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Feb 14, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Accessibility testing can help you to identify and correct accessibility barriers in your websites, documents, and other technologies. In this session, we will look at free tools and techniques you can use to identify and address basic accessibility issues. Participants are invited to follow along as T.M. Weissenberger demos accessibility testing tools for Office documents, PDFs, SiteNow web content, Canvas/ICON content types, and more. This session can help you add a coherent testing strate...
Feb 14, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
How are students using technology to learn, engage with course materials, and connect with their instructors and peers? Join the Academic Technology Advisory Council for this year’s Student Technology Panel from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14, in University Capitol Centre 2520D or on Zoom to learn how students foster their own learning using technology. Eight to ten students from a variety of disciplines will describe their experiences with technology and opportunities they hope the u...
Feb 17, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe. This introductory level t...
Feb 18, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
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 creating a team, chat, audio/video calls, meetings, 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 ...
Feb 18, 2025
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Virtual Event
Headings and styles can make or break a document's accessibility. In 100 Days Deeper Dive #1 we'll open up Microsoft Word and take a good look at the relationship of structure, style, and accessibility. Although this session is held in Microsoft Word, the core concepts of headings, structure, and style apply to a wide variety of document formats.
Feb 18, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Join this session to learn tools and techniques to gather student feedback using supported academic technologies such as Top Hat, ICON, and Zoom. Participants will learn how these tools can be used in synchronous and asynchronous environments, as well as which tools are better suited for various situations. Whether participants are looking for quick ways to check for understanding or collect more in-depth thoughts on their learning, attendees will be able to gather the information they need ...
Feb 19, 2025
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Virtual Event
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, Tasks by 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...
Feb 21, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Web accessibility is a key element of our digital accessibility efforts at the University of Iowa. In this session, we will look into concepts and techniques that web editors can use to provide more accessible content in their websites. Working in SiteNow, ICON, and plain old HTML, we'll see how our authoring and design decisions can result in better experiences for everyone, regardless of their disability status. As a bonus, we'll view the results of our work through a selection of testing ...
Feb 21, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Virtual Event
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...
Feb 25, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
Join this information session to learn the basic functions of UICapture, including creating, editing, and sharing recordings. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.
Feb 25, 2025
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Event
Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will focus on Loop components, which are portable components that move freely and stay in sync across Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 tools.
Feb 25, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...
Feb 26, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Curious about how AI is shaping student learning? The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology partnered with 10 University of Iowa faculty members to research how students are using AI tools and their impact on learning. Please register to attend. Join to: Learn key findings from the research, including students' experiences with AI tools integrated into their course materials, their perceptions of their impact on learning, and preferences for course guidance and policies. Listen t...
Feb 26, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
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 learni...
Feb 27, 2025
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
The Data-Informed Teaching Community of Practice is a faculty community that is open to any instructors who are interested in collaborating with and supporting one another in using data to improve student success at the course and/or program level. Everyone will have their own focus, and the group will serve as a space to practice effective approaches to identifying and using data for improved student learning. We invite all faculty at the University of Iowa who are interested in these topic...
Feb 27, 2025
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Virtual Event
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 departme...
Feb 27, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
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. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...
Mar 4, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe. This introductory level t...
Mar 4, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
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 chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, 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 trainin...
Mar 5, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Join us for an engaging opportunity to collaborate with Copilot and other leading AI tools. These sessions will be filled with hands-on demonstrations for interacting with AI platforms and facilitated activities to help you experiment and innovate. Bring your willingness to try new things and think outside the box with AI. Gift yourself the time to learn a new technology. Tinkering is encouraged here! Register for the event. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides experti...
Mar 5, 2025
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Virtual Event
This course is designed for anyone who creates a team or has been given the team owner role in an existing team. Team owners have access to settings and capabilities that members do not see. This training will discuss how best to create a team, choose settings based upon your needs, and manage the team throughout its existence. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, ...
Mar 6, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...
Mar 6, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on how and why to use alternative text in your course site. We'll talk about why alternative text is important and practice writing alt text for images for your courses. By making these simple 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, ...
Mar 6, 2025
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Virtual Event
This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course....
Mar 7, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
100 Days of Accessibility continues with our popular two-part PDF Accessibility session. In Part I, our primary focus will be on source documents — documents in Word, PowerPoint, InDesign, and other formats — that we export to create shareable PDF documents. We’ll work with each of these document formats to produce PDF documents that are robust and highly accessible and review practices to avoid when working to create more accessible content. Register for PDF Accessibility, Part I
Mar 11, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
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. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...
Mar 12, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
Join this session to elevate your UICapture recordings and engage your viewers more effectively. Learn how to clip your videos, add captions, and incorporate navigation aids. Discover various techniques to tailor your content, including adding interactive quizzes, to create a more dynamic and viewer-friendly experience. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences res...
Mar 12, 2025
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Join Graduate Teaching Fellow Emily Wieder (French and Italian) in a teaching demonstration showcasing the pedagogical potential of Iowa’s superpowered TILE classrooms. Participants will become TILE-enabled. The Center for Teaching advocates for effective, evidence-based, scholarly teaching and acts as a collaborative partner in sparking and shaping conversations about higher education. Our work ranges from advancing excellence in teaching and learning at an organizational level to supporti...
Mar 13, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Virtual Event
Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe. This introductory level t...
Mar 13, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Join this session to learn how to heighten student engagement and foster an interactive virtual classroom environment using UICapture. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.
Mar 14, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
100 Days of Accessibility continues with our popular two-part PDF Accessibility session. In Part II, we will use Acrobat Accessibility Checker to identify accessibility issues in an existing PDF. Then we will apply accessibility and other tools in Acrobat to remediate a document for improved accessibility. After completing a clean accessibility check in Acrobat, we’ll look at the PDF Accessibility Checker, a free utility that tests PDFs against the Matterhorn Protocol and Web Content Acces...
Mar 25, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
Discover how Read&Write, a comprehensive literacy support tool, can transform everyday academic tasks into efficient and manageable undertakings. With a large variety of features, Read&Write is designed to aid in your reading, writing, and studying experiences. This training will provide an overview into how to effectively use Read&Write in your academic work with a focus on how to apply the Read&Write features in your ICON site. Whether you're an instructor preparing course materials or a s...
Mar 25, 2025
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. In this session, led by eden jones, we will be focusing on how to improve some easy-to-fix potholes in site design, such as usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and transcripts and captions so you can make sure any user can navigate and use your site with ease. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for ever...
Mar 25, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...
Mar 26, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
This session explores how technology can empower students to take control of their learning and thinking process through metacognitive practices. We will explore how metacognition encourages effective learning through reflecting, directing, and controlling one's own thinking, and how technology can help guide students through metacognitive activities. We will highlight tools including ICON, TopHat, Gradescope, Pressbooks, and more to revolutionize the way you approach education. Register t...
Mar 27, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
Top Hat Pro has several options to engage students with in-class quizzes, surveys, and discussions, as well as attendance features that connect to the ICON Gradebook. Learn how to get started with this platform and get ideas to adapt it to your courses. 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 data, and advanced classroom and ...
Mar 28, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe. This introductory level t...
Apr 1, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Sometimes you learn the most when things don't go as planned. Join this session to share stories and strategies with other instructors, and learn how to foster resilience and creative solutions through past technological challenges. Register for the event. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional tec...
Apr 3, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
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 ...
Apr 8, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
ICON Direct is the University of Iowa's initiative for ordering digital content from specific publishers and delivering this content to students and faculty. Join this session to learn what makes this program the perfect fit for certain courses, and why you should take advantage of this opportunity to order materials that are essential for student success in your course through ICON Direct. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...
Apr 8, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Join this session to learn how to effectively use Microsoft Teams in ICON for your classes to communicate, collaborate, and heighten engagement. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.ui...
Apr 9, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Join us for an engaging opportunity to collaborate with Copilot and other leading AI tools. These sessions will be filled with hands-on demonstrations for interacting with AI platforms and facilitated activities to help you experiment and innovate. Bring your willingness to try new things and think outside the box with AI. Gift yourself the time to learn a new technology. Tinkering is encouraged here! Register for the event. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides experti...
Apr 10, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Join this session to learn how to heighten student engagement and foster an interactive virtual classroom environment using UICapture. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.
Apr 14, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...
Apr 15, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Virtual Event
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. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...
Apr 16, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Virtual Event
Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe. This introductory level t...
Apr 22, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Join us this spring for a celebration of the incredibly versatile, easy-to-use, and impactful platform of Pressbooks. It is a software that allows you to create Open Educational Resources (OER), including eBooks, handbooks, student work collections, portfolios, anthologies, and more. This event will showcase a diverse range of projects from University of Iowa faculty and staff. This will be followed with an interactive panel session for questions and discussion. Register to attend. The Off...
Apr 24, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
Elements of Success is a platform developed at the University of Iowa for students to better understand their course performance. This session gives an overview of the platform, how it can be incorporated into courses, and how to set it up. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional...
Apr 28, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Virtual Event
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...
Apr 29, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
Join us to learn about creating quizzes, tests, and other assessments in ICON that are automatically graded, and how to add the Respondus Lockdown Browser to those assessments that require a higher level of security. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn m...
May 1, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Virtual Event
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 the documents and files in your site are usable by all your students. We'll talk about why and how to make sure your PDFs are navigable and can be read by screen reading programs, as well as other document types as necessary. By making these changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone. Register to attend. The Office of T...
May 2, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Virtual Event
Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe. This introductory level t...
May 6, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Virtual Event
Learn what platforms are available to enable students to create projects that showcase their learning beyond the classroom. 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 data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.
May 13, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Virtual Event
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...
May 13, 2025
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Virtual Event
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. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...
May 14, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Join us for an engaging opportunity to collaborate with Copilot and other leading AI tools. These sessions will be filled with hands-on demonstrations for interacting with AI platforms and facilitated activities to help you experiment and innovate. Bring your willingness to try new things and think outside the box with AI. Gift yourself the time to learn a new technology. Tinkering is encouraged here! Register for the event. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides experti...