Tag: Canvas

Code improvements streamline performance, maintenance of required Canvas compliance courses

Recent source code revisions have improved the performance and maintenance of the enrollment process for compliance courses that all incoming degree-seeking undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison take when they first arrive on campus. The changes, which rolled out in February, will allow the developers tasked with supporting enrollment in compliance courses on Canvas …

Training transition: Moving SIS training to an online format

The Student Information System (SIS) is widely utilized across campus for a variety of roles. Previously, the Office of the Registrar (RO) hosted instructor-led trainings and maintained PDF documentation and resources for campus users on how to complete tasks in SIS. In June 2021 the RO began a project to evaluate SIS training needs across …

Adding Students to the RO Team and Improving Their Training

This has been an exciting semester for the RO Student Services team as we have doubled our student employee team. In an effort to support the expansion of the student services scope, we needed to increase our student staff. This Fall, student employees will be trained on student records & enrollment, credit evaluation services, and …