Social media plays a vital role in how we share information and connect with our communities—but not everyone can access content equally. This one-hour training will provide a practical overview of digital accessibility in social media, including how to improve color contrast, write meaningful alternative text, and add captions to videos. Participants will also learn best practices for font use, content formatting, and why it’s important to avoid sharing text-heavy PDFs on social platforms...

This course will show you how to utilize applications in a channel, meeting, or chat to extend the capabilities of your team. We will talk about using personal applications to help streamline and organize your work within Microsoft Teams. The apps covered in this course include OneNote, Forms, Planner, and Viva Learning. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team, or...

Join us this spring for a celebration of the easy-to-use platform of Pressbooks. It is a software that allows you to create Open Educational Resources (OER), including eBooks, handbooks, student work collections, portfolios, anthologies, and more. This event will showcase a range of projects from University of Iowa faculty and staff. This will be followed with an interactive panel session for questions and discussion. Panelists include:Micah Bateman, assistant professor, School of Library and...

The Research Development Office is hosting an in-person Broader Impacts Fair on Wednesday, April 23 from noon to 2 p.m. in UCC. The goal of the fair is to provide a unique opportunity to connect researchers with campus resources and foster partnerships that are essential for developing and delivering impactful National Science Foundation (NSF) Broader Impacts activities. During the fair, six participating units will showcase their BI expertise through lightning talks. Following the lightning...

Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of the Khan Academy, will present a public talk on Reimagining Education and the Tools We Use.The Khan Academy is a nonprofit educational organization that offers free lessons in math, science, and humanities, as well as tools for parents, teachers, and districts to track student progress. Khan Academy is pivoting an AI guide called Khanmigo that is a tutor and teaching assistant. Worldwide, Khan Academy has more than 160 million registered users in 190 countries...

Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will focus on Loop components, which are portable components that move freely and stay in sync across Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 tools.

Elements of Success is a platform developed at the University of Iowa for students to better understand their course performance. This session gives an overview of the platform, how it can be incorporated into courses, and how to set it up. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional...

Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them.   Through hands-on practice and interactive...

Join us to learn about creating quizzes, tests, and other assessments in ICON that are automatically graded, and how to add the Respondus Lockdown Browser to those assessments that require a higher level of security.  Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more...

This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department...