Workshops

Sign up information and descriptions for each workshop are shown below.

Date Time Location &will Name of Workshop
2/14/24
12:00 pm   Patents and Copyright ( CANCELED will be rescheduled)
2/20/24 10:00 am   Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom)
2/21/24 3:00 pm  Q&A Copyright and Creative Commons Artificats
2/22/24 10:00 am  Making Your ETD Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirements (Zoom)
3/14/24 1:00 pm   Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom)
3/15/24    1:00 pm   Making Your ETD Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirements (Zoom)
3/25/24 12:00 pm  Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom)
3/27/24 12:00 pm  Making Your ETD Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirements (Zoom)
     
     

To sign up for a workshop, please e-mail etd@bgsu.edu or call 419-372-9888.  You will receive a confirmation e-mail and a meeting invite with a link to the workshop.  If the workshop has handouts, those will be attached to the meeting invite.   

ETD Formatting workshop includes

  • Review of where to find items on the Graduate College Theses and Dissertations website
  • Review of the handbook
  • How to use the required templates
  • Submission to OhioLINK
    • Delays in Publication (Embargo)
    • ProQuest

Accessibility & Acrobat Pro workshop includes

  • Using the required template and how headings are already set to be accessible
  • Making figures and tables accessible in Microsoft Word
  • Making titles, figures, tables, etc. accessible in Acrobat Professional
    • Alt text
    • Table summaries
    • Setting the header row
  • Information on how to create alternate text for figures (do not use the same text you use in the figure's title)
  •  Converting your document to PDF from Word
    • Combining documents
    • Creating bookmarks
    •  Filling in the Document Properties
      • This sets the title and the language for accessibility purposes
    • Embedding fonts

If you are using LaTeX, you will need to use Acrobat Professional to make your document accessible.  This is not a part of the template you currently use.

Updated: 02/14/2024 09:53AM