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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool
Anthology Ally is a powerful tool in your ICON courses. It provides instructors guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials. Join us to learn how this tool works, how you can make your course sites more accessible, and how it can increase students' ability to engage with your course materials.
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Microsoft Teams: Webinars
This session provides a step-by-step guide to planning, configuring, and running webinars in Microsoft Teams. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course.
PDF Fixes for Accessibility
This training session will teach you about the pitfalls of PDF files and how to replace or remediate them to help make your materials meet digital accessibility standards. We will learn about the tools we have on campus to help with this process and provide a demo on how to fix PDFs and make your documents better.
The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON...
Destination PDF: Basic PDF Remediation
In Destination PDF: Basic Remediation, we use Acrobat Accessibility Checker to identify and interpret accessibility issues in existing PDF documents. Based on the results of the Accessibility Checker, we will use tools and features in Acrobat to remediate a document for improved accessibility. The goal here is to clear issues from the Acrobat Accessibility Checker and measurably improve the accessibility of our most important PDF documents.
Get ready for 90 minutes of practical, hands-on PDF...
Microsoft Loop: Get Started with Loop
Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will introduce you to Loop workspaces, which can be used as a notetaking tool or to manage projects. Additionally, we will discuss how you can integrate a Loop workspace into a team in Microsoft Teams. While this is a Microsoft Loop training, it is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before attending this session.
Microsoft Teams: Customize with Apps
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...
Microsoft Teams: Working with Files
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...
AI Teaching Tools at Iowa
Many of our academic technologies are becoming infused with artificial intelligence features. Attend this session for the latest news on what is available and how you can use these tools to help your students succeed. We'll also discuss the practical integration of AI within the classroom and provide advice on fostering AI literacy in your learners. Whether you're curious about new AI-powered features or seeking strategies to support your teaching and your students, this session will offer...
Microsoft Teams: An Introduction
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 work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include navigation, settings, chat, communicating in a team, 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...
Quizzes: ICON User Group
This session of the ICON User Group will start with an overview of how to use Quizzes and Respondus Lockdown Browser in ICON and then lead into faculty discussing how they use ICON, asking each other questions and giving each other tips. All instructors are welcome to attend ICON User Group sessions.
The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching...