Author: Whitney Jacobson

For faculty & staff: Mark your calendars for Love Data Week

Love Data Week is a celebration held yearly during the week of Valentine’s Day. Join online and hybrid events to learn best practices for creating accessible charts, archiving public datasets, using protected institutional data responsibly, and more.

Elevate your instruction this spring with Learn@UW

Learn@UW is faculty and staff’s go-to hub for teaching tools, learning opportunities, and resources that help foster and support instruction. Get the latest updates as we start the new semester.

Stay connected with cybersecurity colleagues through MIST

Are you a member of the university’s distributed IT community? Monthly meetings of the Madison Information Security Team (MIST) are a great way to hear from security experts across campus and network with colleagues.

New Data Classification Initiative

This effort will simplify how we — as an organization — categorize and protect information. As this work gets underway, we‘ll develop “just-in-time” guidance and automation to help everyone understand how to appropriately use, store and share data.

TidyUp your Canvas courses

TidyUp is now available in Canvas. Learn how this tool can help instructors and course designers clean up their files.

December 2025 progress update

Smart Access is focused on improving visibility and enabling data-informed decisions. In this article, the team shares the progress of their current work.

Data storytellers: Enter Bucky’s Data Viz Challenge

Show off the ways you can make data exciting in this year’s challenge. The theme? School fight songs! Enter by Jan 7.

Cherwell development paused beginning Dec 19

All future WiscIT team efforts will shift to the IT service management tool replacement project.

UW Theme 2.0 migration path now available

WiscWeb sites can now begin the migration process to UW Theme 2.0. Learn what’s new in 2.0 and how to migrate.

ITSM Tool Replacement Project update: Sprint 18 & Cherwell upgrade

Catch up on progress as we prepare to transition to Ivanti’s Neurons cloud platform as our IT service management tool. Learn about email setup in Ivanti Neurons: Dec 10, 1pm via Teams.