Getting Started with Gradescope Bubble Sheets
This training provides a step-by-step walkthrough of the Gradescope Bubble Sheets workflow, from creating answer keys to uploading and grading completed exams. Participants will learn how to scan and submit bubble sheets for automated grading, evaluate results, and resolve grading exceptions. This training supports UTSA’s transition from ParScore/Scantron to Gradescope Bubble Sheets, beginning Summer 2025.
Performance Management 2025: Manager Evaluation Training - Process Overview
Performance Management 2025 – System Overview for People Leaders
This course is designed for all UTSA managers and supervisors responsible for evaluating employee performance. The training includes a review of rating descriptors, guidance on aligning performance with UTSA’s core competencies, and instruction on providing meaningful comments and documentation. It equips UTSA People Leaders with essential skills to rate employee performance and support effective performance conversations across their teams.
Performance Management 2025: Self-Evaluation Process Overview Training
Performance Management 2025 – System Overview for Individual Contributors
This course is designed for all staff members who have been assigned a Performance Evaluation and will focus on completing the Self-Evaluation portion. Participants will review rating descriptors, learn how to align their performance with those descriptors, and explore best practices for adding comments and attachments. The session also equips employees to effectively evaluate their performance by aligning their goals with UTSA’s core competencies.
AllOne Health: Mental Health Awareness: Shedding the Stigma
Mental health issues can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, geography, income, social status, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, background or other aspect of cultural identity. This session will outline the differences between mental health well-being and mental health issues. It explains on how to nurture mental health wellness and indicators when support may be needed.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie.Zamarripa2@utsa.edu
Creating Alt Text for Complex Images
Take your alternative text skills to the next level! In this exciting session, you’ll learn how to craft detailed, accurate alt text for complex images and explore how AI tools can streamline the process. By the end, you’ll be ready to evaluate and refine AI-generated alt text, ensuring your visual content is accessible and impactful. Note: This is a hands-on training, so bring your complex image files to apply the skills you’ll learn!
Creating an effective learning environment for all is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training.
Course Objectives: Learners will be able to identify and incorporate a workflow for common complex images.
Learners will be able to write detailed and accurate alt text for complex images. Learners will be able to leverage and evaluate AI tools to aid in the creation of alt text for complex images.
Target Audience: Faculty; TAs
Enrollment Type: Open (Anyone can enroll)
Contact Person: Mychelle Hadley
Contact Person Email: mychelle.hadley@utsa.edu
Fostering Resilience: Making It Your Own
Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from life's difficult situations. Resiliency can be learned and practiced by individuals. This training will discuss the importance of personal resilience and provide methods for developing resilience.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: stephanie.zamarripa2@utsa.edu
Bird Bytes: Small Bites. Big Impact Microlearnings for Leaders - Summer 2025
During these 15-minute monthly micro-learning sessions for leaders, you will learn tools and strategies that can be quickly implemented to create a positive working environment.
Please use the session list to enroll in the corresponding course of your choosing. You may also enroll in each offering!
06-09-2025 - Developing Resilience in Teams – Leaders will learn practical strategies to strengthen team resilience during times of change or challenge.
07-14-2025 - Motivating Through Purpose – Leaders will learn how to connect individual and team roles to a larger sense of purpose.
08-11-2025 - Managing Change with Confidence – Leaders will learn how to navigate and support teams through change using the three C’s - clarity, consistency and care. (Micro version of June 2025 Leadership Huddle).
From Concept to Completion: A full Workflow in Adobe Creative Suite
Discover how to take a project from initial idea to final delivery using Adobe Creative Suite. This session will walk you through a seamless workflow, integrating Adobe Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create, refine, and publish professional-quality content efficiently
Course Objectives: Discover how to take a project from initial idea to final delivery using Adobe Creative Suite. This session will walk you through a seamless workflow, integrating Adobe Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create, refine, and publish professional-quality content efficiently
Target Audience: Hub & Spoke staff
Contact Person: Jill Ford
Contact Person Email: jill.ford@utsa.edu
Timesheet improvements 2025 drop-in virtual Q&A
Course Description: Q&A for timesheet improvement for the A&P, Classified Exempt and Classified Non-Exempt Employees.
Course Objectives: To have a proper understanding on the changes or improvements made to the timesheet submission, focusing on submitting time when absence event occurred, or comp time is used.
Target Audience:
A&P (Administrative Professional)
Classified Exempt
Classified Non-Exempt
Enrollment Type: Open (Anyone can enroll)
Contact Person: Nnennaya Ikwuagwu
Contact Person Email: nnennaya.ikwuagwu@utsa.edu
HCAP Pedagogical Engagement Academy - Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence
Join us for an engaging panel discussion on the "Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence"! We will explore innovative ways to integrate AI tools into the classroom, enhancing teaching and learning experiences. Our panelists from HCAP will discuss ethical considerations and share best practices to ensure the responsible and effective use of AI in learning. We look forward to an insightful and inspiring conversation with you!
Creating an effective learning environment for all is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training.
Course Objectives: Identify various AI tools and applications that can be integrated into classroom settings to enhance teaching and learning experiences.
Develop strategies for effectively implementing AI tools in their teaching practices, ensuring they align with educational goals and improve student engagement and outcomes. Discuss the ethical considerations and best practices associated with using AI in education.
Coping with Change
Change is a fact of life. Every day brings about change - whether positive or negative - and even the positive changes can be stressful. The inability to cope with change can be detrimental to mental and physical health. In this session, discover tools and techniques to successfully manage change and thrive.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie Zamarripa
Motivate and Lead
Effective leaders and managers engage the workforce to increase commitment. In a business environment, employee engagement improves productivity and performance. People are not only motivated by personal gain, they can be motivated by feeling like they are contributing directly to organizational goals. Learn how good leaders motivate staff using a variety of skills.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie Zamarripa
Elevating Your Leadership Communication
Course Description:
Elevating Your Leadership Communication equips UTSA leaders with essential strategies to enhance communication, build meaningful connections, and drive team success. This interactive course emphasizes the power of effective communication in leadership, helping participants develop active listening skills, overcome barriers, and adapt their communication styles for greater impact.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify and overcome common communication barriers.
- Utilize active listening techniques to build trust and engagement.
- Adapt their communication style to different situations and team dynamics.
- Apply practical strategies for delivering clear, impactful messages.
By the end of this session, leaders will be equipped with the tools to strengthen relationships, enhance collaboration, and achieve their goals with greater clarity and confidence.
Audience: This course is designed for supervisors, managers, and leaders at UTSA who want to elevate their communication skills and leadership impact.
Four Steps to Creating Dynamic Presentations
This course will guide Business Affairs employees through the four essential steps to creating impactful presentations. You’ll learn how to organize your content effectively, create a well-structured presentation using university-approved resources and refine your work to ensure it’s clear and engaging.
Course Objectives:
- Organize your content and create a clear outline to build a strong foundation for your presentation.
- Use your outline to create a professional and engaging presentation with university-approved templates, logos and photos.
- Review your content to ensure clarity, consistency and alignment with university standards.
- Edit and refine your presentation to enhance its impact and effectiveness.
Audience: Business Affairs employees
Graphic Design Basics & Adobe Express Training
This course is designed for Business Affairs employees looking to enhance their graphic design skills. You’ll learn practical tips for creating eye-catching flyers and graphics using Adobe Express, expert advice on capturing great event photos and guidance on setting up video projects for your department.
Course Objectives:
- Develop the skills to create visually appealing flyers and graphics using Adobe Express.
- Learn how to capture high-quality event photos that enhance departmental communications.
- Gain the knowledge to effectively set up and manage video projects.
- Build confidence in using Adobe Express tools to produce professional-level designs.
Audience: Business Affairs employees
How to Lead a Team that Provides Great Customer Service
This dynamic presentation will help leaders to prepare their employees to consistently provide great service to both internal and external customers. Covered topics include how to make providing great customer service a team mission, ways to teach customer
service skills to your staff, and strategies for coaching employees that fall short of your customer service expectations.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie Zamarripa
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Employees
Successful employees share many common traits such as integrity, a positive attitude, good interpersonal skills, and a strong work ethic. This dynamic presentation provides an overview of these and other characteristics important to career success and outlines several strategies for integrating these traits into our own lives.
Contact Person: Stephanie Zamarripa
Contact Email: Stephanie.Zamarripa2@utsa.edu
AllOne Health: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Supervisors
Description: Successful supervisors share many common traits such as a positive attitude, good interpersonal skills, and a strong work ethic. This dynamic presentation provides an overview of these and other characteristics important to employee engagement and retention, as well as, outlines several strategies for integrating these traits into your management style.
AllOne Health: Creating an Environment that Encourages Employee Growth & Development
Description: Employee engagement increases in an environment where individuals are encouraged to grow and develop professionals. This presentation discusses strategies for creating and implementing a career development plan for each staff member.
AllOne Health: Stress & Its Impact on Your Health
Description: This seminar takes a practical look at the effect stress has on individuals mentally and physically, along with helpful strategies for listening to internal alarm systems and proactively implementing stress management techniques that can improve health, productivity, and life satisfaction.