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Our team manages technical support, training, consultation and documentation for all tools in the Learn@UW suite. Here, we curate short articles with tips and tricks for instructors, faculty, teaching assistants, instructional designers, and others to aid your classroom experience. If you need technical assistance with our tools, please contact the DoIT Help Desk.

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    Make your next presentation or meeting interactive with Top Hat’s Guest Mode!

    Top Hat makes it easy for you to engage an audience during a presentation, workshop, meeting, town hall, training, or other event. Learn more.

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    Learn@UW Newsletter, week of July 11

    What’s happening? Learn@UW – Training Schedule set for Fall 2025 In late-August and early-September, Learn@UW is hosting a large array of training sessions focusing on several of our learning technologies. These sessions are 100% remote, …

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    Learn@UW Newsletter, week of June 13

    What’s happening? Honorlock – Update released, June 9 The latest release for the Honorlock web application and extension brings several improvements impacting performance and accessibility. For all the exciting details, click here. Canvas – Known …

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    Learn@UW Newsletter, week of May 30

    What’s happening? Atomic Assessments – New features Two new functionalities were recently added to Atomic Assessments. Adaptive assessments. There is now an assessment type called adaptive assessment, which allows branching assessments based on student performance …

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    Learn@UW Newsletter, week of May 16

    What's happening? Effective this morning, HelioCampus AC evaluation data is available for instructors to review. Read about this and more.

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    Learn@UW Newsletter, week of May 2

    What’s happening? HelioCampus AC evaluations end today. Read about it and more.

  • Learn@UW Newsletter, week of April 18

    What’s happening? HelioCampus AC – Evaluations have begun Earlier this morning, most HelioCampus AC course evaluations began. They will run for two weeks, ending at 11:59pm on Friday, May 2. HelioCampus AC departmental administrators can …

  • Learn@UW Newsletter, week of April 4

    What’s happening? Learn@UW–‍Madison – Introducing two new teammates Learn@UW–‍Madison would like to introduce two new application administrators joining our team Monday, April 7. Jess Richards comes from the UW–‍Madison Office of the Registrar, where she …

  • Learn@UW Newsletter, week of March 21

    What’s happening? UDOIT – New dashboard Have you checked out UDOIT recently? It features a new Course Accessibility Scorecard dashboard which gives you more insight into barriers affecting the accessibility of your Canvas course. For …

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    Engage helps students save on course materials: Fall orders open Mar 19

    Engage integrates digital textbooks with Canvas, saving students money while ensuring day-one access to course materials. Order by Mar 26 for summer 2025; fall 2025 ordering opens Mar 19.

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