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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

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.

Have Questions About Accessibility in ICON?

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Drop by 2523 University Capitol Centre from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Fridays through Nov. 21 for in-person accessibility support. No appointment required. OTLT staff will be available to help instructors make ICON course sites and digital documents, including PDFs, more accessible. They'll also assist instructors in taking advantage of tools like TidyUP and Ally to simplify the process.

Advice for Applying for an Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
The Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA) provide funding for innovative projects that have the potential to impact student success and retention. If you are preparing a proposal for this award, consider these tips and suggestions from previous award recipients. The deadline for proposals is Monday, Oct. 13.
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Events

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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Virtual

Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.

This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.

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Course Help: Accessibility in ICON

Friday, November 21, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Drop by 2523 University Capitol Centre from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Fridays through Nov. 21 for in-person accessibility support. No appointment required. OTLT staff and student instructional technology assistants (SITAs) will be available to:

Introduce you to TidyUP. Use TidyUP to scan ICON course sites for unused files, check for unpublished or unused pages, and easily remove pages you no longer need.

Review your Anthology Ally course report and help you improve your score. Ally provides scores (only...

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Try, Explore, Adjust (TEA): Advanced Course Accessibility

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

This course will take the base skills you've learned in Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) and build on that knowledge with the principles of TEA: Try, Explore, Adjust. We'll dig into accessible course design, learn more about the particulars of web and document accessibility standards, and put best practices into use for our courses.

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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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