The Information Commons is a central support and delivery venue for courseware development, classroom instruction, health-related research, and independent learning. It boasts several high-end multimedia development workstations, two networked 50-seat electronic classrooms, information research workstations for searching health-related databases and the Internet as well as general use computers for word processing and email.

The Information Commons was funded in part by the UI College of Medicine, the University of Iowa Libraries, the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the UI Office of the Provost, and the UI Student Computing Fee Advisory Committee. The Commons began operations on August 26, 1996.