Workshops
Sign up information and descriptions for each workshop are shown below.
Date | Time | Location & Name of Workshop |
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5/31/22 |
2:00pm | Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom) |
6/01/22 |
2:00pm | Making Your ETD Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirements (Zoom) |
6/15/22 | 12:00pm | Preserving Your Intellectual Property Rights |
(Patents & Copyrights) (Zoom) | ||
6/13/22 | 9:30am | Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Tech Bldg 247C) |
6/15/22 |
9:30am | Making Your ETD Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirement |
(Tech Bldg 247C) | ||
6/27/22 |
3:30pm | Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom) |
6/30/22 |
3:30pm | 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
- Checking the color contrast
- Checking the reading order
- 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
- Combining documents
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: 05/12/2022 02:00PM