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I M P R O V IN G THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE Canvas offers broader access, new features. This learning management system now provides access to guest lecturers, non-matriculated students and others with Google accounts, and can be used to create non-academic content. Instructors can request course sites ahead of quarter start. Integration with UW's central authorization service makes it easy to assign and manage administrative roles. SpaceScout expands to UW Tacoma, wins recognition. This Web and mobile app for locating ideal study spots features 270 spaces at UW Seattle and UW Tacoma, and will add UW Bothell in winter 2014. It received an international Campus Technology 2013 Innovators Award. To better respond to classroom technology changes, Classroom Technology & Events (CTE) joined UW-IT. The move positions UW Seattle to plan more strategically, provide faculty with one-stop shopping for classroom needs and enhance the student equipment program. CTE and UW Libraries created the new Odegaard Undergraduate Library Active Learning Classrooms. Notify.UW offers course availability alerts to students, and gives a better picture of course demand. Students receive a text or email message when space opens in a course of interest, easing registration for highdemand courses. A new student recruitment and enrollment system provides a streamlined, personalized approach to recruitment, applicant communications and admission reviews, and is used by Undergraduate Admissions at all campuses. more info Teaching and Learning uw.edu/itconnect/learn/tools MyPlan depts.washington.edu/ myplan Classroom Technology & Events uw.edu/uwit/cte A new UW Shopping Sheet tool, available through MyUW, helps prospective students understand the costs of attending UW and compare their UW financial aid package with other offers. eTextbooks don't offer significant advantages over printed textbooks at this time, according to findings of a UW-IT pilot with 1,800 students in 23 courses over four quarters. UW-IT will continue to explore eTextbooks as the technology evolves. Mariko Navin, Civil & Environmental Engineering adviser (top), and UW junior Rahul Devanarayanan (bottom) use MyPlan to map out his academic path. "It's amazing how much functionality MyPlan has," Navin said. "It's going to be totally transformative in the way we work with students to help them reach their academic goals." Early adoption of the new tool has been outstanding, according to Darcy Van Patten, UW-IT's Student Program Director. So far, MyPlan has had nearly 32,000 unique visitors, with about 11,000 creating an academic plan. promises to dramatically improve the student experience. MyPlan is currently being adopted by Kuali member Indiana University, which is already working on enhancements that it will give back to Kuali Student, of which UW is a founding member. "It's going to be totally transformative in the way we work with students to help them reach their academic goals." "We modeled many of the features of MyPlan after modern travel and shopping websites, so students have a familiar interface," Van Patten explained. Some notable features include robust course search, filtering and saving, integrated degree audit reports, real-time sharing of plans with advisers and detailed registration planning. MyPlan is the first online tool to go live at the UW under Kuali Student, a next-generation student system that "Eventually, we want to have integrated Kuali's open-source platforms for admission, enrollment, tuition, advising, billing and accounts, and financial aid," Van Patten said. "We're adding features continuously. Next year, we will integrate MyPlan with the UW's registration system to provide an improved academic planning and registration experience." "What MyPlan does is immense," Navin said. "It lets students spend less time and energy on the logistics of their education—so they have more time for learning." 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 3

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