SU2014 Bb Course Shells Created 4/17/14
Bb course shells for SU2014 were created on April 17, 2014 on the Bb production server at http://blackboard.umbc.edu. Enrollments for SU2014 courses will continue to be updated daily. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or discussion) listed in the UMBC Schedule of Classes (SOC), provided that there is an instructor of record listed. The addition of new course sections and/or instructors will result in new Bb shells being automatically generated each morning. Student enrollment in Bb will continue to mirror the official registration in SA, and will update hourly.
If you are an instructor, and your name is not associated with the course you are teaching in the SOC, please see your departmental scheduling coordinator to get that issue resolved. Once you are listed in the SOC, your Bb course shell will be created automatically.
Note: Previously, in situations where one instructor was teaching multiple sections of the same course, by default all sections were combined into one Bb course shell. This also included sections of the same course taught in both Summer Session I and II. DoIT has addressed this Session I and Session II issue so there will be distinct shells for each if taught by the same instructor. But if you find this is not the case, and you want separate shells for Session I and II, please submit an RT ticket with your request. If you need a shell for a research or independent study course, please submit a new course request.
As a reminder, all Bb course shells are initially unavailable to students until the instructor makes it available. For help, visit www.umbc.edu/blackboard/help.
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Bike to Work Day
May is Clean Commute Month!
When:
Fri May 16, 2014 6AM to 9AM
Where:
Santa's House (@ Catonsville Fire Station)754 Frederick Rd, Catonsville,
MD 21228
What:
Participants in Bike to Work Day who stop by the event location will receive a free t-shirt, commuting guide, and a chance to win prizes. Coffee & refreshments provided. Simply bike to work, and stop by 754 Frederick Rd. Register here.
Why:
Bike to Work Day is a national event to encourage and celebrate bicycling to work and promote public awareness of bicycling and bicycle safety. Locally, it's a part of Maryland's Clean Commute Month in May. Register here.
Late Spring is the start of the ground-level ozone season, when we hear about Code Red and Orange Ozone Action Days. On these warm smoggy days, the air is dangerous to breathe – especially for the young and for the elderly. Emissions from single occupancy vehicles(driving alone) contribute approximately 20% of our region's dangerous ozone levels. Driving alone also results in increasingly congested roadways and parking issues. We can save money, protect the environment, stay in shape and have fun while biking.
Transportation accounts for 38% of UMBC's carbon footprint. In 2007, President Hrabowski committed to campus carbon neutrality.
How:
Resources on UMBC's sustainable transportation alternatives are listed at:http://sustainability.umbc.edu/transportation/
Who:
These sustainable transportation options have been developed and promoted by the following groups. If this topic is of interest to you, consider getting involved:
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Library Staff Highlight: Heather Moss
Name: Heather MossHometown: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Alma Mater: University of Baltimore
1. Where do you work in the library and how long have you worked there?
I work as a copy-cataloger in technical services. I’ve been at AOK since July 2002, so almost 12 years.
2. What would you like the campus community to know about your job?
I like having a low-key, behind-the-scenes job and seeing all the new books.
3. What’s your favorite aspect of working at UMBC?
It’s a tie between my friend Chrisie Cowden (who works in Circulation) and the Canada geese that hang out on campus.
4. Do you have a favorite project, event, or memory from your time working in the library?
I gave a presentation at the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, California in 2007. That was an amazing experience.
5. If you were a UMBC student, what library services would you use/appreciate the most?
The Leisure Reading collection is a lot of fun.
6. If you had to survive on a desert island with only one book, movie, or TV show, what would it be and why?
Lolita, because I’ve read it 15 times and never get tired of Nabokov’s word play and cleverness.
7. A wizard has turned you into your favorite animal. What are you?
That’s a tough one, because I have a lot of favorite animals. Sharks are my very favorite, but I think I’d rather be a cat, because sharks don’t sleep and cats sleep perpetually.
8. Anything else you’d like to add?
UMBC undergrads never fail to impress me with their dedication to academics. It gives me a lot of joy to see them studying together in the library’s RLC, even on a Friday afternoon!
[Tune in every 2 weeks for a spotlight on the AOK Library & Gallery staff!]
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Students More Accepting of Using Clickers for Exams
2nd Clicker Pilot Continues Comparison with Scantron Testing
To
continue its evaluation of clickers as a possible alternative to scantron “bubble sheet”
assessments, DoIT again partnered with Dr. Tamara Mendelson from Biology in a pilot this semester using the Triton Data Collection System (DCS) by Turning Technologies (TT). Compared to Mendelson’s Fall 2013 pilot in the much larger Biology 142 (300+ students), this semester’s pilot is running in her BIOL 481/681 “Advanced Topics in Evolutionary Biology,” a class of 26 students.
Also, while students in the BIOL 142 (Fall 2013) pilot were generally supportive of the clickers
for short (1-3 question) quizzes, a Nov. 22 Brown Bag demo showed they were much less willing to use clickers for mid-term and final exams. A key issue may have been one of the pilot conditions: deliberately NOT using them for high-stakes assessments. As a result, students may not have been fully prepared for how to use them on longer tests and exams.
By contrast, the BIOL 481 (Spring 2014) pilot used the same NXT clickers for longer (8-10
question), in-class quizzes. Mendelson enabled (and encouraged) the self-paced polling feature which students used for multiple quizzes every class, as well as on the mid-term exam. She is also planning to use these same clickers to implement the final exam.
DoIT staff recently met with Mendelson and her students for an informal discussion about their experiences so far.
Based on an informal survey in class, over 50% of students preferred clickers over scantrons for taking exams, 38% preferred scantrons over clickers and the rest 12% were neutral. Some of the overall feedback that we received regarding using clickers for exams and quizzes included the following:
“I liked taking the exam on the clickers because we had our own exam booklet in front of us and could go at our own pace. I also liked getting my grade back right away”;
“As a new technology for test taking, I think these clickers were fabulous. My only suggestion would be to make logging in more seamless/secure. While minor problems were easily resolved in a small classroom setting, it would be incredibly frustrating in a huge lecture hall”;
“Clickers are much better than scatrons. You can change your answer and not worry about erasure smudges messing with the scantron reading and outputting the wrong grade”;
“Using clickers would cut down on paper usage, which is a plus”;
“I prefer scantrons even though the clickers work pretty well, security and accessibility still seems like a concern, especially considering the number of times people have issues signing in”.
Overall most students seemed accepting of clickers as an alternate to taking exams using scantrons. Those that weren't comfortable said this was because they did not have all their answers right in front of them. They said that they would prefer having a hard copy of their answers so that they can make marks and comments on the answer sheet instead of scrolling through answers on the clicker. They were also afraid their clicker would have technical issues during an exam.
One key technical issue is students having to repeatedly login between quizzes. Working with TT, DoIT identified the issue, but not until after the mid-term was over. Still, Mendelson says she prefers clickers over scantrons “because I can upload grades immediately and see which questions are difficult and which are easy, which students are struggling, etc., in very nice histograms.”
Currently, DoIT is reviewing our pilot experience with Turning Technologies and offering
suggestions for improving the Triton system so students and faculty are comfortable using clickers as an alternative to scantrons on any kind of assessment. However, a key feature is self-paced polling, which is not available with the current clickers most students own. DoIT has a small set of 100 NXT clickers that support self-paced polling and is willing to extend the pilot to other faculty interested in trying them out. For more information, contact John Fritz at fritz@umbc.edu.
This issue is fixed in Service Pack (SP) 14 of version 9.1. We are on SP 13, but are unlikely to upgrade before January 2015 given overlapping dates when final grades are due and one semester starts or finishes.
In the meantime, DoIT has disabled module customization by users. We realize this will create or even "freeze" long lists of Bb courses for students and faculty who may have tried to
"remove" old courses by hiding them. A workaround for faculty trying to
export and
import old courses that may now be hidden is to use the
"Courses" Tab inside Blackboard that lists all courses.
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Blackboard users who attempt to manage their module settings are reporting they are unable edit the modules and trying to do so results in all modules being removed from the given Blackboard tab.
This screencast illustrates how the issue impacts the interface of a user attempting to edit the My Courses module within the myBlackboard tab, and the thumbnail to the right provides an example of a Blackboard tab with missing modules.
DoIT is resetting the Blackboard tabs daily to address this issue. However, this is a manual fix and the problem will not be addressed on a system level until a future service-pack upgrade.
We recommend users not attempt to modify the default module settings because doing so will impact the Blackboard interface until DoIT runs the daily system maintenance.On Wednesday, May 28 at 7am, DoIT will be performing an upgrade of the campus webmail environment on our dedicated Cyrus mail server. The current webmail environment is extremely out of date on both the hardware and software. There will be a brief 5 minute outage to transition to the new server and no data will be lost during this upgrade. Anyone logged into webmail prior to 7am will need to restart their browser and login again. Users of Cyrus webmail will notice a more refined interface with new colors as well as some icons that have shifted location.
Anyone wishing to try out the new Cyrus webmail environment is encouraged to login at https://webmail2.umbc.edu. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Support Center at x53838.
Note: This campus webmail upgrade will not impact users who have migrated their email to Google.
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Saturday, May 3: PROMISE Friends & Family Cookout in Columbia
Saturday, May 3, 2014: PROMISE AGEP Family and Friends Celebration of Graduates Cookout
You are invited to come, bring your friends, family, and anyone who supports your journey through graduate school. This event is free. Graduate students from all schools within the University System of Maryland (USM) are invited!
Here is a list, if your school is listed, you are invited! http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/
Alumni, faculty, and staff are invited.
Friends and family members of students who have participated in PROMISE are invited.
If you are from another school, e.g., Howard, Hopkins, GW, and have come to a PROMISE event in the past such as SSI, you are also invited to participate.
Please register below.
Register for the PROMISE Friends and Family Cookout and Celebration of Graduates:
If you are graduating from a USM institution with an M.S. or Ph.D., please send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com by Wednesday, April 30, with your name, school, department, and degree, so that we can recognize you at the event.
LOCATION:
Centennial Park – Pavilion D
Main/South Entrance
10000 Route 108
Columbia, MD 21042
Directions:
Main/South
PDF | Google Maps
This event provides food, fun, connections, and networking. Please plan to attend.
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Saturday, May 3: PROMISE Friends & Family Cookout in Columbia
Saturday, May 3, 2014: PROMISE AGEP Family and Friends Celebration of Graduates Cookout
You are invited to come, bring your friends, family, and anyone who supports your journey through graduate school. This event is free. Graduate students from all schools within the University System of Maryland (USM) are invited!
Here is a list, if your school is listed, you are invited! http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/
Alumni, faculty, and staff are invited.
Friends and family members of students who have participated in PROMISE are invited.
If you are from another school, e.g., Howard, Hopkins, GW, and have come to a PROMISE event in the past such as SSI, you are also invited to participate.
Please register below.
Register for the PROMISE Friends and Family Cookout and Celebration of Graduates:
If you are graduating from a USM institution with an M.S. or Ph.D., please send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com by Wednesday, April 30, with your name, school, department, and degree, so that we can recognize you at the event.
LOCATION:
Centennial Park – Pavilion D
Main/South Entrance
10000 Route 108
Columbia, MD 21042
Directions:
Main/South
PDF | Google Maps
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Job on campus with the Career Services Center
10-12 hours/per week
Career Services is currently accepting applications for Career Peer Advisors.
Career Peer Advisors assist the Career Services Center in extending career services and information to the UMBC student body. Students must be able to commit at least one academic year to the following duties and responsibilities: take walk-in appointments, review resumes and cover letters; facilitate workshops/seminars; help market CSC services and programs to UMBC student body; design and present group information meetings upon request to student organizations, residence halls, and other groups; provide general office reception duties; conduct outreach to student organizations and one of three colleges (Engineering and Information Technology, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural and Mathematical Sciences); work closely with CSC staff on special projects as needed. Training will be provided. Hours: 10-12 per week.
Note: All majors encouraged to apply.
Qualifications
Continuing undergraduate or graduate student with at least a 2.75 GPA; strong interest in helping others and working with students, staff, employers, and faculty; in good academic standing; excellent communication and interpersonal skills; experience with public speaking helpful; ability to use tact and diplomacy in working with others both face to face and on the phone; previous or current involvement in campus organizations or activities helpful; computer literacy and comfort with PowerPoint presentation technology; detail oriented, dependable and reliable; initiative and enthusiasm. All majors invited to apply. Excellent opportunity for undergraduate Social Work, Sociology and Psychology majors considering application to graduate school in the counseling and health professions.
To Apply: Log into your UMBCworks account (http://careers.umbc.edu/students/umbcworks.pdf) and enter job# 9265552 in the keyword box.
Open until filled. For best consideration, please apply by: Tuesday, May 13, 2014.
An increasing number of departments are using the Box "upload by email" option as an effective way to conduct job searches. Apart from making it easy to collect applications, committee members can assess and even “vote” on applications remotely, saving face-to-face meetings for reaching consensus on applications where none exists yet.
For general help on Box see the “Need Help” link at box.umbc.edu, but here are some basic steps DoIT recommends for using Box on a search committee:
Create an "Applications" or "Applicants" folder, anywhere in Box where you’d like to receive applications. Maybe add "Qualified" and "Unqualified" subfolders, too, for sorting the received files.
Give your committee access to the folder(s) you just created.
Find the “upload by email” address function for the "Applications" folder, located under "email options." Note: By default, this address is is NOT enabled for “collaborators only.” This is good, because you want applicants to be able to use the “upload by email” address, too.
Include the “upload by email” address in your formal job posting for how interested parties should apply.
Ideally, ask applicants to submit their materials as a single .pdf file to the “upload by email” address for your Box folder. Why? A single file is preferable so the search committee doesn’t have to hunt and gather multiple files per applicant (e.g., cover letter, resume, references, etc.).
Once you’re ready to begin the review of applications, ask your committee members to add a “Yes, No or Maybe” comment to each applicant’s file in Box before the committee’s first face-to-face meeting. This way, you can spend your time trying to reach consensus on applicants where there clearly is no conensus.
There's really only one intervention that DoIT recommends for step #3 above: create an easy to remember email alias (such as "yourdepartmentjobsearch@umbc.edu") to replace the machine generated, difficult-to-remember email address that is created by default. To do so, submit an RT ticket requesting creation of the alias for your submissions. Your RT request might look like this:
"Please create the email alias: 'yourdepartmentjobsearch@umbc.edu' that points to the following Box folder 'upload by email' address:upload.Applica.ux84095xdjugth9y@u.box.com
This is to support the Theoretical Anatomy Department's search for a guest lecturer position."
If you're still not sure about the "upload by email" function in Box, here's an FAQ (with images) that illustrates this process:
https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/0QAxAg
Finally, here's a quick video created for a DoIT search committee on how they could "vote" on applications by adding a simple "Yes, No or Maybe" comment to each file in the Box folder:
http://screencast.com/t/0QaHoMSC
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