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CATL Weekly
August 23, 2025
In the August 23, 2025 issue
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WEEK.
- DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY.
- CANVAS TIP.
- TEACHING CONFERENCE.
- MINI-CONFERENCES!
DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY.
REMINDER: Your Fall 2025 Canvas content needs to be digitally accessible in accordance with the UWL plan for instructors to meet the federal Title II Digital Accessibility mandated deadline.
NOTE: If you still want to request a scan/fix be completed by CATL, please do so by completing the survey sent to you on May 13, 2025 from the Provost Office, subject line: Digital Accessibility, who will scan/fix this class? One survey was sent for each course you are teaching in fall. If course assignments changed, contact CATL to manually request this initial scan/fix for a course. We will completed as many requests as we can before fall semester on a first come, first served basis.
Even if CATL is completing your initial scan/fix, you will still need to know how to use UDOIT and how to fix accessibility issues in your courses to complete future scans and continue building accessible content. LEARN MORE:
- Take the self-paced training about digital accessibility.
- Attend Digital Accessibility 101 and Digital Accessibility 201 during professional development week.
- Review information about digital accessibility efforts happening at UWL.
CANVAS TIP.
NEW! Two new tools in Canvas to assist with digital accessibility:
TidyUp -- The tool helps clean up their courses by identifying and removing unused, outdated, or empty content. Use this before running a UDOIT scan to make your UDOIT scan more efficient.
UDOIT Advantage -- This is an enhanced version of the UDOIT tool previously enabled. This enhanced version scans and identifies issues with files in additional to Canvas content.
TEACHING CONFERENCE.
Join us on Tuesday, August 26 from 9am to noon for the 26th Annual UWL Conference on Teaching and Learning. The theme is "Reflective Voices: Forward Thinking & Motivation in Teaching." Provost Betsy Morgan will be giving the keynote address followed by workshops and posters. Food and beverages provided. Don't miss this great event! REGISTER TODAY.
MINI-CONFERENCES!
Last year, rather than sprinkling workshops on a variety of days/times, we tried a condensed approach and offered "mini-conferences", an afternoon of professional development for instructors. The design was a great success! And, we heard that only afternoon offerings did not allow some folks to attend as they wanted. While there is no perfect day/time, we are going to try the mini-conference approach again but this time we will plan an all-day event with hopes of allowing more people to join us. So, save these dates for the 25/26 academic year CATL mini-conferences!
- Friday, October 10 -- CATL Mini-Conference, Fall 2025
- Thursday, February 19 -- CATL Mini-Conference, Spring 2026
We'll also be hosting some other events, book clubs, communities of practice, and trainings during the 25/26 academic year. We'll post updates in the CATL Weekly as details are figure out.