The Student Technology Fee (STF) is assessed on each student's tuition bill each quarter. In general, the Student Technology Fee is utilized to support the following four general categories of projects and initiatives:

• Enhancing Student Access to Learning Content and Systems: As an ever-increasing amount of online learning content is available to students and as students and instructors increasingly interact with one another over the network, ubiquitous access to this networked content becomes vital to a successful learning environment.
• Supporting Innovative Pedagogy through Improvements to Campus Learning Spaces: Learning spaces must support new and innovative pedagogies that foster student engagement and success via active, participatory learning approaches. Moreover, these same learning environments must support evolving curricular delivery models that include remote presentation of materials, course capture, and course “streaming” in real time.
• Improving and Enhancing UCR’s Learning and Collaboration Environments: Academic collaboration environments, both virtual and physical, are essential to an effective learning experience. For example, the online learning management system (LMS), referred to as "iLearn", is used to electronically facilitate campus curricular delivery, enable collaboration between students and faculty, and provide course assessment and feedback to students. Projects to enhance the iLearn environment, physical campus spaces along with other learning and collaboration spaces are routinely funded by STF.
• Supporting the Creation of Digital Content, eLearning Objects, and Blended Learning Environments: As teaching approaches evolve and technologies become available that enable additional methods of instructor / student and student / student engagement, UCR will need support for the creation and utilization of a broad suite of new digital learning content as well as systems for the deployment of this content within innovative curricular delivery models (e.g. blended learning approaches).