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 August 8
What’s happening? Gradescope – Now available Gradescope is now officially available to all instructors as part of the suite of tools supported by Learn@UW. This powerful assessment and feedback tool will help instructors more quickly …
August 8, 2025New Quizzes now available in Canvas
If you implement quizzes in your courses and are looking to provide a difference testing experience, try the newly launch New Quizzes in Canvas.
August 6, 2025Gradescope is now available
Gradescope is now available in the Learn@UW suite of teaching and learning tools. Learn more.
August 4, 2025
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of July 25
What’s happening? Canvas – New Quizzes now available UW–Madison has now enabled New Quizzes in all Canvas sub-accounts. At this point, use is entirely optional; instructors can decided whether to enable New Quizzes in any …
July 25, 2025Gradescope: coming August 2025
Gradescope allows for faster and more consistent grading while also helping instructors give students detailed feedback. Learn@UW will offer training sessions for instructors next month.
July 19, 2025Make 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.
July 18, 2025Learn@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, …
July 14, 2025Learn@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 …
June 13, 2025Learn@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 …
May 30, 2025Learn@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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