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Password Management: LastPass

LastPass is a great tool for teams interested in having a safe way of saving, managing and sharing passwords. Besides this, you can also share other protected team information assets, like account numbers, private notes, etc. The app works with your internet browser in most platforms and devices.

This tool is available for free for UW employees through UW IT (IT Connect site)

Student Mid Quarter Evaluation Report

There is a new Autumn Mid Quarter Course Evaluation report. This report highlights student perceptions regarding their online course experience across UW. For our College, even though sample size may be limited, it is interesting how it suggests the improvements in course organization have been well received by our students. It also shows persistent emotional overwhelm. If you are interested in reading more about the survey findings, you can find the full report and more at the Report website.

Expanded Capacity for PDF Accessibility Support

Our group now has additional personnel ready to support you in making your course materials accessible. If you will be assigning readings next quarter in the form of PDFs, and you are interested in making those PDFs accessible to students who use assistive technologies like screen readers, our group can help! Note that some PDFs have accessible, full-text HTML versions via our library; however, scanned chapters, or PDFs of articles without an available full-text version online, need to be remediated in order to be screen-readable. If you are interested in this service, please email edhelp@uw.edu with your request! Due to the detailed nature of remediation, the turnaround time is usually several weeks, but we are happy to get started early on Spring quarter course materials.

UW-IT Piloting Hypothes.is Social Annotation Tool

Social annotation tools allow students to take notes in the margins of digital texts, read and add on to their peers’ notes, and respond to discussion questions in context. Hypothes.is (https://web.hypothes.is/education/) is one of the leading social annotation platforms, and UW-IT is partnering with them to offer a pilot of the Hypothes.is Canvas integration (https://web.hypothes.is/help/using-the-hypothesis-app-with-assignments-in-canvas/) through the end of the 20-21 academic year. The pilot enables you and your students to use Hypothes.is integrated with your Canvas course and assignments. To learn more about using Hypothes.is in your course, join UW-IT for a webinar Thursday, Feb 18th from 3:30 – 4:30PM to learn about the basics of the integration with Canvas, experience annotating, and ask questions. Register for the webinar to reserve your spot.

Qualtrics Reports: Save your “Classic Report” before March 31st

If you are a Qualtrics user and you are using old reports in your project, you should check if they were built using the “Classic” version of the Report builder. This older version of the tool will be turn off on March 31st.

If you don’t know if you have any “Classic Report”, you will need to open the [Reports] tab, and then the [Reports] section. You may see a different screen depending on your previous use of Reports for the project you are looking at (the links will take you to a short demo):

  1. No previous use of Advanced Reports: You will see a prompt saying “There are no reports for this project”. Click the “View Classic Reports” button. A new tab will open and you will need to close the alert message announcing Classic Reports will be removed. After that, you can Select the “All” tab, and see if you have any Classic report you wish to save either as a printout or as a QRF file (to re-create as an Advanced Report).
  2. Previously used Advanced Reports: You will see the report you are currently using, and if you click on the leftmost menu item (Report _Report Name_ (Details)), then select the bottom choice> “View Classic Reports”.  A new tab will open and you will need to close the alert message announcing Classic Reports will be removed. After that, you can Select the “All” tab, and see if you have any Classic report you wish to save either as a printout or as a QRF file (to re-create as an Advanced Report).

Please contact us if you need any help during this process