Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on how and why to use alternative text in your course site. We'll talk about why alternative text is important and practice writing alt text for images for your courses. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone. Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

Top Hat Pro has several options to engage students with in-class quizzes, surveys, and discussions, as well as attendance features that connect to the ICON Gradebook. Learn how to get started with this platform and get ideas to adapt it to your courses. 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...

ICON (Iowa Courses Online) is the Learning Management System at the University of Iowa, and is primarily powered by Canvas, but there is even more to know about ICON. Join this session for an introduction to ICON's basic user interface, how to manage your account settings, and learn about the tools available in an ICON course site.  Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning...

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.  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...