Academic Technology
Supporting and empowering the MCLA faculty.
The Center for Academic Technology is committed to supporting and empowering MCLA
faculty to improve the quality of instruction in all courses through training, consultation
and support. We're here to assist you with:
- Instructional design and development
- Canvas, our learning management system
- Training and tools for digital accessibility, including UDOIT
- Hybrid and online teaching: planning, designing, and executing
- The Office 365 suite
- Effective use of multimedia
- and more!
Services
Consults
Have questions about hybrid and online teaching? Digital accessibility? Course design? Canvas, Teams, or any of our other tools? Schedule a Meeting
Course Requests
Request your Canvas courses. You'll have the option of starting from a ready-made course template.
Workshops
We run small-group workshops and one-on-one consultations, as well as develop documentation to help you use and understand MCLA's technology tools.
Fall Workshops
Details soon!
Contact
Jessica Yurkofsky
Associate Director of Academic Technology
Murdock Hall 209
413-662-5506
jessica.yurkofsky@mcla.edu
TechFest 2027
It's never too early to start thinking about TechFest! Mark your calendars for Tuesday, May 19, 2027.
Since 2008, the Center for Academic Technology has offered TechFest, our annual, day-long conference for faculty and staff to explore new technologies and their uses, to showcase creative projects and initiatives, and to connect technology with teaching practice.
TechFest Archives
This fully asynchronous course provides a structured opportunity to build out your online course with feedback from AcTech as you go (and a certification at the end!).
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) supports student success by providing faculty and instructional staff with professional development opportunities.
Check out the Academic Technology page within the CTL Canvas site for course checklists, course accessibility guides, generative AI resources, and more.
Recommended Resources
Looking for a topic that's not mentioned here? Try TechHelp
- ctrl+shift+v: Past copied text without any formatting
- ctrl+shift+t: Open up your most recently closed tab(s)
- Firefox Screenshots
- If This Then That (IFTTT)
- PDF Compressor
- Wayback Machine (+browser extension for Chrome/Firefox)
- Workload Estimator
- YOURL Shortlinks & QR Codes
HTML (the Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are two of the core technologies for building Web pages. HTML provides the structure of the page, CSS the (visual and aural) layout, for a variety of devices.
Want to learn some of the basics of these languages?
- Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in six different programming languages.
- CodePen: Test, share, and discover code snippets.
- freeCodeCamp is a platform and community that helps you learn to code by completing coding challenges
and building projects. The curriculum includes HTML, JavaScript, machine learning
with Python, and more.
