Customize your search so certain categories display first. Search for any term in Workday to access the simplified search. Select “All Categories” and then select “Edit Category Preferences.” Drag-and-drop categories to match your search style. For example, if you want help articles to appear first when you search for things… Continue reading »
Almost all seminar rooms, classrooms, and teaching labs offer projection systems that instructors may connect to with a laptop or tablet to show slides, videos, or virtual conferencing (an HDMI cable with miniport adaptor is provided). NOTE: If you will need to use other media (VHS, DVD, etc.), then these… Continue reading »
Student Course Surveys (SCS) are managed by Institutional Research (IR) and provided as separate GLOW courses each term. Not all courses require the SCS. Near the middle of each semester IR will contact those faculty who are instructing courses subject to the SCS, and will provide information about what… Continue reading »
Recording confidential sources (e.g. scholarship or meeting minutes)? Before transcription can occur there needs to be a record of what is communicated. Below are recommendations for recording confidential sources. In-Person Sessions (recommended) Remote Sessions When in-person sessions aren’t possible, then a third party communication/recording service will be necessary. While… Continue reading »
Academic Technology Services Workshop: Exploring AI in the Williams Context Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 1:30 – 3:00pm | Sawyer 328 Join us in reflecting upon, exploring, and playing with the concepts and examples Flower Darby… Continue reading »
The movement from analog to digital information communications and storage in the 21st Century only started ~20 years ago, and yet there is still so much analog history that remains invisible to the digital realm. To convey historical records of significance from analog (physical materials) to digital (1s & 0s),… Continue reading »
GenAI Detectors: Current Research and Considerations Fall 2024 OIT’s mission includes “making available the best information technology resources” and “support[ing] the faculty in communicating knowledge […] to the community of scholars”. As Williams faculty develop their responses to generative AI (genAI), we know that software vendors are marketing genAI… Continue reading »
Polling (a.k.a. surveying) offers several pedagogical advantages for strengthening faculty and student relationships: Student Engagement Getting to know your students before the first day of class. Think-Pair-Share (a.k.a. breakout discussion sessions). Student Evaluation (informal, formative, and summative) Preparing students for a discussion topic, particularly when introducing difficult or contentious subjects… Continue reading »
Please visit the FabriCation Lab’s dedicated website at: FabriCationLab The FabLab (Sawyer 264)… Continue reading »
Please explore the Virtual Reality Room at the Makerspace website: Virtual Reality The VR Room (Sawyer 264)… Continue reading »
Three student stories: Ben, Sam, and Morgan. They’re among the 1 in 5 American undergraduates who have disabilities (NCES 1). But you may have never heard their stories, because 65% of these students don’t ever inform their college (… Continue reading »
Need a quiet space for video or audio recording? Looking for a quick and easy space to conduct an interview or podcast? Try the EZ Studio! The Center for Educational Technology (CET), located in Sawyer Library, offers many spaces and resources to extend teaching and… Continue reading »
For faculty aiming to create an inclusive learning community, accessibility is an important element of course (and content) design. Unlike in the past, most mainstream applications today (like Google Workspace) make it incredibly easy to create digital materials which are accessible from the start – avoiding the stress of… Continue reading »
Faculty can easily make their in-class slide presentations more accessible to all students, by activating the standard “live caption” feature in either Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. This feature automatically produces on-screen text captions from the audio captured via system microphone. Whether a student is Deaf, hard of hearing,… Continue reading »
Option 1: Add your Course to Canvas Commons Choose this option if you would like to share your course with Williams instructors. You can do this immediately. In 2024, GLOW now has the Canvas Commons, a repository of courses and individual items shared amongst all instructors within GLOW. Continue reading »
Bring Your Syllabus to Life in GLOW! Workshop led by Academic Technology Services Monday, January 22, 10:30am-Noon, Sawyer 269 Join the Academic Technology Consultants for a dynamic showcase, where we will guide you through specific techniques to make visible the relationship between intentional syllabus design and GLOW (Canvas,… Continue reading »
In recognition of National First Gen Week, and Williams faculty’s commitment to student learning, Academic Technology Services offers some “tech”-niques you can use (both as you’re preparing for the next semester, and just-in-time at any point during the semester) to illuminate the hidden curriculum, and build self-efficacy, for… Continue reading »
Introduction Many faculty use assessment wrappers as a simple but effective tool to center metacognition and reflection. This technique can encourage students to change their study approach for the next course assessment. Implementing an exam wrapper as a New Quiz containing a Google Form provides great flexibility for faculty, enabling… Continue reading »
Following from the Rice Center for Teaching’s recent workshop about Approaches to Meaningful Student Group Work, Academic Technology Services is offering virtual consultation sessions to discuss the technology resources available to both instructors and their students in support of… Continue reading »
Join CET for first-hand opportunities to use multiple, multi-modal generative AI tools: text, voice, image, and code, with Academic Technology Consultants on hand to discuss implications and strategies. The Center for Educational Technology (CET) brings you the chance to test multiple current generative AI tools for text, audio, images, and… Continue reading »
Introduction The Immersive Reader feature provides every GLOW user a set of customizable tools to enhance their academic access. Immersive Reader supports fluency for multilingual students with translation tools; offers text decoding features for students with dyslexia; provides text-to-speech audio; and includes visual scaffolding options to improve reading comprehension and… Continue reading »
The Williams Makerspace is hiring two first-year students for the 2023 fall semester. You will be responsible for working on academic projects for faculty and staff. Seeking students who are self-directed, fast-learners, work efficiently, and with great focus. You will learn on-the-job as you work on projects. No prior experience required. This… Continue reading »
Artificial Intelligence is a general term for any program which allows a computer to perform tasks that flexibly adapt to changing situations. It includes everything from chess-playing computers, to spell check, to algorithms for robots to move around a room. The recent buzz in Artificial Intelligence is around a specific… Continue reading »
Gradescope is a tool from Turnitin which enables faculty to grade and assess a wide range of student work within GLOW (Canvas), including handwritten worksheets, “bubble” sheet exams, code, and more. Faculty at Williams can activate Gradescope within their individual course by completing the Gradescope activation request form… Continue reading »
Panopto is the video streaming service behind the “Course Media Gallery” in Glow, and can also be used to embed videos in WordPress pages or shared directly from the Panopto site. Starting January 20, 2025, inactive videos unviewed for 4 consecutive years will be deleted. What is the difference… Continue reading »