Workshop Descriptions

Unlock Your EQ: Master Stress, Ace Communication, and Build Real Connections

College throws a lot at you—group project drama, tight deadlines, exam stress, and balancing a social life. Technical skills might get you through the door, but Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is what helps you thrive, lead, and stand out to future employers. Join us for an interactive masterclass where you'll gain simple, practical hacks to manage stress, read the room, and handle tough conversations without the angst. What You’ll Learn: Spot Your Triggers: Recognize physical stress cues before burnout or frustration takes over. Hit the Pause Button: Master a 6-second technique to stay calm and in control during high-pressure moments. Communicate Like a Pro: Learn how to listen actively and handle group project conflict without awkwardness. Build Lasting Habits: Walk away with a personal 14-day action plan tailored to your everyday life and goals. Level up your personal and academic life—reserve your spot today!

Level Up Your Learning: Discover Your Unique Study Style!

Tired of endless cramming that doesn't stick? Technical knowledge gets you in the door, but knowing how your brain processes information is what helps you ace your classes and lead with confidence. Join us for an interactive, hands-on masterclass where you'll discover your personal learning preferences—Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, or Kinesthetic—and learn how to turn them into high-yield study habits. What You’ll Gain: Uncover Your VARK Profile: Identify your natural learning preferences and strengths. Master Dual Coding: Combine modalities to double your retention before exams. Build Active Habits: Ditch passive re-reading for high-yield techniques matched to your style. Walk Away Prepared: Create a custom 14-day study plan tailored to your current courses.

Mindset Reset: 10 Ways to Improve Your Mental Attitude. Stressed about exams or feeling overwhelmed by college life? Join the CLASS team for a hands-on workshop designed to help you shift from burnout to resilience. You’ll leave with 10 practical, everyday strategies to rewire negative thoughts, build healthier habits, and tackle academic challenges with confidence.

Using Turnitin Draft Coach

Have you ever been writing a paper in the middle of the night? Wondering if your citations are good or if you have a run-on sentence? Do not worry, Turnitin Draft Coach is here! Turnitin Draft Coach is a Google Docs extension available 24/7 for Laredo College students that can run similarity, citation, and grammar checks. Swing by and learn how to use this awesome multitool. 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus

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Intro to Kdenlive Video Editor

Have you ever been writing a paper in the middle of the night? Need a free video editor? Kdenlive is a free open source video editor that is compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. Come on by and learn the basics on how to use it.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus

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5 Tips to Master Your Online Class

In today's world, the ways you can take classes have expanded significantly. You now have the option to learn face-to-face, in a hybrid format, or entirely online. Each method offers unique experiences, especially when it comes to online learning. This workshop is designed to equip you with essential tips and strategies to excel in your online classes and continue your journey to success. Join us and discover how to make the most of your online learning experience! 

Location: South Campus

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PowerPoint Workshop: Basic Presentation

PowerPoint helps you deliver a dynamic, professional looking message to an audience. It allows you to produce slides to use in an academic, business, or other environment.  The PowerPoint slides should reinforce the speaker’s message and help the audience retain the information presented. You will be working with the creations of slides that can fit your specific needs starting with document themes for your slides that will provide consistency in design and color throughout the entire presentation by setting the color scheme, font set, and layout of the presentation. The workshop will also show you how to add images from online and the PC, illustrations such as smart art and 3D models, WordArt and text.

Location: South Campus 

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Advanced PowerPoint Workshop: Enhanced Presentation

Advance PowerPoint Workshop will help you pick up from your basic presentation and enhance it for your audience. Knowing your basics when it comes to PowerPoint is great, but enhancing the structure of your presentation and using the tools that this program has can help you create a more dynamic presentation. You will learn to add charts, video, audio, and tables to slides to depict your information to your audience better. Learn to include transitions to slides for an added dramatic effect and animations to objects in the slides for a playful or attention-grabbing effect. Lastly, you will acquire skills on how to use tools that PowerPoint has while presenting and time rehearsal.

Location: South Campus 

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Canvas Guide: For New & Returning Students

Our team will guide you through the key features of Canvas to help you thrive in your classes. This workshop breaks down the learning management system, making it easy to navigate your courses, access modules, and use essential tools for success.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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PASPort Guide: For New & Returning Students

This workshop is designed to help students become familiar with navigating their student portal. Students will learn how to access important information such as academic records, class schedules, and other essential resources available in the provided dashboards. Know the difference from PASPort and Canvas as well as receive guidance on claiming your student account if you have not activated your account. 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Course Expectations

The Course Expectations workshop helps incoming students learn how to stay organized and prepare for class. It explains what to expect in asynchronous, synchronous, and hybrid/blended courses. It will also help with other class basics that support your academic success. 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Cybersecurity for Students

This workshop teaches students how to protect themselves online by recognizing common cyber threats such as phishing scams, malware, identity theft, and unsafe Wi-Fi networks. Students will also learn important cybersecurity tips, including creating strong passwords, using two-factor authentication, securing devices, and practicing safe browsing habits.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Computer Basics To Save You Time

This workshop presentation introduces practical computer skills that help students save time, stay organized, and work more efficiently. Topics include file organization, keyboard shortcuts, cloud storage, and basic troubleshooting techniques designed to improve productivity and reduce common computer-related frustrations.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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ClearTouch Interactive Panel Overview

Get ready for an exciting journey as we invite you to join us and unleash your true potential with the Clear Touch Panel! This is an amazing opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge like never before. You will master the basics and learn about the most sophisticated integrated software. Join us now!!

Location: South Campus 

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CLASS: Computer Lab Services

Step into our workshop at the CLASS Computer Lab, and join us as we explore the variety of resources we offer! Equipment will be displayed for students to become familiar with its purpose and requirements needed to check out the resource.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus  

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How to Manage a Group Project

Join us in exploring effective strategies for managing challenges when doing a group project. Discover unique techniques that will not only enrich your problem-solving abilities, but also contribute to your overall skills.

Location: South Campus 

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Microsoft ClipChamp

ClipChamp is a video editing platform that can be accessed directly through your web browser or the ClipChamp application. In this workshop, we will be exploring a variety of features such as transitions, effects, the media library, and even an AI-powered video generator!

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Microsoft Excel: How to Create Tables

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that allows users to create financial worksheets, graphs, and much more! We will be discussing how to create tables and graphs with text and numbers.   

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Microsoft PowerPoint: How to Create a Presentation

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation application that users can use to create slideshows from scratch or a themed template. We will be discussing some features that users can add to their presentations. Some features include inserting an image to adding a video onto on slide.  

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Microsoft Word: Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Word is a word processing application that users can use to type research papers, create a resume, and much more! We will be discussing a few tips and tricks that users can apply while using Microsoft Word. Learn how to save your word document as a PDF format and learning some pointers on keyboard shortcuts.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is a digital note-taking application that offers users the ability to create text, handwritten, or multimedia notes and organize them into notebooks, sections, and pages.  In this workshop, we will guide you through the process of creating sections and pages, exploring the application’s various features, and demonstrating how to use color-coding to keep your notes organized.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Study Skills: Tips & Techniques

This workshop is the perfect starting point to learn effective study techniques. It provides study methods that can be applied in your classes. You’ll also gain valuable testing tips to help you boost your academic success.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Study Smart Apps

Using educational apps can help support different learning styles and improve study habits. Many college students benefit from apps designed to strengthen speficic skills such as memorization, focus, time management, and organization. In this workshop, we explore a variety of online tools and applications that can help guide students toward greater academic success. 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Presentation Skills

Learn how to create and deliver presentations with confidence! This workshop will teach students how to organize ideas, design clear and engaging slides, speak confidently, answer questions effectively, and work well in group presentations. Whether you're presenting in class or preparing for your future career, you'll gain practical tips to help you become a more effective presenter!

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Using Gmail: Hidden Features and More

G-mail is among the most popular e-mail services around the world. Whether you use it for work, school or as a personal e-mail you probably use it. How well do you know G-mail and are you using it to its full potential? This popular e-mail service is full of hidden gems, features that most people don’t even know about. This workshop will reveal some of those hidden surprise that you might not know about. Like did you know that you can undo a sent email if you’re fast enough? What about when you send an email and forget to add the attachment. I’m guilty of that. Well in this workshop you will learn about attachment reminder, so no more worrying about that embarrassing forgotten attachment.

Location: South Campus 

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Utilizing Google Slides Features

Google Slides is a free web application offered by Google Services that allows users to create and format presentations. This workshop will guide students on how to begin a presentation online and explore the features available to them such as linking objects, typing with voice, and sharing your presentation with colleagues to collaborate.  

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Google NotebookLM

Ready to level up your study game? Come check out Google Notebook LM---a super helpful AI tool that makes college life way easier. Whether you’re tackling readings, juggling assignments, or trying to stay organized, Notebook LM can help you summarize content, build study guides, and keep all your ideas in one place. Join us for a fun, hands-on workshop where we’ll show you how this tool can boost your productivity, save you time, and make studying feel a whole lot smoother. The future of smart studying is here! Come try it out! 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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What is Canva?

Canva is an online graphic design platform that users can use to create visual content. Visual content includes posters, presentations, logos, and much more! We will be discussing the features Canva provides for everyone such as uploading pictures and downloading your designs.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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Canva AI

This workshop introduces students to Canva AI, a suite of built-in artificial intelligence tools designed to simplify and enhance digital content creation. Students will learn how to generate graphics, presentations, and written content using AI prompts, as well as how to customize and refine their designs with easy drag-and-drop features. The workshop also highlights how Canva AI can save time, reduce the need for advanced design skills, and help create professional-quality content efficiently.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

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New Semester Checklist

Be ready for the Fall semester! It's the new semester! Do you plan on how to navigate the first few weeks of class? Come and join us to go over a helpful checklist that will help you ease the stress.

Location: South Campus 

Come for a fun and creepy workshop on scary-looking spiders. Why is it important to learn about spiders? 

Toolbox I: Preparing to Start a New Semester

In this Toolbox I workshop, we will start you with the essentials you might need for the beginning of the semester.  We will go over two essay styles, MLA and APA, so you’re ready when that time comes to worry less about how to do the format and more about what to write. Two essential tools we will also go over are time management and test-taking. In the workshop, we will go over setting goals to effectively increase motivation and aid you in creating the changes you want. It can be used to improve a healthier relationship with your path or improve productivity for your courses. Setting goals can also be necessary for mental wellness from the stress of life. The Toolbox I workshop will also cover internet safety, the honor system, and making friends with a planner or calendar. So come over and start the journey.

Location: South Campus 

Time Management

Are you concerned about time management? Come in and join CLASS so we can explore time management habits that could work with you at this new beginning of the semester. 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus

I Can & I Will

Learn not only to set your goals but to achieve them. Come in and join CLASS and explore what your goals are and how you can achieve what you set your brain to.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus

Google Docs Format Conversion

Get ready to dive into a workshop where we'll unlock the secrets of transforming Google Docs into Windows formats! We'll break down the quirks between the formats and the magical programs that can open each one. Plus, we've got a bonus format in our back pocket to make everything crystal clear. Let's do this! 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

Zoom Etiquette Workshop

This workshop is designed to cover the fundamental principles of showing respect during Zoom meetings. It will provide a guideline of some of the best practices as a participant.  It is always beneficial to remind ourselves of these key points to stay respectful during Zoom meetings. Don't miss this refresher workshop, as it can be highly valuable in the long run.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

What is Otter?

The Otter Workshop will showcase the application’s features and diverse capabilities. This artificial intelligence platform is specifically tailored for transcription assistance. Join us to discover how this program can enhance your student experience!

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

Say No to Anxiety and Stress During Finals Week

Join us at CLASS as we offer different sessions for students to participate in this workshop.  

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus

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Do You Want to Know What is Your Personality?

Objective: To help students understand the importance of knowing their personality traits and how this self-awareness can enhance their academic performance, relationships, and overall well-being. 

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus

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Boost Your Brain Health

Are you looking to enhance your mental well-being and unlock your brain's full potential? Our Brain Health Workshop is designed to provide you with the tools and knowledge to achieve just that. These workshops cover essential aspects of brain health, including healthy eating, exercising, brain games, and meditation to improve memory, increase focus, or reduce stress. 

Location: South Campus

Genius Scan: Mobile Scanning on the Go

Genius Scan is a mobile application that users can download to scan written documents such as a receipt, signed hardcopies, and much more! We will be guiding users step by step on how to scan their first document with their device’s camera. Genius Scan allows users to rename and change their document’s format type. Users can export their documents with a limited selection of services.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

Mural

The Mural is one of the many online whiteboards that is pleasing for group projects or meetings. We will explore its numerous features, such as sticky notes and the ability to add images to your whiteboard. This Mural application offers various templates that can assist you with your project.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

iMovie: Exploring Movie Features

iMovie is a mobile application that users can use to create and edit videos. We’ll be exploring one of the three features iMovie offers. Users can learn how to add effects, voiceover, music, and much more!

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus

How to start a Podcast: Using Riverside.fm

Riverside.fm is a podcast platform that allows users to record video interviews and podcasts remotely. This browser-based software can record good-quality podcasts. The quality is not dependent on the internet connection. Riverside.fm is also available on mobile for both iOS and Android devices to record your podcast. We will be exploring some features Riverside provides, for example, the podcast soundboard. Join us as we discuss the beginning steps of starting your first podcast!  

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

Capturing Audio Using Voice Memos (iPhone)

Voice Memos is a mobile application (available on iOS and iPadOS devices) that allows users to record verbal information such as personal reminders/notes and classroom lectures. This workshop will show students how to create a recording session and other features such as trimming and sharing a recording audio clip.  

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus 

MyStudyLife: School Planner

MyStudyLife is a digital planner designed to help students manage their academic life more efficiently. Students can organize class schedules, track assignments, set reminders for deadlines, and monitor exams.

Location: Ft. McIntosh Campus