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Two-Step Login expands to MAUI, ICON, and MyUI

The University of Iowa has expanded Two-Step Login to web-based applications, including MAUI, ICON, and MyUI, and campus cyber-security experts advise all UI faculty, staff, and students to enable the feature for these applications. Two-Step Login...

Printing price change supports sustainability

ITS and UISG developed a new funding model for printing, which discontinues the free print credit and lowers per-page prices. The change takes effect in fall 2017 for all Information Technology Center printers and partner printing facilities.

Corey and Weissenberger win Diversity Catalyst Award for web accessibility progress

Kirk Corey and Todd Weissenberger have won a 2016-17 Diversity Catalyst Award in recognition of their contributions to improving website accessibility at the University of Iowa.

Large-Scale Storage helps 'save Brinton'

Friday, June 30, 2017 - 4:39pm
Saving Brinton, a new Iowa-made documentary about a cache of century-old films preserved with help from the UI Libraries, just saw its world premiere in Washington, D.C. Washington, Iowa, resident Mike Zahs—who discovered the films once shown around...
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Two-Step Login expands to MAUI, ICON, and MyUI

Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 10:33am
The University of Iowa has expanded Two-Step Login to web-based applications, including MAUI, ICON, and MyUI, and campus cyber-security experts advise all UI faculty, staff, and students to enable the feature for these applications. Two-Step Login...
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D2L Shutdown Plan

Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 11:22am
As part of the University of Iowa's adoption of Canvas as the new LMS that powers ICON, the previous version of ICON (Desire2Learn, aka D2L) will be phased out over the rest of this year. On July 1st 2017 , the previous version of ICON (D2L) will...
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Printing price change supports sustainability

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 11:15am
ITS and UISG developed a new funding model for printing, which discontinues the free print credit and lowers per-page prices. The change takes effect in fall 2017 for all Information Technology Center printers and partner printing facilities.
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ICON & Office 365 integration

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 9:52am
The ICON and Office 365 integration allows instructors and students to use, create, share and collaborate on files stored in Office 365 within their ICON course sites. Office 365 is now available in several areas in ICON, including Assignments,...
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Being a Good Wi-Fi Citizen @ UIowa

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 12:24pm
Being a Good Wi-Fi Citizen What Does it Mean to be a good Wi-Fi Citizen? It may not be obvious at first, but what you do when you’re in your office, classroom, or walking around campus CAN affect Wi-Fi performance for those around you. Setting up...
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Important Turnitin Announcement

Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 4:28pm
Turnitin has released a major product upgrade that will be available in ICON (Canvas) on May 30th 2017. The new version, called Turnitin Feedback Studio, offers all the functionalities of Turnitin, but with a simplified, more intuitive, and more...
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IT Leadership Award nominations due April 2

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 12:00am
The IT Leadership Award is part of a continuing effort to develop, encourage, and support IT Leadership at the UI. Nominations are due by Sunday, April 2.
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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

Join the Canvas Commons Community

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 12:00am
Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share content in the following Canvas tools: course presentation modules, quizzes, assignments, discussions, pages or documents.
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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

New Tools to Enhance Student Writing

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 12:00am
Coming Summer 2017, a reimagined suite called Turnitin Feedback Studio will be incorporated campus-wide through ICON (Canvas).
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OneIT

Argon HPC deployment update

Monday, February 6, 2017 - 12:00am
Deployment of the new high-performance computing system, Argon, is taking longer than expected due to issues with equipment delivered by the vendor. Argon is expected to be generally available by March 14.

Canvas Commons is here

Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 2:14pm
The University of Iowa Canvas Commons space will be available in ICON for all users with a Teacher or TA account starting Feb. 3, 2017. Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources.

Protect yourself from tax-season scams

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 1:51pm
Be vigilant of unexpected or suspicious emails, text, or phone calls requesting personal or financial information this time of year, when cyber criminals develop income tax scams.
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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

4CAST 2017: Our Lives Online Recap

Friday, January 27, 2017 - 12:00am
The Campus Academic Strategies and Technology (4CAST) drew UI instructors and support staff to make professional connections, examine how learning technologies can be leveraged to engage students, and identify educational potential in new technology.

IT security notification: HawkID password change encouraged

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 10:56am
The University of Iowa recently notified approximately 250 university faculty, staff, and students that their HawkID and password had been obtained by unauthorized individuals using physical devices that had been secretly attached to university...
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A new HPC system

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 12:00am
The Helium high-performance computing system was shut down Dec. 1, and installation of the replacement Argon HPC system is underway. Argon is scheduled to be full-service by March 2017.

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