ICON Course Management System
ICON offers a web-based interface between faculty and students that may include a course homepage, a dynamically-updated classlist, course materials (documents, slideshows, audio/video files, etc.), a gradebook, online quizzes, assignment dropbox, chat and discussion forums, and more. Selective access can be granted to TA’s or staff to manage grading and other tasks.
Other course site services
ITS-Instructional Services supports other options (in addition to ICON) for augmenting your courses.
- Turnitin - Plagiarism detection
- MyWeb - MyWeb web hosting service now available to all UI faculty, staff and students that provides space for publishing individual, academic-related web sites.
- Course web space - Course Web Space service provides an account on the University's central web server, www.uiowa.edu, with approximately 5 MB of space allocated to it. This server space is meant for faculty who are interested in putting course-related materials online.
- MyFiles - Course Web Space service provides an account on the University's central web server, www.uiowa.edu, with approximately 5 MB of space allocated to it. This server space is meant for faculty who are interested in putting course-related materials online.
- WebSurveyor - WebSurveyor is a web-based survey program capable of collecting, analyzing and graphing your data.
- Elluminate Live! - Elluminate Live! virtual meetingware allows moderator-led web-based meetings with options to shared data and applications and support coordinated voice or instant message discussions.
- Video/audio in course sites - Consulting from the Digital Media Solutions Team
- Xythos - Xythos is a web-based utility intended to provide students, faculty, and staff with a personal, easy-to-use interface to upload, download, and share files to both users inside and outside of the Institution.
Web Design & Development
Are you charged with creating a new course site, maintaining a departmental site, or creating the web site for a project or grant? We offer consultation on the technologies available to you. Although we may not have the resources to do all the production for you, we can offer advice/supervision on aspects of web design that might fall through the cracks otherwise:
- accessibility and universal design issues (e.g. CSS),
- time-saving design ideas (e.g. use of templates),
- which web technologies fit you needs (e.g. backend databases for dynamic content, streaming media, media content management, etc.),
- a long-term home for your site,
- and more...
