FCC Agenda for November 15, 2010
Timeline for meeting with departmental Bb user groups
- Departments (FYS, Economics, Biology, Physics, French, Chinese, Math, Poli-Sci, Russian)
- Econ -- Adam
- Physics -- Caroline
- Biology -- Caroline
- French -- Justin
- FYS -- Justin
- Chinese -- Shu-min
- Math -- Shu-min
- Poli-Sci -- Adam
- Russian -- Justin
- Reminder email to all-faculty list (Justin)
- include information in message about what has been added to CMS
- Reminder email to individual faculty (Scott)
** create a place on the website where tool updates can be announced and tracked, maybe in Faculty help (Scott).
** get summary of what the permissions will look like on course websites.
** What do we need to give you to get you off Blackboard? Is the message.
** Remove dept. editors groups from course pages.
FCC: would like faculty to have the ability to delete any group or individual in any permissions category.
Alternative to SPSS --> web-based interface to R
Opening access to course e-reserves during add/drop.
- request access without data input into datatel
- instructor approval required for students to access course materials during add/drop
How are the new features being accepted?
- limited content types on auto-created pages
What to do with faculty pages when faculty are no longer associated with the College.
Electronic course packs --> laptops in the classroom
ATS projects for coming year
- Virtual Computing Lab project
- Replacement for Wimba
- Presentation tool -- https://wsgdev3.amherst.edu/dru6-mg/
- Augmented Reality Gaming
- Cityscapes mapping application (Tokyo and Paris)
- Big Blue Button --> webconferencing tool in CMS
- Lecture capture
- R workshops for faculty
- SimQuabbin project (pending Dept. of Ed. proposal)
- Cathedral Builder 2.0
- NEH proposal --> Semantic search and visual browsing interface