Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 1 Syllabus system Technical Aspects of Organizing Academics for Accreditation

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 2 Mission and Vision Park University: Park has a large variety of students, faculty, and locations from Online to Face-to-Face to remote campuses. All of which need to be teaching the same items even if it is because of different methods Difficulties: The syllabus system needs to take into account verification of syllabi, standardization, approval process, and just how Park does things in different ways

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Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 4 Accountability Easy Access Permits classes to start and go faster Grade appeals Why do we need a syllabus system online?

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 5 Originally just web space Starting off – Just web space Various campuses/faculty put up web pages at various locations and updated them Good People were getting information before class and faculty were creating their own syllabi Bad No standardization Lots of locations Confusion about which was the current syllabus

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 6 Originally just web space Starting off – One location Various campuses/faculty put up web pages at various locations and updated them Good People were getting information before class and faculty were creating their own syllabi Bad No standardization Lots of locations Confusion about which was the current syllabus

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 7 Originally just web space Starting off – Empowering administration Campus location because of it requiring to be turned in, took copies and put them on the web Sent in via or floppy and then cut/pasted up on the web No way to search it easily and just put up unorganized Relied on people with little HTML skill or time to learn to how to link pages

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 8 Knowing where stuff is – Used Database Arrives By filling out information using simple web forms, have it organized Enabled greater flexibility Permit some faculty to enter their own syllabi Possibility of someone going in and messing things up Information stored with what they say is the class Typos are a big problem for what class it is messing up years, semester, class

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 9 Knowing where stuff is – Used Refining and organizing By filling out information using simple web forms, have it organized Enabled greater flexibility Permit faculty to enter their own syllabi Possibility of someone going in and messing things up Information stored with what they say is the class Typos are a big problem Four Methods for entering syllabi Web page at another location Took a snapshot of the web page Template/Fill in the blank Include stuff already in there, ex disability policy Cut and Paste from Word Using a GUI interface (Textbox from Dart ) Upload file Uploading Word and other files

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 10 Accountability – Used 2005-Present Accreditation Requiring Program Coordinator to approve it ing to update Logging of everything that happened Backing up Removing various options to force standardization Integrate various items

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 11 Providing feed back and instruction Contact

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 12 How things were done to make things easier Various Items Learned Have a key point to make things to focus on “Faculty make the change to syllabus” Find and work with a department Let it be an opt in situation, force others to make it mandatory Demos are good Hide small bonus features to make people happy More flexibility to make them able to choose and be empowered

Information Technology Services Changing The World One Degree At A Time! 13 Using other systems ( Blackboard, eCollege, etc...) Other possibilities While already built in and integrated they have several downsides, at least for Park University Requiring Registration Limited and disappearing access Unable to force standardization Requiring extra money to do improvements

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