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Instructional Technology

Are you ready to enhance your teaching and use technology to foster student engagement and learning? We support the use of instructional technology across the university, including ICON, UICapture, Gradescope, and more.

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Classroom Technology

Do you want to get the most out of your learning space? We provide technology consulting, training, and management of more than 300 technology-equipped classrooms that are designed to enrich the teaching and learning experience.

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Teaching and Learning Data

Harness the power of data. We transform gigabytes of data into teaching and learning insights that help instructors understand how students are engaging with course materials and identify timely interventions and support.

News

Confusion to Clarity: Implementing Elements of Success in Large Classes

Monday, March 31, 2025
Thanks to the introduction of Elements of Success in a business course, students better understand their performance and emails to the instructor after final grades were posted were nearly eliminated.

Pilot a New ICON Template to Increase Course Accessibility

Monday, March 31, 2025
To help meet campus-wide accessibility goals and with input from campus partners, the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology created an ICON course site template that can help guide the development of an accessible and uniform site. This new course template is optional and not meant to replace existing templates that many units across campus already use for their programs. Rather, it offers resources and help to instructors who'd like some advice on how to present their courses in an accessible way.

Extended Quiz Time Accommodations Now Automatic in ICON

Monday, March 31, 2025
Instructors who use ICON Classic Quizzes no longer need to manually adjust the time allowed on quizzes for students who elect to use Student Disability Services extended time accommodations.

Events

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ICON Quizzes and Respondus Lockdown Browser

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual
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 more...
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Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFE): Documents and Files

Thursday, May 1, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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 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 Teaching...
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Pressbooks, Peer Review, and Podcasting: Technology for Authentic Assignments

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual
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.
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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Virtual
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, and...
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