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