Articles from August 2024

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What your students wish you knew about ICON

Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Organizing your ICON course site can feel daunting. What’s best for a 3000 level STEM class? This article outlines a few beloved strategies to consider when designing your ICON course.

Classroom refresh: New features and improvements

Tuesday, August 20, 2024
The Learning Spaces Technology team spent the summer updating and improving technology in many university learning spaces, completing the largest single classroom refresh in that team’s history.

A new era of user experience: Turnitin’s upgraded similarity report

Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Turnitin has launched a new version of its Similarity Report. This upgrade is designed to provide an enhanced user experience with an intuitive interface and improved support for assistive technologies.

Navigating the new Turnitin external tool function in ICON

Tuesday, August 20, 2024
There has been an update to the Turnitin external tool function on ICON (Canvas). This change may affect your course assignments, particularly those using Turnitin from previous semesters that have been copied into fall 2024 courses, new assignments, and Blueprint courses.

Moving to Gradescope Bubble Sheets

Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Digital Desk, the previous solution for Scantron bubble sheets, has been decommissioned, and the Exam Scoring service replaced with Gradescope Bubble Sheets.