Since February, instructors and students at Dey Hall have benefited from a new active-learning classroom created with a seldom-used approach to renovation. ITS Teaching & Learning and other University groups collaborated to convert Dey 205 and 207 into one larger, … Read more

Since rolling out a new exam-scanning system last semester, ITS cut the average wait time for instructors as well as ITS’ own staff time to provide the service in half. Launched on campus in Fall 2017, InstructorTools by DigitalDesk also … Read more

During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, ITS Teaching & Learning upgraded the Sakai to version 11.2, marking the first time that ITS had upgraded a learning management system at UNC-Chapel Hill between Fall and Spring semesters. In other accomplishments over the past … Read more

ITS Teaching & Learning has been preparing UNC-Chapel Hill for an upgrade to Sakai 11. Now with students away for winter break and final grades submitted, Sakai is offline today while Teaching & Learning rolls out the new version. The … Read more

Through collaboration between ITS Teaching & Learning and ITS Digital Services, UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services launched a mobile-friendly map of campus printers in CarolinaGO, the University’s official mobile app, in November 2015. The new map provides a better experience … Read more

Thao Nghi Bui, Learning Technologies Administrator with ITS Teaching & Learning, shares her experience attending her first UNC Cause. As a first-time UNC Causer, I appreciated the opportunity to network with our fellow IT colleagues from the UNC System and … Read more

At the 2015 UNC Cause, Morgon Haskell, Support Specialist with ITS Teaching & Learning, led a session about the lifecycle of integrating non-native applications with the Sakai learning environment. In this guest blog post, Haskell shares some highlights. As richer … Read more

The Teaching & Learning group within Information Technology Services continues to make Sakai, the University’s open-source collaboration and learning-management system, more valuable to the campus community. Sakai is one of the most-used ITS services on campus, and more users are … Read more

Remember when talking in class got you a one-way ticket to the principal’s office? Thanks to technology, the classroom experience has come a long way – and it’s time for the infrastructure to catch up. Since the summer of 2013, … Read more

Lynda.com’s 3,800+ video courses are now available at no additional charge to all UNC-Chapel Hill students. Self-paced courses of all levels cover technical skills, creative techniques, business strategies and more. UNC-Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning has contracted with Lynda.com … Read more

An image of a library’s old card catalog loomed on the screen at one point during Daniel Russell’s presentation at the recent “Envisioning the Digital University” conference at the Carolina Club. Back then with that tool and many others, “when … Read more

Can you envision UNC-Chapel Hill’s digital future? How will the University use information technology in 44 years or even 14 years? To begin exploring these questions, Carolina administrators and faculty members brainstormed, collaborated and gained big-picture context from experts at … Read more