Learn@UW newsletter, week of Apr 24
Highlights from Learn@UW for the week of April 24.
Highlights from Learn@UW for the week of April 24.
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 …
If you’ve ever thought, “I probably need to understand AI better,” we have a session made with you in mind. Join us on April 23 for Demystifying AI: An introduction to UW’s AI tools, a virtual session designed to help you understand AI and how it applies to your work. All UW community members are welcome, …
Get AI basics with Learn@UW in these one-hour virtual workshops: March 24, April 16 & April 30.
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 Honorlock – Update, February 17 On Tuesday, February 17, Honorlock will release an update for web application (10.45.0) and the extension (6.68.0). The process will start at 7:00 a.m. (CT), and is expected to run one hour, with no downtime. Notable improvements include a fix to a problem encountered when launching Chrome, and …
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 …