Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) Blog
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Request for Faculty Feedback on IT Services Portal
Author's Note: This is a guest post on behalf of IT Services. The University of Chicago IT Services is conducting a User Experience (UX) assessment of the IT Services Portal. The goal is to gather feedback from users like you on their experiences using the...
Protect Your Canvas Data: API Tokens and Security Risks
API (Application Programming Interface) tokens are used to allow external applications to access user data within Canvas via the application’s API. Typically, API tokens are created on behalf of users by approved applications that are integrated with Canvas. These...
Graduate Students and Postdocs: Apply to 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 2023-23 academic year.
Collaborative Learning and Classroom Pedagogy, Part 1: Approaches to Successful Collaboration
Author’s Note: This is the first installment in a series of posts concerning collaborative learning and how best to implement it in the classroom. ATS instructional designers Michael Hernandez and Joe Olivier contributed content to this installment. As educators...
Using Active Learning Strategies to Engage Entrepreneurship Students
This post is part of an ongoing series to promote active learning strategies and teaching tools that can support instructors in using them. Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) is hosting the new active learning series Try IT: Academic Tech for Active Learning. The...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Virtual Activities in May
According to a 2016 Campus Climate Survey, approximately 13 to 18% of UChicago students are living with a disability. Every student deserves an equal learning experience and must be able to access digital content, such as Canvas pages, PDFs, videos, and other...
Promote Student Engagement Using Active Learning Exercises
This post is part of an ongoing series to promote active learning strategies and teaching tools that can support instructors in using them. Active learning is an area of particular interest on the UChicago campus this year, with the Chicago Center for Teaching and...
Support Bigger Learning by Teaching Smaller with Microlectures
This post is part of an ongoing series to promote active learning strategies and teaching tools that can support instructors in using them. Active learning is an area of particular interest on the UChicago campus this year, with the Chicago Center for Teaching and...
New Quarter FAQs: How to Create Your Canvas Course, Copy Content, and More
For instructors here at UChicago, preparing for the new quarter can be a hectic process. In order to make the technology side of that process as quick and stress-free for you as possible, we’d like to offer a few handy resources for some of the most common concerns...
Retrieve Videos from the Panopto Archive
If you are using Panopto, the University’s video management system, you should be aware of UChicago’s archiving policy for Panopto videos. If a video has not been viewed for 13 months, it will automatically be archived. This policy, initially in place for Panopto...
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