Policies
Attendance| Requests | Outreach | Research Support | Copyright
Policy on Attendance for BITS Scheduled Workshops
Building Information Technology Skills (BITS) provides free technology training for UW-Eau Claire students, faculty, staff, and emeriti. This is our primary, intended audience; they receive priority consideration for all scheduled workshops. They can register online at https://www.uwec.edu/training using their UW-Eau Claire username and password. Where space and resources permit, however, we can extend our services to a broader audience.
If there is space available in a workshop, the following may also attend BITS workshops free of charge:
- Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) students, faculty, and staff
- Immediate family members of UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff (adult child, parent, spouse)
The UWEC faculty or staff member is responsible for the registration. - UWEC alumni
- Spouses of UW-Eau Claire emeriti
- UW-System students, faculty, and staff
Members from the above mentioned groups must register by phone (836-5157) or by email (training@uwec.edu), providing the following information for registration: full name, academic affiliation, valid email address, full mailing address, and phone number.
Policy on BITS Requested Workshops &
One-on-One Training
Audience
BITS offers technology workshops and one-on-one technology training & consultation by request. Due to limitations with space and resources, these services are limited to UW-Eau Claire students, faculty, and staff.
Workshops
Due to the increasing demand for our workshops, we can no longer support long-term class projects for multiple sections of classes. We have lesson plans with step-by-step instructions available for all of our workshops on the W drive, and we also have step-by-step online help available at https://www.uwec.edu/help It is our hope that after seeing the workshops presented by BITS and having documentation available, faculty will eventually teach the requested technology workshop themselves.
We are a student-centered organization; please let us know ahead of time if you want us to cover things that aren’t on our lesson plans. We may or may not be able to answer questions that were not supplied to us ahead of time, and which we couldn’t research appropriately. For those items that aren’t on our standard lesson plans, we encourage the faculty member to teach those skills themselves.
The BITS mission is to teach a broad range of introductory software skills, not professional-level material unique to certain areas of specialization. For example, we can teach an InDesign Basics workshop, but we cannot talk as experts about the printing process; we can teach an SPSS Basics workshop but we cannot advise you how to set up your research study and what statistical tests you should run.
One-on-One Help
Unfortunately we don’t have the space or resources to complete projects for faculty or staff, or to interpret assignments for students. We are available to assist you with the specific software questions that you have, so that you gain the skills you need to eventually work confidently and independently.
Policy on BITS Outreach Training and Assistance
BITS welcomes the opportunity to share technology skills through University-sponsored outreach programs. Examples of past programs are: Upward Bound, First Fridays, and the National Youth Sports Program.
Policy on Research Support
The support we can provide in this area is limited to software training. This means if you have specific tasks that you want to complete in a program like SPSS or Excel, we can assist you. Unfortunately, we cannot offer advice in survey design or research methodology, generate reports for you, or make recommendations on what type of data analysis is appropriate for your project. For example, we can show you how to run a certain statistical test in SPSS, but we cannot tell you what statistical test is appropriate for your project or interpret the results of any statistical tests on your data.
Our SPSS one-on-one and group workshops cover the basicsof data entry and analysis of sample survey data.
Policies on Copyright
In the case of copyrighted materials, UW-Eau Claire uses fair use guidelines to help us determine proper usage of these materials. According to Fair Use Guidelines students may incorporate portionsof copyrighted works when producing their own educational multimedia projects for a specific course. Students may use these projects in the course for which they were created and may use them in portfolios as examples of their academic work. They should include proper attribution and citation.
BITS adheres to the University copyright policy when working with students, faculty, or staff: https://www.uwec.edu/copyright/
Other Copyright Resources
- A chart designed to educate teachers about copyright law.
- A test that acts as a guide to copyright and fair use.
- A resource is designed to inform school leaders of what they may do under copyright law.
