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
Let Us Digitize Your Multimedia Course Material
Do you have multimedia material on older media that you’d like to use in your upcoming courses? If you’re not sure how to digitize it yourself, let us do it for you. AV Services can digitize materials from older media. This allows you to deliver the material to your...
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 Digital Pedagogy Fellows for the...
Remote Teaching Takes the Spotlight at UChicago’s IT Matters
The June 17, 2020 session of UChicago’s ongoing IT Matters series, entitled “Innovative Approaches to Remote Teaching and Learning at the University of Chicago,” focused on remote teaching and learning. In an energetic roundtable moderated by Associate Vice President...
Events
Initiatives
ATS Pilots Gradescope
ATS is piloting the grading tool Gradescope through summer 2020. Faculty and instructors can use Gradescope to grade students’ handwritten work in an easier, more efficient, and more consistent way.
New Gradebook Online Workshops
Starting in Winter Quarter 2020, faculty and staff can now attend live workshops online to learn how to use the updated features in Canvas’ New Gradebook.
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.