On July 15, 2017, all FAS course sites from academic years 2015, 2016, and 2017 were concluded.

What does this mean?... Read more about Canvas course sites for academic year 2016-17 have been concluded

If you are teaching a Fall 2017 course, your Canvas site has been created and is ready to be set up! To claim your site, visit your list of Fall courses in my.harvard.edu, launch the course website, and follow the setup checklist. Be sure to publish your site as soon as you’re ready so that students can begin visiting it.

Whether you're faculty, staff, or a teaching fellow, Academic Technology for FAS is available to assist you with setting up and administering your course site. We offer training, consultation, and workshops...

Academic Technology for FAS is proud to announce the Digital Toolkit (DTK), now available for your FAS course. The DTK is a virtual computer which is pre-loaded with some of the most commonly-used applications for data visualization and analysis. All your students need to do is log in, and they'll be ready to start working on research, assignments, and projects! Read more.

On March 8, 9, and 10, 2017, HUIT Academic Technology offered its inaugural seminar on the Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship, a three-day interactive event dedicated to providing a hands-on introduction to technologies and technological approaches that are becoming more commonly used in both teaching and research. Planning for the seminar was coordinated by Academic Technology senior instructional technologist Brandon Bentley, and included representatives from the Department of History's digital history program, the Harvard Libraries, and Research Computing in the Arts and...

Winter weather may change your commute or travel plans, but you can keep your classes running with the help of technology.

Learn more about tools to keep your classes running.

The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) announces its next round of grants. Designed to help "spark" promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success.

• Funding up to $15,000
• Application opens March 1, 2017
• Deadline is April 5, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

Harvard University benefits-eligible faculty, staff, and postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply for funding individually, or as groups. For more information, ...

Are you interested in helping us test out new tools for teaching and learning? Contact us to learn more about the 2016–17 pilots of our Image Media Manager application, Flashcards, and three Annotation tools, each of which can be integrated into your Canvas site via LTI.

... Read more about Spring 2017 Pilots: New Tools for Teaching and Learning

By Daniel Jamous, Senior Instructional Technologist, Academic Technology for FAS 
In Fall 2016, two HUIT groups – Academic Technology for FAS and the division of IT Support Services responsible for managing Harvard’s computer classrooms – collaborated to provide students with in-class access to cutting-edge bioinformatics research tools.... Read more about HUIT Supports Cutting-Edge Bioinformatics Research Tools in a Freshman Seminar

A Digital Rosetta: Mapping Multilingual Text, a Lunch and Learn opportunity hosted by Research Computing in the Arts and Humanities (darthcrimson.org), features Mark Schiefsky, Professor and Chair of the Classics, who will demo a...

On August 29 and 30, HUIT Academic Technology offered its inaugural Digital Teaching Seminar, a two-day interactive event dedicated to providing a hands-on introduction to technologies and technological approaches that are becoming more commonly used in both teaching and research. Attendees in this first iteration included faculty and 2016-17 Digital Teaching Fellows (DiTFs), participants in a program dedicated to the thoughtful integration of technology...

Beginning this fall, Academic Technology for FAS will be offering Canvas training that goes beyond the basics of setting up and administering a course website. Designed as interactive workshops, these topical training sessions will cover more specialized elements of the Canvas learning management system that you may encounter as teaching staff member or course administrator.  

Topics include:

• Canvas Mythbusters
• ...

With the conclusion of the two-year Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) Strategic Program, including the very successful University-wide implementation of Canvas, HUIT has reintegrated the TLT team with Academic Technology Services (AcTS) to form HUIT Academic Technology. In this exercise, we seized opportunities to realign AcTS to better support the teaching, learning and research needs of the University, and to meet HUIT’s fundamental goals to enhance IT service delivery at Harvard and provide greater support to our IT professionals.

Mission

Our mission is to provide...

Is this your first time using Canvas? We're here to help! Instructional technologists from HUIT Academic Technology are available this summer to help you prepare your course site.

In addition to email support and drop-in assistance at our Science Center office, we offer on-location office hours for faculty, teaching team members, support staff, and students in multiple campus locations throughout the summer and early fall. Our team can...

This fall, after over a decade in the same space, the Academic Technology team is moving. Beginning the first week in August, you will be able to find us in Science Center suite 142, on the first floor just inside the Oxford Street entrance (next to the Museum of Historical Scientific Instruments).

Come visit us in our new space, either for help with Canvas, a technology consultation, or just to say hello!