MyUW’s new Course Schedule app received an update that adds new functionality and improves the overall user experience when viewing course and final exam schedules.
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Learn@UW Newsletter, week of November 22
What’s happening? Canvas – Course shells for spring 2025 The new Canvas course shells for spring 2025 were created last week. They should now be available for instructors to begin development. For a reminder on …
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of November 8
The Learn@UW newsletter features short articles with tips and tricks for instructors, faculty, teaching assistants, instructional designers, and others to aid your instructional and classroom experience.
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of October 11
What’s happening? Engage – Order dates for spring 2025 For courses in Spring 2025 that will employ eTexts or digital learning tools, the Engage order dates are October 21 through December 2. Mark your calendars …
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of September 13
What’s happening? Top Hat – Outages reported last week Partial Top Hat outages were detected Monday, September 9. Continued issues have been reported by a small number of students in large-enrollment courses. While Top Hat …
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.