1. INTRODUCTION TO NEW INNOVATIONS & EXAMSOFT First-Year Student Orientation July 31, 2014

2. Course and Faculty Evaluations  Throughout your medical training, you’ll be asked to provide feedback on curricular quality.  The timely completion of course and faculty evaluations is a COM requirement. (Please refer to your syllabus for details).  All evaluations are anonymous. Individuals CANNOT be linked to their responses.  Be honest, but constructive. We do listen!

3. Course Evaluation Items

4. Faculty Evaluation Items

5. What is New Innovations?  New Innovations is a web-based educational management system for medical schools and residency programs.  You will use New Innovations to complete required course/faculty evaluations.  You will receive e-mail notifications about evaluations.

6. New Innovations Modules  Schedules (Clinical Rotations)  Logger (Patient Case Logs)  Evaluations (Course and Faculty)

7. Accessing New Innovations https://www.new-innov.com/Login/

8. New Innovations/UKCOM Home Page

9. New Innovations Menu Bar

10. My Favorites

11. Exiting New Innovations  Hover over your name at top of home page screen.  Click on Log Out.  You also can check for messages or change your password here.

12. New Innovations Help  Password/General Questions: Lana Dearinger (323-6446, ldearing@email.uky.edu)ldearing@email.uky.edu  Course/Faculty Evaluations: Ellen Napier (323- 4643, etnapi2@uky.edu)etnapi2@uky.edu

13. New Innovations Resources These slides will be made available on the UKCOM Assessment and Quality Management web page: http://meded.med.uky.edu/new-innovations

14. Questions on New Innovations?

15. Course Exams - ExamSoft  ExamSoft is a proprietary software system that allows exams to be created, administered, and scored electronically.  SofTest is the module you will use to securely take exams on your personal laptop computer.  Completed exams are automatically uploaded back to a secure server.  As a tutorial, a mock exam will be given: Friday, August 8, CTW014 @ 1:00 p.m.

16. SofTest Module  You will receive an e-mail instructing you to download (and register) your copy of SofTest  You should install SofTest on the laptop you will be using for course exams (Mac/PC)  Your ExamSoft username is the first part of your UK e-mail address (e.g., tdstr334@uky.edu)tdstr334@uky.edu  Your initial password is randomly assigned – and contained in the introductory e-mail. You will be prompted to change it upon initial log in.

17. Student Exam Reports  Individual reports summarizing your test performance are sent to you electronically (youremail@uky.edu) in *.pdf format.youremail@uky.edu  At your discretion, these can be printed off and used during post-exam review sessions.  Post-exam revisions may be made to correct poorly-performing test items; as a result, this exam reporting process may be repeated.

18. Exam Contacts  For questions regarding exam reports, contact Amy Murphy-Spencer (amspenc@email.uky.edu), 323- 1196.amspenc@email.uky.edu  All questions regarding actual tests, content, test scores, or course grades should be directed to respective course directors.  Please read each course syllabus carefully to identify exam dates/times, grading schemes, etc.

19. ExamSoft Tech Issues  Ben Lawson (323-2840, joseph.lawson@uky.edu) joseph.lawson@uky.edu  Scott Pappas (323-3580, scott.pappas@uky.edu) scott.pappas@uky.edu  Stephen Welch (323-2009, stephen.welch@uky.edu) stephen.welch@uky.edu

20. ExamSoft Resources These slides will be made available on the UKCOM Assessment and Quality Management web page: http://meded.med.uky.edu/examsoft-information

21. Questions on ExamSoft?