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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

Tips for Submitting Final Grades to MAUI

Thursday, December 4, 2025
The end of the fall semester is quickly approaching. Learn about the three options instructors have for submitting final grades to MAUI and tips to make entering graders easier whether they're using the MAUI in ICON function, manually entering grades, or uploading a file to MAUI.

Making Accessible ICON Sites Easier to Create: Accessible Course Template

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
You may have heard of the ICON accessible course template, developed by OTLT. What you may not know is that it’s available for use as you begin to prep for winter and spring courses. You can even start using it from within your new ICON course site.

Designing PDFs for Everyone: Accessibility Tips

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
PDFs are one of the largest and most consistent accessibility issues in ICON courses. Here are a few tips to resolve the most common concerns. Have more questions? The University of Iowa has multiple resources available to help you.

Events

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ICON Gradebook

Thursday, December 4, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

An overview of ICON (powered by Canvas) Gradebook. Attend this session to learn how to build a simple gradebook from start to finish, enable a standard grading scheme to convert scores to letter grades, organize assignments into grading groups, and enter grades using SpeedGrader for faster input. 

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The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and...

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Teaching with AI Agents: A Post Pilot Panel

Friday, December 12, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Join us to learn about the Cogniti pilot that was carried out this fall. Cogniti is designed to let instructors build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions and resources to assist student learning. Instructors will share their experiences from this semester, highlighting how they integrated AI chatbots into their ICON courses, the outcomes from these decisions, and if they recommend this platform to their colleagues.

1 to 1:30 p.m.: Panel Discussion featuring pilot...

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Copycat Academy: The Art of the Course Copy

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

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.

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Participants can also join this event virtually.

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...

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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool

Tuesday, January 6, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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.

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