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FEATURED
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 New
OIT Faculty Survey
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| This week, all UTK faculty members will receive an email invitation to participate in the 2012 OIT Faculty Survey. This survey focuses on faculty
use and satisfaction of instructional technology support for teaching and learning. The online survey will take approximately 10 – 12 minutes to complete, so we hope you will take a few minutes to respond in order to help us shape the future of the services
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 ChemBioDraw
The ability to easily create depictions of biological pathways has become much easier for UTK's faculty, staff, and students with free access to CambridgeSoft's ChemBioDraw Ultra
Version 12.0. ChemBioDraw provides customizable drawing tools for common pathway diagrams as well as biological and chemical structures. It includes a large collection of templates for membranes, DNA/RNA, enzymes, receptors, ion channels, organelles, microorganisms,
etc.
Instructions for obtaining, installing, and activating ChemBioDraw can be downloaded from the OIT Internet Downloads area at
http://oit.utk.edu/software. Learn more about ChemBioDraw at
http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com.
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IT
CoP Moves About Campus
The March IT Community of Practice (IT CoP) meeting was held in the Scripps Convergence Lab in the College of Communications. Students, faculty, and staff shared how the latest hardware,
software, and flexible furniture turned this 4,000 sq.ft. space into a conducive environment for teaching, learning, collaboration, project development, and group or organizational meetings. To learn more about the facilities and various software available,
contact John McNair at 974-6556 or
[log in to unmask]. Join us on April 25, 2012, from 12:30 to 1:30 as the IT CoP Brown Bag lunch holds its final meeting of the semester in the Haslam Business Building, Conference Room 334.
For more information, or to be added to the IT CoP mailing list, contact Christina Goode at
[log in to unmask] or 974-6470.
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Creating
Web Surveys
OIT's web survey development and data collection tool is IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer (formerly called mrInterview). Two training sessions are usually required when setting
up a new account, each approximately 30-45 minutes. During the first session you will receive an overview of how to build a survey. Once your first survey is built, a follow-up session is scheduled which will cover activating and deploying the survey as well
implementing optional advanced features such as routing or login security.
To request an account, please contact the OIT Helpdesk at 974-9900. If you have questions, please contact Cary Springer at
[log in to unmask] or visit
https://oit.utk.edu/research/Pages/web-surveys.aspx.
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Technology
Tidbit
Many students are submitting final papers as the semester comes to an end. Blackboard's SafeAssign is a software resource designed to help students avoid plagiarism and improper
citation. The software encourages original writing and proper citation practices by cross-referencing submitted materials against other submitted papers, the Internet, and numerous published journals, newspapers, and magazine articles. The SafeAssign tool
is fully integrated into Online@UT, and does not require additional software.
If your student uploads a SafeAssignment and gets an "InstanceNotFound" error message:
A recent update to the SafeAssign software changed the way the tool works behind the scenes. Your browser must accept a third-party cookie to complete the upload. For security reasons, many users don't allow third party cookies, while the Safari browser denies
them by default. If you are using Safari, you'll need to change your settings to accept third party cookies by following these steps: Preferences > Security > Accept > Cookies > Always.
If you are using a different browser and can create exceptions for specific third-party cookies, the site you'll need to create an exception for is "safeassign.blackboard.com".
For more information on SafeAssign, visit the
OIT workshops page or contact the OIT HelpDesk at 974-9900 or
help.utk.edu.
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Learn
More About Clickers
On
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, OIT, along with Turning Technologies, will sponsor a clicker technology presentation featuring
Dr. Melinda J. Micheletto - Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration & Accounting at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. Dr. Micheletto is a Turning Technologies Distinguished Educator who has successfully used innovative
pedagogical tools, including clickers, in teaching business and marketing.
The presentation and lunch will be held in the Carolyn P. Brown University Center, Room 121, from 11:30am to 1:00pm, followed by a Clicker Roundtable discussion for UTK faculty only from 1:15pm to 2:00pm. For more information, contact Dr. Christina Goode at
974-6470 or
[log in to unmask].
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