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Everything you need to know to fight phishing
Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 10:22am
A handful of tips can help you avoid the bait.
New tools help students plan courses to graduate on time
A new tool, MyPlan, lets students map out their courses for several years, helping them plan the courses they need to graduate on time and helping UI colleges anticipate course needs.
UI launches ICON Direct to save students money on textbooks
Online platform gives students the option of buying digital textbooks and course materials at a much lower cost than their printed equivalents
2017 OneIT Year in Review
Report highlights progress of TIER projects and in operating as a unified IT organization. Learn more: https://oneit.uiowa.edu/year-review-2017
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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology
Student Self Regulated Learning
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 12:00am
Elements of Success (EoS) is an innovative, analytics dashboard tool in ICON that promotes students' self-regulated learning. On Tuesday, November 7, the OTLT Research and Assessment team will present to instructors how to leverage EoS.
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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology
Professor Counts on ITTA to Support Innovative Teaching Project
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 12:00am
Each year, the Academic Technology Advisory Council (ATAC) hosts the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA), a program designed to enhance teaching and learning at the University of Iowa.
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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology
Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 - 12:00am
The Academic Technologies Advisory Council is seeking proposals from instructors for the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA). This program aims to enhance teaching and learning at the University of Iowa.
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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology
Learning Design Collaboratory: Teaming Up for Transformation
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 - 12:00am
Where can UI faculty members team up with instructional designers, technology support staff, and educational researchers with experience in research-based teaching practices? Answer: In the University of Iowa’s new Learning Design Collaboratory.
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Unified Messaging Change of Service
Friday, September 1, 2017 - 10:29am
Beginning July 1, 2018, Microsoft will no longer support Unified Messaging for traditional telephones. Affected users will be contacted by the ITS Unified Communications staff over the next few months to begin their migration process.
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OneIT
Jesse receives 2017 IT Leadership Award
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 12:00am
Maggie Jesse, Senior Director of the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology in Information Technology Services, received the 2017 IT Leadership Award in recognition of her exemplary contributions to the UI IT community.
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IT Security Office warns of work-from-home schemes
Friday, August 18, 2017 - 11:52am
The scams often target students, appearing in web searches and in ads on legitimate sites.
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...
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 replaced by the ICON Archive system, When the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology made the...
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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 fall 2017 for all Information Technology Center printers and partner printing facilities.
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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Corey and Weissenberger win Diversity Catalyst Award for web accessibility progress
Monday, March 27, 2017 - 12:40pm
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.
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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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OneIT
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.
Outage impacted ICON and other IT services – information and next steps
Friday, March 3, 2017 - 8:34am
UI was one of many institutions impacted by a cloud-based IT service outage on Feb. 28. We apologize for the inconvenience and assure you that we are doing everything we can to ensure that our key technology services are robust and reliable.
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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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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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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.
Events
Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Introduction to High Performance Computing (Using Argon)
University Capitol Centre
Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 9:30am to 12:30pm
Machine Learning with Python
University Capitol Centre
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Introduction to High Performance Computing (Using Argon)
University Capitol Centre