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Learn@UW Newsletter, week of August 30
What’s Happening? Canvas – Pre-semester checklist With the fall semester beginning in four days, instructors may wish to review their Canvas courses one last time to make sure it’s ready to go. Learn@UW–Madison has compiled …
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of August 16
What’s happening? Atomic Assessments – User interface update Atomic Assessments has a new Simplified View. For details on how to toggle the Simplified View on and off, refer to this KB Article. On January 8, …
Students say Top Hat ‘makes large lectures feel smaller‘
Find out what UW–Madison students think about Top Hat—a tool instructors can use to bring real-time polling and other feedback interactions into their classrooms. Top Hat training sessions: Aug 20 & 30 via Zoom.
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of August 2
What’s Happening? Canvas – New “Smart Search” Available as Feature Preview A new Canvas “Smart Search” course search tool is available as a feature preview for instructors to enable. Students and instructors can use the …
Accessibility with UDOIT: Text styling in Canvas
UDOIT is a tool that helps instructors fix digital accessibility barriers directly within Canvas. Learn more about how screen readers interpret text styling, and how to make your course better for students who use them.
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of July 19
What’s Happening? Canvas – New Course Analytics Tool Coming to All Courses Tomorrow, July 20 A refreshed version of Canvas course Analytics, called “New Analytics,” has been available as an instructor opt-in feature in the …
Canvas: Changes coming to syllabus & course summary features
If you use these features as an instructor or instructional designer, find out about changes coming Aug 16.
Dr Kim Arnold earns distinguished director status
UW–Madison awards distinguished status to those who demonstrate an exceptional level of expertise in their field. Arnold is director of the Learning Analytics Center of Excellence (LACE), a Division of Information Technology unit within Academic Technology.
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of July 5
What’s Happening? Canvas – Discussions/Announcements Redesign Coming July 20 On July 20, all Canvas courses will begin using the redesigned version of “Discussions/Announcements.” For the past several semesters, using the redesigned versions of Discussions and …