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.
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 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.
Introducing Learn@UW–Madison’s Training Manuals Library
This new library features written content sourced from our regular sessions on teaching and learning tools, including Canvas, Kaltura and Top Hat.
Seven microgrant recipients awarded for data-driven education practices
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has announced the recipients of its annual microgrant program, aimed at advancing data-empowered education practices (DEEP). These grants, administered by the Learning Analytics Center of Excellence (LACE) in partnership with the …
Microgrants in support of student success in online course content
Apply for a microgrant to explore how engagement with online course content impacts student performance. Deadline: Apr 21.
Instructors: Order your digital course materials by Mar 25
Save money and unlock learning experiences. Instructors must order eTexts and digital learning tools in Engage before the deadline to ensure they’re available in the upcoming summer term.
Join colleagues for coffee & Copilot
Instructors: As you explore generative AI in teaching, drop into this series of informal Friday gatherings. Next session: Apr 26 via Zoom.