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  • PlayPosit logo over a background image of a user
    The PlayPosit interactive video quizzing is now a supported CU Boulder campus service for users of Canvas and D2L.This interactive video tool allows you to customize the student experience. Using video from YouTube, Kaltura, or other sources, you
  • Cartoon of a designer working at a computer
    Got a course that needs revamping? Or teaching a new course soon? This fall, we're launching two new professional development opportunities for faculty interested in a deeper dive into course design principles and best practices:The Course Design
  • Now hiring sign
    Are you someone who enjoys learning about new technologies and teaching them to others? ASSETT (Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) is looking to hire two Student Fellows. A Student Fellow is an undergraduate student who
  • Students chatting with their instructor. One of the students appears on-screen on a Kubi device.
    OIT is excited to offer a new service this semester: Kubi - Remote Presence Technology. Kubi is a robotic 鈥渘eck鈥 that holds a tablet and allows a remote user to control the tablet through a Zoom web conference meeting. From their own computer, the
  • Andy Martin
    Welcome to a new semester full of opportunities for collaboration: among students, between professors and students, and among professors1.I want to start by highlighting ASSETT services that can improve your teaching and provide evidence for
  • Participants work in small groups during a workshop on Universal Design for Learning
    Campus was quiet, but the ASSETT team was hard at work! We offered a series of special summer events, prepared new offerings for the coming academic year, and polished up our ongoing programs and services.Here are some virtual postcards from
  • Cover of Teach Students How to Learn
    In summer 2018, over 20 CU faculty and staff collaboratively read and discussed Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation by Saundra Yancy
  • Tech Camp participants discuss Universal Design for Learning in small groups
    With the close of the spring semester, ASSETT kicked off its summer programming with a week-long Tech Camp. This year's event, centered on the theme of "Students as Producers," spotlighted technologies that support the creative activities of
  • Andy Martin
    I have increasingly realized the quality of my assessments of student learning determines the quality of my teaching. If I write a good three-dimensional question, the question directs my teaching. The key is that the question has to be multi-
  • tech of the month icon
    As the semester winds down, is your desk buried in piles of ungraded student papers? Is your ink-stained hand cramping from writing comments? Are you dusting off your calculator to tabulate grades? Now there is a better way 鈥 the Canvas SpeedGrader!
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