The Instructor Toolkit
Students who hear about Spark from an instructor are the most likely to use it. Everything you need to share Spark with your class is right here — ready to copy, paste, and post.
Ready-to-paste text for your Canvas page or syllabus.
One-slide deck in PowerPoint and Google Slides formats.
Copy-ready week 3 and week 7 announcement templates.
Request a Spark team member to visit your class for 10 minutes.
Questions, requests for content, or suggestions? Email spark-support@uci.edu. Thank you for supporting UCI Spark!
Syllabus & Course Content
Copy and paste this content into your Canvas course page or syllabus.
UCI Spark is a student success dashboard available to all UCI students. Each week, Spark uses your Canvas activity and institutional data to recommend up to four campus resources — support services, opportunities, and tools — tailored specifically to you.
You can access UCI Spark at spark.uci.edu or by clicking the 'UCI Spark' link in Canvas's main navigation. It's free, and no setup is required.
Your Spark dashboard refreshes every week — check back regularly to see what's new. If you have questions or run into any issues, press the Help button in the bottom-left corner of the app.
Sample Slides
A ready-made slide with an overview of Spark, access instructions, and a QR code for students to scan. Available in Google Slides and PowerPoint.
Canvas Announcements
UCI provides all students with a new student success dashboard & analytics tool called UCI Spark. OIT and other campus partners have been hard at work on this innovative new tool, and your feedback will help shape the future of the tool.
You can visit UCI Spark by going directly to the website at https://spark.uci.edu/ or by clicking the 'UCI Spark' link on the Canvas main navigation menu.
If you run into any issues with UCI Spark, press the "Help" button on the bottom left of UCI Spark or send an email to spark-support@uci.edu.
If you haven't tried UCI Spark yet, it's not too late. I encourage you to give it a try today.
There's new content on your dashboard and in your course analytics every week, so even if you've visited before it's worth another look! You can visit UCI Spark by going directly to the website or by clicking the 'UCI Spark' link on the Canvas main navigation menu.
If you run into any issues with UCI Spark, press the "Help" button on the bottom left of UCI Spark or send an email to spark-support@uci.edu.
Want us to visit your class?
A member of the Spark team would be happy to drop by for up to 10 minutes to introduce your students to the tool and answer questions.