What’s happening? UDOIT – Upgraded to Advantage on August 18 For several semesters, UW–Madison’s installation of UDOIT has scanned thousands of Canvas courses to identify and help remedy countless accessibility issues. On August 18, we …
Academic Technology News
DoIT Academic Technology supports instructors through a variety of services tailored to help strategize, design, develop and integrate technologies to improve learning outcomes.
New name, same mission: 7 projects recognized in renamed teaching & learning program
Meet the 2025 Insight to Impact awardees (formerly the DEEP Microgrant Program). This initiative supports faculty and instructional staff in using data to drive innovation and improve student success.
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 …
New Quizzes now available in Canvas
If you implement quizzes in your courses and want to provide a different testing experience, try this newly launched Canvas tool.
Introducing Gradescope
Gradescope allows for faster and more consistent grading while also helping instructors give students detailed feedback.
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 …
Gradescope: 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.
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.
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, …
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 …