Workshops in the DSC
Below is a list of events and workshops offered by the Digital Scholarship Commons. For a full list of all the workshops being offered in the Libraries, visit libcal.uvic.ca.
If you have any questions about our workshops or are an instructor wanting to have us run one of our workshops in connection to your course, feel free to drop us an email to ask about availability. If you would like to be kept up to date with DSC announcements, including new workshops, you can sign up for our low-volume email list here.
Upcoming Workshops
- Intro to Data Analysis with RStudio
- December 12, 10:30am – Register Now
- Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
- December 17, 10:30am – Register Now
- Data Analysis with Excel
- December 18, 2:00pm – Register Now
In Development:
- Digital carpentry (Introduction to the Command Line)
Lesson Plans:
Below are workshops that the DSC has made available for anyone in the world to use free of charge! Everything is online and designed so that people can work through them on their own schedule and at their own pace. If you have questions as you go, feel free to contact us.
All the DSC workshops have been released using a Creative Commons License (CC-BY) which means that anyone can use the workshops, share them with others, and modify the lesson plans to meet their specific needs (people who modify the workshops need to give appropriate credit to the DSC).
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- Makerspace Tools:
- 3D Design & Print – Introduction
- 3D Design with Fusion 360 – Intermediate
- 3D Scanning with Qlone (no longer current)
- Coding with HTML & CSS – Introduction
- Electronics with Arduino
- Electronics with Raspberry Pi (in development)
- Internet of Things with Arduino
- Design for Laser Cutting
- Virtual Reality & Creating 360 Tours
- Data Analysis, Visualization, & Mapping:
- Data Analysis with Excel
- Data Analysis with RStudio – Introduction
- Data Analysis with RStudio – Intermediate Research Statistics
- Data Visualization & Narrative Maps – Introduction
- Data Visualization with Tableau – Intermediate
- DataFrames in Pandas (Python)
- GeoSpatial with QGIS – Introduction – Activity
- Infographics with Canva
- Data Wrangling (or cleaning) with OpenRefine
- Survey Creation with SurveyMonkey
- Qualitative Data Analysis & Coding with NVIVO
- Qualitative Data Analysis & Coding with NVIVO – Advanced
- Qualitative Coding with Taguette
- Research, Writing, & Communication Tools:
- Design & Layout with Canva – Introduction
- Academic Posters with Canva
- Graphic Design with Inkscape
- Creating & Teaching Active Learning Workshops (face-to-face and/or online)
- Data Management Planning
- Death by PowerPoint
- Generative AI Workshop Pathway:
- GenAI: Introduction & Prompt Design (Introduction)
- AI: Tools for Literature Reviews (Introduction) – COMING SOON
- GenAI: Spotting AI-generated content online (Introduction)
- GenAI: NotebookLM a Personal Tool for Research & Productivity (Intermediate)
- GenAI: Presentation & Multi-Media Tools (Intermediate) – SPRING 2025
- AI: Tools for Literature Reviews (Advanced) – SPRING 2025
- GenAI: Research Tools (Advanced)
- Generative AI for Student Research
- Image Capture & Annotation with Techsmith Capture
- Interactive, Nonlinear Stories with Twine
- Interactive & Multimedia Website Content with H5P
- Knowledge Mobilization Skills (in development)
- Transcription with Free AI Tools
- Scientific Documents with Latex
- Managing Research Projects with the Open Science Framework
- Digital Preservation with Omeka
- Citation & PDF Management with Zotero – Introduction
- Citation & PDF Management with Zotero – Advanced
- Personal Websites with WordPress
- Image Editing with GIMP (an open source Adobe Photoshop alternative)
- Image Editing with Adobe Photoshop
- Photography with your Smartphone
- Image Editing with Photopea (a free Adobe Photoshop alternative)
- Podcasting with Audacity
- Sketchnoting: Doodle Your Way to Better Grades
- Version Control with GitHub
- Video Editing with iMovie or Windows ClipChamp (Win, Mac)
- Storyboarder
- OneDrive Introduction
- Makerspace Tools: