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Video: Promoting Self-Regulated Learning with Elements of Success

Help your students succeed by implementing Elements of Success, a learning analytics dashboard that generates real-time performance feedback for students in an easy-to-understand format. Watch a short video to learn how a UI instructor and undergraduate student benefited from Elements of Success.
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Midterm Student Feedback: Why and How?

Midterm feedback can nurture students’ learning experiences and improve instructors’ teaching practices. Read the Using Midterm Feedback resource that discusses how to develop a midterm feedback process. Center for Teaching staff are available to be instructors’ thought partners to explore student feedback and make informed teaching plans based on it.
 
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It’s Time to Order Your Course Materials

It may feel like the fall semester has barely begun, but now is the time to select instructional materials for the courses you will teach in the winter or spring term.  
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Apply for ITTA Funding

Proposals for the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA) are due Monday, Oct. 17. If you have an idea for an innovative, results-oriented instructional technology project that has the potential to directly impact student success and retention, consider applying.
 
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Gradescope: Reduce Time Spent Grading

Used for delivering assessments in any format, Gradescope is the ideal tool for providing feedback on student assignments, including written formulas, graphs, calculations, and other kinds of work that cannot be easily graded using ICON SpeedGrader. Register for an upcoming training session. 
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New Quizzes, More Options

A new quiz engine called New Quizzes is coming to ICON. New Quizzes will allow instructors to create assessments using a wider variety of question types and provide new features, such course-wide student quiz accommodations. Read our recommendations for implementing New Quizzes. 
 
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Event: TILE Teaching Demonstration

Have you ever wondered what other instructors do in TILE classrooms? Participate in a teaching demonstration by Alison Bianchi, associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Group Processes. Join us in the UI Main Library from 1 to 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28. 
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Meet Our New Graduate Teaching Fellows

This fall, the Center for Teaching welcomed four new graduate teaching fellows for the 2022–2023 academic year. Fellows gain practical experience in the field of educational and faculty development and work with Center for Teaching staff to create their own pedagogical project.
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