Workshops
Sign up information and descriptions for each workshop are shown below.
| Date | Time | Location & Name of Workshop |
|---|---|---|
| February 22, 2022 | 2:00pm | Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom) |
| February 23, 2022 | 2:00pm | Making Your Document Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirements (Zoom) |
| March 1, 2022 | 11:30am | Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom) |
| March 2, 2022 | 11:00am | Preserving Your Intellectual Property Rights (Patents & Copyrights) (Zoom) |
| March 3, 2022 | 11:30am | Making Your Document Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirements (Zoom) |
| March 17, 2022 | 9:30am | Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (In Person at Tech Bldg 247D) |
| March 18, 2022 | 9:30am | Making Your Document Accessible & Acrobat Pro Requirements (In Person at Tech Bldg 247D) |
| March 21, 2022 | 3:30pm | Formatting Your ETD & OhioLINK (Zoom) |
| March 22, 2022 | 3:30pm | Making Your Document 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.