Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on ensuring your video and audio materials are usable by all your students. We'll talk about creating captions for videos and offering transcriptions for audio. By making these changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to...

This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a workgroup, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include creating a team, chat, audio/video calls, meetings, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your...

Join this spook-tacular session to learn how to creep it real in your ICON course with creatures and features lurking in the shadows of ICON. Register for the event. 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 about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa...

Join the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology at ICON Day 2024.  ICON Day will promote excellence in teaching and learning through effective adoption and use of instructional technology at the University of Iowa. Attendees will hear from thought leaders, explore strategies to integrate technology, learn about campus resources, and interact with peers. During this event, we'll also recognize our 2024 ICON All Stars. Our keynote speaker is Kate McDowell, an associate professor at the...

Learn about Gradescope, an ideal tool for assessing and providing feedback for student assignments, including written formulas, graphs, calculations, and other kinds of work that cannot be easily graded through SpeedGrader. Gradescope is especially suited for large classes with complex assessment teams.  Register for the event. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON...

AI Monthly Meetup and Brainstorming Session Join us for an engaging opportunity to collaborate with Copilot and other leading AI tools. These sessions will be filled with hands-on demonstrations for interacting with AI platforms, as well as facilitated activities to help you experiment and innovate. Bring your willingness to try new things and think outside the box with AI. Gift yourself the time to learn a new technology. Tinkering is encouraged here! Register to attend. The Office of...

The Data-Informed Community of Practice is open to any faculty who are interested in collaborating with other instructors and supporting one another in using data to improve student success at the course and/or program level. Members of the community meet three times per semester to explore student data available to UI faculty with two goals: 1) identify potential barriers to student learning and 2) generate solutions to implement at the course or program level. Everyone will have their own...

Feedback provides an opportunity for growth in learning. Join this session to learn how Peerceptiv gives students a structured rubric to anonymously evaluate the quality of individual assignments or a person's collaboration in group work. 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...

Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on ensuring the documents and files in your site are usable by all your students. We'll talk about why and how to make sure your PDFs are navigable and can be read by screen reading programs, as well as other document types as necessary. By making these changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone. Register to attend. The Office of...

Join us to discover options on how to facilitate engaging video assignments using university supported technologies that are integrated with your ICON course sites.  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 about the services we offer, please visit our...