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IT never sleeps. There’s always news to share. Here’s the latest from our digital campus and beyond.
Virtual Office Hours with Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am via Zoom. Unscripted conversations with our chief information officer.
New website chronicles the history of UW–Madison’s Division of Information Technology
The new DoIT History website takes visitors on an interactive journey—introducing the key people, technologies and milestones that shaped IT at UW–Madison from the 1960s to today.
Digital Accessibility Policy: implementation plan roadmap
The Digital Accessibility Policy aligns with UW–Madison and Universities of Wisconsin policies that protect people with disabilities against discrimination and honors our institutional statement on diversity. This roadmap tracks the implementation of the new policy over the life of the project.
Expand your network this fall with I&T Coffee Connections
Sign up by Jul 22 to be paired with a colleague from UW’s IT community for informal 1-on-1 meetups this fall.
New app in MyUW brings improvements to course schedule view
The new app offers an accessible and mobile-responsive calendar view of students’ courses, plus a bulleted list of each course’s weekly meetings and exams.
CommunITea on summer hiatus
The weekly socializing event for IT and IT-adjacent folks will be on summer break until fall. Join us again in September!
ITA students help 5th graders play out their gaming ideas
Elementary schoolers were able to bring their zombie battles and dungeon quest ideas to life, with help from high school students in UW–Madison’s Information Technology Academy pre-college program.
Marking 10 years of empowering women in IT at UW–Madison
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: UW Women in IT was founded 10 years ago by a dedicated group of IT professionals who set out to improve the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in technology roles at the university.
SpectrumU going away for faculty, staff & students
Effective Jul 1, UW–Madison will no longer offer SpectrumU to all faculty, staff and students on campus.
Google Drive quotas now in effect
Quotas were applied to UW–Madison Google My Drives, shared drives and service accounts on Jun 1. If you’re over the quota, your account is read-only. Here’s what to do.
Learn about AI with EDUCAUSE
From an “Applications of AI” demo day to a learning lab about effective ChatGPT prompts, don’t miss out on upcoming opportunities to explore artificial intelligence in higher ed. And registration is now open for the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
Increased email security helps spot imposter emails
Starting Aug 5, we’ll verify the authenticity of all incoming emails. If we determine an email is suspicious, it will be sent to your junk folder instead of your inbox. Learn why this matters and what you should do.
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