Learn practical skills to decrease test anxiety and enhance energy and performance during exam periods. This three-hour program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic is an online, on-demand program with lifetime access to the lessons. You can begin today! Your link will be e-mailed to you upon registration in the

Join watercolour artist Candice Leyland and learn to capture trees in watercolour. Perfect for those wanting to improve their landscape painting or anyone that is drawn to painting trees and greenery. In this class students will learn a variety of techniques to create different types of trees throughout the seasons including birch trees, evergreen trees

Join us for Thriving in Action, a new online program at the University of Guelph. Thriving in Action will help you move from languishing to flourishing throughout your time in university. Build motivation, optimism and resilience, and learn how to integrate those skills into your work as a student. In each workshop, you will learn

Learn to relax tight muscles, calm anxiety, settle a busy a brain, and have more energy! A smorgasbord of techniques for thriving under pressure are practiced to begin developing lifetime skills. This 12-part program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic meets online for an hour twice a week, on Tuesday

Learn how to decrease insomnia, fall asleep (or back to sleep) more easily, and get more energy from sleep using proven, drug-free strategies. This five session skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic is an online, on demand program with lifetime access to the lessons. Your link will be

Join students, faculty and staff as we come together in ceremony honouring Residential School Survivors and the children who never returned home. The ceremony will be led by Elders Dan and Mary Lou Smoke and hosted by the Indigenous Student Centre and Indigenous Initiatives and in collaboration with the Indigenous Student Society. All students, faculty

What is the Write like an Academic series? This six-week program provides support in academic written communication for graduate-level students with English as an Additional Language (EAL). This program provides students an opportunity to improve their writing in typical graduate-student academic and professional scenarios. The scenarios include: Writing emails to professors and/or advisors Providing written

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package, designed to help you manage and analyze qualitative data. In this workshop, we will work on bringing your sources in, creating nodes, coding, creative case classifications and running queries. Please make sure the latest version of NVIVO is installed on your machines prior to the

Audacity is an open source, cross platform audio recording and editing tool. Use Audacity to record and edit a voiceover for a video or a podcast. This workshop is the third workshop in the digital storytelling workshop; however, there is no requirement that you have completed the other workshops in order to participate in this

The Thriving in Action Program Join us for Thriving in Action, a new online program at the University of Guelph. Thriving in Action will help you move from languishing to flourishing throughout your time in university. Build motivation, optimism and resilience, and learn how to integrate those skills into your work as a student. In

This is the second session in the Skills for Research Impact series, a workshop series for University of Guelph faculty, research staff and graduate students interested in enhancing the impact of their research. In this workshop, we'll reflect on how to engage stakeholders throughout the research process to increase impact. You'll learn to identify a

Part of the library's ongoing Open Scholarship workshop series Academic Publishing for Authors is designed to help researchers navigate academic publishing including: Open Access Publishing Author Contracts Article Processing Charges (APCs) Predatory Journals and Conferences Please note: this workshop will take place online via Zoom. A reminder email with the meeting link will be emailed

In this session we will use Qualtrics, our online survey software, to explore the fundamentals of survey creation. We will explore: How to create a Qualtrics account How to find and use Qualtrics tutorials and training How to create a basic Qualtrics survey Methodology tips for good survey design and common errors to avoid Using

R is an open source software that has gained a lot of popularity in the community due to its power and capability to make research more reproducible. Many disciplines are now switching to using R over other paid software; however, many might be intimidated by the programming skills required to use R. Well, fear no

This workshop will explore the more advanced question types and features of Qualtrics including: Various question types and methods like logic, piped text, loop & merge, timed questions, scoring, embedded data and randomization How to use Survey Flow to meet complicated research designs How to create and edit messaging in your survey It is expected

The Thriving in Action Program Join us for Thriving in Action, a new online program at the University of Guelph. Thriving in Action will help you move from languishing to flourishing throughout your time in university. Build motivation, optimism and resilience, and learn how to integrate those skills into your work as a student. In

Raw datasets are often quite messy. Before you can begin data analysis, cleaning and preparing data are hence vital skills. This workshop will teach the fundamentals of using the tidyverse package, which include but aren't limited to: manipulating columns and rows, filtering and merging datasets, converting to different variable types and creating scales. Note: Completion

In this workshop you will learn how to conduct basic inferential statics that are commonly seen in the literature using R Studio. In this workshop you can expect to learn how to conduct the following statistical tests Independent sample t-test Paired Sample t-test One-way ANOVA Repeated Measures ANOVA Note: Prior knowledge of R studio is

Curious about how to 3-D print? Join us for the first session of a two-part series to learn tips and tricks for using a 3-D printer to help bring your ideas to life! Our workshop facilitator is a graduate student in Engineering at the University of Guelph and has extensive experience with 3-D printing, app

In this workshop you will learn how to create visualizations (graphs and plots) using the ggplot2 package. The ggplot2 package is an excellent tool for creating customizable graphics. The package uses “grammar graphics” to add layers of tailored components to your graphs, allowing you to create highly customized plots. Note: Prior knowledge of R studio

ArcGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) - a software program for working with maps and geographic data. ArcGIS Pro is the newest desktop mapping software of ArcGIS. A GIS allows you to work with any data that you know a location for (eg. addresses, latitude/longitude, census locations, name of a place, etc.). ArcMap is

Learn strategies that decrease symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), or a nervous/stressed stomach, by tackling the two greatest triggers of IBS symptoms.... diet and stress. This five-part skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic and Lindzie O'Reilly, dietitian, meets online for an hour on Fridays at 12:30 p.m.,

Join us for Thriving in Action, a new online program at the University of Guelph. Thriving in Action will help you move from languishing to flourishing throughout your time in university. Build motivation, optimism and resilience, and learn how to integrate those skills into your work as a student. In each workshop, you will learn

Learn to curb the worry habit... and how to avoid the five key pitfalls that perpetuate worrying. This two-hour skills workshop meets online with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic and includes brain training exercises and a variety of other techniques to decrease worrying. Your link will be e-mailed to you

Learn powerful strategies, new tips, and information on how to respond and calm down the uncomfortable sensations of anxiety. A variety of long and short self-calming strategies are introduced, along with behaviours that can help prevent escalation of anxiety. This three-session skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic meets

Canva is a web-based graphic design tool to create posters, infographics, social media posts and more. Use templates or create from scratch. Join staff from the library's media studio to learn about this tool and practice creating a poster. By the end of the workshop, participants will: Discuss strengths and limitations of Canva Identify strategies

ArcGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) - a software program for working with maps and geographic data. A GIS allows you to work with any data that you know a location for (e.g., addresses, latitude/longitude, census locations, name of a place, etc.). ArcGIS is available on all library computers, also by download to the

WeVideo is a web-based video editing and creation tool. Join staff from the library's media studio to learn about this tool and practice editing and creating video. By the end of the workshop, participants will: know what WeVideo is and what it can do discuss the process for creating a video list tools for recording

Look and feel like a pro with SAS! SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used in many disciplines. In just two hours you will be ready to impress friends and family with this easy-to-use software. You will learn how to: Maneuver in the SAS interface Import data Clean data Generate descriptive statistics