Educational Technology
Amplify Learning with Educational Technology
Amplify Learning with Educational Technology
Through collaborative partnerships with faculty and staff, we develop long-lasting experiences that encourage student success, build competencies and skills, and enable informed academic decision-making.
Alongside our team of software developers, user experience designers, and behavioral scientists, instructors can bridge the gap between students and coursework to help them achieve their goals.
Through collaborative partnerships with faculty and staff, we develop long-lasting experiences that encourage student success, build competencies and skills, and enable informed academic decision-making.
Alongside our team of software developers, user experience designers, and behavioral scientists, instructors can bridge the gap between students and coursework to help them achieve their goals.
Our Portfolio
We build educational tools and technologies to help students, faculty, and staff reach their full potential in and outside the classroom.
We build educational tools and technologies to help students, faculty, and staff reach their full potential in and outside the classroom.
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Atlas helps students plan and choose courses toward their degrees, as well as allows faculty and advisors to guide students along their academic journey.
Lettersmith is a writing support tool that allows students to engage with their writing on a deeper level and receive essential feedback from experts and peers to improve their work.
Michigan Online provides global learners with endless opportunities to grow and develop their skills with access to over 250 online courses, certificates, and degrees created by world-class faculty at the University of Michigan.
Spire helps students plan and track their academic and professional experiences, build key competencies, and assemble all the pieces to tell their story, their way – to employers and beyond.
With Tandem, instructors can build teams that foster collaborative and inclusive teamwork, giving students the opportunity to work effectively alongside their peers.
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Gradecraft is a learning management system that helps instructors design engaging courses that empower students to take control of their learning.
Lettersmith is a writing support tool that allows students to engage with their writing on a deeper level and receive essential feedback from experts and peers to improve their work.
Michigan Online provides global learners with endless opportunities to grow and develop their skills with access to over 250 online courses, certificates, and degrees created by world-class faculty at the University of Michigan.
Spire helps students plan and track their academic and professional experiences, build key competencies, and assemble all the pieces to tell their story, their way – to employers and beyond.
With Tandem, instructors can build teams that foster collaborative and inclusive teamwork, giving students the opportunity to work effectively alongside their peers.
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ECoach provides richly tailored feedback and support by offering individualized feedback, tips, and support to facilitate their success.
Lettersmith is a writing support tool that allows students to engage with their writing on a deeper level and receive essential feedback from experts and peers to improve their work.
Problem Roulette encourages students to practice past examination questions, provides feedback on their progress, and helps them improve their study habits.
The Michigan Tailoring System is an authoring platform for tailored communications, allowing writers to turn any data into richly personalized messages for users in other web-based tools.
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ECoach provides richly tailored feedback and support by offering individualized feedback, tips, and support to facilitate their success.
Elevate your online learning experiences with Gamut’s suite of galleries, workbooks, goal-setting tools, and more, with plug-in capabilities for common learning management systems like Canvas and Coursera.
The Michigan Tailoring System is an authoring platform for tailored communications, allowing writers to turn any data into richly personalized messages for users in other web-based tools.
Problem Roulette encourages students to practice past examination questions, provides feedback on their progress, and helps them improve their study habits.
Our Graduated Tools
Our work to build tools from their conception, lead them through the early stages of development, and maturity has happened for a number of our tools. Many are now reaching new audiences and their features have been adopted into other initiatives.
Our work to build tools from their conception, lead them through the early stages of development, and maturity has happened for a number of our tools. Many are now reaching new audiences and their features have been adopted into other initiatives.
Developed to facilitate the creation and delivery of role-playing simulations inside and outside the classroom, ViewPoint transitioned into its next phase of growth in 2023 through a licensing agreement with Summit Venture Studio.
MWrite
MWrite is a write-to-learn platform that helps students connect complex course concepts to real-life problems through writing exercises created by instructors.
This tool transitioned to the university’s ITS Teach and Learning sector in 2017 and is currently managed by the Sweetland Center for Writing.
Sage
Sage provided students with mental health resources following their participation in the Healthy Minds Study at U-M and retired in 2019.
Student Explorer
Student Explorer, launched in 2011, was an early warning system that provided advisors with actionable data based on students’ grades, activity, and assignments, helping advisors facilitate student success.
The tool was officially sunset in 2023, but similar features are being added to ECoach as of 2024.
Connect With Us
Our team works to help educators bring their educational technology ideas to life. Anyone interested in adopting or developing a tool can connect with us by requesting a tool demonstration for your course or signing up for our newsletter. University of Michigan faculty can access funding and support to adopt our tools through the Academic Innovation Fund (AIF).
