University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Academic Technology News

DoIT Academic Technology supports instructors through a variety of services tailored to help strategize, design, develop and integrate technologies to improve learning outcomes.

Learn@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 time. For details, see this announcement from Gradescope. Honorlock – Update release, October 28 On Tuesday, October 28th, Honorlock will …

DesignPLUS: 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 style high-quality Canvas courses that make learning engaging and accessible for all students. The main feature of DesignPLUS is the …

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of Oct 10

What’s happening? Engage – Spring ordering period begins October 20 At UW–‍Madison, instructors use Engage to manage and deliver eTexts and digital learning tools (DLTs) for their courses. The ordering period for these digital options for spring 2026 begins on Friday, October 20, and runs through Friday, December 1. To explore the tool and how …

Learn@UW Newsletter, week of September 12

What’s happening? Honorlock – Frequent updates & releases Anyone using or interested in Honorlock should keep an eye on their frequent updates and releases–the most recent releases have occurred on September 3, 5 and 11. See the Honorlock release notes for details. Atomic Assessments – September 9 updates For our colleagues using Atomic Assessments, a …