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Join Cloud community at UW–Madison
Join the Research Cyberinfrastructure's Cloud community group to gain and share valuable cloud computing skills.
July 19, 2024Get helpful tech tips & learn something new in the KB
Lose your phone and need a temporary Duo passcode? Not sure how to clear your cache—or why you should do it? Find answers to these problems—and a host of helpful tips—in the Help Desk KnowledgeBase.
July 16, 2024Canvas: Changes coming to syllabus & course summary features
If you use these features as an instructor or instructional designer, find out about changes coming Aug 16.
July 16, 2024Dr Kim Arnold earns distinguished director status
UW–Madison awards distinguished status to those who demonstrate an exceptional level of expertise in their field. Arnold is director of the Learning Analytics Center of Excellence (LACE), a Division of Information Technology unit within Academic Technology.
July 16, 2024Register for the 2024 KnowledgeBase User Group Meeting
Open to all KB authors and admins: Learn about content strategy, accessibility, knowledge management practices and more. Jul 29 to Aug 2 via Zoom.
July 16, 2024Save the date: IT Ice Cream Social
Take a well-deserved break and join us for complimentary Babcock ice cream and other frozen treats while connecting with your IT peers from across the university. Aug 15, 12:30pm at Health Sciences Learning Center.
July 16, 2024UW–Madison retires Wisconsin mobile app
After over 14 years of operation, we’re bidding a fond farewell to the Wisconsin App. Learn what this means for you and how to access your favorite features moving forward.
July 15, 2024Learn & grow with EDUCAUSE
Take advantage of UW–Madison’s EDUCAUSE membership to explore topics like artificial intelligence literacy in higher ed, leveraging emotional intelligence to navigate adversity in the workplace, and more.
July 15, 2024Virtual Office Hours with Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am via Zoom. Unscripted conversations with our chief information officer.
July 11, 2024New 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.
July 9, 2024Digital 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.
July 2, 2024Expand 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.
June 27, 2024New 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.
June 26, 2024CommunITea 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!
June 19, 2024ITA 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.
June 19, 2024- More IT News posts
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Virtual Office Hours with Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am via Zoom. Unscripted conversations with our chief information officer.
July 11, 2024Marking 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.
June 18, 2024CIO Lois Brooks on how UW breaks down IT silos
Lois Brooks, vice provost for information technology and chief information officer, spoke with EdTech Magazine about IT Connects and creating a vibrant, collegial IT community at the university.
May 1, 2024Reflecting on 30 years of IT innovation at UW–Madison
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: As technologists, we’ve not only had front-row seats to transformational technological innovations—we’ve had backstage passes.
April 16, 2024Making hybrid work a great experience for everyone
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: Our IT community has some great, innovative ideas to make our various work modes more engaging and rewarding.
February 6, 2024- More CIO Blog posts