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Last updated: October 11, 2024
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  • Canvas Learning Management System
    • Hide and display the Canvas course navigation
    • Canvas Help for Instructors and Staff
      • Get started
        • Access your Canvas course
        • What if I don’t see my course?
        • What do I need to do at the beginning of the quarter?
        • Explore the UW Canvas Course Template
        • Add people to your Canvas course
        • Add teaching assistants to your course
        • Combine or cross list courses
        • My course is longer than a quarter
      • Design your Canvas course
        • Canvas model courses
        • Getting started module
        • About the Canvas syllabus
        • Edit the Canvas syllabus description
        • Add your own syllabus to Canvas
        • About files in Canvas
        • Customize course navigation
        • Add navigation links to external content
        • Add YouTube content
        • About Canvas Draft State
        • Rich Content Editor in Canvas
        • See your course as students see it
        • What do I need to do at the end of the quarter?
          • Preserve Canvas course content
      • Assignments
        • Peer Feedback Tools
          • FeedbackFruits Templates
        • About assignments in Canvas
        • Ed Discussion
        • New Quizzes in Canvas
        • Create an assignment
        • Lock an assignment
        • Recommendations for conducting quizzes and exams online
          • Visual content in online quizzes
        • Ally accessibility tool for Canvas
          • Ally: First year performance at the UW
          • Ally: Top 10 accessibility issues, spring 2020
        • Hypothesis: Collaborative Annotation for Canvas LMS
          • Hypothesis FAQs
        • Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 LTI
        • About SimCheck plagiarism detection
          • SimCheck AI Writing Detection Tool – Why the UW has Opted Out
          • Using Plagiarism Detection Software: Guidelines for Faculty
          • Resources for Using Canvas with SimCheck
          • SimCheck plagiarism detection FAQs
          • Add a SimCheck assignment
          • Manage permissions and users in VeriCite
        • Accessibility tools for creating content in Canvas
      • Grading
        • Gradebook
          • Canvas Grade Posting Policy
          • Final Grade Override
          • Canvas Gradebook FAQ
        • Canvas has two grade scale tools. Which one should I use?
        • Create, edit, or remove 4.0 grade scales in Canvas
        • Apply a 4.0 grade scale to a Canvas assignment
        • Apply a 4.0 grade scale to a Canvas Gradebook
        • Import and convert Canvas grades for submission
        • Import ScorePaks into Canvas
      • Communicating
        • Canvas Collaborations
        • About communicating with students in Canvas
        • Set up a conference
        • Use Discussions and Announcements Redesign
        • View people in your course
      • Canvas Commons
        • Copyright & Licensing in Commons
        • Guidelines for using content from Canvas Commons
        • Import the Course Template from Canvas Commons
        • Options for sharing resources in Canvas Commons
        • Share or move teaching resources into Canvas Commons
      • Canvas App Center
        • Third-party and vendor integrations with Canvas
      • Request a Canvas Course Site
      • Use Canvas to Publicize Your Individual Course Description
      • Resources for Canvas Administrators
        • Grant Authorization for Canvas in ASTRA
    • Canvas Help for Students
      • Assignments
        • Peer Feedback Tools
        • Ally accessibility tool for Canvas
          • Download an alternative format
        • View my VeriCite report
      • Communications
      • Settings
    • Canvas Policies
      • Canvas Access Policy
        • Signing in to Canvas and Panopto with Gmail accounts ends March 22, 2023
      • Canvas and Panopto Access Policy Timeline
      • Canvas Data Retention Policy
        • Announcement to UW Canvas instructors about Canvas Data Retention Policy
      • Canvas LMS: Integration, Development, and Data Access
        • Canvas LMS: API Access and Access Tokens
        • Canvas LMS: Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)
        • Using developer keys to integrate with Canvas
        • UW LMS Vendor Integration Program
      • Canvas Use Policy
      • Protections for UW Faculty and Student Intellectual Property in the Canvas LMS
  • Classroom Technology & Support
    • Equipment Reservations
    • Equipment Tutorials
    • Technology Keys
  • Enterprise Training & Management System (Bridge)
  • GradePage
    • Assign and Submit Grades
    • Import and Convert from CSV for Grade Submission
    • Review Submitted Grades
    • Change Submitted Grades
    • Access GradePage from MyUW
    • GradePage Usage Metrics
    • GradePage Data Retention Policy
  • Learning Technologies Workshops and Office Hours
    • Online Tutorials
      • Digital Audio Online Tutorials
        • Ableton Live Online Curriculum
        • Audacity Online Curriculum
        • Basic Recording Tutorial
        • GarageBand Online Curriculum
        • Introduction to Digital Audio
          • Digital Audio Basics
          • Sound Studio Overview
        • Propellerhead Reason Online Curriculum
        • Sound Studio Space Documentation
      • Engaging Online Materials
      • jQuery
      • Podcasting/Vodcasting: Distributing Your Audio and Video Files Via the Web – Part II
      • What is a Terminal?
      • Digital Video Workshops
        • Adobe After Effects
        • Adobe Premiere Pro
        • Final Cut Pro X
        • iMovie ’11
      • Graphics and Design Workshops
        • What is Illustrator?
          • Getting Started with Illustrator
          • Working with Objects
          • The Pen Tool
          • Working with Type
          • Create a Batman Logo
          • Creating a Key Logo
          • Creating a Biohazard Symbol
        • What is InDesign?
          • Getting Started with InDesign
          • Working with Objects
          • Working with Type
          • Working with Multiple Objects
          • Next Steps: Tutorials, Digital Publishing Suite, and Resources
        • What is Photoshop?
          • The Interface
          • Layer Fundamentals
          • Image Adjustments
          • Selections
          • Brushes
          • Color, Swatches and Gradients
          • Working with Type
        • The Adobe CS6 Interface
      • Microsoft Office 365
  • Panopto Lecture Capture
    • Panopto overview
    • Install the Panopto Recorder
    • Create a recording on your computer
    • Create a recording using Panopto Capture
    • Record offline and upload your recording
    • Schedule Lecture Capture
      • Schedule Lecture Capture (Automatically, via Canvas)
      • Request a scheduled recording outside of class time
    • Live stream your lectures with Panopto
    • Caption Panopto recordings
    • View Panopto recordings
    • Share recordings in Canvas
    • Share recordings in Panopto
    • Copy recordings
      • Panopto: States of Stored Content
    • Download recordings
    • Manage your recording in the classroom
    • Add a Panopto recording to a Canvas page
    • Allow students to record and share Panopto sessions
    • Create a Panopto user group
    • Panopto FAQs
    • Panopto or Zoom?
    • Panopto Zoom integration
      • Set up your Panopto Zoom integration
        • Panopto Zoom integration issue
    • Panopto Data Retention Policy
    • Panopto Policies
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  • Poll Everywhere
    • UW Poll Everywhere Updates
      • Poll Creators: Course Management in Poll Everywhere (Pre-release feature)
      • Use the poll template
      • Updates archive
    • Poll Creators: Import Students/ Participants in Canvas
    • Poll Takers: Set Up Your Account & Log In
      • Poll Takers: Responding to Polls
      • Poll Takers: Device Access & Troubleshooting
    • Poll Creators: Export graded poll responses to the Canvas Gradebook
    • Poll Creators: Share Polls with TAs, Designers and Other Instructors
    • Poll Everywhere FAQs
    • Poll Everywhere Service Metrics
    • Poll Everywhere Data Retention Policy
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      • Food Spaces
      • Study Spaces
      • Tech Spaces
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    • Campus Technology Research
      • Assessment of campus technology needs
        • 2020 UW-IT Survey on Researchers’ IT Needs
      • Pilots of new technologies for teaching and learning
        • Current UW-IT Technology Pilots
        • Completed educational technology pilots
      • Summary of recent campus technology research
      • Campus Technology Research Objectives
    • Student and Instructor Success Analytics
      • Data Science
      • Success Analytics Apps
      • Analytics Strategy
    • Usage of Campus Technology
  • Technology Training
    • LinkedIn Learning
  • UW-IT JupyterHub for Teaching
    • JupyterHub best practices
    • Quickstart & Tutorial
    • UW-IT’s JupyterHub Brings Research Technologies to the Classroom
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