The Swarthmore College Libraries and ITS have released guidance for instructional staff on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The document provides practical advice for syllabus statements, assignments, privacy, and AI detection. View the Library and ITS Guidance on Artificial Intelligence for Fall …

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For more than a year, Swarthmore and Lafayette College have been working on an ambitious plan to merge our respective high-performance computing (HPC) environments. After much hard work on the part of extensive teams at both institutions, we are pleased …

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Code Editors A good code editor is the heart and foundation of a developer’s toolbox. There are a lot of them out there. According to Stack Overflow’s yearly survey, 75% of developers, including myself, use Visual Studio Code. There’s a …

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For Fall 2024, some Moodle courses may not display the weekly course format properly. If you have turned on “Weekly Sections” and your sections are still labeled as “Topic 1”, “Topic 2,” etc. or with dates from a previous semester, …

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`This past year, Classroom and Conferencing Technologies elected to start phasing out the Mersive Solstice product and replacing it with a newer wireless presentation device known as Screenbeam. After researching and testing out numerous other products, Screenbeam was the clear cut winner due to, among other things, its ease of use and lower cost. ( Read more... )

Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to return to San Diego, where ESRI, the creators of the premier GIS tools on the planet - the ArcGIS Pro desktop and ArcGIS Enterprise suite, along with a panoply of extensive mapping …

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By now, all current faculty and instructional staff should be aware of the Accessibility Filescan and how to use it. However, this is just one tool to help improve accessibility in our courses. In light of this, it’s 2024: do …

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Did you know Swarthmore ITS provides a variety of educational resources for our students, faculty, and staff? We have a list of software and web services available that are designed to help foster teaching, learning, research, creativity, and innovation. Below, …

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The CyberAmbassadors program is an NSF-supported curriculum designed to to improve your interdisciplinary and professional “toolkit.” Through a series of nine interactive presentations offering practical approaches to common interpersonal and team challenges, including communicating about problems, equity and inclusion, and …

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The other day, I was deep in Camtasia, crafting a tutorial on how to incorporate accessibility into our everyday work with Word and Docs. Camtasia is a versatile tool, but it falls short when it comes to creating captions and …

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