ICON Overview
Wednesday, August 12, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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.
Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend
Thursday, August 13, 2026 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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.
Tech Tools for Group Projects
Friday, August 14, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Group work can be an important way to support student learning, but challenging to facilitate. In this workshop, we will talk about three tools that can support group projects: Microsoft Teams, Peerceptiv, and Pressbooks. The goal is to introduce these tools, their features and to help participants think about the possibilities for their courses.
LaTeX Accessibility with MathJax and Pressbooks
Friday, August 14, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
LaTeX markup language is an efficient and powerful way to prepare mathematical equations and formulae to share with others, but PDF outputs of LaTeX don't meet important accessibility standards. This training will demonstrate how to transform your LaTeX files into HTML, use MathJax to make them more accessible, and share them with others in the Pressbooks platform.
Engage with a community
We facilitate or co-facilitate communities related to technology and teaching and learning data on campus. These groups provide opportunities to connect with others and learn how instructors are implementing these tools in their courses.
Request a training
We offer one-on-one and departmental trainings related to instructional technology, classroom technology, and teaching and learning data.