Technology Center
November 17, 2023
New UW Qualtrics Enterprise Agreement
UW-IT has recently made Qualtrics available for faculty and staff at UW. This new service will add some functionality (Stats iQ and Crosstabs iQ) and save our college the yearly cost of subscription. In order to use this service, we will need to migrate all our surveys. We understand this may be a complex process…
Your Old Canvas Courses Need Attention!
Courses created in Canvas before Summer 2018 will be deleted on December 18 of this year. If you would like to preserve any course content from this period, you can create a course archive by exporting your Canvas content ahead of December 18th. If you need assistance with this process, please submit a request to…
November 16, 2023
Fee-Based service for >100GB Google Shared Drives
Beginning July 2024, UW Google Shared Drives will transition to a fee-based service. Shared Drives will be available to UW employees at no charge for a subsidized tier of up to 100GB (subject to annual review), and for-fee service tiers for usage above that level. Estimated Pricing for 2024/2025 Google Shared Drive Size Price / year …
A New Website for the College!
We are getting closer! As you may know, we have been working on upgrading the main College website for the past year. We are targeting a release of the updated site for mid-January, after the end of the early January admissions cycle. Users will notice: easier navigation improved program information organization completely revised content significantly…
June 8, 2023
Coming this Winter: Canvas Retention Policy
Content created in the UW Canvas LMS is retained for five years after the end of the academic year (considered to be June) in which the course section was offered. As this is the first year the policy will be implemented, courses from Autumn 2012 through Spring 2018 will be deleted on December 18, 2023….
Generative AI Conversations
The term generative artificial intelligence describes a set of tools using algorithmic “brains” to create new content, including text, image, audio, or video. One of the most popular of these tools is ChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer), an online software tool that can answer any question based on a 4-year-old dataset. This technology has raised many…
Panopto Retention Policy
To comply with the University of Washington’s records retention policies — and to adapt to a new Panopto contract that charges for the number of recordings created, archived and stored — UW Information Technology will begin implementing a retention policy for Panopto recordings in June. June 12, 2023: recordings not viewed in the previous 24…
Institutional Research
Greetings from Institutional Research! For those I haven’t met yet, I am the College’s new IR Director. As I continue to acclimate to the College of Education, I’m asking for your patience as I implement systems that will work well for myself and all of you. For data requests, please keep the following in mind…
Google Shared Drive Service Update
Great news for people with shared storage needs greater than 100 GB. UW IT is releasing a new service to replace the old Shared Drive service. This service is called “Google Shared Drive for Google Workspace.” The first 100 GB of storage for each Shared Drive will be subsidized by UW-IT until at least 2025/2026….
DocuSign Pilot
Moving DocuSign signed envelopes can be a tedious job, but it is a required step to manage retention policies for this kind of document. We have been working with UW-IT to conduct a pilot service to automate document backup on SharePoint. The service will create a copy of each signed document into a OneDrive folder….
