Brock University staff, faculty and librarians interested in professional development seminars, health and wellness lunch and learns, finance workshops and more, will find them in a new section of ExperienceBU.<\/p>\n
For the past several years, many of Brock\u2019s departments have listed events for employees on the Focus on Learning website<\/a>. Beginning this month, events will be posted to ExperienceBU<\/a>, the University\u2019s main event management platform and involvement portal.<\/p>\n \u201cExperienceBU offers event organizers more flexibility and the independence to post and manage their own events, including tracking RSVPs,\u201d said Christine Richard, Co-Curricular Engagement Co-ordinator with Student Life and Success, who manages the ExperienceBU platform. \u201cIt allows for greater communication and connection between the host department and participant.\u201d<\/p>\n While each University department will have its own organization page in ExperienceBU to manage its events, a new Faculty and Staff Events organization page<\/a> will list all events available to Brock employees.<\/p>\n Employees are invited to join the page to receive occasional emails from the organization about upcoming events and to bookmark the page to check back regularly for new events.<\/p>\n \u201cMoving to ExperienceBU consolidates Brock\u2019s many learning opportunities offered across the institution and showcases everything employees have access to in one comprehensive listing,\u201d said Cathy Whitehead, Learning and Organizational Development Specialist with Human Resources.<\/p>\n To help create a master list of employee events on ExperienceBU, Brock departments are asked to add the Faculty and Staff Events organization as a co-host to events open to employees.<\/p>\n Event organizers can further target their events by selecting several categories. \u2018Health and wellness,\u2019 \u2018social\u2019 or \u2018workshops and skill development,\u2019 for example, are categories that help describe the type or theme of the event. Newer categories \u2018faculty\/staff welcome\u2019 and \u2018faculty\/staff only\u2019 distinguish the intended audience or participant group. \u2018Faculty\/staff welcome<\/a>\u2019 includes events open to the entire Brock community, while \u2018faculty\/staff only<\/a>\u2019 includes events only available for employees to attend.<\/p>\n Many employee-focused events will be listed privately on ExperienceBU, which means staff, faculty and librarians will need to sign in to ExperienceBU<\/a> using their campus username and password to access events.<\/p>\n To learn how to log in to ExperienceBU, change notification settings and post or search for events, visit the frequently asked questions section on the ExperienceBU information page<\/a>.<\/p>\n