Faculty Bb/CMS survey:
https://www.amherst.edu/offices/it/teaching_research/requestforms/bb_cms_survey
- Discussion board
- Setting/Changing permissions
- Hiding/showing pages
- Gradebook
- Wimba
Scott: Target departments and individuals who are strong Bb users, but didn't respond to survey
Scott: encourage individuals who are known Bb users to respond to survey
** 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.
FCC: change the name of the "academics" group to "IT Staff"
Access to e-reserves
- 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
Alternative to SPSS --> web-based interface to R
What to do with faculty pages when faculty are no longer associated with the College.
Opening access to course e-reserves during add/drop.
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
- Cathedral Builder 2.0
- NEH proposal --> Semantic search and visual browsing interface