November 10, 2010

Only about 3 Weeks to Go!

Finals are almost here! You’ve (almost) made it through another fall semester. It’s time to be thankful for Thanksgiving and a few days off. As the fall semester winds down and the new spring semester begins, we’d like to draw your attention to a few recommended procedures:

1. Download scores from the fall term and save them to your computer.If you have not already, we would suggest downloading scores from your instances and maintaining them with your student records. (As a reminder, you may use this same download process at any point in the term as the basis for uploading scores into MyUCFGrades, Webcourses@UCF, or any other grade book program that supports importing.)
2. Make new instances for the spring semester.We recommend creating new instances each term since scores are associated with specific instances permanently. Having spring term students using instances from a previous term would result in both sets of student data appearing on your score sheet. To make new instances, begin here: http://infolit.ucf.edu/faculty/getting-started/
3. Update any URLs that link to the old instances. Each instance URL ends with a unique ID number. You may simply change this number in order to update the URLs.
4. Delete old instances. In order to de-clutter your “My Instances” area, you might find it helpful to delete instances from previous semesters.
5. Provide link to log-in information when you provide instance URLs to students.Detailed information on logging in to the information literacy modules is available for students at http://infolit.ucf.edu/students/help/#article457
6. Provide tech support links to students when you provide instance URLs.Tech support for students (and faculty) is available through the Ask A Librarian service (http://library.ucf.edu/ask). Please encourage students to make contact with Ask A Librarian via phone, email, IM, or chat if they encounter any difficulties with content or technology. You might also refer students to the Frequently Asked Questions at http://infolit.ucf.edu/students/help. (If you choose to help students yourself, you might also find the faculty FAQs useful in addressing student issues: http://infolit.ucf.edu/faculty/faq.)