ATI - Needs Assessments

The ATI team works with campus units and departments to assess whether current technology and service offerings are meeting student and faculty needs. These projects identify opportunities to consider technology alternatives or make recommendations to improve service and/or support.

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Course-Specific AI Tutors
 

ATI undertook a light assessment of AI tutors to explore options that could enhance student learning and expand access to academic support, as well as to understand and test emerging use cases for AI chat tools that instructors are designing for their courses.

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AI Writing Detection Assessment
 

OIT is reviewing AI detection tools in response to faculty interest in understanding and using these tools. The effort also is driven by the rapid evolution of these technologies.

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Assessment of Social Annotation Tools
 

ATI assessed two leading tools in the digital annotation space, Hypothesis and Perusall, to understand how faculty at CU Boulder have integrated these tools into their courses.

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Impacts of Lecture Recordings on Student Academic Performance & Attendance
 

During this project, ATI aimed to address faculty concerns by investigating whether increased use of lecture capture technology impacts student attendance or grades.

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Canvas Studio Assessment
 

ATI undertook a light assessment of Canvas Studio, motivated in part by results from the Academic Technology (AT) Survey distributed in February 2024.

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Online Proctoring
 

ATI evaluated online proctoring needs to help inform the campus's long-term online proctoring service strategy.

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Perceptions of Lecture Capture
 

ATI evaluated the classroom technology for best practices and community sentiment starting in spring 2022.

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Refining Online Student IT Support
 

OIT examined the experiences of online students to identify opportunities to improve and refine the online student IT support model.

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CU Study Buddies
 

The CU Study Buddies pilot helped connect students who were interested in studying together to strengthen a sense of belonging and be more successful in their courses.

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Assessing Technology Needs in the Classroom
 

The Learning Experience Designers partnered with the Learning Spaces Technology Team to document the experiences of instructors and students when they use classroom technologies in an effort to incorporate the most pressing needs into classroom upgrades and redesigns.

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Classroom Capture User Engagement
 

The Classroom Capture service automates the recording of course lectures to provide students a convenient way to stream course content. After being installed in classrooms across campus, the ATDT was asked to examine how instructors and students use Classroom Capture by analyzing metadata, conducting surveys and interviews, and more.

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