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 Personal Websites with WordPress
- April 29, 2:00pm – Register Now
- GenAI: Introduction & Prompt Design
- May 12, 2:00pm – Register Now
- Smartphone Photography part 2: Photowalk Practice Session (in person)
- May 15, 2:00pm – Register Now
- GenAI: NotebookLM, A Personal RAG Tool for Research & Productivity (Intermediate)
- May 15, 2:00pm – Register Now
- Introduction to Covidence
- May 21, 11:00am – Register Now
- Data Management Plans (DMPs)
- May 22, 10:00am – Register Now
- Research Data Drop-In (in person)
- May 22, 1:00pm – Information
- Design & Layout with Canva
- May 27, 11:00am – Register Now
- GenAI Research Tools (Advanced)
- May 28, 2:00pm – Register Now
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- 3D Scanning with Qlone (no longer current)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
- Creating 360 Tours & Narritive Maps
- 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
- Laser Cutting Ocean Floor Contour Maps
- Data Visualization with Tableau – Intermediate
- DataFrames in Pandas (Python)
- 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
- Creating & Teaching Active Learning Workshops
- Data Management Planning
- Death by PowerPoint
- Interactive, Nonlinear Stories with Twine
- Interactive & Multimedia Website Content with H5P
- Knowledge Mobilization Skills (in development)
- Scientific Documents with Latex
- 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)
- Generative AI Workshop Pathway:
- GenAI: Introduction & Prompt Design (Introduction)
- AI: Tools for Literature Reviews (Introduction)
- GenAI: Spotting AI-generated content online (Introduction) COMING SOON
- Transcription with Free AI Tools (Intermediate)
- GenAI: NotebookLM a Personal Tool for Research & Productivity (Intermediate)
- GenAI: Presentation & Multi-Media Tools (Intermediate) – SUMMER 2025
- AI: Tools for Literature Reviews (Advanced) – SUMMER 2025
- GenAI: Research Tools (Advanced)
- Makerspace Tools: