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Accessibility Checker in Word & PowerPoint

Ensures all students, regardless of ability, have access to materials. Learn more about making your Word and PowerPoint files more accessible.

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Active Learning in Zoom

Engage your students with polls, breakout rooms, icebreakers & more! Learn more about Active Learning in Zoom.

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Adobe Express

Quickly and easily create beautiful content with design templates! Learn more about Adobe Express.

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Adobe Firefly

Create images, vectors, videos, and 3D from text with Adobe's AI art generator, Firefly. It even knows IU students, faculty, and staff have unlimited access to Adobe Stock. Learn more about Adobe Firefly.

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Adobe Stock

Find the perfect stock asset for your next creative project including photos, videos, vector art, illustrations and more! Learn more about Adobe Stock at IU.

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Anonymous In-class Polling with PowerPoint

id you know that you can put anonymous, interactive polls directly in your PowerPoint slide deck? Use Microsoft Forms to gather input from your students in real time. Learn more about Anonymous In-class Polling.

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Campus Teaching Centers

Your campus teaching center is here for you. Meet your campus’ teaching center consultants to see how they can help you. Learn more about your campus’ teaching and learning center.

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Canvas Analytics & Messaging

See how Canvas Analytics can help you quickly reach out to students who are missing assignments or even send encouragement to those who just aced the exam - all roads lead to “Message students who…” Learn more about Canvas Analytics.

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Canvas Assignments & Grades

How many clicks does it take to add a column to Canvas Gradebook? Just a few; come and see how. Learn more about Canvas Assignments.

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Canvas Commons

Use the Canvas learning object repository to discover, modify, and share course materials.  Learn more about Canvas Commons.

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Canvas Discussions Redesign

The Canvas Discussions/Announcements Redesign offers several new, frequently requested features – including anonymous discussion topics, @mentions, version histories, sort threads, and quote replies.  Learn more about Canvas Discussions Redesign.

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Canvas New Quizzes

Canvas is rolling out New Quizzes which features improved ways to expedite quiz/question duplication, grading, moderation, and feedback. New Quizzes provides the ability to align outcomes with quizzes as well as easier import and export of QTI files. New question types such as hot spot, categorization, and word banks are also included. This new release incorporates enhanced quiz data reporting. Learn more about Canvas New Quizzes.

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Canvas Quizzes: Question Groups and Banks

Use Question Groups and Banks to give each student a different set of questions or to mix up the order they get them in, all while organizing your question content into easy-to-use (and reuse) categories. Question Groups and Banks can spice up your assessments, all while making things easier for you!

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Canvas SpeedGrader

Reduce time and tedium grading with Canvas SpeedGrader. Learn more about SpeedGrader.

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Classroom Database & Active Learning Classrooms at IU

Find out about all the capabilities of the classroom you’ve been scheduled to teach in. Also learn how to use the database to find a classroom that fits your teaching needs. Learn more about Active Learning Certified Classrooms at IU.

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Course Setup Wizard for Canvas

Use the Course Setup Wizard for help importing content from another course, adding a template, or adding the IU Home Page to your course. Learn more about Course Setup Wizard for Canvas.

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Delphinium

Delphinium is a student engagement and gamification platform that integrates with Canvas to increase student motivation in courses. This 9 minutes will be dedicated to the flexible, targeted messaging in Delphinium. Learn more about Delphinium.

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Digital Whiteboarding

Discover high- and low-tech ways to synchronously draw and share diagrams, solve equations, or annotate on images for your face-to-face, online, or hybrid courses. Learn more about Digital Whiteboarding.

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Edfinity

Edfinity is an NSF-backed homework and testing program that provides ready-to-go homework mapped to dozens of courses and textbooks. Remix over 250,000 interactive problems or create your own. If you are an OER author, increase adoption with interactive problems aligned perfectly to your book chapters. Learn more about Edfinity.

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Full-serve Academic Media Production Spaces

Recording facilities for faculty use at IUB, IUPUI and select regional campuses: with technology suited for producing high-end instructional multimedia content. Learn more about Academic Media Production Spaces at IU.

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Generative AI

GenAI: Your automated teaching assistant. We'll share use cases (and sample prompts) for using generative AI to aid in teaching and learning, including creating formative assessments, drafting communications, editing course material, and more. Learn more about Generative AI.

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GoReact

Allows instructors to provide innovative and impactful formative feedback on student videos. It increases the speed of skill development, and improves student outcomes for in-person, blended, and fully-remote learning environments. Learn more about GoReact. 

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Gradescope

Gradescope is an assignment and exam submission, grading, and analytics platform that integrates with Canvas to facilitate the grading of bubble sheets, hand-written assignments, and coding assignments. Learn more about Gradescope.

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Hypothes.is

Promote active learning in texts by allowing students to actively engage with their reading by digitally annotating course texts available in PDF format or as a web page. Hypothes.is is available through the IU eTexts program. Learn more about Hypothes.is. 

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ID Clinic

The Instructional Design Clinic is staffed with IU staff experts who can help you get started or level up your online teaching. Virtual consultations are available 7 days/week. Learn more about ID Clinic.

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InScribe 2.0

InScribe is a digital community platform that helps connect students to the answer, resources, and people they need to succeed. Students participate by asking questions, starting conversations, and responding to peers. New features in InScribe 2.0 include Roster Sync and Gradebook Passback. Learn more about InScribe 2.0 at IU.

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IT Training

IT Training offers modular courses on technical topics ranging from audio/visual production to media design, to office productivity. Learn more about IT Training.

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IUanyWare

Access IU Computer Labs remotely using IUAnyWare. Imagine using a campus PC from the computer labs right from your home on a Mac, Chromebook or iPad/tablet. The connection is made using just a normal internet and browser connection. Request specialty software or run an exercise for students knowing that they will have the same experience. Learn more about accessing campus computer resources through IUanyWare.

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IU Course Template for Canvas

You don’t have to recreate the wheel; this fully accessible template includes a home page, a syllabus, a "Getting Started" module for students, and much more. Learn more about Canvas Template.

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IU eTexts

Save your students up to 90% on the books and publisher course materials you may already be using. Plus, all students in your class will have access to their course materials on the first day of the term so they can be ready to learn from the start. Learn more about IU eTexts.

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IU Mobile

Stay connected to IU from anywhere. IU Mobile puts the tools you need at your fingertips, with a personalized experience designed around your needs. Learn more about IU Mobile.

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Kaltura

Works with Canvas for cloud-based video recording, inline quizzing, sharing,
and management. Learn more about Kaltura at IU.

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Kritik

Kritik is a peer-grading platform that distributes fair and accurate assessments by harnessing collective intelligence to simplify workflows and give professors more time to coach and mentor their students. With peer assessment, your students learn to write constructive feedback to their peers that elevates their learning experience.

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Labster

Enables laboratory courses to move online (either fully or partially), Labster is the world's leading provider of virtual science labs. Learn more about Labster.

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Learning Analytics

Promote student success through identifying needs & addressing them with evidence-based practices. Learn more about Learning Analytics. 

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LinkedIn Learning

Increase your technology, creative, and business skills with LinkedIn Learning. Learn more about LinkedIn Learning. 

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Lucidchart

Create diagrams based on templates or create custom ones from scratch, share across operating systems and collaborate in real-time while whiteboarding, brainstorming, or building flowcharts, mockups, UML diagrams, and more. Lucidchart is an intuitive online diagramming platform that combines flowcharts, collaboration, and data visualization. Learn more about Lucidchart. 

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MathJax

Come with questions or success stories on how to make mathematics and STEM course materials accessible. Learn about how Canvas now supports MathJax for making mathematics accessible!

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Microsoft 365

Get answers to your questions about Microsoft 365 at IU. Learn more about Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft Bookings

An online scheduling tool that allows IU Exchange Online users to set up calendars and manage availability so that others can easily book appointments through an online form. It also allows people without access to Exchange Online, such as students and individuals external to the university, to schedule meetings with those who do use Exchange Online, such as faculty and staff. Learn more about Microsoft Bookings.

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Microsoft Find Time

Shows what days and times work the best for you and the attendees when available using free/busy data, Let's you propose your selected times to all attendees and then allows everyone to vote and quickly come to a consensus. Learn more about Microsoft FindTime.

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that ties together multiple Microsoft applications and services in one location to facilitate communication and collaboration within and between units at Indiana University. Microsoft Teams gives us access to Chat, Calendar, Tasks by Planner and To do, and many more applications. Learn more about Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Whiteboard

Collaborate and brainstorm on a digital canvas. Learn more about Microsoft Whiteboard.

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Multi-tool for Canvas

The Multi-Tool, from Cidi Labs, consists of four different utilities designed to help you quickly build and configure the components for a new course in Canvas. Learn more about Multi-tool for Canvas.

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Next.IU Pilots

IU regularly vets new technology with the help of its faculty. Request new software that IU should consider providing to the IU community. Learn more about Next.IU.

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PlayPosit

Incorporate questions, reflections, web overlays, and other types of interactions into course videos. Learn more about PlayPosit.

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Pressbooks

Use Pressbooks to create course materials by yourself, with colleagues, or with your students. This online authoring and publishing tool allows you to incorporate your own text, video, images, and interactions along with open educational resources to develop effective content to share with your class or with the public. Learn more about Pressbooks at IU.

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Qualtrics LTI

Qualtrics LTI embeds surveys as assignments in Canvas, making the survey process faster, more convenient, and an integral part of the student learning experience. Qualtrics LTI surveys can be distributed across an institution, to specific departments, to certain courses, or to students in a single course. Learn more about Qualtrics LTI.

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Qualtrics Surveys

Create surveys, collect feedback from your students, and analyze responses all in one place with the Qualtrics cloud-based survey platform. Learn more about Qualtrics.

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Responsive Learning Technologies

Business Foundations - online adaptive assessment and tutorials designed to ensure that every admitted student has a baseline set of skills necessary to begin their MBA program. Subjects include: Financial Accounting, Microeconomics, Finance, Statistics, Excel and Quantitative Skills. Online games to teach Operations Mgmt, Supply Chain Mgmt, and Business Modeling includes competitive simulations used in graded assignments to teach topics including process analysis, inventory control, supply chain management, spreadsheet modeling and optimization. Learn more about Responsive's Business Foundations and online games.

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Self-serve Academic Media Production Spaces

Looking to take your instructional videos up a level? The Self-serve Studio is a media recording facility suited for producing higher-end instructional multimedia content. Faculty from all campuses are welcome to use the Self-serve Studios. Currently, there are Self-serve Studios located on the Bloomington, Indianapolis, and Columbus campuses with more locations planned in the coming year. Learn more about Self-serve Academic Media Production Spaces.

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Streamline Grading

Between SpeedGrader, Rubrics, and Grades, Canvas offers a number of time-saving tools to simplify your grading process, while maintaining quality student feedback. Learn more about Streamline Grading.

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Student Engagement Roster

Provide timely student feedback to encourage engagement, point to experiences and opportunities for enrichment, and mark student attendance. Learn more about Student Engagement Roster.

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Teaching.IU

Explore the new Teaching.IU, redesigned with a new library of teaching resources, stories of effective teaching practices from your colleagues, and an improved Learning Technology Tool Finder to connect you with the tech you and your students need. Visit Teaching.IU.

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Teaching for Student Success

There are many ways to teach—discover which ones have evidence of success. Learn more about Teaching for Student Success.

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TidyUP

If you teach the same course semester after semester, you may have a build-up of old files, folders, and content items (such as pages, assignments, quizzes, and discussion topics) that are no longer used. TidyUP provides an easy and efficient interface for identifying and deleting unused course materials, making your course easier to manage and more usable for your students.  Learn more about TidyUP.

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Tool Finder

Tool Finder is a useful database of online tools compiled by IU that can help you find tools for a number of specific purposes. You can filter results to find tools that you can use for communication, storage, assessment, and/or collaboration, among other helpful categories.  Learn more about Tool Finder.

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Top Hat

Use this interactive, cloud-based system to increase student engagement and real-time feedback—both inside and outside of the classroom.  Learn more about Top Hat at IU.

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UITS Support Center Jobs

Work for the UITS Support Center. Gain valuable experience while providing technical advising and support to clients at IU-supported communities. Learn more about UITS Support Center jobs..

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Virtual Reality

Helps students create and experiment with virtual environments and experience immersive simulations. Learn more about Virtual Reality at IU.

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VoiceThread 2.0

For 17 years VoiceThread has been giving people a way to make their interactions online warmer and more “human-centric.” VoiceThread 2.0 has dozens of new features and is more accessible than previous versions. Learn more about VoiceThread 2.0.

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Zoom

Communicate with HD-quality video and audio for classes, web conferences, and collaboration. Learn more about Zoom.

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7 Simple Steps to Inclusive Documents

Discover easy workflow practices that will make your documents more inclusive and make your editing more efficient. Learn more about the 7 Simple Steps.

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3-D Printing

Imagine how 3-D printed objects could enhance student learning in your course. Learn more about 3-D printing at IU.

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