University of Wisconsin–Madison

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.

Gradescope: coming August 2025

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.

Make your next presentation or meeting interactive with Top Hat’s Guest Mode!

Top Hat makes it easy for you to engage an audience during a presentation, workshop, meeting, town hall, training, or other event. Learn more.

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of July 11

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 …

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of June 13

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 …

Social media for all of us: Making content accessible & inclusive

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.

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of May 30

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 …

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of May 16

What’s happening? Effective this morning, HelioCampus AC evaluation data is available for instructors to review. Read about this and more.

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of May 2

What’s happening?
HelioCampus AC evaluations end today. Read about it and more.

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of April 18

What’s happening? HelioCampus AC – Evaluations have begun Earlier this morning, most HelioCampus AC course evaluations began. They will run for two weeks, ending at 11:59pm on Friday, May 2. HelioCampus AC departmental administrators can monitor the response rates of the course evaluations in their department. For suggestions on how to improve the response rates, …

Harness the power of teaching & learning data: Apply today to become more data savvy

Interested in learning how to use course data to better understand how students engage with your online content? Apply today. Deadline: May 22.