Academic and Instructional Innovation

A&II is a team of professionals (instructional designers, educational technologists, system administrators, and software developers) who work with faculty, staff, and students to support teaching and learning, faculty development, and professional growth.

We are your resource for making teaching current, relevant, and efficient. We want to help you have a fun, creative, rewarding, transformative, exciting, powerful, and joyful teaching experience. Most importantly, we want to help you succeed!

Learn more about A&II here. And don't hesitate to contact us.

Your resource for making teaching current, relevant, and efficient!

Academic Technology Support for Faculty

A&II supports faculty in using these academic technologies:

Canvas: SMU's learning management system
Panopto: record and manage videos
Poll Everywhere: student response system
Respondus Lockdown Browser: secure online testing
Respondus 4.0: import exam questions into Canvas
Turnitin: help students avoid plagiarism & improve writing
Webex: web conferencing

Faculty Technology Support

Educational Media

Educational media supports learning by enhancing, illustrating, reinforcing, and strengthening content and context. A&II can help you improve your teaching approach, tap into different styles of learning, and increase student engagement with media.

Educational Media

Workshops

A&II is happy to offer you and your department a variety of workshops, including these:

Workshops

SAC & SFP Workshops and Office Hours

A&II offers workshops and individual or group sessions at SAC & SFP to explore instructional topics of your choice or to address questions about Canvas or Panopto.

SAC & SFP Offerings