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 …
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Learn@UW Newsletter, week of November 8
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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 …
MyUW improvements expand course schedule view
Students now have an accessible and mobile-responsive calendar view of their courses—plus a list of each course’s weekly meetings and exams.
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, …