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