UBC Exam Card Scanner: Digitally check-in students during exams
Gone are the days of crossing students’ names off lengthy lists to check them into exams. With LTIC’s new UBC Exam Card Scanner mobile app, instructors and TAs can scan UBC Student cards to quickly and securely check-in students and manage flagged issues
through Canvas.
LT Considerations
The Learning Technology Innovation Centre is committed to careful consideration of learner and instructor impacts when adopting or incorporating any technology into UBC’s LT ecosystem. For any new tool, we complete information security and privacy impact assessments, and are guided by UBC’s purchasing policy (UBC Policy FM2).
Student Learning and the Use of Lecture Recordings
Lecture recordings are a common resource in university courses today. But what do we actually know about how lecture recordings impact student learning? UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics’ Jonathan Graves is investigating just that, as part of the Learning Analytics Faculty Partnership Program.
CREATE: Generating Interactive Learning
The LT Incubator has been busy! Take a peak into the development of CREATE – a GenAI tool for generating interactive elements for Canvas (created by researchers at UBC in partnership with LTIC).
Whimsy in a world of learning technology
Back in the day of paper assignments, instructors had the freedom to add a bit of an individual touch to their grading, from a smiley face to a gold star sticker. We’ve seen numerous benefits to the learning experience as universities moved to online assessments, but some of the personalization has been lost along the […]
Enabling applications of AI
Enabling applications of AI in teaching and inquiry The office of the Associate Vice President and Vice Provost Teaching and Learning allocated $2M across two years (Academic years ’24-’25, and ’25-’26) for innovation in the application of AI in the pedagogical transformation at UBC. This funding was made available through a Teaching and Learning Enhancement […]
About LTIC
LTIC is UBC’s new Learning Technology Innovation Centre, mandated to catalyse and elevate learning technology application, innovation, and inquiry at UBC. Under academic leadership, LTIC will meet UBC’s needs for faculty and students in using and transforming learning technology. The Road to the Learning Technology Innovation Centre UBC has a multi-decade history of commitment to […]
Microsoft Teams and OneDrive now live
Microsoft Teams and OneDrive have now launched and are available to all UBC students, faculty, and staff. nnMicrosoft Teams is an all-in-one collaboration tool to create virtual meeting spaces and facilitate group work through web-conferencing, group chat, and real-time document collaboration. Microsoft OneDrive is a secure file-hosting service that allows storing, sharing, and synchronizing up […]