Are there innovative examples of teaching with technology that you would like to share? Perhaps an instructor created a unique assignment that helped students learn the concepts. Maybe you saw an interesting use of technology in the classroom or on a course webpage.

The new ‘Instructional Spotlights’ on the EEE homepage have so far featured the Schools of Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences and Social Science, and we are always looking for more examples to share!

The Office of Information Technology has been hard at work making improvements and adding functionality to the Electronic Educational Environment (EEE). The development team has modernized the look and feel of EEE, enhanced the mobile version, and made a significant number of functional updates (selected updates described below).

In addition to the enhanced features on EEE, you can access official UCI photos using the newly released MyPhoto functionality. Instructors and students can click on ‘Classmates’ on MyEEE to access the photos, which are made available based on user-preferences. For more information, please see https://eee.uci.edu/help/policy/tools/#photos

EEE also has a new YouTube channel, which contains a growing number of videos focused on new and existing functionality of the system.

Instructors, staff and students at UCI continue to use EEE in innovative ways and provide us with feedback about how to improve or expand the system. Your input about new features and enhancements, or questions about how to use EEE are welcome!

https://eee.uci.edu/contact/

EEE Mobile

• Released ‘My Grades’
• Released ‘Room Finder’
• Released ‘Contact Us’
• Enhanced view of classes for Summer Session courses
• Provided an introduction to EEE Mobile at https://eee.uci.edu/help/mobile/

DropBox

• Released ability to download a custom zip file, which includes only selected files
• Provided a manifest file for each zip download, which facilitates recording of assignment scores in GradeBook
• Increased default individual quota for all users from 3 GB to 5 GB

Help Documentation

• Updated information about how to select a website tool (https://eee.uci.edu/help/websites/instructors/#newtool)
• Provided guidance about using third-party tools (https://eee.uci.edu/help/tools/overview/)
• Updated Memorandum of Understanding for official, department-activated course evaluations (https://eee.uci.edu/help/eval/staff/)
• Developed ‘Resources’ pages for both instructors, TAs and staff, and students (https://eee.uci.edu/resources/instructors/)
• Updated documentation about online-learning at UCI (https://eee.uci.edu/online-learning/)

EasyWebsite

• Added capability to provide non-enrolled students with access to a restricted website
• Automatically display the total number of times a document in a ‘Class Files’ section has been downloaded
• User interface updates to increase the speed of page loads and mitigate against accidental site deletion

MyEEE

• Provided CSV download of classes
• Updated ‘Ask a Librarian’ Chat Widget

Quiz

• Provided functionality to require students to agree to an ‘Academic Honesty Statement’ prior to taking quiz
• User interface updates to instructor quiz views and scoring interface and mitigate against a student closing a window and losing responses

MessageBoard

• Enable hidden identity, in addition to anonymous and identified
• Allowed group UCInetIDs to create and administer messageboards
• Provided input-checking to provide users with more immediate feedback when attaching files to posts