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What’s happening Top Hat – New Pages Editor released April 7 On April 7, Top Hat transitioned UW–Madison to its New Pages Editor. The New Pages Editor empowers instructors to enhance course materials with several AI-powered features designed to make Pages interactive, engaging, and meet ADA Title II compliance. Most notably, instructors can upload a PDF or …
What’s happening Canvas – Summer and fall courses coming soon The new Canvas course shells for summer 2026 and fall 2026 will be created soon. Remember to allow a couple hours for all courses to appear on instructors’ dashboards. Canvas – SCORM updates in April Instructure has scheduled two dates for maintenance on the Canvas SCORM component. …
Highlights from Learn@UW for the week of March 13.
What’s happening Canvas – Emerging AI features You may be hearing about new Canvas features released under the umbrella name IgniteAI. IgniteAI is a new Canvas feature line from Instructure that groups together AI‑driven functionality. IgniteAI features are moving from the conceptual phase into the Feature Preview stage. Feature Previews are optional for us to …
What’s happening? Zoom in Canvas – Known issue: Non-Students in a course affect “Auto Record” Setting Learn@UW has become aware of a known issue with the Zoom integration in Canvas. In short, the presence of non-UW-affiliated attendee or host in a Zoom session will disable the setting for auto-recording the session. The recording function can …
What’s happening? Honorlock – Update, January 22 On Thursday, January 22, from 7:00 a.m. (CST) until approximately 8:00 a.m., Honorlock will release a new update. This update includes the following enhancements. See full details about the update Canvas – Two new opt-in features Instructors may now choose to enable two new features in Canvas. Both …
On January 7, Learn@UW will launch TidyUP as the newest addition to our suite of learning technologies. TidyUP is a maintenance and clean-up tool that will show you unused files and pages inside your Canvas course so you can “tidy things up.”
A new tool is coming to the Learn@UW suite! TidyUP will show you unused files and pages inside your Canvas course so you can tidy things up.
See important dates, upcoming trainings and Learn@UW events across December 2025 and January 2026.
See what’s happening at Learn@UW the last week of November 2025.