiliar with how to do it or the software you’re using doesn’t give you the fine control you need? Come to our workshop. For this session, we are going to focus on building practical structures for lab environments. OpenSCAD is free, open-source software for detailed, programmatically defined, primitive based rendering software. If that sounds complicated, you will be pleasantly surprised at how easy and intuitive the software is once you get started. No programming experience required (although it doesn't hurt). Computer and software are provided, but to walk away even better prepared, feel free to bring your own laptop and have OpenSCAD installed on your computer before the session. This workshop is open to all. Speaker: Sean Cooney, Technology Sandbox Technician, Concordia University Library

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll be given a template to practice the beginner fundamentals of excel and follow along with the facilitator.

This interactive and engaging workshop is designed to equip you with effective study strategies tailored specifically for math and problem-solving courses.

This workshop explores how faculty can guide students in using all-purpose GenAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) for self-assessment and feedback on their assignments. Participants will learn strategies to empower students to leverage GenAI in conjunction with course rubrics, enhancing the development of critical evaluation skills, and freeing in the instructor’s time and resources.

A hybrid event for student executives and leaders on creating inclusive communities on campus.

This workshop begins with a quick look at how popular AI tools like ChatGPT work. After that, you will have the chance to experiment with AI tools and explore prompt-writing strategies.

A Raspberry Pi is a very small and inexpensive computer, but what can you do with it? There are so many possibilities; we are going to start by building a device for your cat (or dog, or goldfish) to send you selfies. Ideally, this will inspire you to put this tiny, inexpensive computer to work in both practical and fun ways. This is a fun workshop for getting starting with a Raspberry Pi. No pet ownership is actually required, we will connect a motion detector and a camera to a Raspberry Pi computer and use a short Python script. No electronics or programming knowledge required, all are welcome.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to communicate your research in a way that is compelling, accessible, and informative.

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

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This is an introductory workshop for students in all disciplines who wish to better understand and include Indigenous perspectives in their research. The workshop will briefly situate the university library within settler colonialism in Canada, provide context to current research on Indigenous topics and include discussions around the limits of terminology and subject classification. The instructors will guide students to recommended resources for Indigenous topics and provide an overview of research ethics guidelines.

A quick and simple introduction to the Linux operating system. This workshop is for beginners with little to no experience working with this free and open-source OS.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll be given a template to practice the beginner fundamentals of excel and follow along with the facilitator.

Come and join a 90-minute fun and interactive session where you can build your confidence, learn about having conversations and meet new people.

This workshop will explore dialogical strategies for responding to challenging moments in the classroom. Often referred to as H-O-T moments (heated, offensive or tense), these can range from controversial topics to disruptive behaviours. This session is designed to help instructors feel more prepared when these arise in classroom.

In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use Zotero, a desktop and web-based tool that you can use to organize the references you find in library catalogues and databases, insert citations in your papers, and prepare bibliographies or reference lists quickly and effectively, in a wide variety of citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, et cetera). We will look at how to integrate Zotero with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. We will also cover how to share folders and citations (e.g., for collaborative projects or to disseminate reading lists). No experience with Zotero is necessary.

In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use Zotero, a desktop and web-based tool that you can use to organize the references you find in library catalogues and databases, insert citations in your papers, and prepare bibliographies or reference lists quickly and effectively, in a wide variety of citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, et cetera).

This introductory workshop will provide you with the skills needed to design models for the Sandbox 3D printers. After completing this workshop you will be able to explain the basics of 3D printing and 3D design, design appropriately for 3D printing, modify an existing 3D design, and export a model for 3D design.

Part of the Equity Offices’ From Awareness to Action series, this two-part training program offers an open and interactive space for researchers and graduate students to delve into equity concepts and principles and provides tools to help foster a research environment that is both enriching and accessible to diverse perspectives.

Join us and take your exam skills to the next level!

Join career counsellors for a conversation about how to deal with uncertainty and identify the next step is in your academic and career journey.

In this session, we will experience the steps and methods involved in Design Thinking and apply them right away within tight timeframes.

Would you like to be able to keep a permanent copy of something that's online? Whether it's your thesis project website, source material for your research, or your favourite cat video, online content is at high risk of disappearing. This workshop will show you how to preserve web content using free and open-source tools. This is an introductory-level workshop and no prior knowledge or technical skills are needed.

Join our Career Conversations series, where you can engage in meaningful discussions with career counsellors on the topics that matter most to you.

Join our interactive workshop to learn about what successful financial planning looks like, how to set and prioritize your financial goals, and how to track your income and expenses

In this talk, I discuss the long history of biometric surveillance, charting the analogue precursors to today's digital versions, showing the deep biases embedded in the tracking of humankind by their bodies. I explore the experiment that trades privacy for security and offers neither.

Unlock hidden dynamics and reveal new possibilities with Social Presencing Theater. Using arts and contemplative traditions, this transformative practice provides insight into your team or organization, setting the stage for creative collective action. Register now to explore the art of making a true move.

Join us and take your exam skills to the next level!

In this workshop you will learn what makes a good story, how to tell more compelling stories, and get tips that can help move ideas and anecdotes into stories that influence and inspire.

Plagiarism at the undergraduate level is a serious academic offence! The university and your professors do not take it lightly even if you plagiarize inadvertently.

In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use Zotero, a desktop and web-based tool that you can use to organize the references you find in library catalogues and databases, insert citations in your papers, and prepare bibliographies or reference lists quickly and effectively, in a wide variety of citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, et cetera).

In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use Zotero, a desktop and web-based tool that you can use to organize the references you find in library catalogues and databases, insert citations in your papers, and prepare bibliographies or reference lists quickly and effectively, in a wide variety of citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, et cetera). We will look at how to integrate Zotero with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. We will also cover how to share folders and citations (e.g., for collaborative projects or to disseminate reading lists). No experience with Zotero is necessary.

Join career counsellors for a conversation about how to decide when further education is the right choice, and talk about alternatives.

In this session we will engage in open dialogue with the intention of deepening skills to manage relationships specifically with colleagues. We will identify behaviours in the academic context, interpersonal and systemic, that are damaging to collegial spaces as well as some ways forward. Using scenarios, we will explore a range of approaches which contribute to a healthy work environment.

This 2-hour interactive workshop is designed for both undergrad and grad students to delve into the ethical use of generative AI tools (like ChatGPT)

This introductory workshop will provide you with the skills needed to design models for the Sandbox 3D printers. After completing this workshop you will be able to explain the basics of 3D printing and 3D design, design appropriately for 3D printing, modify an existing 3D design, and export a model for 3D design.

By attending this workshop, you will benefit from strengthening your understanding related to Concordia's expectations for academic integrity and original work.

Part of the Equity Offices’ From Awareness to Action series, this two-part training program offers an open and interactive space for researchers and graduate students to delve into equity concepts and principles and provides tools to help foster a research environment that is both enriching and accessible to diverse perspectives.

Come learn about entrepreneurial mindsets and approaches that can help you implement an entrepreneurship frame of mind to your work life, school life, and every day

This friendly workshop will start you building Virtual Reality (VR) experiences quickly and easily. This workshop makes use of the A-frame JavaScript library. Prior knowledge of JavaScript or HTML is NOT required (but it doesn't hurt). By the end of the session you will have created a simple VR environment. An optional second session for sharing VR creations, troubleshooting, demonstrating more advanced features and testing on different hardware will be offered (no further registration is required).

Get valuable tips on how to build and optimize your LinkedIn profile to attract recruiters and learn about essential LinkedIn etiquette to make a good impression.

The Department of Supply Chain and Business Technology Management is proud to host Dr. Warut Khern-am-nuai, an associate professor in Information Systems at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. Dr. Khern-am-nuai will present his working paper, "Addressing Fairness in Machine Learning Predictions: Strategic Best-Response Fair Discriminant Removed Algorithm."

This interactive and engaging workshop is designed to equip you with effective study strategies tailored specifically for math and problem-solving courses.

In this workshop, we're going to look at how to budget when income is always change with a specific focus on lump sums.

This session will provide an overview of "prompt engineering": the process of crafting and structuring text to effectively communicate with generative AI models. Core concepts and best practices of prompt engineering, as well as how you can use these tools in all aspects of your life will also be discussed.

In this session, we will review the Blended (BL) Online (EC) and Remote (RM) course delivery modes, provide a brief overview of the characteristics of each, and explain the appropriate process for approval.  

Led by prof. Mireille Paquet, this reading group is open to all interested students and faculty. Participants are only required to read and discuss the text assigned for each meeting. This is a welcoming, stress-free environment for Concordians interested in immigration studies, regardless of their level of knowledge or discipline. We look forward to meeting you!

By attending this workshop, you will benefit from strengthening your understanding related to Concordia's expectations for academic integrity and original work.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate your reading skills and improve your grades!

In this workshop – ideal for speakers at all levels – we will dispel common public speaking myths, provide useful tips on body language and tone, and help you to conquer your fears and meaningfully connect with your audiences in-person and online.

A quick and simple introduction to the Linux operating system. This workshop is for beginners with little to no experience working with this free and open-source OS.

This session will introduce some practical strategies for making grading more consistent and transparent. It will also present what effective feedback looks like and discuss common questions like: How many As should I give? How much time should I spend grading each assignment? How much feedback should I give to each student?...and more.

Learn how to become aware of your attention. 

Join us for an interactive and collaborative in-person workshop to discover how ChatGPT, the cutting-edge language model by OpenAI, requires us to rethink how we approach problem-solving.

This workshop offers an open and interactive space for student to explore what it means to foster a culture of inclusivity in a variety of educational settings and more broadly, within our communities.

Improve your understanding of the basic rules for documentation including an introduction to multiple styles. Also, learn when and how to quote or paraphrase. Understand the Academic Code of Conduct and your responsibilities as a graduate a student.

This workshop aims to ensure that participants do not miss out on the little-known research tools and tricks which can be indispensable for effective graduate level research at Concordia in all subject areas.

This session will give you the opportunity to practice asking good questions and harnessing your curiosity to bring the highest quality information to your interviews and conversations.