The CoE Technology Center is excited to announce the Autumn Quarter Technology Lunch & Learn series. These sessions include a variety of topics for faculty, staff & students.  Each session will occur Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 in the Technology Center Computer Lab.  Please let us know you plan on attending RSVP.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month — Learn how to keep your data secure
Learn how to address threats and risks to personal and UW institutional information at several events being hosted in October by the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer.

Training Everyone Should View

Everyone at the UW who will use Workday should view these Workday 101 Instructional Videos.

Please plan to view these instructional videos before Workday goes live in June.

The Workday 101 instructional video series includes:

1. Navigating in Workday
2. Updating Personal Information
3. Enter Time
4. Request Absence (Time Off)
5. Inbox and Notifications
6. Accessing Benefits
7. Accessing Pay Information

This series is targeted for those individuals who were NOT assigned one of the specific security roles included in classroom style or seminar style training, but is relevant for all faculty, staff, and student employees at the University of Washington.

View Workday 101 Instructional Videos now 

Hi Everyone,

In the next few days, Qualtrics URLs that include ‘www’ will no longer redirect correctly to our branded login page.  The CoE branded URL uweducation.qualtrics.com will continue to work as intended, but www.uweducation.qualtrics.com will produce an error if used to access the login page.

This change will not affect your accounts or surveys in any way.  It only affects the login page for you as a CoE Qualtrics user.

Please edit your bookmarks and remove the www from the URL.  As always don’t hesitate to ask for help by emailing edhelp@uw.edu or calling the help desk (206) 221-4693.

Thanks,

The Technology Team

See our Calendar of Events to learn more.

I wanted to relay some exciting news from UW-IT about a University wide license for Poll Everywhere.  Poll Everywhere is student/audience response system that does not require dedicated hardware or students to pay fees related to the service.  Respondents answer questions in real time using mobile phones, Twitter, or web browsers. Instructors can share responses live.

Here is a link to learn more: https://www.polleverywhere.com/how-it-works

If you are new to Poll Everywhere or want to learn a few new tips, we will host several lunch training sessions on Poll Everywhere this fall.

Details about the agreement and timeline below:

Survey data from UW students, backed by a resolution from ASUW, indicates that students strongly prefer using personal mobile devices or laptops rather than clickers for in-class audience response activities. To meet this need, UW-IT partnered with UW faculty and technologists to evaluate several options and selected Poll Everywhere for a pilot.  After a successful pilot and in consultation with the Faculty Council on Teaching and Learning and the UW-IT’s Provost-chartered Teaching and Learning Technology Oversight Committee, UW-IT will offer Poll Everywhere to UW faculty and students.

Poll Everywhere will be available in early September, at no cost, and faculty will be able to use the audience response software for autumn quarter classes. The initial rollout will not include integration with the Canvas learning management system, but integration will be in place for winter quarter.

UW-IT will continue to provide support for TurningPoint clickers for faculty who choose to utilize that service. Please be sure to investigate changes to the TurningPoint offering and the requirement that faculty use the new TurningPoint Cloud software this autumn. A significant change to the TurningPoint model is the need for students to purchase an additional license to use the service, whether faculty choose to use physical devices or allow smartphone or web-based access.
If you have any questions, please email help@uw.edu with “Poll Everywhere” in the subject line.

In early May all phones in Miller Hall will be upgraded.  Beginning in 2011, UW-IT embarked on a major transformation of the legacy UW telephone service, which was no longer supportable by the vendor.  They have planned our upgrade for the first week in May.

As part of this upgrade, UW-IT will offer Post Day onsite support and can assist in answering questions or demonstrating the new phone sets. In addition, we will host an orientation the week of the upgrade to demo the new phones and answer questions. We will announce the location and time of the onsite training as we get closer to the upgrade date.
Telecom Upgrade FAQs:

• Will my number change? No.
• Will my saved greeting or saved voicemail be erased?  No.
• Where can I learn more about the project? Here
• Where can I learn more about the new phones? Here

The new Canvas interface focuses more on content, and optimizes the layout based on the device used to access Canvas.

There are two major differences between the old and new Canvas interfaces:

• The Global Navigation Menu has been moved from the top of the page (running from left to right) to the left side of the page (running from top to bottom).
• The Canvas Dashboard now has two views. The default view shows your active courses represented as colored cards with icons showing recent activity for announcements, assignments, discussions, and files. Using the toggle at the upper right, you can change views to the familiar recent activity stream.

To learn more about the new Canvas interface visit this guide.   Let us know if you would like us to host a mini-session and look at your courses in the new interface.