Training Events

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Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFE): Video Captions and Audio Transcriptions

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual
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...
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Gradescope Bubble Sheets

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
Discover the efficiency of assessment management with Gradescope's Bubble Sheets. Learn to effortlessly create assessments with multiple-choice answer keys for automatic grading of your students' submission. Simplify your assessment workflow with Gradescope's effectiveness and precision.  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...
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ICON Overview

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual
ICON (Iowa Courses Online) is the Learning Management System at the University of Iowa, and is primarily powered by Canvas, but there is even more to know about ICON. Join this session for an introduction to ICON's basic user interface, how to manage your account settings, and learn about the tools available in an ICON course site.  Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning...
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Learn about technology

Learn how to use powerful tools from Microsoft (Teams and OneDrive) whenever you can find time in your busy schedule. Our workshops are presented by campus technical trainer Alex Hammes. Our videos are hosted by subject experts and each one teaches you how to best use these technologies with step-by-step tutorials and supplemental quick-start pdf guides. Explore the available resources at your own pace.

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Request a training workshop for your departments

Set your team up for success and give staff the knowledge to do their best work by requesting a workshop utilizing popular software tools like Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, OneDrive, Qualtrics, and more. Our technology training experts can create a fully tailored learning program. Learn more about departmental workshops.

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Online video training

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning is a free training resource available to all UI students, faculty, and staff at no charge. Video tutorials include:  

  • Web and application development
  • Microsoft Office products (Office 365, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
  • Adobe Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, etc.)
  • Organization and professional development
  • And much, much more

See our LinkedIn Learning support page for support information and to log in to this service.

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Instructional training

Need help with the technology you use for instruction? The Office of Teaching, Learning, & Technology offers many opportunities for instructional training on topics such as ICON, Top Hat, and UICapture. Browse and register for training on the OTLT events website. If you need more of a one-on-one technology consultation, reach out to a Student Instructional Technology Assistant (SITA) at sita@uiowa.edu. 

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