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Mar 13, 2025

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe.  This introductory level t...

Mar 13, 2025

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

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This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your departme...

Mar 13, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Join this session to learn how to heighten student engagement and foster an interactive virtual classroom environment using UICapture. 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 instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.

Mar 14, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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100 Days of Accessibility continues with our popular two-part PDF Accessibility session.  In Part II, we will use Acrobat Accessibility Checker to identify accessibility issues in an existing PDF. Then we will apply accessibility and other tools in Acrobat to remediate a document for improved accessibility. After completing a clean accessibility check in Acrobat, we’ll look at the PDF Accessibility Checker, a free utility that tests PDFs against the Matterhorn Protocol and Web Content Acces...

Mar 18, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams trainin...

Mar 19, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

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This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course....

Mar 25, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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Discover how Read&Write, a comprehensive literacy support tool, can transform everyday academic tasks into efficient and manageable undertakings. With a large variety of features, Read&Write is designed to aid in your reading, writing, and studying experiences. This training will provide an overview into how to effectively use Read&Write in your academic work with a focus on how to apply the Read&Write features in your ICON site. Whether you're an instructor preparing course materials or a s...

Mar 25, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. In this session, led by eden jones, we will be focusing on how to improve some easy-to-fix potholes in site design, such as usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and transcripts and captions so you can make sure any user can navigate and use your site with ease. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for ever...

Mar 25, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them.   Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...

Mar 25, 2025

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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This course is designed for anyone who creates a team or has been given the team owner role in an existing team. Team owners have access to settings and capabilities that members do not see. This training will discuss how best to create a team, choose settings based upon your needs, and manage the team throughout its existence. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, ...

Mar 26, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will focus on Loop components, which are portable components that move freely and stay in sync across Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 tools.

Mar 26, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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This session explores how technology can empower students to take control of their learning and thinking process through metacognitive practices. We will explore how metacognition encourages effective learning through reflecting, directing, and controlling one's own thinking, and how technology can help guide students through metacognitive activities. We will highlight tools including ICON, TopHat, Gradescope, Pressbooks, and more to revolutionize the way you approach education.  Register t...

Mar 26, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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This course explores the intersection of AI and environmental sustainability, examining both the challenges and opportunities that AI presents in this crucial and emerging area of technology.

Mar 27, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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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 ...

Mar 27, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

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This course will show you how to utilize applications in a channel, meeting, or chat to extend the capabilities of your team. We will talk about using personal applications to help streamline and organize your work within Microsoft Teams. The apps covered in this course include OneNote, Forms, Planner, and Viva Learning. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team, o...

Mar 28, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe.  This introductory level t...

Apr 1, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Sometimes you learn the most when things don't go as planned. Join this session to share stories and strategies with other instructors, and learn how to foster resilience and creative solutions through past technological challenges. Register for the event. 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 instructional tec...

Apr 3, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on ensuring your video and audio materials are usable by all your students. We'll talk about creating captions for videos and offering transcriptions for audio. By making these 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 services to ...

Apr 3, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams trainin...

Apr 8, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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ICON Direct is the University of Iowa's initiative for ordering digital content from specific publishers and delivering this content to students and faculty. Join this session to 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.  Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

Apr 8, 2025

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your departme...

Apr 9, 2025

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Join us for an engaging opportunity to collaborate with Copilot and other leading AI tools. These sessions will be filled with hands-on demonstrations for interacting with AI platforms and facilitated activities to help you experiment and innovate. Bring your willingness to try new things and think outside the box with AI. Gift yourself the time to learn a new technology. Tinkering is encouraged here! Register for the event. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides experti...

Apr 9, 2025

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course....

Apr 10, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Join this session to learn how to heighten student engagement and foster an interactive virtual classroom environment using UICapture. 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 instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.

Apr 11, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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In this session Nicole Villanueva and Michael Espey of the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology will dive into all things video accessibility. We'll cover the tools that are available, some new additions to our portfolio, and things you need to know to make sure the content in your videos is clearly communicated to all viewers. Registration is required for this 100 Days of Accessibility event. Register here for Captioning Digital Video

Apr 14, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them.   Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...

Apr 15, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Anthology Ally is a powerful tool in your ICON courses. It provides instructors guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials. Join us to learn how this tool works, how you can make your course sites more accessible, and how it can increase students' ability to engage with your course materials.  Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...

Apr 16, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe.  This introductory level t...

Apr 16, 2025

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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This course is designed for anyone who creates a team or has been given the team owner role in an existing team. Team owners have access to settings and capabilities that members do not see. This training will discuss how best to create a team, choose settings based upon your needs, and manage the team throughout its existence. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, ...

Apr 17, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams trainin...

Apr 18, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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In June 2020, the University of Iowa adopted Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, Level AA (WCAG) as an institutional standard for conformance with the university's IT Accessibility Policy. The Guidelines are an internationally recognized standard for measuring the accessibility of digital technologies. Originally developed to assess web accessibility, WCAG principles have since been applied to a broad spectrum of technologies and tools including web content, electronic documen...

Apr 22, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Join us this spring for a celebration of the incredibly versatile, easy-to-use, and impactful platform of Pressbooks. It is a software that allows you to create Open Educational Resources (OER), including eBooks, handbooks, student work collections, portfolios, anthologies, and more. This event will showcase a diverse range of projects from University of Iowa faculty and staff. This will be followed with an interactive panel session for questions and discussion. Register to attend. The Off...

Apr 22, 2025

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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This course will show you how to utilize applications in a channel, meeting, or chat to extend the capabilities of your team. We will talk about using personal applications to help streamline and organize your work within Microsoft Teams. The apps covered in this course include OneNote, Forms, Planner, and Viva Learning. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team, o...

Apr 24, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Elements of Success is a platform developed at the University of Iowa for students to better understand their course performance. This session gives an overview of the platform, how it can be incorporated into courses, and how to set it up. 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 instructional...

Apr 24, 2025

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will focus on Loop components, which are portable components that move freely and stay in sync across Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 tools.

Apr 28, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them.   Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...

Apr 29, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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Join us to learn about creating quizzes, tests, and other assessments in ICON that are automatically graded, and how to add the Respondus Lockdown Browser to those assessments that require a higher level of security.  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 instructional technology. To learn m...

Apr 29, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

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This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your departme...

Apr 30, 2025

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

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This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course....

May 1, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams trainin...

May 1, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on ensuring the documents and files in your site are usable by all your students. We'll talk about why and how to make sure your PDFs are navigable and can be read by screen reading programs, as well as other document types as necessary. By making these changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone. Register to attend. The Office of T...

May 2, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant tool designed to respond to user queries in a conversational manner. This tool can be an invaluable asset, offering assistance in tasks ranging from answering questions, providing information, to generating content. The goal of Copilot Enterprise is to enhance productivity by helping you automate repetitive tasks, learn new concepts, problem solve, and more, all while keeping your data safe.  This introductory level t...

May 6, 2025

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

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Learn what platforms are available to enable students to create projects that showcase their learning beyond the classroom. 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 instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.

May 13, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Copilot by mastering the art of effective prompting in this training session. Participants will learn key principles of crafting clear, concise and contextually relevant prompts to get the best responses from Copilot. This session will cover best practices for various scenarios, including administrative tasks, academic support and research help, while also identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them.   Through hands-on practice and interactive ex...

May 13, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

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Anthology Ally is a powerful tool in your ICON courses. It provides instructors guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials. Join us to learn how this tool works, how you can make your course sites more accessible, and how it can increase students' ability to engage with your course materials.  Register to attend. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...

May 14, 2025

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Join us for an engaging opportunity to collaborate with Copilot and other leading AI tools. These sessions will be filled with hands-on demonstrations for interacting with AI platforms and facilitated activities to help you experiment and innovate. Bring your willingness to try new things and think outside the box with AI. Gift yourself the time to learn a new technology. Tinkering is encouraged here! Register for the event. The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides experti...