What’s happening?
TidyUP – Coming January 7
A new tool is coming to the Learn@UW suite! TidyUP will show you unused files and pages inside your Canvas course so you can tidy things up. Check out this news article for more information.
Top Hat – Office hours in January
In January, Top Hat is hosting four 90-minute Zoom sessions to help instructors set up and prepare Top Hat in their Canvas courses.
Dates and times are:
- Thursday, January 8, between 11:30pm – 1:00pm ET
- Wednesday, January 14, between 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET
- Tuesday, January 20, between 10:00am – 11:30am ET
- Friday, January 23, between 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
To register for one of these sessions, click here.
Learn@UW – “Demystifies AI” training this spring
Back by popular demand! In the first quarter of 2026, Learn@UW is delivering three sessions of “Learn@UW Demystifies AI: A workshop on AI Tools”.
During these sessions, we explore fundamental questions about artificial intelligence and demonstrate how to access UW–Madison’s supported generative AI tools.
See below for dates, times, and registration info.
Learn@UW – Upcoming important dates
- December 21 – Grading ends
- December 24 – Extended grading period ends
- December 25 – Course evaluation results available to instructors
- January 20 – First day of instruction
Learn@UW – Seasons greetings
As the fall semester and the year 2025 come to a close, the Learn@UW team extends warmest of wishes to you and yours. Life moves fast. These transitional moments provide rich opportunities to stop, count our blessings, review our work, celebrate the victories, examine the less-than-victories, and prepare to do better in the year to come. The University of Wisconsin–Madison instructional community is an impressive, energetic, and talented population. Thank you for all you do to make it so. We are excited and proud to stand with you as we launch into 2026. See you next year!
Upcoming events
Learn@UW Training Blitz – January 2026
Learn@UW is proud to offer the following 14 sessions of training and support during the week before the start of spring semester, January 12 through 16. All are welcome–come to what you can, stay as long as you like. No registration necessary.
Canvas Training
Getting Started with Canvas
Canvas Assessments
Canvas Gradebook
Things You Might Have Missed, Part 1
Making Sure Your Canvas Course Is Ready
Things You Might Have Missed, Part 2
Canvas Open Office Hours
Other Tools Training
Fundamentals of DesignPLUS
Introduction to Gradescope
Optimizing Your Course Accessibility with UDOIT
Using Zoom in Canvas
Top Hat Fundamentals
Learn@UW Demystifies AI
This hour-long, fully remote session provides an overview of artificial intelligence for employees of UW–Madison. All faculty and staff are invited to attend one of the following sessions.
Registration is required, and enrollment for each session has been capped at 100.
- Friday, January 16, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Monday, February 9, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Monday, March 9, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
NEW! – Learn@UW Training Pops
Week of Monday, February 9
In February — three weeks after the semester begins — Learn@UW is offering 35 separate 30-minute training sessions. These are quick, targeted, contained sessions addressing several elements of our suite of learning technologies: Canvas, Kaltura, Top Hat, Gradescope, Honorlock, Turnitin, UDOIT, and DesignPLUS.
We are calling them “pops”, because attendees can “pop in” and “pop out” as their schedules allow. Each session is intended to provide attendees with discrete take-away pieces of knowledge they can instantly apply to their Canvas course.
Rather than list all 35 sessions here, we invite interested individuals to visit today.wisc.edu (filtered for “Learn@UW Online Training – Spring 2026”). No registration is necessary, and all sessions will be held in the same Zoom room.
For further details, contact learnuwsupport@wisc.edu