Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) Blog
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New Archiving Policy for Panopto Videos Begins Jan. 3, 2022
Beginning Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, Panopto is enacting a new default video archiving policy. The archiving of identified videos will begin January 14, 2022. Under the terms of this policy, any Panopto video that has not been viewed in thirteen months will automatically...
Request Your Course Blog Now for Winter Quarter 2022
Winter Quarter 2022 is almost here, and now is the perfect time to request a course blog for your Winter course. Course blogs are a powerful tool for stimulating student creativity and can fill many different roles within your pedagogy, from discussion boards to...
Poll Everywhere Activities and Resources
This post focuses on Poll Everywhere as a tool for student engagement. For more on Poll Everywhere at UChicago, please visit the Poll Everywhere service page and consider registering for the upcoming workshop “Poll Everywhere Faculty Discussion” to be held on December...
Gradescope: Useful Information and Resources
Gradescope is a software tool that can significantly streamline the grading process for handwritten work. With Gradescope, you can create a living rubric and use it to assess student work, adjusting the rubric as you go to maintain grading consistency across...
2022 Symposium for Teaching with Technology: Save the Date!
Save the Date! The 2022 Symposium for Teaching with Technology will be held online on Wednesday and Thursday, April 20-21, 2022, from 1:00 to 5:30 P.M. It will feature speakers from throughout the University community presenting on their use of technology to enhance...
Introduction to the Use of Gamification in Higher Education: Part 1
Gamification in Higher Education: What and Why? Most people, when they think about gamers, picture teenage boys who are so addicted to games that they are glued to their computers. But the actual statistics show that the population of adult women gamers outnumbers...
Recap: Reengaging the In-Person Classroom: A Mid-Quarter Faculty Panel
Clockwise from top left: Samantha Fenno, Kendra Burbank, Petra Goedegebuure, Paul Poast On Oct. 29, 2021, Joe Lampert, Interim Director of the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning, led the panel “Reengaging the In-Person Classroom: A Mid-Quarter Faculty Panel,”...
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for Accessibility, Annotation, and PDF Optimization
This post focuses on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a resource for digital accessibility. For more on digital accessibility at UChicago, please visit the Center for Digital Accessibility (CDA), and consider registering for the upcoming workshop “Accessibility...
Find and Use the Panopto Course Folder in Your Canvas Course
If your students are unable to see Panopto videos in your Canvas course, it may be because those videos are located in the incorrect folder. In this post, we will outline the difference between the main Panopto course folder and the Assignments subfolder, and explain...
Students: Sign Up for an Appointment in Canvas
Have your instructors asked you to sign up for office hours or an appointment in Canvas? This article will detail how to find available appointment times, reserve an appointment, add notes, and un-reserve your time. To find appointments in Canvas, select the calendar...