Category: 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.

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of June 26

An Honorlock update, two Canvas updates, and a lot of Learn@UW training sessions.

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of June 12

What’s happening Honorlock – New LTI version 1.3 Early this morning (June 12), Honorlock rolled out the new 1.3 version of its Canvas integration, which introduces enhanced security features. We delivered notification emails to instructors using Honorlock this summer to help guide them in ensuring their exam settings are not lost in the upgrade. But instructors should …

Learn@UW newsletter, week of May 29

Cidi Labs summer training for UDOIT and DesignPLUS, updated information on Engage's new eReader, and several events hosted by CTLM.

Learn@UW newsletter, week of May 15

This week in Learn@UW: Demystify AI, Top Hat summer camp, DesignPLUS summer school, and more.

Canvas restored

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Learn@UW newsletter, week of Apr 24

Highlights from Learn@UW for the week of April 24.

Learn@UW newsletter, week of Apr 10

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 …

Demystifying AI: Join us April 23

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, …

Learn how to use Microsoft Copilot & Google Gemini

Get AI basics with Learn@UW in these one-hour virtual workshops: March 24, April 16 & April 30.

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of March 27

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. …