| | Thanks to the introduction of Elements of Success into a business course, students better understand their performance and emails to the instructor after final grades were posted were nearly eliminated. Elements of Success is an easy-to-understand, visual format that helps students understand their current course performance and ways they can improve or maintain their grade. | | | To help meet campus-wide accessibility goals and with input from campus partners, OTLT created an ICON course template that can help guide the development of an accessible and uniform site. This template is optional and not meant to replace existing templates that many units across campus already use for their programs. | | | | Anthology Ally enhances accessibility by offering real-time feedback on digital course content in ICON. Instructors can use Ally Indicators—red, orange, light green, and dark green gauges—and the Course Report for detailed advice to improve their courses' accessibility for all students. Have questions? Contact the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology. | | | Instructors who use ICON Classic Quizzes no longer need to manually adjust the time allowed on quizzes for students who elect to use Student Disability Services extended time accommodations. | | | | If instructors use UICapture or Zoom to have students record assignments, remind students to select Share with Specific People to ensure their content is only shared with certain people. To learn more, attend an upcoming session about sharing and permissions at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 10. | | | Join a celebration of Pressbooks at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22. Pressbooks allows you to create open educational resources, including eBooks, handbooks, student work collections, portfolios, and anthologies. This event will showcase a range of projects from UI faculty and staff and include an interactive panel. | | | | Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, will visit the University of Iowa for a guest lecture on Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the IMU. This event is free to the public. Khan will introduce Khanmigo, an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to streamline the instructional process. Learn more about our Khanmigo pilot. | | | Join us at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll talk about how to make sure your PDFs are navigable and can be read by screen reading programs, as well as other document types. | | | | Attend this session at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 6, to learn what platforms are available to enable students to create projects that showcase their learning beyond the classroom. | | | |
