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
Creative Assignments: Teaching with Images – Part 1
Photo by Christopher Flynn on Unsplash Images (e.g. photographs, illustrations, and visual metaphors) can facilitate student engagement and understanding in classroom assignments by making abstract concepts tangible and providing a different way of illustrating...
Announcing the 15th Annual Faculty Technology Receptions
Please join your fellow colleagues for the 15th Annual Faculty Technology Reception. Sample wine and cheese pairings while learning about technology resources available to UChicago professors, lecturers, instructors and researchers. Services include resources for new...
How Should You Choose between Canvas Discussion Boards and a Course Blog?
Canvas Discussion Boards and course blogs have similar functions--they offer a space for students to post a short piece of writing or multimedia for fellow students to provide feedback. In addition to being a good venue for write-to-learn exercises, they are both...
Events
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.