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Jan 22, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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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...

Jan 22, 2025

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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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....

Jan 22, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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An overview of ICON (powered by Canvas) Gradebook. Attend this session to learn how to build a simple gradebook from start to finish, enable a standard grading scheme to convert scores to letter grades, organize assignments into grading groups, and enter grades using SpeedGrader for faster input.  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 a...

Jan 23, 2025

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

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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...

Jan 23, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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This workshop is geared toward UI researchers who are not familiar with the Linux command line environment. It covers essential and fundamental Linux shell commands to help users develop their ways of Linux master. This workshop will NOT cover advanced commands and shell scripts. Prior coding and Linux experience are not required. Doosoo Yoon in the ITS Research Services team will lead this workshop. It will be lectured by Doosoo Yoon from Research Services and will include hands-on trainin...

Jan 23, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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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...

Jan 24, 2025

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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The workshop is a two-hour session that consists of two parts: an introduction to a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment and hands-on training on the basic usage of the Argon cluster (access, configuration, job submission, and data transfer). It is geared towards users of HPC including faculties, postdocs, and students, who are eager to learn about getting started with the Argon cluster and storage services for their computational research. NO prior experience or knowledge of superco...

Jan 24, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Incorporating peer review activities into your courses can help your students become better writers, readers, and collaborators. Peerceptiv scales this peer collaboration to any course size and integrates it within your 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 sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional te...

Jan 28, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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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.

Jan 28, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Learn about Gradescope, an ideal tool for assessing and providing feedback for student assignments, including written formulas, graphs, calculations, and other kinds of work that cannot be easily graded through SpeedGrader. Gradescope is especially suited for large classes with complex assessment teams.  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,...

Jan 29, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

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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...

Jan 29, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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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 ...

Jan 30, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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...

Feb 4, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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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...

Feb 4, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

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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, ...

Feb 5, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

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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....

Feb 5, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Feb. 5, 2025, is Day 1 of the second annual 100 Days of Accessibility, presented by Accessibility@IOWA. Throughout 100 Days of Accessibility, Accessibility@IOWA hosts and sponsors trainings and workshops to help individuals, work groups, and university departments increase awareness and capacity to support digital accessibility. Whether you're an experienced accessibility advocate or relatively new to the area of accessibility, you're welcome and encouraged to join in this landmark event. O...

Feb 6, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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 to improve some easy-to-fix challenges in site design, such as usage of headings, tables, or color contrast, 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 everyone. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides ...

Feb 7, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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As we learn from examining the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, much of digital accessibility hinges on an understanding of four core principles. In a similar sense, a few core skills can help you to attain a practical understanding of accessibility across a spectrum of technologies and content types. Nearly any digital document can be made more accessible simply by applying seven core skills of document design. These skills are simple to learn and understand and better yet, you may alr...

Feb 11, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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Boost student engagement in large enrollment courses with academic technology. This session will showcase practical strategies and tools like Top Hat and Gradescope to create more interactive and engaging learning experiences.  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. ...

Feb 12, 2025

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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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...

Feb 14, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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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

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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 18, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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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

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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

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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

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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 25, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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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

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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 26, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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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...

Mar 5, 2025

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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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 6, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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 7, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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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 12, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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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

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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

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Faculty, instructors, and instructional designers have a unique opportunity to add quality to their offerings in ICON. Digital Accessibility Coordinator T.M. Weissenberger will lead a one-hour session that touches on specific steps educators can take to meet accessibility standards and potentially reduce the need for some academic accommodations and remediation. Skills covered in this session apply to a spectrum of other formats as well.  This session is offered as part of the University of...

Mar 26, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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

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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 ...

Apr 1, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 22, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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

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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 29, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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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

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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 6, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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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 14, 2025

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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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...