Suggested “Quality Matters Lite” guidelines for online courses
Attached are suggested “lite” guidelines for online courses. They have been sent to the Senate’s APC committee for its considerations. Please post any comments or suggestions right here.
Report of April 26, 2012, Meeting
Attached please find the report for our April 26, 2012 meeting. If you have any comments or suggestions, please leave them right here or email me.
Agenda for April 26 Meeting
The Faculty Senate IT Committee will meet on Thursday, April 26, from 1pm to 2pm in the Curriculum Room of the Library. The preliminary agenda includes Welcome New Laptop models Faculty IT Survey (see a draft at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RMRMJW9) Quality Matters “Lite” (QM Lite) for experimental Online Courses Faculty Printing in the Labs (*) Chair election for 2012/13 Misc…
Report for March 8, 2012 Meeting
Attached please find the report for our March 8, 2012 meeting. If you have any comments or suggestions, please leave them right here or email me.
Volunteers needed for the next Faculty IT Survey
Update: Richard Stern, Penina Orenstein, and Tom Marlowe will help out with this initiative. Thanks for volunteering! TLTC is looking for a few faculty members to volunteer to help create/modify the bi-annual IT survey for Faculty and to monitor results. The mechanics are handled by TLTC, so it is really not that much work, but it…
Next Meeting scheduled for Thu April 26, 1pm
The meeting originally scheduled for April 12 has been moved to April 26, 1pm. Sorry for any inconvenience. The text of the original announcement follows: I hope you are looking forward to a nice Easter celebration! But duty will call again soon after, and that includes committee work. I would therefore like to call a…
Why do we need to change our SHU Password?
Recently some faculty members asked why we need to change our PirateNet/Blackboard password every 90 days (count yourself lucky, if you were an administrator you’d have to change it every 30 days). The 90 day period was actually a compromise that was worked out together with the Senate IT committee, the original proposal asked for…
Next Senate IT Meeting Thu, March 8 @ 1pm
Our next Senate IT meeting is on Thu, March 8, as usual at 1pm, but this time in the Dean’s Conference Room of the Library, not in the Curriculum room. I will post more agenda items as they come in. I hope you can make the meeting! If you have any items you like to…
Report for Feb 02, 2012 Meeting
Attached please find the committee report for our Feb 02, 2012 meeting. Steve Landry and Paul Fisher filled us in on some interesting developments, so take a look. Leave any comments right here, or email me directly if you have any questions.
Next Senate IT Meeting Thu, Feb. 02 @ 1pm
Our next Senate IT Meeting has been set for Thu, Feb 2, at 1pm, tentatively in the Curriculum Room of the Library. Pending any scheduling difficulties, it looks like Steve Landry will be able to brief us on some interesting new developments and timetables that will have an impact on our Mobile Computing program, so…