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Getting started with Generative AI | "One Little Thing"

Robyn Michelle Ollodort — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:34:48 +0000

Getting started with Generative AI | "One Little Thing"

Author: Ethan Cortes

February 4, 2025

This video covers how to use generative AI.

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Academic Technology Updates: Spring 2025

Robyn Michelle Ollodort — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:15:11 +0000

Academic Technology Updates: Spring 2025

Author: AT Communications (Robyn Ollodort)

January 20, 2025

Academic Technology (AT) welcomes you to Spring 2025! As you prepare to start a new semester, please note the following announcements and updates from AT:

Spring 2025 Support Hours

Academic Technology is resuming extended hours beginning January 27, 2025 to support evening classes.

The new hours are Monday through Thursday, from 8:00AM to 8:00PM. Friday will remain 8:00AM to 5:00PM.

Visit us in LIB 80 or book an appointment in Outlook; contact us by phone at (415) 405-5555 or by email (at@sfsu.edu).

Book an appointment with AT

Find AT on YouTube

Technology Resources

AT has compiled technology guides to help new and returning faculty and students review our resources and recommendations for a wide range of critical technology needs.
View technology resource guides by role: Student | Faculty

Get help with Academic Technology services via ATHelp support documentation. Select a topic to view how-to guides or participate in the Community Feedback area to ask questions and share ideas.

Go to ATHelp

Video Help Series: “One Little Thing“

From enhancing course engagement to streamlining grading tasks and harnessing the power of in-classroom technology, these bite-sized tutorials promise to revolutionize your approach to education, one little thing at a time.

These will be posted to our AT YouTube channel and the AT website on a regular cadence throughout the semester.

Go to One Little Thing page

Instructional Design support

AT has a team of instructional designers ready to help support your course design, enhance your assignments and assessments, and provide insights into new technologies and learning and teaching methods you can incorporate into your classes. Consultations are available by appointment both in person and online via Zoom.

To request a consultation, email iteach@sfsu.edu.

Book a consultation with the TLT Team

Announcing: AI Literacy Education Program, launching Spring 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to emerge as an extensive and rapidly evolving technology in education and society at large. To help prepare the SF State community for an ever-changing technology environment, Academic Technology (AT), the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL), and Information Technology Services (ITS) collaborated to develop the AI Literacy Education Program. This comprehensive training program instills essential competencies for effective and responsible engagement with generative AI, both in personal and professional contexts. This includes the ability to understand, use, evaluate, and ethically navigate generative AI to enhance human thought and work.

The curriculum consists of two core prerequisite courses addressing effective prompting strategies for practical applications with chatbots and the critical analysis of generative AI and its outputs. The program also includes several elective offerings that cover specialized AI tools and role-specific AI best practices for faculty, staff, and administrators. In addition to these synchronous courses, participants receive access to an online Canvas course site containing supplemental learning materials, AI resources, and assessments to measure learning. Through this program, SF State community members cultivate substantive, transferable AI knowledge and skills to employ in their current work and beyond.

Participants who successfully complete all of the following requirements will receive a digital badge to demonstrate AI literacy:

Attend and actively participate in both prerequisite courses
Attend and actively participate in at least one elective course
Pass all pre-course assessments in the Canvas course site
Pass a cumulative final assessment in the Canvas course site

To learn more, and register for workshops, visit the campus response to AI website "Start your AI journey" page (https://ai.sfsu.edu/start-your-ai-journey).

Canvas

Support and Training Opportunities for Spring

Faculty looking for Canvas support materials can visit the Academic Technology help center at https://athelp.sfsu.edu. AT has published several recordings of workshops from the past year, available via our YouTube channel.
More workshops and training opportunities for Canvas are coming soon. Keep an eye on the calendar on https://canvas.sfsu.edu for upcoming workshops.
Want to suggest a workshop topic? Check out the community forum and suggest or vote on workshop topics.

Renovate and Elevate Your Canvas Course module

Renovate and Elevate in Canvas is an asynchronous professional development course constructed by the Teaching & Learning and Service Teams from Academic Technology. In this course, participants will: scaffold, reinforce, and reimagine their Canvas courses to streamline and organize their content in dynamic ways. More information on how to sign up for this course will be available on the Canvas website, https://canvas.sfsu.edu.

Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a video tool built-in to Canvas that allows instructors and students to upload and record video directly into Canvas in a variety of ways. Instructors can record webcam and capture screencasts directly in Canvas, post the videos in Pages, Discussions, and Quiz questions, and organize and share video content with other instructors. Students can upload and record video content into Canvas Discussions and assignment submissions without the need for any fancy video hardware or software, including recording and uploading from mobile devices.
Instructors can create interactive quizzes in Canvas studio embedded directly in video content to help reenforce learning objectives.
Playback speed in Canvas studio hosted videos can be adjusted to play slower (up to 0.5x) or faster (up to 2.0x) to allow students to adjust to their needs. Video quality automatically adjusts based on internet connection speed, with video quality up to 1080p.
Videos in Canvas studio can also be automatically captioned.
Academic Technology (AT) has prepared an introduction video and guide, with more guides on the way!

Migrate Collaborative site content to Canvas by March 2025

Collaborative sites in iLearn will no longer be supported as of March 2025 as part of the Canvas transition at SF State.
To get assistance migrating Collaborative site content to Canvas, send an email to at@sfsu.edu with the name of the site as it exists in iLearn.
Read the full announcement via ITAnnounce.

Other Projects and Initiatives

Excellence in Online Pedagogies

Academic Technology and the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning are excited to invite SF State faculty interested in teaching a quality online course to enroll in Excellence in Online Pedagogies. The course equips faculty with essential approaches to designing and enhancing online synchronous and asynchronous courses.

Learn more via the CEETL site informational page: https://ceetl.sfsu.edu/excellence-online-pedagogies.

AR/VR LIB 222 Space

AT will be soft-launching the opening of a new Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) classroom space which will be available for instructors to bring their students in groups to experience AR/VR content.
Learn more via the AT website: https://at.sfsu.edu/ar-vr-space

Learning Glass

Learning Glass is a technology for recording lectures allowing instructors to write lecture notes on a lighted, transparent whiteboard while maintaining face-to-face contact with students.
This Spring, AT is bringing back Learning Glass, a dynamic and visually appealing way to record video lectures with visuals.
To book a consultation or get more information, visit the AT website: https://at.sfsu.edu/learning-glass.

BuyIT - the new home for campus IT purchasing

The longtime campus Technology Acquisition Request (TAR) process has been relaunched, introducing a new streamlined interface and a new name: BuyIT. Beginning July 29th, 2024, campus users who purchase IT goods and services will begin using the new website to submit requests.
Learn more about BuyIT on the AT website (https://at.sfsu.edu/it-purchasing) or visit https://buyit.sfsu.edu to get started today.

FogCam

Did you know AT maintains the world’s longest operating webcam? Read more about FogCam from local press coverage, and visit the website for a "live" (images captured every 20 seconds) view of the campus quad.

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Announcing: AI Literacy Education Program – sign up for AI workshops today!

Robyn Michelle Ollodort — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:02:04 +0000

Announcing: AI Literacy Education Program – sign up for AI workshops today!

Author: AT Communications (Robyn Ollodort)

January 13, 2025

Participants who successfully complete all of the following requirements will receive a digital badge to demonstrate AI literacy:

Attend and actively participate in both prerequisite courses
Attend and actively participate in at least one elective course
Pass all pre-course assessments in the Canvas course site
Pass a cumulative final assessment in the Canvas course site

To learn more, and register for workshops, visit the campus response to AI website (ai.sfsu.edu) "Start Your AI Journey" page. Workshops are also promoted individually on the AI site Events listing, CampusMemo, the University Calendar, and respective departmental events pages.

Start your AI journey (ai.sfsu.edu)

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AT co-hosts ATXpo 2024 with UCSF | Oct. 7

Robyn Michelle Ollodort — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:55:35 +0000

AT co-hosts ATXpo 2024 with UCSF | Oct. 7

Author: AT Communications (Robyn Ollodort)

October 7, 2024

ATXpo 2024 was a success!

On Monday, October 7^th, 2024 at UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, AT @ SFSU co-hosted the 11th Annual ATXpo, a convention bringing together Academic Technology practitioners, Instructional Design experts, vendors, and much more. Featuring 3 rounds of IdeaLabs presentation tabling (15 Higher Ed institutions and 8 vendors each round), and Faculty and student panels, the day was jam packed with AT spirit.

Find more event details at atxpo.org

Photo credits: Cristian Alvarado

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Accessing Grades on the SF State Gateway | "One Little Thing"

Cristian Alvarado — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:27:11 +0000

Accessing Grades on the SF State Gateway | "One Little Thing"

Author: Ethan Cortes

December 11, 2024

This video covers how to access grades on the SFSU Gateway (gateway.sfsu.edu)

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Migrate Collaborative site content to Canvas by March 2025

Robyn Michelle Ollodort — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:59:44 +0000

Migrate Collaborative site content to Canvas by March 2025

Author: AT Communications (Robyn Ollodort)

December 9, 2024

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Connecting to Wifi on campus | "One Little Thing"

Cristian Alvarado — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 21:33:35 +0000

Connecting to Wifi on campus | "One Little Thing"

Author: Ethan Cortes

November 8, 2024

This video covers how to connect to WiFi on campus

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New "One Little Thing" offerings: Copilot and PollEverywhere

Robyn Michelle Ollodort — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:15:32 +0000

New "One Little Thing" offerings: Copilot and PollEverywhere

Author: Ethan Cortes

September 16, 2024

Check out the latest video offerings in our "One Little Thing" series - Copilot and PollEverywhere.

Watching these quick, informational videos is just one little thing you can do to learn more about campus technology offerings.

Learn more about One Little Thing by Academic Technology

Introduction to Copilot

Introduction to PollEverywhere

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DPRC's Media Quick Converter | "One Little Thing"

Cristian Alvarado — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:19:52 +0000

DPRC's Media Quick Converter | "One Little Thing"

Author: Angie Petty

October 14, 2024

This video covers using the Disability Programs and Resource Center's (DPRC) Accessible Media Quick Converter to convert a text file to an audio file.

Return to “One Little Thing” page

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