This fall, the School of Medicine began supporting first- and second-year courses online with two Catalyst Web Tools, CommonView and GradeBook. Faculty have found the tools flexible and easy to use, and students have benefited from a consistent experience across courses. Read the full story.

Volunteer a few hours a year to be on a Client/User Engagement (CUE) team and have a voice in Catalyst Web Tools development. Sign up for the Technology Spaces CUE team to weigh in on the evolution of Learning & Scholarly Technologies' computer labs, collaboration studios, and videoconferencing and audio/video editing facilities.

UW students: How and where do you use technology to do your work? How will you use it in the future? Answer a brief, confidential survey by UW Learning & Scholarly Technologies to help shape the future of technology spaces at the UW. Take the survey and enter to win a $25 University Bookstore certificate. [This survey closed Nov. 11.]

Choose from over 30 free workshops offered by Learning & Scholarly Technologies for UW students, faculty, and staff. Topics include using software from Microsoft and Adobe, publishing a Web site, working with digital audio and video, and more. Check out the schedule.

With the aid of three generous grants from the Student Technology Fee Committee (STFC), LST spent September break upgrading equipment and software in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library. These enhancements were made in response to the findings of the 2005 and 2008 Surveys on Learning and Scholarly Technologies carried out by LST, where students highlighted improvements to technology facilities as their top priority.

If you would like to get your course online before Autumn Quarter begins, attend one of our free September workshops. You can learn how to give your course an online presence, set up a WebQ survey or quiz, or use Catalyst GradeBook to track and submit grades. These workshops are free to anyone with a UW NetID, but registration is required.

Can't make it to a workshop? Need help now? Check out the handy how-to guides in Learning & Scholarly Technologies' online Help Center. You'll find step-by-step instructions for the Catalyst Web Tools, Web Site Creation, Podcasting, Adobe Dreamweaver and Creative Suite, and more.

Learning & Scholarly Technologies offers free computing workshops at UW Seattle for students, faculty, and staff. Workshop topics include software from Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe; how to publish Web sites; working with digital audio and video; and more. The Summer Quarter workshops have started and run through August 18. The schedule is online.

Join the Client/User Engagement (CUE) team to have your opinions heard on the development of Catalyst Web Tools such as GradeBook and WebQ as well as Learning & Scholarly Technologies' UW Seattle technology spaces. CUE members are asked to volunteer once or twice a year as participants in surveys, interviews, or focus groups.

Over 75 free computing-related workshops are offered every quarter by Learning & Scholarly Technologies at UW Seattle for all current UW students, staff, and faculty. The Spring Quarter schedule and workshop descriptions are online.

The report on the 2008 Surveys on Learning and Scholarly Technologies is now available. In order to better understand why and how researchers, instructors, and students use current technologies, several UW units again collaborated for the third triennial, institutional survey about learning and scholarly technologies. You can read the report online, as well as learn more about the collaborators, focus group findings, and the surveys' goals.