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Oct 8, 2024

Oct 8, 2024

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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...

Oct 11, 2024

Oct 11, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 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 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, ...

Oct 15, 2024

Oct 15, 2024

All Day

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The Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA) provide funding for innovative, results-oriented instructional technology projects that raise the level of teaching and learning at Iowa and have the potential to impact student success and retention. The University of Iowa Academic Technologies Advisory Council (ATAC) will accept proposals for ITTA from Thursday, Sept. 12, through Tuesday, Oct. 15. We seek projects that employ collaborative learning strategies and student use of em...

Oct 15, 2024

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 ...

Oct 21, 2024

Oct 21, 2024

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...

Oct 22, 2024

Oct 22, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Join us for an introduction to generative AI: identify current capabilities, ethical use cases, and the privacy considerations associated with generative AI systems. We will also introduce strategies for effective prompting and offer additional resources to continue learning about AI applications.  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 ...

Oct 23, 2024

Oct 23, 2024

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,...

Oct 25, 2024

Oct 25, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 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 ...

Oct 31, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Join this spook-tacular session to learn how to creep it real in your ICON course with creatures and features lurking in the shadows of ICON. 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 technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.u...

Nov 1, 2024

Nov 1, 2024

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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Join the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology at ICON Day 2024.  ICON Day will promote excellence in teaching and learning through effective adoption and use of instructional technology at the University of Iowa. Attendees will hear from thought leaders, explore strategies to integrate technology, learn about campus resources, and interact with peers. During this event, we'll also recognize our 2024 ICON All Stars. Our keynote speaker is Kate McDowell, an associate professor at the...

Nov 5, 2024

Nov 5, 2024

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,...

Nov 6, 2024

Nov 6, 2024

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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AI Monthly Meetup and Brainstorming Session 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, as well as 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 to attend. The Office of Tea...

Nov 7, 2024

Nov 7, 2024

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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The Data-Informed Community of Practice is open to any faculty who are interested in collaborating with other instructors and supporting one another in using data to improve student success at the course and/or program level. Members of the community meet three times per semester to explore student data available to UI faculty with two goals: 1) identify potential barriers to student learning and 2) generate solutions to implement at the course or program level. Everyone will have their own...

Nov 7, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Feedback provides an opportunity for growth in learning. Join this session to learn how Peerceptiv gives students a structured rubric to anonymously evaluate the quality of individual assignments or a person's collaboration in group work. 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 t...

Nov 8, 2024

Nov 8, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 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 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...

Nov 12, 2024

Nov 12, 2024

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Join us to discover options on how to facilitate engaging video assignments using university supported technologies that are integrated with your ICON course sites.  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 we...

Nov 14, 2024

Nov 14, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Join us for an introduction to generative AI: identify current capabilities, ethical use cases, and the privacy considerations associated with generative AI systems. We will also introduce strategies for effective prompting and offer additional resources to continue learning about AI applications.  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 ...

Nov 26, 2024

Nov 26, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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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...

Nov 26, 2024

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...

Dec 3, 2024

Dec 3, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 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 ...

Dec 4, 2024

Dec 4, 2024

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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AI Monthly Meetup and Brainstorming Session 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, as well as 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 to attend. The Office of Tea...

Dec 5, 2024

Dec 5, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Feedback provides an opportunity for growth in learning. Join this session to learn how Peerceptiv gives students a structured rubric to anonymously evaluate the quality of individual assignments or a person's collaboration in group work. 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 t...

Dec 6, 2024

Dec 6, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 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 how to improve some easy-to-fix potholes 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 ex...

Dec 10, 2024

Dec 10, 2024

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Learn how to copy an ICON course for a new semester in this step-by-step workshop. We'll cover settings, integrated tools, and common pitfalls to avoid. 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 technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at ...

Dec 12, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Join us for an introduction to generative AI: identify current capabilities, ethical use cases, and the privacy considerations associated with generative AI systems. We will also introduce strategies for effective prompting and offer additional resources to continue learning about AI applications.  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 ...