Join the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology for ICON Day 2025. Jeffrey Kontio, EdD, will deliver the keynote, "What You Do Matters: Designing for Real Access in Real Classrooms," focusing on the role of instructors and instructional designers in creating engaging learning environments while helping to frame accessibility as something that benefits all. Register by Monday, Nov. 3, to attend ICON Day 2025.
Kontio is a digital accessibility expert, lecturer in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, and the IT manager for the Politics Department at Princeton University.
A series of lightning talks will share information about extended quiz time in ICON, a new AI-powered note taking tool, resources for PDF remediation, options for captioning tools, and an ICON template designed to be accessible.
Attendees will have an opportunity to select one of these workshops:
Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool. Ally provides instructors with guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials.
Student Voices on Accessibility: A Panel Discussion. This event will feature University of Iowa students.
ICON Q&A: Ask the Experts. Drop in to connect with ICON specialists for an open Q&A session.
Try, Explore, Adjust (TEA): Advanced Course Accessibility. We'll dig into accessible course design, learn more about web and document accessibility standards, and put best practices into use for our courses.
Thank you to our campus partners—including the College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Distance and Online Education, Office of the Provost, Tippie College of Business, and University Libraries—for supporting ICON Day 2025.
The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.