| | Giovanni Zimotti, director of Spanish Language Instruction, and Claire Frances, director of the Center for Language and Culture Learning, used funding from the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards to develop an application that uses can-do statements to engage learners in self-assessment. Discover how the app is helping students reach learning goals and its potential to impact teaching at the UI and beyond. | | | We've gathered some of the most frequently asked questions about Gradescope Bubble Sheets so instructors can get the most out of this tool. Learn how to obtain Bubble Sheets, how to access Gradescope, how to post grades to ICON, and where to get help. Don't forget that the next Gradescope Bubble Sheets training session will take place on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 10 to 11 a.m. Register to join the session. | | | | Do you ever wonder how your students are using course materials to study? Course Activity Insights, or CAI, is an analytics platform designed to help instructors make data-informed decisions about their teaching. By pulling data from technology tools used in a course, it provides instructors with a more comprehensive understanding of their students’ engagement across materials and tools. Learn how you can add CAI to your spring 2025 course. | | | With the development of easily accessible generative AI technologies, there has also been a significant rise in the number of AI-generated content detection tools available. Learn how these AI detectors work, their potential harm, and alternative solutions to their use. | | | | The community is open to any faculty who are interested in collaborating with other instructors and supporting one another in using data to improve student success at the course and/or program level. The first meeting for the fall 2024 semester will take place on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 9 to 10 a.m. in University Capitol Centre 2070D. To attend any of the fall meetings, please submit this brief form. | | | Join us on Friday, Oct. 11, from 10 to 11 a.m. to learn 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. | | | | Join this session on Tuesday, Oct. 15, from 2 to 3 p.m. to learn tools and techniques to gather student feedback using supported academic technologies. Whether participants are looking for quick ways to check for understanding or collect more in-depth thoughts on student learning, attendees will be able to gather the information they need to calibrate their teaching. | | | ICON Direct is the University of Iowa's initiative for ordering digital content from specific publishers and delivering this content to students and faculty. Learn what makes this program the perfect fit for certain courses, and why you should take advantage of this opportunity to order materials that are essential for student success in your course through ICON Direct. Attend this workshop on Monday, Oct. 21, from 2 to 3 p.m. | | | | Attend this session on Friday, Oct. 25, from 10 to 11 a.m. to focus on ensuring your video and audio materials are usable by all students. We'll talk about creating captions for videos and offering transcriptions for audio. | | | |
