The following project has been modified by Molly Burdusi.
Project Name
SAAAC - Syllabi Archiving
Project Sponsor
Steven Smith
Project Description
What is the syllabi archive initiative?\r\n\r\nAn initiative that will provide faculty with a mechanism to post syllabi for each course/each semester that would be archived into a central repository. The syllabi archive would be made accessible to individuals with a UMBC login. While it is not possible to establish a formal policy requiring all faculty to post syllabi at the end of each semester (intellectual property rights issues), it has been deemed important to pursue a mechanism to make the option available.\r\n\r\nSome background: In Spring 2013, the SGA reached out to the ASEC and the ASAC to request consideration of a policy (require faculty to post syllabi) much like the one recently passed at the University of Maryland, College Park. Following various conversations, ASEC and ASAC agreed to support SGA in the initiative with the understanding that this will only be pursued as a technical option - not a formal policy.
The items that have changed are:
Status Summary: Yvette, Collier and Arnold met to discuss the syllabi archive project. Preferred approach is to embed this into digital measures entry process. Arnold will need to talk to Damian to see if we can pull the syllabi back from digital measures and allow the syllabi to be accessible.
Alternative approach is to build a separate tool (web page) similar to College Park, (http://ischool.umd.edu/syllabi) for uploading syllabi document that will be linked to various places throughout myUMBC and other areas in the UMBC website. This will be viewable on the undergraduate and graduate catalog website.
Share the link with the departments so they can post to their departmental website.
doIT needs to secure resources to do the development. There are no external mandates. We anticipate this to be a 12 - 18 month project.
Link to project summary in Project Tracker: Click Here
Project Name
SAAAC - Syllabi Archiving
Project Sponsor
Steven Smith
Project Description
What is the syllabi archive initiative?\r\n\r\nAn initiative that will provide faculty with a mechanism to post syllabi for each course/each semester that would be archived into a central repository. The syllabi archive would be made accessible to individuals with a UMBC login. While it is not possible to establish a formal policy requiring all faculty to post syllabi at the end of each semester (intellectual property rights issues), it has been deemed important to pursue a mechanism to make the option available.\r\n\r\nSome background: In Spring 2013, the SGA reached out to the ASEC and the ASAC to request consideration of a policy (require faculty to post syllabi) much like the one recently passed at the University of Maryland, College Park. Following various conversations, ASEC and ASAC agreed to support SGA in the initiative with the understanding that this will only be pursued as a technical option - not a formal policy.
The items that have changed are:
Status Summary: Yvette, Collier and Arnold met to discuss the syllabi archive project. Preferred approach is to embed this into digital measures entry process. Arnold will need to talk to Damian to see if we can pull the syllabi back from digital measures and allow the syllabi to be accessible.
Alternative approach is to build a separate tool (web page) similar to College Park, (http://ischool.umd.edu/syllabi) for uploading syllabi document that will be linked to various places throughout myUMBC and other areas in the UMBC website. This will be viewable on the undergraduate and graduate catalog website.
Share the link with the departments so they can post to their departmental website.
doIT needs to secure resources to do the development. There are no external mandates. We anticipate this to be a 12 - 18 month project.
Link to project summary in Project Tracker: Click Here
