Join Aim for Accessible!

We invite you to join colleagues from across the University in a challenge to fix accessibility issues in your Canvas courses. The Pope Tech tool in Canvas makes it easy for you to chart a course toward creating a more inclusive learning environment. At the end of each quarter, we’ll list participants who complete the challenge on our Aim for Accessible Wall of Fame. As a bonus, we’ll offer rewards (AKA “swag”) to participants who complete the challenge for a course!

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Cultivate AI-Discerning Learners in the Classroom

As generative AI becomes a bigger part of our daily lives, it’s important to teach students when and how to use it. ATS’ ongoing blog post series on AI-discerning learners offers tips and strategies you can share with your students to help them use AI responsibly.

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Maximize Your Canvas Course Site Accessibility

Think accessibility is an impossible goal to achieve? Think again! We’ve put together a step-by-step guide to help you maximize the accessibility of your Canvas course site, leveraging tools supported by the University.

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Podcast Studio Now Available!

Interested in integrating podcasts into your course? Check out our new, easy-to-use podcasting studio! All you need is a 30-minute tutorial to get started.

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Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 6: Making the Transaction More Conscious

"Eventually, surveillance capitalists discovered that the most-predictive behavioral data come from intervening in the state of play in order to nudge, coax, tune, and herd behavior toward profitable outcomes. Competitive pressures produced this shift, in which...

Building Classroom Trust with Technology: Create an Honor Contract to Support Academic Honesty

Introduction: Two Approaches to Academic Honesty At the University of Chicago, each incoming first-year student receives a copy of Charles Lipson’s book Doing Honest Work in College. Much more than a symbolic gift, this is a reminder that academic honesty is vital if...

Level Up Your Assessments: A Guide to Migrating from Canvas Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes at UChicago

The academic landscape is constantly evolving, and so too are the tools we use to support teaching and learning. Here at the University of Chicago, our Canvas Learning Management System is a cornerstone of our educational experience. You may have noticed a new option...