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Virtual Office Hours With Didier Contis & Paula Bizot
Fridays, 9:15am via Zoom. Unscripted conversations with our Chief Information Officer. The Nov 14 guest is Paula Bizot from the Center for Aging Research & Education, School of Nursing.
November 13, 2025Applications open for IT Mentoring Program 2026
Enhance your skills, share knowledge and tackle goals by becoming a mentor or mentee. Apply by Dec 10.
November 11, 2025Help Desk hours over Thanksgiving recess
The DoIT Help Desk will have reduced hours around Thanksgiving recess, and we’ll be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Please make note of these changes.
November 11, 2025Next-gen MyUW coming: summer 2026
DoIT will migrate MyUW to a new platform next summer. Join our employee lunch-&-learns this fall to learn how these changes will affect your department's tiles and apps.
November 11, 2025DesignPLUS is available now
DesignPLUS is a time-saving tool that allows instructors and course designers to build engaging, stylized Canvas courses.
November 10, 2025Cisco Contact Center service page launched
If your department or organization requires more than just basic voice communication, check out the Cisco Contact Center service page for potential ways forward.
November 10, 2025
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of Nov 7
Canvas scheduled maintenance, Honorlock User Group (Virtual) Meetup, Top Hat release notes, HelioCampus AC survey deadline, and lots of training!
November 7, 2025Register now: Information & Technology Leadership Conference
Join your IT colleagues on Dec 9 for a day focused on developing your leadership skills and connecting with peers from across the university. Registration deadline: Nov 25.
November 6, 2025Join us for Posit Day: Hyper-parameter fine-tuning with tidymodels
Join Research Cyberinfrastructure for Posit Day, a series that showcases data science resources and strategies. Nov 12, 2pm via Zoom.
November 5, 2025Don’t miss your chance to shape IT’s future
Listening sessions give you an opportunity to influence the direction of IT at UW–Madison. Insights gathered will help shape Didier’s priorities for the coming year—and you’ll connect with colleagues from across campus who share your commitment to excellence in technology.
November 4, 2025IT community: Join CIO listening sessions this fall
Share your insights and perspectives with Chief Information Officer Didier Contis. Your participation will help strengthen the university’s digital innovation and technology services landscape—and build connections across our IT community.
October 31, 2025Mid-semester Canvas training
Instructors are invited to attend 2 Canvas-centric trainings that demonstrate best practices and time-saving strategies.
October 28, 2025Learn@UW Newsletter, week of Oct 24
What’s happening? Gradescope – Planned outage, October 25 Gradescope will be conducting six hours of maintenance from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 25. There may be some interruptions in service during that …
October 24, 2025AI at work: A practical guide to using UW’s tools safely
Artificial intelligence tools can help you work smarter — drafting emails, summarizing documents, brainstorming ideas. But choosing the right AI tool matters. Here’s what you need to know to use AI responsibly at UW–Madison.
October 21, 2025DesignPLUS: coming November 2025
Beginning November 4, DesignPLUS will be available in Canvas through the Learn@UW teaching and learning suite of tools. What is DesignPLUS? DesignPLUS is a time-saving tool that allows instructors and course designers to build and …
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A heartfelt thank you
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: Thank you for 7 incredible years of partnership, growth and friendship.
June 20, 2025UW–Madison’s cybersecurity future: Collaboration as our superpower
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: In our continuing “Envision the Future” series, we explore how the evolving relationship between centralized and distributed IT can better serve UW–Madison’s mission.
May 19, 2025Working smarter together through modernization & federation
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: In our continuing “Envision the Future” series, we explore how the evolving relationship between centralized and distributed IT can better serve UW–Madison’s mission.
April 14, 2025Powering the future: IT’s role in university sustainability
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: University IT will be crucial in achieving UW–Madison’s ambitious sustainability goals. Balancing growing computing needs with environmental impact will be an exciting challenge for all of us in the coming years.
March 17, 2025Computing innovation to power tomorrow’s research
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: In our continuing Envision the Future series, we explore how computing infrastructure advances will support UW–Madison’s ambitious research agenda.
February 17, 2025- More Archive: Lois Brooks — CIO Blog posts
