Archive for the 'EEE' Category
October 28th, 2009 by Kelsey Layos
On Wednesday, July 15th, the EEE Web Team launched the new Class Announcements tab on MyEEE.
Class Announcements allows instructors and TAs to post short class announcements on their students’ MyEEE pages. Rather than adding more to students’ already cluttered email inboxes, instructors and TAs can grab their students’ attention with updates posted right on MyEEE.
EEE makes sure students see new announcements by loading the Class Announcements tab first, right after a student logs in, if there have been any new posts since the student last visited.
Visit Class Announcements (login required) / Learn more
April 24th, 2009 by Kelsey Layos
The Electronic Educational Environment (EEE) web team has revised the SignupSheet tool, which now supports automatically-generated timeslots. Rather than manually entering each timeslot, instructors and assistants can generate a set of timeslots by entering the following information:
- Label
- Time range
- Date (or day of the week)
- Number of timeslots (or length of each timeslot, which will then determine the number of timeslots offered)
- Gap between each timeslot
- Number of signups to allow per timeslot
SignupSheet will automatically create each of the signup items based on the entered parameters.
The new timeslot option makes it easier for instructors and assistants to schedule appointments during office hours, presentations, review sessions, or exam times.
More information can be found on the SignupSheet Help web page.
February 23rd, 2009 by Kelsey Layos
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MessageBoard
The Electronic Educational Environment (EEE) web team has launched the new MessageBoard tool, which allows instructors and TAs to create online forums for discussion with students outside of the classroom. MessageBoard includes a number of new features based on feedback from users of the earlier NoteBoard tool, which it replaces.
New features include:
- Subscription: Receive email updates when new posts are made
- Uploading: Post a file for others to download
- Rich text: Easily format text and add links without HTML
- Advanced controls: Restrict a forum to instructors and TAs, board admins, or specific people identified by UCInetID
- Custom web addresses: Choose a friendly URL for your message board
You can visit the MessageBoard tool here. The EEE Web site has extensive documentation on MessageBoard, including tips on how to use MessageBoard in instruction.
December 10th, 2008 by Kelsey Layos
In Fall 2008, the Electronic Educational Environment (EEE) web team introduced new features to facilitate course administration for instructors and TAs.
SignupSheet
In August 2008, SignupSheet was added to the EEE toolbox. This new tool helps instructors and TAs manage their classes by collecting online sign-ups from their students.
SignupSheet is in use already, with 100+ sheets published for students to sign up for presentation time slots, paper topics, and office hours with their instructors and TAs.
EasyWebsite
It’s easier than ever to build a class website and provide course materials to students with the new ‘Images’ feature in EasyWebsite. Instructors and TAs can add full image galleries, with automatically created thumbnails and customized image layouts.
Rapid Return
The Rapid Return process, originally launched in March 2007, has been streamlined. Starting Fall 2008, scanned exam files are automatically transferred directly to EEE from Distribution & Document Management (DDM), where instructors and teaching assistants can securely distribute them to students via EEE DropBox.
Help & How-to Primers
EEE Help & How-to guides now feature one-page student primers, useful for printing and distributing in class as part of the syllabus, or linking from a class website. Each downloadable PDF covers basic information about an EEE tool: what the tool is, how to access it, how to begin using it, and where to find more information. Popular student primers include:
EEE wants to hear from you!
The EEE Web Team is always looking for new and better ways to serve the UCI community. EEE development is driven by the feature requests, questions, and other comments we receive every day. To share your feedback today,
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August 31st, 2007 by David Pritikin
David Pritikin (NACS) and Linh Nguyen (DDM) with Larry L. Sautter Silver Award
Returning exams can be a burdensome task for instructors involving the distribution, collection and storage of graded work. Currently, exams may be returned through a distribution center or exam room where the students are required to present their IDs while a staff member retrieves exams from a wall of filing cabinets. Or, exams may be returned during discussion or lecture, taking valuable time away from instruction. Instructors may also return exams during office hours, which may not be accessible to all students.
To streamline the exam return process, Distribution and Document Management (DDM) and Network & Academic Computing Services (NACS) have partnered to release a new tool called Rapid Return.
Using barcode-assisted imaging technology and high-resolution scanners, DDM staff will scan and save graded exams as PDF files. Instructors then download their files and use Rapid Return to batch upload all the exams into the EEE DropBox. This enables students to download their individual exams securely and on their own time from any computer with internet access. Since students receive an exact copy of their exams, the integrity of the original document is maintained if the assigned grade is later challenged.
Rapid Return will drastically reduce the costs associated with storing and distributing paper copies of exams. The Department of Chemistry estimates that the elimination of their exam return room would save roughly $20,000 annually. Rapid Return will also free up limited office space currently used for storage and, most importantly, save precious time for more instruction and less administration.
Rapid Return recently received a 2007 Larry L. Sautter Silver Award from the University of California Information Technology Leadership Council. The awards recognize innovations that have the potential to improve UC academic or administrative processes.
To learn how to use Rapid Return, visit http://eee.uci.edu/rapidreturn .
May 12th, 2006 by Lyle Wiedeman
The newest instrument in the ever-expanding EEE toolbox is the online Survey Tool. The tool allows any instructor, TA, or staff member to create and compose a quick and easy survey and then target a specific audience for responses. Results can be analyzed online and in real time.
“By the time we returned from lunch, we already had 14 responses. We were very excited. We never had this fast of a turn-around time when we were mailing out bulky, paper surveys,” said Adam, who has just finished overseeing the school’s 4th major survey.
Any faculty or staff member with a UCInetID can create and publish a survey. Instructors who want to survey their class will find a link to the tool in their MyEEE / MyInstructorClasses module. Other UCI staff can access the Survey Tool from the ToolBox in EEE’s main page navigation bar or go directly tohttp://eee.uci.edu/toolbox/survey/
A fill-in-the-form wizard guides you through each step of the way when you build a survey. Surveys can be reused or shared with a colleague. To make the survey address easy to remember, you can designate an alias, called a “Friendly URL”.
Surveys can be deployed to students in specified classes, research groups, or even to the general public, depending on the settings you choose. The tool generates e-mail and sends it to your target audience, containing a link to the survey.
Data results can be viewed, even as responses are coming in. You can review the results in a graphical display or download them as a spreadsheet.
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering began using the EEE Survey Tool immediately after it was launched to solicit feedback from industries in and around the community regarding eight engineering programs. Iris Adam, Senior Analyst for HSSoE, reported that one survey was sent to two hundred people, and results came in very quickly. “By the time we returned from lunch, we already had 14 responses. We were very excited. We never had this fast of a turn-around time when we were mailing out bulky, paper surveys,” said Adam, who has just finished overseeing the school’s 4th major survey.
NACS has created an example survey to illustrate the tool. You are invited to check it out at http://eee.uci.edu/survey/article-sample
