See technical help pages for specific issues in the navigation bar on the left, and in the list below.

Saving Website Pages
Spreadsheets for Grading
Web Search and Query Notes

In addition to our main services, supporting course websites and teaching technology workshops, Instructional Computing can help any UW instructor select and apply myriad computing technologies for teaching. Some examples are listed below:

Scanning

We can show you how to use our equipment to scan pictures, photos, and slides to image files, and to scan text to PDF documents or text files.

Presentations

We can help you compare presentation delivery and hosting applications, such as PowerPoint, Prezi, SlideShare, and Slidy.

Voice Input and Audio Editing

We can show you how to use voice-recognition software (such as Dragon) to create transcripts from real-time or stored audio files and to perform rudimentary tasks with audio editors. (Instructional Media can show you more, including video recording and editing.)

Image Processing

We can help you with the basic tasks of image processing, using Photoshop, Irfanview, or the GIMP.

File Conversion

In addition to explaining file formats, such as the many options available for image files, we can teach you how to use specialized file-conversion applications, such as Respondus, for transferring exam questions among plain text, eCollege, and other formats.

Cloud Computing for Teaching

We can advise you about using the many free services available for teaching tasks, such as distribution and collaborative editing of written materials, note-taking, maintaining bibliographies, polling, scheduling, and so forth.

Audio and Video Conferencing

We can help, or refer you to other campus staff who can help, to run meetings or class events through sponsored university services or free services such as Skype.

Web Searching and Querying

See the document on the left for some notes on Google personalization, and also on the computational queries available to the UW community through the service Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

Other technologies? The list is ever expanding. We are happy to help you explore other teaching technologies you would like to explore or implement in your classroom or in support of your teaching.