Elevate Your Scientific Illustrations: Integrate BioRender with PowerPoint for Dynamic Presentations

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 Andrew Ruether

BioRender is an online service that aids faculty and student researchers in creating and sharing high-quality scientific visuals. It is particularly useful for enhancing journal articles, scientific posters, presentations, class slides, grant applications, and brainstorming sessions. A new feature allows … Continue reading Elevate Your Scientific Illustrations: Integrate BioRender with PowerPoint for Dynamic Presentations

Academic Technology, Data Science, News

Think Posit-ively about running R code

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 Andrew Ruether

For many years, ITS has hosted an RStudio Server to support faculty and students in running R code directly from web browsers. This platform has enabled easy access to RStudio from any device. Over the next few months, we will … Continue reading Think Posit-ively about running R code

Artificial Intelligence, Policies, Security

Zoom AI Bot Invasion: What You Need to Know

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 Andrew Ruether

We’ve seen an uptick in the number of people using Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots in Zoom meetings. ITS has disabled the Zoom AI Companion, but other non-Swarthmore meeting hosts and attendees are increasingly inviting a AI bots to meetings to … Continue reading Zoom AI Bot Invasion: What You Need to Know

Academic Technology

The AI Divide: How Different Schools Are Embracing Technology

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024 Andrew Ruether

Over the past few years, the University of Michigan (U-M) has jumped deep into providing generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools for the entire campus community. I was struck with the difference in tenor between the majority of conversations I’ve had … Continue reading The AI Divide: How Different Schools Are Embracing Technology

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff

New Gradescope Features

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024 Andrew Ruether

Swarthmore has a site license for Gradescope, a tool to assist professors with grading homework and exams. Often integrated with Moodle, Gradescope simplifies the process of grading written homework, paper exams, and now even online assignments. There are some new … Continue reading New Gradescope Features

Academic Technology, Artificial Intelligence, News

Library and ITS Guidance on Artificial Intelligence for Fall 2024

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 Andrew Ruether

The Swarthmore College Libraries and ITS have released guidance for instructional staff on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The document provides practical advice for syllabus statements, assignments, privacy, and AI detection. View the Library and ITS Guidance on Artificial Intelligence for Fall … Continue reading Library and ITS Guidance on Artificial Intelligence for Fall 2024

Swarthmore College – ITS Blog

Author: Andrew Ruether