Partner Relationships
We advocate for IU’s interests with the learning tools that faculty and students rely on, including Canvas.
In partnership with other IU units, we ensure that vendors maintain security and accessibility required by the university.
Our system admins handle high-level technical challenges that allow IU teaching and learning tools to talk to each other, as well as set up and maintain the structure to ensure optimum performance for these tools.
Innovative Tools
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At Indiana University, we believe in the power of innovation and the impact of exceptional education. We're proud to introduce our groundbreaking tool, the Course Setup Wizard, which streamlines faculty work and transforms student learning experiences.In response to the challenges of emergency remote teaching in 2020, learning technologies at IU created a customizable online course template and homepage. IU automatically deployed these templates across Canvas. The templates were full of strategic tips, images, and examples designed to ease the stress of the faculty pivot to online course creation.
Carrie Hansel, EdD, Manager, Online Instructional Design, eLearning Design and Services: "I was consulting with a faculty member who was moving online. She told me that maybe she should just retire because she didn't think she could teach online, and my heart broke. Here was an instructor who had taught for many years and was on the verge of quitting. I knew we had to do something. I proposed to leadership that we provide a course template based on best practices in all IU courses."
Anastasia (Stacy) Morrone, PhD, AVP Learning Technologies 2006-2020: "So this was the time when campus and university leadership were meeting daily to talk about what we could do to help faculty move their courses online. The course templating solution was something that we didn't know if it would work, but it was something that ultimately our faculty found very helpful in being able to successfully move to an online format."
To build the template, instructional designers provided research -supported expertise, aligning the tool with best practices in course delivery. Accessibility specialists ensured that every student, including those with disabilities, could access and benefit from all course materials.
IU learning technologies didn't stop there. We requested input from our faculty on how the template could improve. Those conversations began the evolution toward departmental templates, and finally, our powerful course setup wizard.
Dr. Sarah Smith Robbins, Director of Learning Technologies, Kelley School of Business: "Here at the Kelley School of Business, we have 450 faculty to support and only three people to do it. The IU Learning Technologies Course Setup Wizard has made our job a lot easier."
The Course Setup Wizard is the latest evolution of the template initiative, giving faculty increased design options and just -in -time support. It provides instructors with an interactive assistant in each new unpublished Canvas site. The wizard walks them through the course creation process by inviting them to select for multiple template options. apply a university -branded homepage, or import content from a different course. Combining this step -by -step coaching with the flexibility of approaches creates a supportive and efficient course design experience.
TJ Rivard, MFA, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University East: "I taught in a different learning management system for a long time, and then when we switched to Canvas, I was a little less familiar with that. And so with the Setup Wizard, I was able to work through a lot of the questions that I had far more easily than I would have if I had been on my own."
The course setup wizard is built on OneEdTech's LTI 1 .3 standard. Developers have now been working on Wizard 2 .0, which will add exciting new features, including visual themes and increased instructor choice. At Indiana University, we're committed to innovation and excellence in how we leverage our LMS.
Justin Zemlyak, Director, IU Teaching and Learning Technologies: "Faculty have told us they're really overwhelmed in a lot of areas, and anything we can do to make their lives easier, such as baking in good course design along with federal compliance with something like the Templating Wizard allows us to do that."
Our Course Setup Wizard has significantly improved the digital learning ecosystem at IU. It has delivered templates to more than 3,000 courses and supported more than 11,000 course imports over the past two years, enhancing both the learning experience and institutional performance.
Indiana University's Course Setup Wizard, an LTI 1 .3 tool that raises the bar, making courses easier to use for students, and freeing up faculty to have time to do what they do best, teach.
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Quick Check is a tool for creating inline assessments in Canvas, allowing you to integrate frequent, low-stakes assessment in a course. Providing a mix of higher and lower stakes assessments can help instructors get to know students’ work, provide multiple opportunities for feedback, and deter cheating.
Using Quick Check as an external tool assignment, with content placed in the assignment description, allows integration of content and assessment in a format that is difficult to achieve in a traditional quiz. Presenting questions as part of the content can be less intimidating to students than a more formal assessment, and encourages additional interaction with the content.
The Quick Check authoring and management tool is accessed from the Canvas course’s left navigation bar.
An instructor can create a set of quick checks, similar to a question bank, that can be used in one or more courses. Sets can be used from semester to semester with no additional setup required.
Other instructors can be invited to a set. You can give them editing or read-only permissions. Each set can be customized with the features that work best for your course. Subsets allow you to further organize your quick checks. For instance, you could create a subset that corresponds to a module in your course.
Quick Check offers the following question types: multiple choice, multiple correct, matrix, matching, text match, multiple dropdowns, and numerical.
It’s easy to embed a quick check as a Canvas external tool assignment.
Student attempts along with pertinent response data are always recorded. And while grades are automatically passed back to Canvas, they can be quickly added or edited from the Quick Check tool.
You can quickly see how individual students responded to questions. Or, you can view analytics for the class as a whole. See general statistics on student performance, as well as how students answered each question.