UI Learn and ICON both use Canvas as the learning management system (LMS) to house the courses. ICON courses are registrar affiliated and CQ courses and are only meant for faculty, staff, and students that have a valid HawkID and password. UI Learn courses are meant for anyone and users create "local accounts," meaning they use a valid email address for their username and a password, created at the time of the account creation. 

If you have an offering you would like to host through UI Learn,  you can submit a request through the ITS Help Desk. The UI Learn team will then reach out to schedule a consultation for an overview and demo. After the consultation, new UI Learn admins must sign a Memo of Understanding (MOU) to acknowledge the role and responsibilities of being an admin. New admins will be added as sub-catalog or sub-account admins. If a new admin needs to be added at a later time, a new admin request form can be submitted.  

No. All accounts in UI Learn are local accounts. This means that everyone must use a valid email address as their username. This can be a school email, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. 

Students can find all public course offerings at learn.uiowa.edu. If a course registration's visibility has been set to Link Only, then students must be sent the course registration link to be able to register. The visibility settings for a course can be changed by the Catalog admin.

UI Learn has been used to offer virtual and in-person workshops, conferences, research studies, and training courses.  

No. ITS does not charge a fee to offer courses through UI Learn.

Yes. A registration or enrollment fee can be added to a UI Learn course. However, the sub-catalog that houses the course but be set up with a payment gateway and sub-catalog admins must work with university Treasury Operations to set up the charge account. 

Students in a UI Learn course will need to contact the instructor of the course or the sub-catalog admin (this is covered in the MOU). Instructors or staff who need technical support or additional assistance to answer a student's question can contact the ITS Help Desk. 

If a student wishes to drop a course, they must reach out to the instructor of the course and request to be dropped. If a student has paid for a course they wish to drop, the sub-catalog admin is responsible for working with the student and Treasury Operations to offer any refunds. It is up to the discretion of the department/program offering the course if refunds are given to students who drop a course. 

For more information regarding UI Learn, check out UI Learn: How-To Guides.