Category: Students

Academic Technology, Faculty/Staff, Software, Students
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Wow your audience using drawings created with BioRender – now available for faculty and students

Andrew Ruether

BioRender is an online tool used to create and share professional-looking scientific figures for journal articles, posters, presentations, class slides, and grant applications.  The service is primarily focused on Biology and Chemistry but also has general imagery for lab equipment, food, … Continue reading Wow your audience using drawings created with BioRender – now available for faculty and students

Academic Technology, Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, Faculty/Staff, Software, Students
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Adobe Creative Cloud now free for all Swarthmore College students

Mike Jones

Adobe Creative Cloud is now available for free to all Swarthmore College students through ITS. This includes access to all of the Adobe Creative Suite apps, as well as additional cloud services. Adobe Creative Cloud typically costs $49.99/month for access … Continue reading Adobe Creative Cloud now free for all Swarthmore College students

Academic Technology, Classroom and Conferencing Technologies, Computer Classrooms, Departments, Faculty/Staff, Help Desk, KnowledgeBase, Language & Media Center, Learning, Learning Spaces, LinkedIn Learning, MakerSpace, Media Center, Moodle, Network, News, Security, Students, Tips, Wireless, Workshops and Events, Zoom
A graphic with "Welcome" written in 21 different languages

Changes by ITS for Fall Term, 2022

Joel F. W. Price '00

Welcome, friends.  As the Fall Semester begins, we wanted to share with you the many ways ITS will support our campus community. This is a long post with a lot of information.  For organizational purposes, we have broken down the … Continue reading Changes by ITS for Fall Term, 2022

Academic Technology, Learning Technology, Mobile Devices, Mobile Learning, Moodle, Remote Teaching and Learning, Software, Students
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New Gradescope Mobile App for Students

Andrew Ruether

Gradescope is a service used for collecting and grading of paper homework and exams. We’ve received positive feedback from Swarthmore faculty indicating the system makes it faster and easier to grade student work. In the past, students had to use … Continue reading New Gradescope Mobile App for Students

Academic Technology, Course Planning, Faculty/Staff, Learning Technology, Mobile Learning, Students
Apple MacBook Air

Educational Technology: What about Student Computers?

Doug Willen

The pandemic changes things The Covid-19 pandemic forced us to adapt how we teach. One of those adaptations was having students connect remotely to teaching sessions held over Zoom. As a College, we quickly recognized that we had quite a … Continue reading Educational Technology: What about Student Computers?

Academic Technology, Accessibility, Faculty/Staff, Moodle, Students
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How to allow extra time on exams, quizzes and assigments in Moodle (Moodle Accessibility – Part 1)

Doug Willen

Faculty are frequently asked for extra time on quizes, exams and written assignments. In some cases, these requests are to accommodate a disability that impacts a student’s speed in completing such work. Fortunately, it’s easy to manage extra time with … Continue reading How to allow extra time on exams, quizzes and assigments in Moodle (Moodle Accessibility – Part 1)