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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

OTLT staff present at conference

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
At Instructurecon 2024, OTLT staff took part in and moderated a panel on Canvas Catalog. Locally known as UI Learn, Canvas Catalog is an online portal for non-credit courses available to both the public and the University of Iowa community. Instructurecon is an annual conference organized by Instructure, the company that creates Canvas.

Unlocking language potential with innovative tech

Monday, September 30, 2024
Giovanni Zimotti, director of Spanish Language Instruction, and Claire Frances, director of the Center for Language and Culture Learning, used Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award funding to develop an application that uses can-do Statements to engage learners in self-assessment.

Get the most out of Gradescope Bubble Sheets

Monday, September 30, 2024
Gradescope Bubble Sheets is a paper-based multiple-choice tool integrated with ICON, allowing for online upload and scoring of scanned student sheets. We've gathered some of the most frequently asked questions, including how to obtain Bubble Sheets, how to access Gradescope, and more about Post Grades to ICON.

Events

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Data-Informed Teaching Community of Practice Meeting

Thursday, November 7, 2024 9:00am to 10:00am
University Capitol Centre
The Data-Informed Community of Practice is open to any faculty who are interested in collaborating with other instructors and supporting one another in using data to improve student success at the course and/or program level. Members of the community meet three times per semester to explore student data available to UI faculty with two goals: 1) identify potential barriers to student learning and 2) generate solutions to implement at the course or program level. Everyone will have their own...
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Improving Peer Feedback

Thursday, November 7, 2024 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Feedback provides an opportunity for growth in learning. Join this session to learn how Peerceptiv gives students a structured rubric to anonymously evaluate the quality of individual assignments or a person's collaboration in group work. 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...
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Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFE): Documents and Files

Friday, November 8, 2024 10:00am to 11:00am
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...
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Video Assignments for Students

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
Join us to discover options on how to facilitate engaging video assignments using university supported technologies that are integrated with your ICON course sites.  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...
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