February 2, 2009, Volume 5, Issue 19

Director's Chair

Donors Help IS Students Obtain Laptops For Classes

Thanks to grant from Northwestern Mutual Foundation and a private gift from UW-Eau Claire alumnus Rick Schroder and his wife, Evelyn Zabo, ten information systems (IS) students now own their own laptop computers. Each student received $700 to purchase a laptop that meets College of Business computing requirements.

Beginning with the fall 2009 semester, students in more than 20 business classes must have in-class access to their own laptop computer. Persistent budget cuts forced the college to implement this cost-saving measure.

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Briefs

Clarification on LTS' Role in Course Evaluation Support

 

 The following message from Craig Mey can be used by LTS Staff when addressing inquiries related to our helping create course evaluations.

Dear Faculty Member,

I am very disappointed with the inability to act proactively on a course evaluation alternative. The need to respond to the issue was brought up over 2 years ago. It was known at that time the mainframe would eventually be decommissioned and a course evaluation alternative was needed. In an attempt to be proactive, Associate Deans were consulted and were unable to come to a consensus.

A CETL learning community studied best practices in course evaluation. The committee did not feel it was appropriate for them to make any recommendations, but rather to provide the results of the study. 

LTS provides a service to assist with course evaluations when in production but LTS is not in a position to decide on a course evaluation instrument or develop custom evaluations for depts.

Feel free to forward this on to whomever you think is appropriate.

Craig Mey
LTS Director

Further clarification:
I am instructing our staff that we are not creating solutions for Faculty. We cannot help individual departments with their custom solution. I am clarifying expectations to keep our staff from being placed in a difficult situation.

LTS does not have the resources to provide a custom course evaluation for each department or College. However, a campus wide solution is an efficient project that LTS will assist with. LTS is happy to counsel the University in the selection re: the technology compatibility and then support of a campus-wide instrument when it is in production ---when an instrument is determined.

Craig  

D2L Outage Reminder from Roxie Muldoon

Desire2Learn will be upgraded to version 9.0 beginning at 10:00 PM, Wednesday, July 7, and continuing through 10:00 AM on Thursday, July 8, 2010. As a result, D2L will be completely unavailable during this period.

~ Roxie Muldoon

Student Profile: Name of Student

 

Donors Help IS Students Obtain Laptops For Classes

Thanks to grant from Northwestern Mutual Foundation and a private gift from UW-Eau Claire alumnus Rick Schroder and his wife, Evelyn Zabo, ten information systems (IS) students now own their own laptop computers. Each student received $700 to purchase a laptop that meets College of Business computing requirements.

Beginning with the fall 2009 semester, students in more than 20 business classes must have in-class access to their own laptop computer. Persistent budget cuts forced the college to implement this cost-saving measure.

 Read More

 

Calendar

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 Wednesday, February 11
Internship Mania
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Davies Center

 Add to Your Outlook Calendar Early Morning Employer Social
8:00 - 10:00 am
Alumni Room, Davies Center

 Add to Your Outlook Calendar COB Forum: Research Presentation
12:00 - 12:50 pm
Location: Schneider 304
Presenter: Rama Yelkur
Topic: Animosity and Purchase Intentions: Cross Cultural Validation in Two Countries

Contributors to the issue

  • Kate Conerton
  • Craig Mey