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Recruit Team Earns 2010 Sautter ‘Gold’ Award

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Sautter Award

Sautter Award

The annual Larry L. Sautter Awards for IT innovation were presented at the 2010 University of California Computing Support Conference at UCLA.  Ten UC teams received awards, and among three receiving top honors was the team that developed AP Recruit for multi-campus use.

AP Recruit is a web-based system for managing the recruitment of academic personnel.  Recruit was originally launched at UCI in 2006 after 3 years of development.  (See prior articles).  In October 2009, UC Irvine and UC San Diego jointly launched the AP Recruit web application for use at the San Diego campus.  The collaboration transformed UC Irvine’s campus-tailored AP Recruit system into a multi-campus software service in 6 months. Going forward, other campuses will benefit from the new Recruit enhancements.

The multi-campus AP Recruit product uses current software technologies yielding efficiencies within established business processes in academic personnel recruiting, particularly needed in this era of budgetary challenges.

More details on the collaboration can be found in the Sautter Award application.  More information on Recruit can be found at the Recruit web site.

Course Management System for University Extension

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NACS and UCI Extension have teamed up to enable UCI Extension courses to use the Moodle course management system, available at http://learn.uci.edu/ .

This new capability was made possible through “single sign-on,” a technology that allows students to move seamlessly among websites which, by sharing login and other information, eliminate the need to sign-in multiple times.

Extension students use their Extension login to register and pay for classes. They can then move into the Moodle online learning environment hosted at NACS. Once classes begin, students see their classes immediately and can start participating in online discussions and view media-rich course materials. All authentication and student enrollment information are exchanged in real-time behind the scenes.

Jill James, Director of University Extension Information Systems praised the partnership’s success. “NACS’s project management help, technical expertise, and support are fantastic and ensured a very successful launch. As the Distance Learning Center expands, the new automation helps streamline the process of creating courses and linking students.”

The partnership between NACS and UnEx’s Distance Learning Center has served as a model for on-campus IT “in-sourcing” since 2002. NACS provides the IT expertise, infrastructure, and on-call emergency response necessary to host a Moodle site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This allows the Distance Learning Center to focus attention on their unique contribution on campus: top-notch distance learning education.