Academic Technology Solutions
Academic Technology Solutions works closely with faculty to facilitate the use of technology in teaching, research, and scholarship. Through close partnerships with the UChicago Library, the Chicago Center for Teaching, and all other academic units across campus, we help faculty explore new ways of approaching academic endeavors using online tools, digital materials, and other technology solutions.
Featured Services
Instructional Design
We partner with instructors to implement instructional technology, develop instructional projects, create digital course materials, and more.
Multimedia Development
We can assist with content development through creating or enhancing imagery, animation, 3D renderings, video production, and more.
Audio-Visual Services
We can help you with your audio-visual needs, whether it be using AV in our campus classrooms or support for a departmental event.
News
Mind-Mapping Software Makes Musical Connections
Mind-mapping tools allow the user to organize multiple items of information in the form of a map or web, visualizing relationships and making connections between data. George Adams, a doctoral candidate in Music and fellow with the Chicago Center for Teaching (CCT),...
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InstructureCon 2019: A Recap
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash InstructureCon 2019, the annual convention of Canvas vendor Instructure, was held from July 9-11, 2019, in Long Beach, California. During the convention, Instructure announced important updates to Canvas that are recently...
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Graduate Students and Postdocs: Be a Digital Pedagogy Fellow with ATS!
Graduate Students and Postdocs, would you like to gain experience in digital pedagogy, help promote pedagogically sound use of educational technology at UChicago, and get ready to teach blended or fully-online courses? We are hiring a Digital Pedagogy Fellow for...
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Initiatives
Poll Everywhere Pilot Continues
ATS will continue piloting Poll Everywhere, a student response system, in a limited number of courses in the Winter 2019 quarter. So far, pilot faculty have seen more engagement with students in class.
Expansion of Canvas Support
Beginning in Autumn Quarter 2018, ATS expanded Canvas support by offering departments custom, on-demand workshops for their faculty and instructors.
OneButton Studio
ATS launched UChicago’s first-ever OneButton Studio in Fall Quarter 2018. Located in Regenstein Library, Level A, the studio allows anyone to create high-quality videos by simply pressing a button to start and again to stop.