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Canvas Maintenance Notice
Canvas will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes between 12–3 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, July 22, while Instructure performs a database infrastructure upgrade. Active Canvas sessions will be terminated when maintenance begins. To avoid disruption, please save your work and submit any assignments before midnight on Tuesday, July 21. Full access to Canvas will be restored once maintenance is complete.
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Jul
21
2026
Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern
10:00 AM
Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about:
-Accessing an...
Jul
30
2026
Prompt Engineering for Northwestern Instructors
10:00 AM
Writing, iterating, and critiquing prompts to generative AI tools are critical skills needed to understand the limitatio...
Aug
18
2026
Sprucing Up your Canvas Course
1:00 PM
Northwestern students report that course sites are most helpful when content is easy to navigate, engaging, and consiste...