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.

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Explore Grackle for clear guidance to make your Google docs, presentations and spreadsheets more accessible to all.

UW–‍Madison prepares for compliance with new federal rule on digital accessibility

Universities must make digital resources accessible by Apr 24, 2026, under a new Justice Department rule. Learn about the committee tasked with identifying barriers and resources needed for compliance.

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Student employees: Earn $25 per session to share your perspectives on websites and apps.

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.

Students say Top Hat ‘makes large lectures feel smaller‘

Find out what UW–‍Madison students think about Top Hat—a tool instructors can use to bring real-time polling and other feedback interactions into their classrooms. Top Hat training sessions: Aug 20 & 30 via Zoom.

Accessibility with UDOIT: Text styling in Canvas

UDOIT is a tool that helps instructors fix digital accessibility barriers directly within Canvas. Learn more about how screen readers interpret text styling, and how to make your course better for students who use them.

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.

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.