The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
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.
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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 [...]
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:
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]