About the Spring 2023 Pilot During the Spring 2023 semester, Canvas was utilized by a growing number of students, instructors and courses, building on the success of the Fall 2022 pilot. Specifically, over 500 students and 21 instructors across 35 courses used Canvas. Seven new instructors joined the pilot, while fourteen existing users continued to…
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Pilot Background In the early 2000s, The Claremont Colleges deployed a variety of Learning Management Systems (LMS) solutions – Moodle at Pomona College, WebCT at Claremont McKenna College, and Sakai at Harvey Mudd College. Sometime around 2005 or 2006, the Consortium standardized on one LMS, Sakai, and it has been in use continually by most…
Some Background In spring 2022, ITS began efforts to migrate faculty from the College’s aging, in-house, academic video service, known as Video47. The migration began in earnest by summer 2022, with a series of communications, alerting those with files on Video47 to the need for the migration, as well as to keep them informed during…
It is important to keep up professionally, staying abreast with those technologies applied in teaching and scholarship so that we can support the Pomona community. We in RITG are fortunate to have funding from the College and ITS to do so. We sometimes use these funds for trainings and workshops, such as developing leadership skills…
Summer is upon us! This will be the last RITG blog post until next fall. We’ll be working on various projects over the summer–some of which involve you–that we hope to unveil in the fall and following months. For one, be sure to watch for our teaching with technology trainings before classes commence. As the spring…
I know we’ve been dangling the 2022-2023 Hahn Grant cycle carrot in front of you since February, so without further ado, I am pleased to announce that the call for proposals is open! This year’s call asks for applications by faculty interested in redesigning their pedagogical approaches and/or course structure around the use of (1)…
ITS recently sent out a survey to solicit feedback on the homegrown video-streaming application, Video47, which many Pomona College staff and faculty use to share educational videos with students. The survey questions are meant to help us determine what features Pomona users most want in the next iteration of a robust video management and streaming service.…
After a recent examination of the most frequently asked Sakai questions, we (RITG) developed a top skills list to help serve the Pomona community. This list pulls together some of the most common questions and requests that ITS has received through our ticketing system in the past year. While Sakai questions often change with the…
Though held on a surprisingly cold and rainy day, the energy behind the Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant Program Project Showcase remained joyous, especially with it being the first annual event for the Hahn family. With so many amazing projects to celebrate, we thought we’d highlight how each presenter contributed to this spirit of “synergy,”…
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No-Code Augmented Reality
Earlier in the term, I wrote about BioChemAR: Macromolecular 3D visualizations in the classroom, a case study with examples of using Augmented Reality (AR) in the classroom. In the third part of our AR blog post series, we will discuss a no-code solution for building AR experiences. We introduced a web AR example using DNA in…