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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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    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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    Learn@UW Newsletter, week of March 7

    What’s happening? Honorlock – Midterm resources As we approach the season of midterm exams, instructors may wish to explore the benefits afforded by Honorlock. For insights, guidance, and tutorials, refer to this collection of resources. …

  • Learn@UW Newsletter, week of February 21

    What’s happening? Canvas – Known Issue – “N/A” values appearing in the exported gradebook Earlier this week, Learn@UW–‍Madison was made aware of an issue that effects instructors who rely upon the gradebook export and import …

  • Software Training For Students (STS) brain with tech circuitry

    Tech made easy with Software Training for Students—for free!

    Boost your tech skills with free STS workshops and 1-on-1 support. Learn programming, design, media production and web development—in person or online. Instructors can request custom workshops.

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