Category: Teaching & Learning
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Use Canvas effectively for all your classes
September 26, 2022
New to Canvas? Pick up tips on how to set up Canvas, the UW’s learning management system, and help your students succeed with this handy IT Connect guide.
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Engage your students with Poll Everywhere
September 2, 2022
Present polls, knowledge checks, and other activities to engage and assess students using Poll Everywhere, a web and SMS text-messaging student response system.
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Rev up your classes with Jupyter Notebook
August 12, 2022
UW-IT’s JupyterHub services allow faculty to bring the full power of cloud computing into the classroom.
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New to teaching classes at the UW? Use these tech tools and resources
August 4, 2022
Learn how to set up courses in Canvas, use Panopto to record lectures, use Poll Everywhere to engage students in class, submit grades with GradePage, and more. This quick guide can help you navigate the variety of resources available to you at the UW.
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Learn how to mitigate common cybersecurity threats on Aug. 17
August 3, 2022
Join the Office of the CISO in a training session from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to help you make your apps and websites more secure.
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Reminder: GradeBook and WebQ to retire June 16, 2022
April 11, 2022
Catalyst GradeBook and Catalyst WebQ Survey will retire this summer. Visit IT Connect to learn what tools to use in their place.
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Apply now to become a technology teaching fellow
March 10, 2022
Apply to become a Technology Teaching Fellow and join faculty colleagues, CTL consultants, and learning technologists at the 2022 Technology Teaching Fellows Institute, online, June 20 – August 5. The UW Center for Teaching and Learning invites applications focused on: • Developing a new online/hybrid course • Developing an online version of an in-person course…
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UW-IT builds new app to help students track their journey to graduation
February 28, 2022
Students can now craft their academic planning with DawgPath, a new web app that combines the features of Pivot and Prereq Map planning tools to help them manage their academic journey.
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Learn how three professors used JupyterHub in their classrooms
February 21, 2022
UW-IT’s JupyterHub service was deployed by a faculty member to help students learn data programming with live code demonstrations and powerful visualizations — without costly and complex computing setups.
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New features available in UW Zoom
December 15, 2021
Update to the latest version of Zoom for these enhancements: controlling slide presentations, polling, and two-way chat in the meeting Waiting Rooms.