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Category: Educational Technology News

Teaching with JMU’s Digital Tools: New Workshops for JMU Instructors

Posted July 28, 2025

Join our new workshop, Teaching with JMU’s Digital Tools, to get an introduction to using: Whether you’re enhancing course delivery, streamlining grading, or exploring AI-powered productivity, you’ll learn something useful in this session led by Ivan Guadarrama. Location: You can attend this hybrid workshop on Zoom or in Rose Library room 3311. If you attend in […]

Teaching with JMU's Digital Tools

New Tool for Technical and Scientific Writing: Overleaf

Posted July 22, 2025

Great news for LaTeX users at JMU! Faculty, staff, and students now have access to Overleaf, a tool for creating and editing LaTeX documents in a web browser. What is LaTeX? LaTeX (pronounced either “LAY-tek” or “LAH-tek”) is a document […]

Classroom Technology Tip: Flip Up Your Document Camera

Posted July 7, 2025

Did you know the Hovercam document camera in almost every JMU classroom can be flipped to show the presenters? If you are leading a hybrid meeting, teaching a hybrid class, or recording a presentation in a classroom equipped with a […]

Gradescope: A Grading Game-Changer

Posted July 2, 2025

JMU has a streamlined grading tool that integrates with Canvas, and Professor Klebert Feitosa knows first-hand what a difference it can make, since he has been using Gradescope to grade both homework and exams for about seven years! Gradescope can help you grade […]

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JMU’s Course Evaluation System Successfully Upgraded

Posted June 17, 2025

JMU’s online course evaluation system, Blue, has been upgraded. For information on using the upgraded version, visit our Blue 9 Instructor User Guide (PDF). Questions? Please contact Donna Davis, the Libraries’ Course Evaluation Administrator, at LIDDesk@jmu.edu.

Summer Support for Faculty

Posted May 7, 2025

Congratulations—you’ve made it to the end of the academic year! As you take a breath or turn to what’s next, remember that we’re here to support your research and teaching. You can connect with us online or in person—just be sure to check […]

AI Summer Bootcamps

Posted April 29, 2025

Explore the complex and ever-changing world of artificial intelligence (AI) in one of our AI workshops for JMU faculty and staff this summer. Choose one or both of these workshops, held in a hybrid format in Rose Library or on […]

Adobe Creative Suite in JMU Libraries

Posted April 11, 2025

If you need the Adobe Creative Suite for your class, your job, or even for personal projects, check out these locations at JMU that provide free access to the Adobe Creative Suite: In JMU Libraries Other Places at JMU Just […]

The Library Futures Classroom: A Home for Experimentation in the New Carrier Library

Posted April 7, 2025

JMU is renowned for providing engaged and transformative learning experiences for students. Central to this mission are the 500+ learning spaces on campus that are supported by staff and faculty members in JMU Libraries. Unlike most university libraries, JMU Libraries […]

Gradescope Bubble Sheet Replacing Scantron on May 20

Posted March 31, 2025

If you use Scantron for test scoring, this is your reminder that you must transition to the new and improved test scoring system—Gradescope Bubble Sheet—by May 20, 2025.  Contact:  

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