The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
In October, OIT launched ‘Replay,’ a service for recording and distributing audio and/or video of lecture classes. Now, EEE has added a new tool, ‘Podcasts,’ to make it easier than ever for instructors and TAs to provide recordings to their students.
EEE Podcasts allows instructors and TAs who have used UCI Replay to link their Replay recordings directly to their classes on EEE. Students will have a convenient ‘Podcasts’ link on their MyEEE pages to help them find their class content.
The EEE Web Team has added a new feature to EEE Survey and Quiz, custom email reminders, which can be scheduled by administrators. Any identified participant who has not completed the survey or quiz by the selected date and time will be sent a copy of the email. Participants who have already submitted the survey or quiz will not be sent reminders, so administrators can schedule as many emails as needed without filling the inbox of those who have already participated.
On Wednesday, July 15th, the EEE Web Team launched the new Class Announcements tab on MyEEE.
Class Announcements allows instructors and TAs to post short class announcements on their students’ MyEEE pages. Rather than adding more to students’ already cluttered email inboxes, instructors and TAs can grab their students’ attention with updates posted right on MyEEE.
EEE makes sure students see new announcements by loading the Class Announcements tab first, right after a student logs in, if there have been any new posts since the student last visited.
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The Electronic Educational Environment (EEE) web team has revised the SignupSheet tool, which now supports automatically-generated timeslots. Rather than manually entering each timeslot, instructors and assistants can generate a set of timeslots by entering the following information:
SignupSheet will automatically create each of the signup items based on the entered parameters.
The new timeslot option makes it easier for instructors and assistants to schedule appointments during office hours, presentations, review sessions, or exam times.
More information can be found on the SignupSheet Help web page.
The Electronic Educational Environment (EEE) web team has launched the new MessageBoard tool, which allows instructors and TAs to create online forums for discussion with students outside of the classroom. MessageBoard includes a number of new features based on feedback from users of the earlier NoteBoard tool, which it replaces.
New features include:
You can visit the MessageBoard tool here. The EEE Web site has extensive documentation on MessageBoard, including tips on how to use MessageBoard in instruction.