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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 into a business course, students better understand their performance and emails to the instructor after final grades were posted were nearly eliminated.

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.

Building a Better Learning Experience: Ally and Accessibility in ICON Courses

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Discover how the Anthology Ally pilot is transforming ICON courses by providing real-time accessibility feedback to instructors. Learn tips for implementing Ally in your ICON course.

Events

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

Thursday, April 3, 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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5 Reasons to Use ICON Direct

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
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...
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AI Monthly Meetup and Brainstorming Session

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
University of Iowa Main Library
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 expertise...
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UICapture Essentials: Sharing and Permissions

Thursday, April 10, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
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.
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