THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

Blackboard

  • By September 16, 2020

    The new course delivery system is being sold as intuitive and an improvement from Blackboard — but is it really?

  • DegreeWorks: university to launch new online degree mapping tool in PAWS

    By January 26, 2012

    Understatement of the century: mapping out your degree progress can sometimes be confusing. Come on. Up until now, making sense of your academic achievements — total credits earned, actual program requirements, and how everything all fits together — has been like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle with Jenga blocks. Frustration levels have been known to shoot off the charts.

    Believe it or not, the university is aware of this. And they’re finally doing something about it.

  • Simple URL hack in PAWS lets you gain access to old style course members list

    By December 9, 2011

    On Nov. 30, a U of S student discovered a wonderful little trick that lets you access the old style PAWS course homepages, complete with course members list. I’ve put together a quick step-by-step guide on how to access the course members page using this simple URL hack.

    Students and professors alike have been lamenting the loss of the course members list, among other useful features of the old style course homepages, since the U of S implemented lacklustre Blackboard based course homepages at the end of last summer.

  • Changes to PAWS may threaten functionality

    By August 12, 2011

    Upon close inspection, recent changes to PAWS sacrifice certain level of functionality in exchange for visually sleeker website and the promise of enhanced usability.