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2019 OneIT Year in Review

The University of Iowa information technology community works closely with campus partners to advance the institution’s strategic goals. Learn more about how IT makes a difference in the OneIT Year in Review.

ITS Help Desk reports fall hot topics and back-to-school stats

Connecting to eduroam and using Two-Step Login were among the “hot topics” for the ITS Help Desk during this year’s fall rush—the week before the semester began and the first week of classes. An eduroam certificate upgrade in June generated many...

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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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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.

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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 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.

Kirk Corey and Todd Weissenberger with Diversity Catalyst Awards

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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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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

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

OneIT Strategy Team and Councils take shape

Monday, February 6, 2017 - 12:00am

Membership and charges for the six OneIT Councils and the OneIT Strategy Team are being finalized.

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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.