What’s new Canvas – Updates on last week’s outage Last week, UW-Madison–and thousands of educational institutions across the globe–experienced a multi-day shutdown of Canvas. Canvas is currently back online as normal. Learn@UW continues to receive updates from Instructure, the Canvas vendor, about the incident and the steps they are taking to ensure security and stability …
After high-profile cyberattacks, the risk of related phishing attempts increases. Learn how to spot and avoid these attempts — and how to protect yourself in the future.
For many attendees at the 2026 IT Support Symposium, the most valuable thing wasn’t the agenda — it was finally meeting the colleagues they’d been talking with online for years.
If your WiscWeb site still runs UW Theme Classic, you must migrate to UW Theme 2.0 by the end of 2026. Here’s what you need to know.
Class groups make it easy for an instructor or teaching assistant to contact students using a single email address. Learn how to create a group, how to add and remove students, and how to add teaching assistants.
Canvas has been restored. If you continue to experience issues, clear your cache and cookies in your desktop and mobile browsers, then contact the DoIT Help Desk.
We received reports about a impersonation phish concerning Watchtower, a service by 1Password. The phish pretends that there was an attempted sign-in to your 1Password account and encourages you to click a fake Watchtower link for more information.
Active work is focused on piloting device compliance notifications, moving forward with Elastic Cloud migration and hosting office hours.
Catch up on progress as we prepare to transition to Ivanti’s Neurons cloud platform as our IT service management tool. Join our next subteam meeting: May 13, 1pm via Teams.
At the April UW Design Community session, the design team at the Nelson Institute shared the story behind the redesign of their flagship publication.