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Leveraging technology to transform teaching and learning UW-IT is engaging faculty, students and staff on all campuses to provide advice and guidance and to help evaluate projects. This involvement includes input from the Teaching & Learning Technology Oversight Committee, faculty-driven pilot projects and feedback from UW partners and student participants in pilot projects. Tegrity cloud-based lecture capture lets faculty record classroom sessions so students can review any segment, any time. Tegrity is being offered to a few classes in Autumn 2011 before becoming available to all faculty and enrolled students. ViDA virtual desktop gives users 24/7 access to software applications from their personal computers. Students began using ViDA in Autumn 2011 to access Student Technology Fee-funded software as an alternative to going to a computer lab. Cloud services provide new tools for teaching, learning and collaboration. More than 21,000 students, faculty and staff use UW Google Apps and UW Windows Live—low-cost, UW-branded, ad-free, cloud-hosted services for email and collaboration—in partnership with Microsoft and Google. New UW Google Apps tools include the Google+ social platform, Blogger for posting, and Picasa photo sharing, with more apps being added every quarter. Catalyst Web Tools enable online collaboration and communication for teaching, learning and research. Catalyst averaged 48,000 daily user sessions for 4,700 classes per quarter in FY 2011. Enhancements make it easier to use UW Groups to manage group permissions in Catalyst Tools. The release of GradePage offers a one-step interface for grade submission, replacing paper forms. Students with disabilities level the playing field by accessing help from the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) Center. DO-IT is a national effort involving the colleges of Education and Engineering and UW-IT. The center runs on-site and online programs that help students succeed by using technology as an empowering tool. DO-IT students are featured in 12 UWTV videos, speaking about adapted environments and technologies that give them equal access to education and employment. New online tools make students' academic lives easier: • Financial aid applicants can apply for loans more easily thanks to improved integration between UW Financial Aid and DirectLoans.gov. • Financial aid recipients can track their status and be alerted whenever actions must be taken. What's next • Canvas, a next-generation learning management system, offers integrated features that enrich the student experience and help faculty manage courses. Pilots are underway with faculty on all campuses through Spring 2012. • MyPlan, a student academic planning tool, helps students chart a multi-year education plan and track progress toward graduation. MyPlan is supported with funding by the Student Technology Fee. Initial rollout scheduled for Autumn 2012. • eText online text delivery enhances student engagement at a lower cost than traditional textbooks. Users can search, highlight and annotate text, and access social-networking tools. Pilots planned through 2012. • Cloud services: Early adoption of Exchange Online will bring robust email and calendaring, and allow users to migrate from UW Exchange to the cloud. New Google Apps under consideration for the UW include Books and Bookmarks and iGoogle personal information portal. More info Cloud-based services uw.edu/itconnect/teamwork/ cloud.html Catalyst and other Web tools uw.edu/lst/ DO-IT students on UWTV uwtv.org/video/index. aspx?id=1549961281 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 5

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