Faculty Success Story

The Future of Learning: URI Augmented Learning Apps

High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) VR is a way to provide virtual training in the use of HPLC prior to using the actual instrument.

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Latest News

TechSmith Camtasia and Snagit Access Extended

Notice to faculty, staff, TAs and GAs in instructional support roles at URI that access to the Camtasia and Snagit bundle is extended to 2024.

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Ed Tech Mojo

Enhancements to TA Roles in Brightspace

IT Teaching and Learning Services made a change to the mapping of eCampus and Brightspace user roles that will allow URI to better protect our students and their data.

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Tools We Support

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Professional Development

Recent Ed Tech Blog Posts

Enhancing Engagement with Lumi

Alissa Cox uses a free app called Lumi to build interactive and engaging content that can be seamlessly integrated into a Brightspace course.

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Creating Your Own Content for Students

Options to create interactive and engaging digital content at URI are expanding…Sign up for pilots starting soon.

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Engage with the Public

Engage gives the URI community the ability to offer for-profit learning opportunities to learners outside the URI student body. Share your expertise, your research, and your knowledge with the world through URI’s public facing Learning Management System, Engage.

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To Merge or Not to Merge Course Sections in Brightspace

Merging two or more sections into a single Brightspace class centralizes your course management, increases content consistency, and eliminates the need to juggle multiple classes. Learn how to merge here.

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Brightspace Integrations: LTI 1.1, 1.3 & Me

URI faculty may apply to have 3rd party and external tools integrated into Brightspace. Here is the process.

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AI Images: Adobe Firefly

URI faculty have free access to the Adobe Firefly AI image generator bot. Here is how to sign up.

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Discover URI’s AI Chatbot

Professor Jim McGwin introduces the AI ChatBot student project which encapsulates URI resources and makes it easy to access through the virtual assistance of AI.

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Tech Day 2023 : Emerging Tools and AI

By offering creative solutions for teaching delivery, ITS hopes to ease faculty’s transition to a new school year with innovations for your classes, whatever format you teach.

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New Quiz Creation Experience in Brightspace Goes Live in July 2023

The New Quiz Creation Experience is designed to provide an intuitive quiz workflow and bring consistent interface to users for creating and editing quizzes as the Assignments module in Brightspace.

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Brightspace Integrations

TLS manages the integration of 3rd party tools, plugins, LTIs and software integrations into Brightspace.
In order to protect students, faculty, and our institution and to ensure the integrity of the learning management system and compliance with federal regulations, URI thus performs a standard review of all third party tools prior to integration.

Create and submit a Brightspace integration application

Tech Day

Each year in August IT TLS and the Service Desk host an all-day technology training event for faculty. Videos and future dates at the following link:

Dates of the future event here

Essential Links

All IT Training Opportunities

See the full training calendar with upcoming dates/times.

IT PD calendar

Meet the TLS Team

Learn about your ed tech support team

About Us

Disability, Access and Inclusion

Learn about ADA tools and resources for students.

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Advancement of Teaching & Learning

ATL supports faculty with online course instructional design.

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All Support Requests Start as a Ticket

Submit Service Request as Ticket via ServiceNow Portal: Use URI Single Sign-on credentials to log on to Service Now Portal, and include as many details as possible – https://uriprod.service-now.com/sp.

ITS Service Desk
Walk-in support is available M-F 8-5 in the basement of the library