If your fall semester courses offer digital textbooks via Engage, here’s what you need to know—including how much money students have saved on print textbooks. (Hint: It’s more than enough to satisfy a sweet tooth…)
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.
Brush up on Canvas & other teaching tools
Learn@UW–Madison’s virtual training sessions have been recorded for just-in-time viewing. Meant for faculty and staff, both new and veteran, the sessions focus on Canvas, Kaltura MediaSpace, UDOIT Accessibility Checker and more.
Digital Accessibility Policy goes live Jul 1; join the liaison network
The Center for User Experience is building a network of digital accessibility liaisons who will help their units understand and support the new policy. Learn how you can participate.
How can data support inclusive teaching?
4 microgrants on learning analytics in support of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging were awarded for the 2022-23 academic year—and the impact and ripple effects continue to grow.
Academic Technology’s software development teams merge on Jul 2
Next month, Academic Technology’s 2 software development teams will merge under the Teaching & Research Application Development (TRAD) name.
Interested in using data to support diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging?
Coming soon: microgrants to explore how data-empowered educational practices might contribute to DEIB in the UW–Madison teaching and learning experience.
Will Burns named Center for User Experience director
A message from Academic Technology Director Tamara Walker: Will brings his passion for inclusive design from the University of Michigan, where he led digital user experience.
Add a recording of your name to your email signature with NameCoach
Record the proper pronunciation of your name using NameCoach, and post it to your online profiles and email signature.
Reminder: Complete your course evaluations now
Student course evaluation requests from “UW Madison Learning Assessment” are arriving in your inbox now. This confidential survey is quick and easy to complete.
NameCoach Canvas integration saves a recording of your name
Accurate name pronunciations help to promote inclusion, belonging and rapport in every interaction. This is why we adopted NameCoach, a tool that allows Canvas users to audio record the proper pronunciation of their names.