DoIT Academic Technology supports instructors through a variety of services tailored to help strategize, design, develop and integrate technologies to improve learning outcomes.
What’s happening? Gradescope – Now available Gradescope is now officially available to all instructors as part of the suite of tools supported by Learn@UW. This powerful assessment and feedback tool will help instructors more quickly and efficiently perform their grading tasks in Canvas. Learn more on the Gradescope KB. To attend one of two live, …
What’s happening? Canvas – New Quizzes now available UW–Madison has now enabled New Quizzes in all Canvas sub-accounts. At this point, use is entirely optional; instructors can decided whether to enable New Quizzes in any given course. Further, when creating any quiz, instructors can decide whether to use New Quizzes or to continue using the …
Gradescope allows for faster and more consistent grading while also helping instructors give students detailed feedback. Learn@UW will offer training sessions for instructors next month.
What’s happening? Learn@UW – Training Schedule set for Fall 2025 In late-August and early-September, Learn@UW is hosting a large array of training sessions focusing on several of our learning technologies. These sessions are 100% remote, and are intended for instructors and instructional staff all across the UW–Madison campus. Come when you can; leave when you …
What’s happening? Honorlock – Update released, June 9 The latest release for the Honorlock web application and extension brings several improvements impacting performance and accessibility. Learn all the exciting details. Canvas – Known Issue, Watermark in DocViewer In a recent upgrade to Canvas, a watermark began appearing on previously loaded “presentation files” such as Microsoft …
Watch June’s session for insights on best practices for social media design—and why making your sites more accessible benefits every part of your work.
What’s happening? Atomic Assessments – New features Two new functionalities were recently added to Atomic Assessments. Find further information on these features and a full list of release notes (including those coming up on June 3rd). If you need support for Atomic Assessments, refer to our KnowledgeBase articles or contact the DoIT Help Desk. Course Evaluations …