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IT never sleeps. There’s always news to share. Here’s the latest from our digital campus and beyond.

Making hybrid work a great experience for everyone
Our IT community had some great ideas recently for how we can keep innovating to make our various work modes more engaging and rewarding.

Virtual Office Hours with Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am via Zoom. Unscripted conversations with our chief information officer.

Join us for ‘CommunITea’
Thursdays, 3:30pm via Zoom. A weekly event for IT and IT-adjacent folks to socialize with peers and connect in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere.

Join colleagues for coffee & Copilot
Copilot is Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence platform, now available to UW–Madison faculty and staff. As you explore generative AI in teaching, drop into this series of informal Friday gatherings.

Get ready for the 2024 Cybersecurity Awareness Training
2024 Cybersecurity Awareness Training is coming soon!

Instructors: Jump-start your spring courses with Enhancing Online Education
Register now for spring programs supporting online and hybrid instructors—and get a sneak preview of the Enhancing Online Education summer offerings. Spring kickoff webinar: Jan 26 at 9am.

Learn & grow with EDUCAUSE
Take advantage of UW–Madison's EDUCAUSE membership for webinars and learning labs on mentoring, digital learning strategy and more. Interested in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference? Proposals due Jan 29.

Getting started with class email groups
Are you teaching this semester? Get acquainted with how class email groups work—including how they are created, how students are added and removed, and how to add teaching assistants.

Take the data classification survey
If you work with public, internal, sensitive or restricted data, please take this survey. Your answers will help identify gaps and areas of confusion in the way we present our data classification policy.

Stay informed about IT outages & planned maintenance
Houston, we have a problem... Having tech trouble? We don’t have Mission Control, but we do have the Outages page. Use it to get helpful information when services are down.

Jira & Confluence service change: migration tools & assistance
Jira and Confluence services will be discontinued in Jan 2025. Stop by office hours to learn about alternatives and tools for migrating your content. Tuesdays, 10:30am via Zoom.

Having tech trouble? Contact the Help Desk
Are you experiencing issues with your network connection? Not able to log into a system? Need general tech support? The Help Desk is here for you.
Campus IT Events
- February
- February 8
- February 9
- February 12Illustrator 1: Creating Graphics with IllustratorSoftware Training for Students (STS)5:30 PM, (CMC) 2257, Helen C. White Hall
- February 15
- February 15Excel 2: Data-Driven Excel: Unlocking Insights with Analysis Tools and TechniquesSoftware Training for Students (STS)6:00 PM, (CMC) 2257, Helen C. White Hall
- February 16
- February 22
- February 23
- February 27JavaScript: Building Interactive Websites with JavaScriptSoftware Training for Students (STS)5:30 PM, (CMC) 2257, Helen C. White Hall
- February 29
