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  New Canvas feature helps make course files more accessible

  March 21, 2019

  

  Ally supports instructors’ efforts to facilitate accessible learning at the UW by providing information and tools to help fix accessibility issues in course files. To see the Ally Instructor Feedback feature in action, please view this short video.

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  Partnerships helped with project to modernize email and productivity tools

  March 20, 2019

  

  The project to bring the latest email and productivity tools to students, faculty and staff has been completed, thanks to support from partners across all three campuses. The Email Modernization Program sought to give the University community modern and effective email and productivity tools, retire systems that were aging and cost-prohibitive to maintain, and ensure the UW’s ability to maintain compliance with email retention laws. Learn more about the effort.

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  Check out this entertaining video on using Scout

  March 19, 2019

  

  Check out a fun, entertaining video about Scout, an app for locating spots on campus to study, eat and more, produced by UW student and improv comedian Noah Eisfelder. He and the UW’s The Collective Improv Troupe star in the short clip.

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  UW Libraries recognized with award for accessibility efforts

  March 18, 2019

  

  The University Libraries received the first-ever IT Capacity Building Award for their efforts to make IT information resources accessible to all faculty, staff and students at the University of Washington, including those with disabilities. The award was presented by the UW’s IT Accessibility Task Force, a group made up of representatives from across campus that develop and implement plans for promoting IT accessibility at the University.

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