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Academic Technology News
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of July 19
What’s Happening? Canvas – New Course Analytics Tool Coming to All Courses Tomorrow, July 20 A refreshed version of Canvas course Analytics, called “New Analytics,” has been available as an instructor opt-in feature in the …
Canvas: Changes coming to syllabus & course summary features
If you use these features as an instructor or instructional designer, find out about changes coming Aug 16.
Dr Kim Arnold earns distinguished director status
UW–Madison awards distinguished status to those who demonstrate an exceptional level of expertise in their field. Arnold is director of the Learning Analytics Center of Excellence (LACE), a Division of Information Technology unit within Academic Technology.
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of July 5
What’s Happening? Canvas – Discussions/Announcements Redesign Coming July 20 On July 20, all Canvas courses will begin using the redesigned version of “Discussions/Announcements.” For the past several semesters, using the redesigned versions of Discussions and …
Digital Accessibility Policy: implementation plan roadmap
The Digital Accessibility Policy aligns with UW–Madison and Universities of Wisconsin policies that protect people with disabilities against discrimination and honors our institutional statement on diversity. This roadmap tracks the implementation of the new policy over the life of the project.
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of Jun 21
What’s Happening? Canvas – Discussions/Announcements Redesign Coming July 20 On July 20, all Canvas courses will begin using the redesigned version of “Discussions/Announcements.” For the past several semesters, using the redesigned versions of Discussions and …
Changes to Canvas Discussions and Announcements tools coming Jul 20
On July 20, Canvas courses will begin using the redesigned Discussions and Announcements features, affecting in-progress summer courses. Find out what this means for you.
ITA students help 5th graders play out their gaming ideas
Elementary schoolers were able to bring their zombie battles and dungeon quest ideas to life, with help from high school students in UW–Madison’s Information Technology Academy pre-college program.
Requesting a Canvas course shell
Canvas shells are blank Canvas courses in which you can create and deliver course content, blank “canvases” for instructors and course designers to use as a sandbox for experimentation or to house supplemental content.