Hello! I will be teaching one of my favorite courses again in 2026 – The AI in Marketing Certificate Program.

There are a few changes for the New Year:

• Offered now via DePaul Executive Education
• Five weeks rather than six weeks.
• 6-8PM (rather than 6-9PM)

• Tuesdays: 2/17/2026 - 3/17/2026
• Wednesdays: 5/20/2026 - 6/17/2026

New Microsoft Copilot features have been announced….

Other resources are here and here.

• OneDrive – for personal work files and small group sharing
• SharePoint – for team or departmental content
• Shared network drives – for centrally managed storage

• Friday, April 25, 2025 | 1:00-3:00 PM
• Format: Flex (Zoom and DePaul Center - room TBA)

• Presentation Requirements:
• 10-minute demonstration of an AI teaching practice
• 5-minute Q&A session
• Supplementary written materials
• In-person presentation at DePaul Center
• High-quality recording for our resource library

Three Tech Tuesdays that focus on AI (Artificial Intelligence) have been scheduled for the start of 2025:

1: Course Design and Creating Course Content with Generative AI

• Date: Tuesday January 28.
• Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM.
• Location: Flex (Zoom and DePaul Center TBA).

• Date: Tuesday February 25.
• Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM.
• Location: Flex (Zoom and DePaul Center TBA).

• Date: Tuesday April 29.
• Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM.
• Location: Flex (Zoom and DePaul Center TBA).

The DePaul AI Institute is embarking on a series of signature events and collaborative resources that strategically and pragmatically integrate artificial intelligence into academic activities that promote student learning and enhance critical thinking skills. The AI in Teaching Symposiums are opportunities for DePaul faculty and staff to share and see how their colleagues have successfully utilized an AI activity or assignment into their teaching. Quick, simple, direct demonstrations that can be easily adopted in other courses at the university.

We are soliciting proposals from interested faculty members who would like to develop a brief presentation (along with accompanying resources) and present to the university community at the second AI in Teaching Symposium. The deadline for submission is Monday, September 23.

For the second symposium, up to 4 faculty members will be selected to present. The Symposium will be held on Friday, October 18, from 1-3 PM at the DePaul Center.

Here are the guidelines for the presentations:

1. No more than ten minutes to present on an AI assignment, practice, or concept that can be implemented in other courses taught at DePaul.
2. No more than five minutes for Q&A.
3. Written resources (overview, recommendations, links, etc.) must accompany each presentation. These will be shared on the web.
4. Presenting live from the DePaul Center during the Symposium.
5. A high-quality recording of your presentation to be shared on a library of instructional AI use cases on the Institute’s Web site (the recording can be completed after the symposium but prior to the end of the fall quarter.

Larry Dribin will be guest presenting at Tech Tuesdays:

Beyond Prompting - There is more to AI than ChatGPT

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI, a small Artificial Intelligence company publicly released a new application, ChatGPT. Two months later, ChatGPT had over 100 million users making it the fastest growing application. ChatGPT is a new type of application called a Large Language Model (LLM) that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide human like solutions to a wide variety of problems. Today, numerous companies provide similar LLMs.

AI and LLMs can be excellent tools to help you, and your students during the learning journey. However, these tools can also provide incorrect information, fake references and hallucinations that sound quite believable. Thousands of companies are providing a wide range of AI and LLM solutions and have generated tremendous hype about what these models can do, with little concern about what they can’t do or the harm they can cause.

In today’s Tech Tuesday talk, Dr. Larry Dribin will take us on a journey to explore AI and specifically LLMs, provide an overview of how they work, and discuss some of the interesting solutions that AI researchers are creating beyond prompting.

AI is much more than LLMs and knowing a little about how AI works should enable you, as educators, to provide your students with a better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. This knowledge should also enable you, as researchers, to open new areas of research to explore and improve the human condition.

Bio:

Dr. Larry Dribin has been an adjunct instructor in DePaul’s College of Computers & Digital Media (CDM) since 1981. He has taught courses in Data Analysis, Software Engineering and Measurement, Agile and Object-Oriented Development, Software Processes and Cloud Computing. This past year, he has been researching Large Language Models, how they work and how we might regulate them. Spring Quarter, 2024, he co-taught with Marco Chou, DePaul’s first course on Generative AI, IT390 Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence.

While teaching part-time, Larry also worked full time. He has had a diversified career in consulting, management, sales, and software development. He has worked in a variety of industries for large Fortune 500 companies and small startups. Larry has assisted clients implement new technologies, turn around failing projects and helped them comply with a variety of regulations. Larry was a Director in Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s IT Excellence Practice (ITX) before starting his own consulting company, the Pearl Street Group.

Larry holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Illinois Tech (IIT – Illinois Institute of Technology), an MBA in Marketing from Loyola University, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Illinois Tech.

• Date: Tuesday September 24
• Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
• Location: TBA (Loop) and Zoom (Flex Event)

• Innovate Your Teaching: Discover cutting-edge techniques and practical strategies from your peers.
• Collaborate and Connect: Engage in lively discussions, practical demonstrations, and networking opportunities. The symposium is your platform to exchange insights with fellow educators passionate about enhancing their teaching methods and student outcomes.
• Make a Difference: Our students understand that AI is permeating all aspects of work and society. Help make them better prepared leaders.

• 1:00 PM: Opening Remarks.
• 1:15 PM: Greg Scott (College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences):
• Using Generative AI to Understand the Social Construction of Identity
• 1:30 PM: Ignacio Luri (Driehaus College of Business):
• Synthetic Data as a Teaching Tool
• 1:45 PM: Paige Treebridge (Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media):
• Realistic Use of AI in Design Scenarios
• 2:00 PM: Margaret Poncin Reeves (College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences):
• Promoting Critical AI Literacy through Reflection
• 2:15 PM: Closing Remarks

Attention students interested in cybersecurity. Blue Team Con student tickets are now available. You can attend this great cybersecurity conference in early September.

You can snag your ticket for just $50 on Eventbrite at this link.

The conference features a Career Village where cybersecurity pros are ready to review your resumes and prep you for a future in cybersecurity. Plus, there'll be a variety of engaging talks across different areas of cybersecurity. The conference will be posting more details on these sessions soon.

• No more than ten minutes to present an AI assignment, practice, or concept that can be implemented in other courses taught at DePaul.
• No more than five minutes for Q&A.
• Written resources (overview, recommendations, links, etc.) must accompany each presentation. These will be shared on the web.
• Presenting faculty will attend the symposium at the DePaul Center to engage in a discussion and Q&A.

When it comes to Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a bewildering myriad of models to choose from. What are the best models for DePaul faculty, students, and staff to use in work and research?

In this engaging and productive session, we will focus on “Microsoft Copilot.” Copilot is the term that Microsoft uses for its AI tools and services. This can be a little confusing, given the various Microsoft products using similar names (Microsoft Copilot, Copilot for Microsoft 365, Github Copilot, Copilot for Sales, etc.). Microsoft Copilot is a free service that provides access to GPT 4 and DALL-E 3.

Microsoft Copilot, when used with DePaul credentials, provides you with important protections and safeguards that you may not find when using other free generative AI services, including:

• Chat data is not saved.
• Chat data is not used to train AI models.
• Citations accompany generated textual content.

• Ethics.
• Conversational styles (Creative, Balanced, Precise).
• GPT 4 access.
• Generative imagery (DALL-E 3).
• Data protection.
• Differences and similarities between Github Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot for Microsoft 365.
• Document summarization and analysis.
• Prompt engineering techniques.
• Suggested classroom use.
• Hallucinations.
• Context windows and character limits.
• Future developments.
• Competing LLMs for consideration.
• And more…

• Date: Tuesday April 30.
• Time: 12-00 - 1:00 PM.
• Location: Flex - Zoom or Lewis 1002 (10th floor of the Lewis Center - connected to the DPC 8th floor via the skybridge).

1. ChatGPT Citations | Formats & Examples
2. How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?
3. How to cite ChatGPT

• Date: May 30
• Time: 12-1 PM
• Location: Flex (Zoom or DPC 8209)

• 1-1:45PM
• Friday May 5th

• Flex Friday: January 13
• Flex Friday :January 20
• How Students Cheat With Technology: January 31
• Beginners Guide to Artificial Intelligence: April 14

1. The course owner uses the “Add User to Course in D2L” form to add the other faculty as a “Course Copier” via “Role on course.” The other faculty should then be able to copy the D2L course normally. This gives users only access to copy the course, nothing else. It’s also an invisible role so they don’t show up in the classlist.
2. The course requester uses the “Copy D2L Course Content” form and adds the name of the course owner in the “Additional People to Copy on this Request” section. The course owner will then approve the request.

Today, I attended Adobe’s “Academic Videos and Podcasts with Adobe Rush.” Rush looks to be an alternative to Screenflow, Camtasia, or iMovie for students, faculty, and staff to create video content. Audio content is possible too (rather than using Audacity). This may be a good tool to promote.

Materials from today’s session are here. A badge/credential, through the creation of a video, is available.

(I also got Dreamweaver to finally work by using Adobe CC Cleaner)

• Tuesday August 30: 11:30AM-1:30PM
• Getting Students To Switch On Their Webcams
• Tuesday September 27: 11:30AM-1:30PM
• Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, and the Metaverse

• Friday August 12: 1-3PM
• Friday August 26: 1-3PM
• Friday September 2: 1-3PM
• Friday September 9: 1-3PM
• Friday September 16: 1-3PM

• Click the ‘All’ tab under “My Courses”
• Hover and click your mouse over Destination Driehaus.
• Click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner and click “Pin.”
• You’ll see the Destination Driehaus under the “Pinned” tab.

Starting June 6, 2022, all faculty members using an external email address (i.e. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) will no longer receive communications from D2L to these emails. All communications through D2L will go to the BlueM@il (email address ending in @depaul.edu). Moving all D2L communications to BlueM@il creates a predictable path that ensures a more reliable delivery of emails between students and faculty. Faculty members who are currently using BlueM@il with D2L will not be affected by this change. While Instructors will still be able to email students in D2L from the Classlist or through individual tools like Submissions, they will no longer see the Email icon in the D2L Minibar.

Kim Siarkowski Amer shared some very useful COVID-19 resources at the recent Spring Quarter Business College Faculty & Staff Meeting. Reposting the resources below:

Chicago Department of Public Health

Illinois Department of Public Health

You can verify your immunizations!

CDC Tracker

Similarities and Differences between Flu and COVID-19

Variants of Covid 19 and genetic lexicon guide

TREATMENT
Find access to medication and treatment

Life Expectancy Drops by 2 years in Chicago

Wastewater Surveillance
Can track shedding of virus of non-symptomatic persons and identify trends in communities.

Good News: Healthy Chicago 2025

I will be presenting "Broadcast Like a Professional (from Home)" at the Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment virtual conference tomorrow (8th Feb). Hope to see you there.

For the past two years, the College of Business has advised faculty to rename "Office Hours" to something more student focussed (Student Hours, Zoom Meetup, Zoom Chat, Weekly Review, etc.). Joel Whalen has shared a very useful resource that underscores this suggestion. Well worth reading.

We have some received some very helpful feedback from faculty who have embraced this rebranding of office hours to be more student focused:

• Attendance and participation went up.
• Scheduling could cause issues:
• Using Doodle increased participation and student satisfaction.
• Avoiding a time that conflicted with regular class time (or when students were at work) is recommended (students got frustrated that they could not attend).
• Recording is highly recommended, particularly if you are using the sessions for content review.
• Students really don’t understand “office hours,” or find the term intimidating. Taking time to explain what the time was for and rebranding with a friendly term is essential.
• Students who did not attend saw the student hours as a safety net – something that was useful to have.
• Students need to talk. Some of them are still feeling very alone.

DePaul Newsline just published a great article about U.S News & World Report's rankings for DePaul online programs. DePaul ranked 8th for best online bachelor’s program in business. The Driehaus College of Business offers online programs for Bachelor of Science in Business degrees in accountancy and marketing.

• Allow only signed-in users to join: If someone tries to join your meeting and isn’t logged into Zoom with the email they were invited through, they will receive a message that says, “This meeting is for authorized attendees only.” This is useful if you want to allow only signed-in users to attend your meeting and only those from a certain domain — other students at your school or colleagues, for example.
• Enable the Waiting Room: The Waiting Room is an important feature for securing a Zoom Meeting. Just like it sounds, the Waiting Room is a virtual staging area that stops your guests from joining until you’re ready for them to join your meeting. 
• Lock the meeting: It’s always smart to lock your front door, even when you’re inside the house. When you lock a Zoom Meeting that has already started, no new participants can join, even if they have the meeting ID and passcode. Just click the Security icon at the bottom of your Zoom window. In the pop-up, click the button that says Lock Meeting.
• Avoid using your Personal Meeting ID (PMI): Your PMI is basically one continuous meeting, and you don’t want outsiders crashing your personal virtual space after your designated meeting is over. 
• Report a user: Hosts can report users to Zoom’s Trust & Safety team, who will review any potential misuse of the platform and take appropriate action. Find this option within our Security icon or under the green shield icon in the top left corner of your meeting, where you can attach screenshots and other documentation as needed.
• End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): Account owners and admins can enable end-to-end encryption for meetings, providing additional protection when needed. Enabling end-to-end encryption for meetings requires all meeting participants to join from the Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or Zoom Rooms.
• Remove unwanted or disruptive participants: You can remove someone from your meeting by using the Security Icon or Participants menu. On the Participants menu, you can mouse over a participant’s name and several options will appear, including Remove. Click Remove to kick someone out of the meeting. When you do remove someone, they can’t rejoin the meeting. But you can toggle your settings to allow removed participants to rejoin in case you boot the wrong person. Hosts can also mute and turn off the video of participants to block unwanted, distracting, or inappropriate noise/gestures from other participants.

• Automatic Updates: Automatic updates help users easily receive important security fixes and helpful features, improving their overall experience with the Zoom platform. Our automatic updates feature periodically checks Zoom servers to determine whether a new update is available and is enabled by default for most individual users. If you utilize mass deployment packages for Windows (MSI) and macOS (PKG), this user-level feature is disabled by default.
• Designate a Security Contact: Account owners can assign users (individual or group aliases) within their organization who are not assigned admins or owners to also receive email communications from Zoom’s Security teams. This field can be used to add internal security team members that would like to receive communications about security updates. 

• Loop Zoom+ and Trimodal Rooms
• Lincoln Park Zoom+ and Trimodal Rooms

1. Take the remote and turn on projector using the Power button.
2. Tap the touch screen monitor.
3. Click Share Screen. A pop-up window will appear.
4. Click Start Sharing.
5. If this pop-up says, “Plug HDMI cable into device” instead of “Start Sharing,” move the PC mouse to wake it up from sleep.
6. Make sure to log off the PC before you stop sharing (otherwise the next person who uses the room may have access to your information).

• LIBERRWAY Stylus Pen 10 Pack
• LIBERRWAY Stylus Pen 50 Pack

• You can use the Zoom technology to bring a virtual guest speaker to class.
• Instructions on how to create a Zoom session are here. You would then share the meeting ID and passcode with your guest speaker.
• This page explains how to join and run the Zoom session from your Zoom+ room.
• You can use the Zoom technology to record your classes.
• You can use the Zoom technology to allow students to attend class remotely. This is not the expectation for on-campus (P) and on-campus hybrid (HB) classes, but this could be helpful if you encounter that need.

Classroom Cheat Sheet

Stylus

• LIBERRWAY Stylus Pen 10 Pack
• LIBERRWAY Stylus Pen 50 Pack

Online Learning Assistant (OLA)

• Start and stop your class recording.
• Manage breakout rooms.
• Facilitate discussion, chat, and questions.

Scheduling Your Zoom Sessions

• Schedule a recurring meeting. Same Zoom connection details for each class.
• Only authenticated users can join. This means only students (and guests) with DePaul accounts can join the Zoom session. This can cause minor frustration for students who do not read instructions the first week. In later weeks, this provides more security and less opportunity to be Zoombombed. You would want to relax this security setting if you are bringing virtual guest speakers to class (who do not have DePaul Zoom accounts).
• Mute participants upon entry. This greatly reduces audio disruption. Students must actively unmute their microphones to talk.
• Automatically record meeting (In the cloud). Alternatively, ask your OLA to start the recording at a set time (so you do not forget) or set an alarm to remind you to record.
• Share the Zoom connection information. I do this in D2L, my syllabus, and in a class email to students. I bring the Zoom meeting ID and password to class (on paper or on my smartphone, in large type so I can read the correct information and connect to the correct Zoom session without hassle).

The First Class

Sharing Content

1. Podium PC
2. Document Camera
3. Digital Blackboard
4. Laptop or tablet (wirelessly)
5. Student PC, laptop, or tablet (either wirelessly in the room or remote)

Classroom Interaction

• Actively engage the remote students first. Ask questions to the remote students first, and then pose the questions to the students in the physical classroom after.
• Look at the camera when talking.
• Repeat student questions. This ensures that remote students hear things clearly and in context.
• 10-minute break every hour. Post a message on screen and in chat to say that on break.

When Technology Fails

Additional Resources

• The 3-week asynchronous D2L course that CTL offered this Summer (“Flex Instruction Training Summer 2021”). The course has ended, but you can be added as an “Observer” to see the material.
• The “Training Open Houses” that CTL and Information Services have been offering and are continuing this September. You can contact ClassTechTraining@depaul.edu if you have questions.
• The “Flex Fridays” sessions I have been offering and that I continue to offer this September. You can RSVP for upcoming session here.
• The “Teaching In A Trimodal Room” webpage that I posted here.
• The “Using Zoom+ and Trimodal Rooms” resource on the Teaching Commons website.

• Previously, all DePaul students had automatic access to the Adobe Creative Cloud Software (Acrobat DC, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, etc.).
• Now, DePaul students have access to install Adobe Creative Cloud on their personal computer if they are enrolled in a DePaul class that requires Adobe Creative Cloud use.

• Friday July 30
• 10AM – 12PM
• 2PM – 4PM
• Friday August 6
• 10AM – 12PM
• 2PM – 4PM
• Friday August 27
• 10AM – 12PM
• 2PM – 4PM
• Friday September 3
• 10AM – 12PM
• 2PM – 4PM
• Friday September 10
• 10AM – 12PM
• 2PM – 4PM
• Friday September 17
• 10AM – 12PM
• 2PM – 4PM

• Log into https://depaul.zoom.us
• Click on "Settings"
• Click on "In Meeting (Advanced)" under the "Meeting" tab
• Activate "Immersive View"

• John T. Richardson Library Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm
• Loop Library: Monday/Wednesday 12-4pm

• Virtual access to all e-resources
• Virtual research help through our Ask a Librarian service
• Virtual instruction services, including Zoom sessions, Special Collections and Archives (SPCA) instruction, and asynchronous online tutorials and guides  
• Please let me know if you are interested in an online library instruction session for your classes.
• Alternatively, I can create customized guides for your specific course. For a full list of our research guides, visit https://libguides.depaul.edu/?b=s
• Course reserves setup and support, including digitization and access to e-books, book chapters, articles and streaming media
• Electronic access to book chapters, articles and other digital materials through our interlibrary loan service as well as interlibrary loan of physical materials

Zoom has added an extremely useful new feature – Live Transcript. The Live Transcript provides either subtitles or a transcript window to your live Zoom sessions.

This can be helpful in several ways:

• The transcript can aid in the creation of meeting minutes.
• The subtitles and transcript can be helpful to students with English as a second or third language.
• The transcript can be helpful to students who step away from Zoom for a few minutes. The transcript provides a record of what was missed.

• In your Zoom session, click on “Live Transcript.”
• Click on “Enable Auto Transcription.”
• This switches on the subtitles.
• To switch on the live transcript, click on the downward facing arrow to the right of the “Live Transcript” button and select “View Full Transcript.”

• Go http://D2L.depaul.edu
• Your inactive courses will be branded INACTIVE on the course image.
• Hover your mouse pointer over the course image on the D2L homepage and click on the three dots that appear on the top right of the course image.
• Click on Course Offering Information.
• On the Course Offering Information page check Course is Active.
• Click Save at the bottom. Your course is now activated. Students will see your course listed in their My Courses widget when they log in to D2L.

• Click Classlist in your course navigation bar. The Classlist page will open; it displays a list of the students in your course.
• Click the Email Classlist button at the top of the page.
• Click on the Students tab. A page will open that displays a list of students who will receive the email.
• Click the Send Email button at the bottom of the page. A new window will open with the email addresses of all of your students listed in the BCC field, a blank subject line, and a text-editing area.
• Enter your subject and message in the appropriate fields.
• Click the Upload button if you want to add an attachment to your email, and locate the file on your computer (optional).
• Click the Send button in the upper-left corner of the page when you are done composing your email.

• Manually. Full instructions can be found here.
• Request that FITS makes the copy for you. This course copy will typically take two business days. The process to follow is:
• Go here.
• Click on Copy Course Content.
• On the next page, enter your Campus Connection Username and Password, then click on Login.
• Select the course you want to Copy From.
• Select the course you want to Copy Into.
• Click on Submit.
• On the next page, verify that the information you have provided is correct, and then click on Submit.

• In your D2L course, click on Edit Course and select D2L Request Forms.
• Click on Combine Course.
• Choose your Primary Course.
• Select the To be combined courses.
• Click on Submit.
• Click on Submit.

• Quiz creation request form
• Meet with FITS staff

• Theophilus Jamal
• ojamal@depaul.edu

• Daley 402
• DPC 5901 (For College of Business use only)
• Lewis 1405
• Lewis 1406
• Lewis 1407
• O'Malley 343
• O'Malley 344

• December, 2020: New Improvements in D2L
• November, 2020: Introduction to mmhmm
• October, 2020: Guest Presentation Theophilus Jamal: Looking Good On Camera
• October, 2020: First Year Students and Online Asynchronous Courses
• September, 2020: Hardware Review- Tech Tools for Teaching at Home
• September, 2020: Introduction To Zoom Webinars
• August 2020: Teaching In A Trimodal Room
• August, 2020: Technology Training Session For New(ish) Faculty
• June 2020: Panopto
• June 2020: Zoom Best Practices
• June, 2020: Course Modalities
• May, 2020: OpenBoard
• May, 2020: Best Practices for Online Learning
• April, 2020: Respondus Monitor
• April, 2020: Teaching Online During A Pandemic
• March, 2020: Red Flag Mania - Using Edutainment to Teach Business Courses
• March, 2020: XP-Pen Stylus
• February, 2020: Recording with Zoom and Panopto
• Recording A Simple PowerPoint With Panopto
• Recording With QuickTime
• Embedding Your Panopto Video In D2L
• February, 2020: Contingency Prep
• February, 2020: Trimodal Classrooms

• Green Screen + Light Kit
• Panel Lights

• Samson Microphone
• Elgato Cam Link
• Sony Alpha a5100 Mirrorless Camera

• 6'' Ring Light with 2 Suspension Arm Stands
• Neewer 2-Pack 2.4G LED Video Lighting Kit
• Elgato Collapsible Green Screen

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• KB0011010 - DePaul Virtual Lab: Connecting using Windows Desktop Client
• KB0011013 - DePaul Virtual Lab: Connecting using macOS Client
• KB0010981 - DePaul Virtual Lab: OneDrive Sign in KB
• KB0011008 - DePaul Virtual Lab: macOS Folder Redirection Setup KB

• Collaborative presentations: Two presenters can drive the same presentation in Zoom. Slide content is synchronized between both presenters, perfect for co-teaching and student feedback.
• Mimics newscasts and television: You can add sophisticated background effects, video filters, slides, and movies to your presentations.
• Record regular video or interactive presentations: Interactive presentations allow your audience to jump to particular slides in your presentation and change video settings.
• Transparency effects: Rather than blocking slide content, you can appear as a hologram in front of your slides – so students can see you and your content simultaneously.
• Laser pointers: Annotate slide content with laser pointers.
• Works with Panopto, Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and more: You can use mmhmm to improve camera and sharing settings in videoconference software, or in your Panopto recordings.
• And more…

• Students have a new BlueM@il email address (username @depaul.edu)
• Starting fall term, the university will no longer send messages to students’ external email accounts (like Gmail or Yahoo).
• Starting fall term, all class and university communications will go to their BlueM@il.address.

• Outlook web app: Go to office365.depaul.edu and select the Outlook icon  
• Outlook desktop app: Go to office365.depaul.edu and download Office 365 including Outlook  
• Outlook mobile app: Download the Outlook mobile app on iPhone or Android 
• Other email app of your choice connected to Outlook 365 using BlueKey login credentials  

• ONLINE survives as LOCATION for all online modalities.
• ONLINE as facility ID is retired as substituted by Online:Async
• ONLINE is also retired as Instructor Mode replaced by Online:Async

1. Log in to http://campusconnect.depaul.edu
2. Click on the NavBar on the upper right corner -> select Navigator
3. Click Self Service -> Faculty Center -> Instructor Resources -> Faculty Profile
4. Select the correct term to obtain the list of classes for the quarter and click on Search
5. Select preferences for each section -> Save
6. If your class requires a pc classroom (computer lab) for the entire term please indicate this by checking the appropriate box.

DistanceEd & OnlineTeaching friends, want to share your research, best practices, and new ideas with 100s of your peers? The #UWdtl Distance Teaching & Learning conference (Aug 4-6, 2020) call for proposals closes at 4:00p Central Time today. Don't wait! https://dtlconference.wisc.edu/call-for-proposals/

The 36th annual Distance Teaching & Learning (DT&L) Conference call for proposals are open.

Areas include:

• Program Administration
• Accessibility
• Course and program design
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Emerging techniques & technologies
• Faculty growth & development
• Learner engagement

• Date: Tuesday October 22, 2019
• Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
• Location: DPC 7406 (7th Floor of the DePaul Center, 1 East Jackson Blvd.)
• RSVP: https://condor.depaul.edu/jmoore/tech/

• Date: Tuesday November 19, 2019
• Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
• Location: DPC 7406 (7th Floor of the DePaul Center, 1 East Jackson Blvd.)
• RSVP: https://condor.depaul.edu/jmoore/tech/

Perhaps this sounds familiar. It is late, you are tired, but you cannot go to bed until you submit your term paper, or you will fail the course. You could work through the night to get it done right, or you could quickly skim a buddy’s paper from the previous year, and write something acceptable for the professor. Then you could get much needed sleep – you would feel rested the next day, you would pay closer attention in class, you would be altogether a better student. This really would not be cheating. After all, everyone else in the class did this too. You would be a fool not to join in. How are you going to get ahead in business if you fail in your studies? Wearily you look at the clock and decide what to do…

Researchers at the University of Arkansas’ Sam M. Walton College of Business have spent over two years investigating factors that would lead to academic integrity violations, with a particular focus on freshman business students. Routinely, business students are perceived as more likely to cheat than fellow students in other disciples, and readily admit to doing so.

Understanding the causes that lead to cheating could result in colleges and universities enacting effective policies and procedures that lessen academic integrity violations. This goes beyond directly improving student behavior and the college climate, as the students of today become the leaders of tomorrow. Unethical student behavior can go on to infect all aspects of society, particularly in business, law, medicine, and politics. Now, this is not a recent concern – the researchers themselves cite concerns about cheating going as far back in time as Aristotle, but there are indications that through correctly targeted actions cheating can be reduced. This benefits both society at large and academia.

The Factors

1. Attitude to cheating: Does the student think cheating is acceptable? Does the student think consequences of cheating are not severe?
2. Subjective norm: Does the student think peers and caregivers think cheating is unacceptable?
3. Perceived behavioral control: Does the student think that she or he can get away with cheating?
4. Moral obligation: Does the student feel guilty about cheating?
5. Past academic integrity behavior: Has the student cheated before?

	Sharing Homework	Plagiarism
Attitude to cheating	Yes	Yes
Subjective norm	Yes	No
Perceived behavioral control	Yes	Yes
Moral obligation	Yes	Yes
Past academic integrity behavior	Yes	Yes

But these variables did not all have equal weight. Of the five, attitude to cheating, past academic integrity behavior, and moral obligation were the strongest predictors of intent to cheat. The past academic integrity behavior took place prior to students being admitted to university, so this suggests that the problem of cheating is not being addressed early enough. Patterns of cheating are established well before a student attends college or university, so the focus on educating high school students about the importance of academic integrity and defining appropriate conduct is key.

Key Predictors:

• Attitude to cheating
• Past academic integrity behavior
• Moral obligation

1. In D2L, go to your library.
2. Click the Import button and choose Browse Existing Questions.
3. Change the Source Collection to the quiz you would like to import the questions from.
4. Check the box next to the questions you want to import.
5. Click Add.
6. You can repeat this process for other quizzes.
7. Then click the Done Editing Questions button.

1. In your quiz, click on Submission Views.
2. The default view will be what a student will see when the quiz is submitted.
3. Click on Add Additional View.
4. Here you can specify a different submission view that will start at a specific date and time.
5. Type in a Name for the additional submission view.
6. Change the Date and Time for the view to start.
7. Under View Details, specify the settings that you want.
8. When done, click on Save.

I am loaning out a Zoom H2 to a colleague, and reading the "how to record" instructions here incase I need them in the future:

• Switch Power to “On.” The LCD screen will switch on, and you will see a red light indicating “Mic Active.”
• Press the right button twice, until you see that “Surround, 4CH” is activated.
• Press the record button once, the red light will flash.
• Press the record button a second time, the Zoom H2 will record.
• Press the record button when done.
• Switch the Power to “Off.”

• Development of Course Content
• Assessment of student learning in an online environment
• Content Delivery
• Distinctive Pedagogical Features

1. Full-time and Part-time faculty, self-nominated or nominated by a colleague.
2. Taught a fully online course for the Driehaus College of Business or Kellstadt Graduate School of Business in the 2017-2018 academic year.
3. Taught at least three sections of online coursework over the past three calendar years.

1. 500-word narrative highlighting the reasons why the nominee should be considered for the award.
2. Copy of course syllabi.
3. Examples of unique online course materials you have used over time, focused on: feedback & coaching, development of course content, assessment, content delivery, distinctive pedagogical features. (Instead of an applicant preparing the materials mentioned in Items 2 and 3 above, the applicant can give James Moore the permission to copy the applicant’s recent online courses for the Online Experience Committee to review. The copy will not contain any student work and will be deleted at the end of the review.)
4. Grade distribution summary from 2017-2018 and Autumn Quarter, 2018 for the online course(s). (The Dean’s office will provide this information.)

• Other applicable materials (online teaching evaluation, letter of support, etc.)

• Innovative Pedagogy and Practice
• Student Voices: Perspectives on International Learning through Virtual Exchange
• Tools and Technologies
• Virtual Exchange as Strategy and Policy
• Assessing Impact through Research

• Names, titles, institutional or organizational affiliation and short bio for all presenters or panelists
• Conference track (selected from the list above)
• Preferred session format (selected from the list above)
• Title of session
• Abstract (up to 150 words)
• Extended Narrative including learning outcomes (up to 750 words)

• Original: the proposal explores a new idea, project or issue; discusses new research; or presents new ways of considering existing information
• Engaging: presentation format will involve the audience in some way, or has high potential to attract conference attendees by addressing needs of the community
• Significant: the proposal raises and discusses issues important to virtual exchange and engagement, and its contents can be broadly disseminated and understood
• Supported: claims are backed by sufficient data; claims draw upon relevant literature and/or multiple perspectives; and limitations are described honestly
• Clear: the intended outcomes of the session are easily understood
• Relevant: the proposal addresses topics of interest in virtual exchange

• Call for Proposals Distribution: December 10, 2018
• Proposal System Opens: January 15, 2019
• Submissions Due: March 1, 2019
• Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2019
• Presenter Registration Deadline: July 15, 2019
• Submission of Papers for Conference Proceedings (optional): September 10, 2019
• Submission of Presentations for Posting Online: October 10, 2019

As an existing Zoom user, your free account will become associated with DePaul and will be converted to a Pro account, giving you access to the full range of Zoom capabilities. In the coming weeks, look for another email from us including more detailed information on how we will be equipping and onboarding you with Zoom. You can find more information on the additional features you will receive with a Pro account at the following resources:

• Weekly Zoom Training Webinars
• Zoom Video Tutorials
• Zoom Technical Webinars

Windows 10/Office 2016 and macOS High Sierra

Classroom Computer Logons

VHS Combo players

• Alternatives to presenting existing content via VHS
• How to request a VHS combo player
• How to find or schedule classes in locations containing VHS players
• Resources provided by the Library and other relevant information

DePaul no longer supports Blackboard Collaborate (known as Online Rooms). The change in support was announced about a year ago, but Online Rooms was still available in D2L until very recently. Online Rooms has been replaced by a built-in-tool called YouSeeU (known as Virtual Classroom in D2L).

Instructions on use of Virtual Classroom can be found here.

FITS has two upcoming virtual training sessions, if you’d like a little more hands-on experience with the tool:

• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youseeu-overview-webinar-tickets-44563438444 - April 3 at 11:00
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youseeu-overview-webinar-tickets-44563601933 - April 5 at 11:00

• Development of Course Content
• Assessment of student learning in an online environment
• Content Delivery
• Distinctive Pedagogical Features

1. Full-time and Part-time faculty, self-nominated or nominated by a colleague.
2. Taught a fully online course for the Driehaus College of Business or Kellstadt Graduate School of Business in the 2016-2017 academic year.
3. Taught at least three sections of online coursework over the past three calendar years.

1. Copy of course syllabi
2. 500-word narrative highlighting the reasons why the nominee should be considered for the award
3. Examples of unique online course materials you have used over time, focused on: feedback & coaching, development of course content, assessment, content delivery, distinctive pedagogical features

• Other applicable materials (online teaching evaluation, letter of support, etc.)

I hope you are enjoying Spring Break, and are relaxed and rejuvenated for classes next week. There have been some significant improvements to D2L recently, such as the “Daylight” interface that provides a mobile-friendly design that allows students and faculty to have a pleasant experience no matter what device they use (our students have been very happy about this).

Josh Lund from FITS will be providing a guest presentation on Tuesday March 27th. Here is what he has to say:

What’s New in D2L: 2018 UpdateHaven’t looked under the hood in a while? Come to this Tech Tuesday for a look at some new features you might have missed. D2L has a new look and feel, Daylight, and with it come some new options to enhance your course, stay on top of your class progress and create a better experience for all.

Registration opens March 27th for the 34th Annual Distance Teaching & Learning Conference!
Join 800 distance education professionals for three days of innovation, inspiration, and connection. Gain new skills, fresh knowledge, and the motivation to apply what you've learned.

Learn more at https://dtlconference.wisc.edu/

Information Services just sent out this update:

Apple's newest upgrade to the operating system for Mac computers, macOS High Sierra (10.13), has been certified by DePaul as a supported version. Orders for new Mac computers may now resume.

IMPORTANT NOTE: An update to the McAfee Agent is required BEFORE proceeding with the macOS upgrade. You may verify your version of McAfee by running the validation utility found on the IS website. If you need to update your version of McAfee, please run the McAfee Agent installation within Self Service. Also note that McAfee has ended support for all OS versions prior to OS X 10.11; if you are using OS X 10.10 or older, you must update your computer to a supported version as soon as you are able.

Microsoft requires a minimum version of 15.35 for Microsoft Office 2016; please upgrade Office applications before performing the upgrade to macOS 10.13. This can be done by launching any Office program, navigating to the Help menu, and clicking Check For Updates.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have any questions or need assistance regarding this upgrade, please contact the Technology Support Center at 312-362-8765.

• File your tax return at the earliest you can. There has been an increase in fraudulent filings in the past few years, and filing before the bad guys file a return in your name helps prevent tax return fraud.
• Sign up for your account with the Social Security Administration at www.ssa.gov. Reports of criminals signing up fraudulent accounts at the SSA have been increasing. Claiming your account before the criminals have a chance to do it is helpful.

A colleague of mine (Paul Bodine) just shared information about a Chrome plug-in that may be of information to faculty and students. "Media Share" allows you to quickly collect videos from anywhere on the web/desktop/etc., organize them, and drop links into documents, LMSs, etc. The plug-in is made for the education market. You can find out more here.

Whether you're new to distance education or have years of experience, UW‑Madison's Distance Teaching & Learning Conference is the place to be July 25-27, 2017. Join colleagues from around the world to share strategies, best practices, and innovative ways to teach and support online learners.
 
Hear from keynote speakers…
-- Michelle R. Weise, Southern New Hampshire University—Disruptive Design for the Future of Online Learning
-- Nick Floro, Sealworks Interactive Studios—Designing eLearning: The Future is Today
-- Richard J. Davidson, University of Wisconsin-Madison—Cultivating the Skill of Well-being: Implications for Teaching and Learning
 
 
Choose from more than 170 engaging sessions from experts and thought leaders in the field on topics such as…
·       Design for learning
·       Accessibility and Universal Design
·       Learner engagement strategies
·       Competency-based education
·       Instructional design & project management
·       Learning analytics and student success
·       Evaluating eLearning
·       Badging and digital credentialing
 
A great experience at a great price…
Early-bird registration is just $535 for 3 days of learning and networking. For an additional fee, attend preconference workshops, conference blended certificates, or the DE Research Symposium to dig deeper into issues that interest you most. Early-bird deadline is June 26, so don't delay!
 
Questions? Contact Kimary Peterson at kimary.peterson@wisc.edu or
608-265-4159.

1. 1 Through the navbar
2. 2 Through an external link you need to add in a module

Randy Guthrie (Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist) shared this information about the Microsoft Imagine Cup with me:

Team up with friends or fellow developers to enter your world-changing software innovations to the U.S. Imagine Cup – a global student technology competition presented by Microsoft. U.S. finalists can win up to $6,000, startup and technology mentorship, and the chance to advance to the Imagine Cup global finals, where one team will be selected to win $100,000 for our 15th Imagine Cup anniversary.

Sign up to qualify by December 20, 2016 at 11:59 pm PT

Qualifications
All technology projects are welcome this year – the competition is no longer bound by categories. Get the official Imagine Cup rules here.

1. Project must leverage Microsoft Azure (Get Azure for Students or email us at icus@microsoft.com)
2. Maximum three (3) members per team
3. You must be 16+ years of age and attending a US school or university

1. Team Name and Team Member contact info
2. Brief explanation of your idea in video (2 min) or in writing (250 words or less).

DePaul recently received this message from Panopto:

We wanted to let you know about a bug in Panopto for Mac that occurs on macOS Sierra (version 10.12). Specifically, when users hide or minimize Panopto for Mac during a screen recording on macOS Sierra, Panopto stops recording the screen.

What is the impact?
Panopto will not record the screen while minimized or hidden on macOS Sierra.

Are users running earlier versions of OS X affected?
No. Users running Panopto for Mac on OS X 10.11 and earlier are not affected.

How do I resolve this issue?
Download and install the latest version of Panopto for Mac.

Note: This version of Panopto for Mac does not display a live screen preview for macOS Sierra users, but the screen will be recorded (see image below). We are working with Apple on a change to restore live screen preview during screen capture recording.

Software Secure currently does not support the new Apple Operating System-Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra for Remote Proctor (RPNow) at this time. More information on their support site.

Information Services just sent out this email to Softchalk users here at DePaul:

"As you may be aware, there is a project in progress to migrate from Ooyala to a new streaming media and video system called Panopto. Panopto is a video streaming and video content management software that is fully integrated with D2L and will allow you and your students to upload and manage video content files for classes directly within D2L. The self-service availability with Panopto’s D2L integration will streamline the process for uploading content for the courses you teach.

If you have video content in your SoftChalk module and these modules exist in SoftChalk Cloud (e.g. they are not zipped up and unpacked in D2L), you will need to contact FITS@depaul.edu by September 1, 2016 to coordinate migration of your content. Fits staff will work with you to migrate the content into a space within Panopto and work with you to set the video permissions so your audiences can view them. Please note that a list of video titles will be needed in order to migrate the content.

On September 30th 2016, the existing streaming media systems will be retired and will no longer be accessible. All necessary content must be migrated into Panopto prior to this date.

If you have any questions about using Panopto in your class or if you want to provide students with the ability to upload video content, please contact FITS@depaul.edu for assistance."

Panopto is the new video platform that has replaced Ooyala here at DePaul. It is a web-based tool that allows you to record, host, and share audio and video files. It is fully integrated with D2L. Both instructors and students have full access to Panopto.

Instructions on adding Panopto to a D2L course and embedding videos have been shared through DePaul's Teaching Commons.

"Packback has exceeded my expectations in every way. It’s intuitive for the students to use and it’s easy to peruse and participate in discussions…[and] hasn’t added to my workload, which I appreciate. What has surprised me the most are the quality of the questions the students are submitting. I’ve used LMS discussion boards but never with the level of success afforded by Packback."

DePaul has a new (and improved) way of accessing the U and W network drives remotely. Rather than using the limited Campus Connection interface, you can now use the new Webdrive portal. This works well on mobile devices. Webdrive can be accessed via:

https://webdrive.depaul.edu

My colleague Massimo Di Pierro has created a very useful tool for students and faculty at DePaul to find and research available courses at DePaul. The tool is:

DPU Smart Search

The tool scrapes public information from DePaul sites. Definitely worth checking out.

Inspired by St. Vincent de Paul's quote "what must be done?" the team behind TEDx DePaul University is seeking speakers and performers from the DePaul community that will challenge thoughts and inspire ideas through a series of engaging talks at the April 29th event. Do you have a big idea to share with the community?

You can apply online to speak at TEDx.

Although I am happiest using a MacBook, I was impressed by Microsoft's Surface Pro, and now use a Surface Pro 1 and 3 from time to time.

Microsoft recently announced a recall of Microsoft Surface power cords. Full details are here:

https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/warranty-service-and-recovery/powercord

If you are a fellow Surface Pro owner I would highly recommend that you check to see if you need the replacement power cord. Microsoft will send you one power cord free of charge (n0 pun intended).

Steve Kelly shared information about the Open Syllabus Project and Syllabus Explorer this week. The Syllabus Explorer takes more than 1,000,000 syllabi published on university websites and then attempts to work out the most frequently-taught books. Well worth taking a look.

Mark Tack, VP of Vibes Media, and Steve Kelly have been working with leading business practitioners to put together DePaul’s first course on Mobile Marketing. It’s being offered as a “Special Topics” cross listed for both graduates and undergraduates.

• What: MKT 398/798 Mobile Marketing, special topics
• When: Spring Quarter, Monday night, 6:00
• Where: DPC 7406
• Prerequisite: Open to all DePaul student

DePaul's Information Services sent out an email on Windows 10 availability this morning.

"Beginning January 13th, Windows 10 with Office 2016 will be available as a supported choice for new computer orders. For information about ordering a new computer, please contact Procurement Services or visit their website. DePaul's default configuration will continue to be Windows 7 with Office 2013, as used in the classroom and lab environments.

Please note that a self-service Windows 10 upgrade for your current computer is forthcoming, but not yet available.

IS recommends that customers considering Windows 10 verify that the software and peripherals currently in use will be supported on this new platform, or that alternatives are planned for. Initial compatibility testing performed by IS has shown few issues. As community adoption grows and relevant issues are discovered, this information will be shared via the Windows 10 webpage.

Information Services offers a variety of online and training resources to help faculty and staff learn about Windows 10 and Office 2016. Information about training resources and additional details about Windows 10 are available here."

I will be presenting an “Assessment in Online Learning” workshop January 13th and 26th. This will be part of the Assessment Certificate Program, “a workshop based training and support program for faculty and staff engaged in the assessment of student learning at DePaul University and Loyola University Chicago.”

You can download the handouts here. If I have updates, I will post them on the same page.

Presentation details:

DePaul University

• Date: January 13th, 2016
• Time: 10:00am to 11:30am
• Location: 11013 DePaul Center

Loyola University (Lake Shore Campus)

• Date: January 26th, 2016
• Time: 2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Location: 410 Cuneo Hall

We use Ooyala to stream video for our web-enhanced, hybrid, and online courses. Ooyala publishes a quarterly Global Video Index. The report provides some insight on how video and television is changing.

The report can be viewed here:

Ooyala has summarized some key trends:

• Tablet and smart phone video trends: Smartphone views made up 88% of mobile video views during the quarter, compared to just 12% for tablets.
• Engagement patterns by device: Despite mobile growth, consumers still trend toward larger screens for longer content.
• Long form video consumption: For content less than 10 minutes in length, mobile is still getting the lion’s share of time watched, at 69%. For content longer than 30 minutes, CTV’s share of time watched was 61%, almost doubling since Q1.
• Spotlight on Europe: - The U.K. and Ireland are far ahead of the global mobile curve - Programmatic Trading Update: As with the prior two quarters, programmatic trading is cementing its place as a norm, not an exception, in video advertising.
• Video ad trends: Tablets and smartphones made up nearly half (46%) of ad impressions across publishers, broadcasters and networks, combined, as PCs slid to 40% from 54% in Q1.

Cornell Lambert just shared a fix for anyone working with an unresponsive Windows Surface Pro 3 keyboard:

– shut down the tablet, and then hold the Power and the Up Volume buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds – the machine will power on and the keyboard should work!

• Date: Tuesday, January 12th
• Time: Noon - 1:00 p.m.
• Location: C101 on the Concourse level of the DePaul Center (1 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604)

Collaboratory

Innovation Through Collaboration

DePaul's Strategic Planning Task Force reunited last Friday, and Newsline has a great story on some of the discussion. I am very proud to be working with so many smart and generous people.

• Date: Tuesday, October 27th
• Time: 10-11 a.m.
• Location: C101 on the Concourse level of the DePaul Center (1 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604)

Collaboratory

Innovation Through Collaboration

• Communicate in advance to students the day in which evaluations will be conducted, in order to allow students to plan for access to a mobile device. Ideally this information should be contained in the course syllabus;
• Allow sufficient time to complete the evaluation;
• Leave the room while students are completing the evaluations, in order to protect anonymity;
• Encourage students without a mobile device to find a publicly available DePaul computer to complete the evaluations at the same time as their peers

D2L Integration for MyLab & Mastering

Next week, we have an exciting Technology Tuesdays session. Jason Wiedenhoeft and Dave Lee of Pearson will guest present:

Looking for an easy way to add enhanced content to your D2L courses? Pearson provides D2L integration giving institutions, instructors, and students easy access to MyLab and Mastering content. Using Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering Course Widget, our integration delivers streamlined access to customizable content, personalized study paths, responsive learning tools, and real-time evaluation and diagnostics in the D2L environment. D2L integration services give you easy access to MyLab and Mastering from your existing course and allows you to sync gradebook content. From a single course section to delivery across an entire institution, we offer the integration, support, and training you need.

DePaul University has been using iTunes U for several years now. We have used it in two ways:

1. Sharing public videos that anyone with an Internet connection can download.
2. Sharing private videos for individual classes at DePaul. Here, only registered students can access and download the videos. Campus Connection is used to update the list of registered students.

Procedure for Archiving your material with your PC/MAC:

• Windows environment: C:\Users\Your User Name\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\iTunes U
• OS X environment: /Users/Your User Name/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/iTunes U/

I am at the 31st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison this week. To my mind, this is the best conference that focusses on online learning (full disclosure: I am on the conference planning committee). On Thursday, I will be making an Information Session presentation (Building The MiniStudio: Efficient & Effective Online Video). A video presentation, materials, and hyperlinks can be found here.

• To provide continuing education on research methods and data analysis (introductory to advanced level topics) for graduate students, faculty at various stages of their careers, and professionals
• To serve as a resource for those who teach research methods and data analysis
• To foster a sense of community among organizational scholars in research methods

I am going to be at the 31st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning (11th - 13th August, 2015) this year. DEPD Director Les Howles has some great tips for presenters, highlighting do's and don'ts. This is based upon feedback from conference attendees, and is well worth watching and reading.

The handout has 10 things that a successful presenter should do, and 10 things a successful presenter should not do. Ultimately, your presentation should should provide lots of practical tips and advice.

If you have not done so already, you can register for the conference here:

https://dtlconference.wisc.edu/

(Full disclosure: I am on the 2013-2015 Planning Committee for the conference)

Software Secure will be releasing RPNow Version 2.0 (Remote Proctor Now) on Wednesday, July 22nd.

Version 2 includes these updates:

1. A new recording and video upload process: The software will “Store-and-forward” the video records on the student’s local machine. The files will be uploaded while the user is in the exam, and a pop-up will occur after the software is closed if more time is needed to complete the upload of the video. This method is more robust and allows the option to lower the bandwidth requirement for the system check allowing access to RPNow for users that may not have been able to in the past.
2. PC Only: The Browser rendering engine Internet Explorer has been replaced with a “chrome” based version. Chrome isn’t required to be installed on the PC. This will eliminate Software Secure's dependency on what is preinstalled on the user’s computer and eliminate rendering issues that are becoming more common due to updates to exam delivery systems.
3. The interview process had been updated with a more modern look and feel. A “Room Scan” review step has been included which now provides end-users/students a review of their Room Scan video before progressing onto other steps.
4. MAC Only: Updated with the new interview process explained in number 3 above.
5. Windows 10 support. The current version doesn’t support Windows 10.

Paul Bodine sent me some information on research he had conducted on creating a lightboard. This tool can be used to teach using the equivalent of a whiteboard without looking away from students (or a camera). As Paul says, it turns out that building a glowing clear marker board is very simple and inexpensive:

1. Dry-Erase Neon Markers
2. Thick Sheet of Plexiglas
3. Frame Around it with LED Light Strips Set Into the Pocket
4. Hang from the ceiling/wall bracket
5. Plug lights in

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Adm2raocQZ4
• http://tlt.psu.edu/2015/03/11/lightboard-integrates-with-one-button-studio-to-enable-more-engaging-teaching-videos/
• http://www.visualnews.com/2013/11/22/flip-teaching-professor-builds-crystal-clear-whiteboard-can-face-students/

For those that need to digitize 35mm colour negatives and photographs, the Library’s Digital Services Department has the equipment and offers the service to faculty.

There is a form that faculty member must complete:

http://library.depaul.edu/services/Documents/Digital_Image_Request_Form_2.pdf

Materials would need to be delivered to the Richardson Library in room 209.

FITS sent out this email reminder to faculty:

Just a reminder, to make your experience using D2L the best it can be, to help with system performance, and to comply with records retention policies, the University will be implementing a process to remove older course material from D2L. Once materials are removed from D2L they will no longer be available for retrieval.

Beginning July 1, 2015, Information Services will begin removing courses from the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 academic years.

Faculty wishing to retain a personal copy of materials found in these courses are able to export them to an archive file which can be stored locally on a flash drive, U: or W: drive or other external storage device. These archived courses can be later imported back into D2L or another Learning Management System. No student data (grades, submitted work, etc) will be retained when courses are exported.

For directions on how to export a course see the section on Exporting Course Components to a File in the following quickguide. If you need assistance with this process, please contact fits@depaul.edu.

All exports will need to be completed by June 30, 2015. IMPORTANT: once materials have been removed from the system, we will be unable to retrieve them.

If you have any questions, please contact lmsadmin@depaul.edu

ASK Networking Breakfast: Embracing Change

Using Google Translate, I can see that SEM-Logistics and Christian Oihenart have released a version of OpenBoard that works on OS X Yosemite (although there is apparently a small bug in the display of the dock).

I have installed OpenBoard on a test machine, and so far it works perfectly. OpenBoard will import Open-Sankoré documents, and looks near identical to Open-Sankoré. If you do not want to roll back to an earlier versions of OS X (or cannot), then OpenBoard is for you.

GianMario Besana (DePaul's Associate Provost for Global Engagement and Online Learning) shared an interesting PDF this morning. The report is "Preparing for the Digital University" and comes out of LINK Research Lab. Worthy of a detailed read.

Update
Also worth looking at "MOOC Completion and Retention in the Context of Student Intent" (from EDUCAUSE)

The Kellstadt Marketing Group will be hosting their 2015 Marketing Symposium on Saturday, May 9th. I highly recommend that marketing students attend.

Title: Marketing Refresh: Redesigning Your Strategy
Location: DePaul Center | Loop Campus | Room 8005

Overview: The world of marketing is ever changing and it is imperative that as marketers we are able to adapt. This year’s symposium will highlight the key successes and strategies from companies who have been able to maintain their place in the market by rejuvenating their marketing strategy. Our esteemed speakers will give insight to how they were able to give a makeover to traditional marketing campaigns.

More information can be found here.

Google Chrome has recently dropped support for Microsoft Silverlight. The impact of this development is that Chrome can no longer be used to view webcam/desktop videos on our admin site. The behavior that you’ll see is that you’ll be promoted to install Silverlight repeatedly because Chrome will no longer recognize that it’s installed. If you run into this issue, the only solution currently available is to use a browser other than Chrome (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc. on PC or Safari, Firefox, etc. on MAC).

(Reposting from Newsline)

DePaul faculty, staff and students are invited to test their innovation and app-building skills at the 2015 INTXHACK Challenge. Held in conjunction with INTX: The Internet and Television Expo, the INTXHACK Challenge is a 24-hour hackathon that challenges developers to create apps from scratch using the latest tools, data and content for a chance to win up to $10,000.

The event takes place May 2-3 at 1871, Chicago's hub for digital start-up companies. The event's top teams will advance to the INTXHACK Finals May 5-7, where they will compete to win an additional $15,000 and other prizes. Finalists also will be featured in an INTX showcase, gaining the opportunity to share their ideas with industry executives and experts.

Faculty and staff are encouraged to share information about the event with students. If you would like to participate, register yourself or your team now by signing up here to enter as a tech entrepreneur or developer. If you would like to support INTXHACK by providing tools, data or content, contact intxhack@ncta.com.

Coleman Connections Earth Day with Food Entrepreneurs takes place on April 22, 4-5:30pm. This event features leading entrepreneurial startups and small businesses in the "green" food industry.

Panelists include:

• Paul Hardej, VP of Production and Development at FarmedHere
• Eloise Karlatiras, CEO & President of The Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition
• Dave Rand, COO and Co-founder of Local Foods
• Linda Mallers, Founder & CEO of FarmLogix, LLC

I receive the occasional question about how best to use Skype in the classroom to bring in guest speakers. My recommendation at the moment is to use the Portable Apps version of Skype on a USB drive, along with a USB webcam. Each classroom PC has two spare USB ports to use

Here is what I would suggest:

• Download Portable Apps Skype to a USB drive (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/skype_portable) (drive needs to be formatted for Windows)
• Use the Logitech Webcam C920 - you can pick this up from Amazon quite cheaply
• Position the webcam to face your students with a desktop tripod. My recommendation is the Pedco UltraPod II Lightweight Camera Tripod

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center has launched its Spring Quarter events. You can find out more here.

Josh Lund will be presenting at the next Tech Tuesday on Demystifying D2L’s Quizzes.

Still stuck giving paper quizzes and exams? Wish there was an easier, or better, way to assess your students? This workshop is an in-depth exploration of Desire2Learn’s Quizzes tool. Topics covered will include:

• The different question types available in a D2L quiz- which to use and which NOT to use
• Creating randomized and scrambled test questions and test banks to automatically give each student a different exam
• Setting quiz parameters such as availability and time limits
• Using publisher content- importing test banks and making your text do the work for you
• Converting paper exams into D2L-formatted quizzes quickly
• Where to get help when you’re stuck

• Date: Tuesday March 31
• Time: 10-11 a.m.
• Location: Lewis 1266

• Onsite Apple-certified diagnostic testing and troubleshooting for OS X devices
• Support for any Desktop or Laptop under a current AppleCare warranty agreement with an OS X operating system
• Faster repair/replacement service on defective original hardware
• Replacement of faulty Hard Drives, Memory, Keyboards, Trackpads, Mice, Displays, and more

Tomorrow's Tech Tuesday focuses on i>Clickers

The i>Clicker is a student response system, which can be used to involve students in class activities, assess student learning, or register votes in a departmental meeting. DePaul has used and supported i>Clickers for many years, but you may not be aware of the significant changes and improvements. The new i>Clicker system supports both traditional remotes as well as smartphone clickers.

Glenn Garrett (i>Clicker Specialist from Macmillan Science and Education) will demonstrate how easy it is to use clickers in the classroom, as well as exciting changes in the near future.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP here:

Date: Tuesday February 24th
Time: 10-11 a.m.
Location: Executive boardroom DPC 5800 (5th floor of the DePaul Center)

The Call for Proposals is now open for the Distance Teaching & Learning Conference that takes place Madison, Wisconsin from August 11-13, 2015.

The deadline to submit your Call for Proposal is: Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4pm CST

The Distance Teaching & Learning Conference welcomes hundreds of distance education and online learning professionals every year to share effective practices, research, strategies, and new tools/techniques.

• Share your data on established practices
• Present a hot new topic in distance learning
• Have your results published in the proceedings publication
• Network with experts from around the world

Over the weekend, I was contacted by Yuriy, the CTO for Icecream Apps. Icecream Apps is a new team of developers that publish freeware (free software) for Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X.

The current lineup of software includes:

• PDF Converter
• Media Converter
• eBook Reader
• PDF Split & Merge
• Screen Recorder
• Image Resizer
• Slideshow Maker

If using Open-Sankoré, don't update to OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The Open-Sankoré website does not post this prominently, but Open-Sankoré will not run on Yosemite. According to the Open-Sankoré Facebook page, Open-Sankoré will be updated in late November and should work again. The Facebook message reads as follows:

Unfortunately we know this problem for a few weeks with the beta version. Apple changed several important elements that prevents QT to work correctly in Yosemite. We will work to correct this problem as soon as possible (probably late November). Thank you for your patience.

Update

OpenBoard is an alternative to Open-Sankoré that works perfectly on OS X Yosemite. You can read more here.

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff,Information Services is pleased to announce several new software and service offerings which are now available to the DePaul community: Free MS Office for students, access to the Eduroam wireless network, unlimited access to Lynda.com, and software upgrades to Office 2013 and the Adobe Creative Cloud Software Suite.

“One of the barriers to faculty acceptance of online teaching and learning is a concern about cheating and the quality of the learning experience. This paper reports the findings of a descriptive survey focused on the students’ definition of cheating in the online learn- ing environment.”

• Log into the portal for Lynda: https://login.depaul.edu/ldap/login?service=https://www.lynda.com/portal/depaulu
• Find the course you want to share and click on it, then click the Share button at the top

• Click the Link Button

• Copy the DePaul Link

• Paste the link into D2L

Lynda.com, an online training video library is now available for free to all DePaul students, faculty, and staff.

Training topics include:

• Microsoft Office
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Mac & Windows
• Web design
• Social media
• Databases
• SPSS
• Photography
• Audio & Video

Professor Registration for the Google Online Marketing Challenge is open, and professors can register for the Challenge any time from October 8, 2014 to April 8, 2015.

Student registration will open on October 15th.
Changes for 2015 include:

• Academics will need to have a Google account to sign up and will still need to provide a university email for verification purposes
• Students will need two separate Google accounts, one to manage the Student Dashboard and one (a new account) to manage AdWords campaign
• Academics will also gain access to a new GOMC Professor Dashboard - which will provide them with an overview of the progress of their teams

Apple has recently noted that it expects to release its newest operating system (OS), MAC 10.10 (or Yosemite), on October 21st, 2014.

For some College of Business online courses, students are using Software Secure’s Remote Proctor Now service for online midterm and final exams.

Currently, Remote Proctor Now developers are reviewing this update to ensure they can support the new OS as quickly after the release as possible. Students using RP Now should not attempt to use or upgrade to MAC 10.10 until Software Secure has confirmed compatibility.

More information will be made available within the next several weeks, and posted here.

Maddy Bentley from MediaCore contacted me recently. She had seen my iPad Lecture Capture video, and wanted to share her video “how to capture presentations and screencasts on iPad.”

Maddy provides a demonstration on how to use Doodlecast Pro, along with suggesting some alternative apps.

MediaCore has Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) - so this is a video platform that would work with Desire2Learn, our LMS here at DePaul.

• Pearson MyLabs and Mastering
• Browse their catalog
• See their results

BlueStar is the new system at DePaul that allows faculty to share feedback with students and their advisors.



Information on use can be found on Teaching Commons.

Information Services recently shared information on upcoming technology updates and offerings. I think this is worth repeating here:

Information Services is pleased to remind you that when you come back on campus for the fall quarter, our labs and classrooms will be upgraded with Office 2013 and the Adobe Creative Cloud software suite. Macintosh computers in the classroom and lab environments will remain with Office 2011 for Mac, but will receive the same Adobe Creative Cloud software upgrades as the Windows computers.

The Office 2013 suite will include the 2013 editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, OneNote, Visio, Project, and Publisher. This upgrade will bring some new features in Office 2013 which you can read about here http://go.depaul.edu/office2013.

The Adobe Creative Cloud upgrade will bring us the latest edition of popular Adobe software titles. Some of the included titles are: Adobe Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver, Audition, Fireworks, Illustrator, InDesign and Lightroom. This upgrade brings continued enhancements to this collection of graphic design, video editing, web design and photography tools. For more information regarding the Adobe applications, please visit http://tv.adobe.com.

We have also updated courseware offerings in the labs and classrooms. To find out which software versions will be available in the labs and classrooms, please visit http://software.depaul.edu.

Additionally, Information Services is pleased to announce that Lynda Campus is now available for all DePaul faculty, staff and students. Lynda Campus provides unlimited access to a vast online library of instructional videos covering the latest software, creative, and business skills. Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, social media, web design, animation, photography, audio and video production, project management, and a wide range of other topics are covered. With Lynda campus, you can watch full courses or small segments of courses at your own pace. For more information about Lynda Campus please visit http://software.depaul.edu/training.

If you have any questions, need help, or would like additional information on these upgrades, please feel free to contact softwarerequest@depaul.edu.

Some good news for faculty and staff interested in the Windows Surface Pro - this is now a university supported option, and can be purchased via Procurement (Natalie Max would be the best contact). The Windows Surface Pro 3 has a larger screen than the previous 1 and 2, making it a much more usable device for teaching and presenting. This is a device that I think is worthy of consideration - the stylus allows faculty to annotate material on the screen (great with Open-Sankoré and screencasting).

Cost for a Core i5 with 8GB RAM, typecover, ethernet adapter, service plan and Computrace is in the region of $1,557.00. A similar i7 (faster) would be in the region of $2,187.00

I am presenting an Information Session (iPad Lecture Capture: Information Session I-3) at the 30th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. The presentation will take place on Wednesday 13th August from 10:30-11:15 a.m. This will be part of the Technology,Tools, and Media track.

The presentation notes, hyperlinks, and PDF can be accessed here.

Desire2Learn (our Learning Management System provider) has a useful page (Solution Showcase) that lists the various solutions and vendors that work with D2L. Solution Showcase contains videos, resources, and more.

Josh Lund of FITS has uncovered an issue with a class using the Blackboard Collaborate tool (Online Rooms) in D2L.

One of his instructors reported to him that although he was advancing through his slides while talking, the students were only seeing the first slide. The only thing he said was different from previous sessions was that a red border appeared around his slide and was there for the whole session.

Josh did some digging, and it looks like the Follow option was de-selected. When you load slides into the Main Room to show to the class, it opens a popup “Page Explorer” window. You can use this window or close it and use the forward or back arrow keys to navigate, normally. However, in that popup window there is a checkbox marked Follow. Normally this is checked by default, but must have been unchecked accidentally. The documentation he has seen says that the red border is an indication to students that they can freely browse slides (which of course neither they nor the instructor knew at the time). So the instructor was going through his slides as he talked, but of course since the Follow option was off, he was only looking at his own copy and it was not synced to the student view.

The power of a checkbox...

3D Printing is the process of creating a solid object from a digital model. With the right equipment and designs, you can print virtually anything. The technology has been around since the 1980s, but in recent years the price of a 3D printer has dropped dramatically. Consumer units can be purchased for as little as $3,000. These printers are affordable, personal fabrication tools, compact enough to sit on any desktop, and can allow anyone at any skill level to become producers, inventors and artists.

3D printers, in an academic setting, could allow students to participate in project-based learning that is experiential in nature with real-world applications. 3D printing engages students in the world around them, kindles a curiosity about how machines work, how objects fit together, and how the designers, architects, and inventors who build the products, spaces and technology in their lives have found solutions to a variety of design problems.

Mike Pritchard, Enterprise Account Executive at MakerBot, will demonstrate 3D printing, how Innovation Centers are transforming education, how 3D printing turbocharges rapid prototyping, and answer your questions.


MakerBot Industries is a Brooklyn, New York-based company founded in January 2009 producing 3D printers. They have distributed about 45, 000 3D printers worldwide.

To register, please visit the Technology Tuesdays page.

The session will take place in DPC 5800 (Executive Boardroom) on July 29, 2014 from 10-11AM.

I will be at the 30th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning being held August 12-14 in Madison, Wisconsin. Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this event is a great place to hear leading experts and share best practices with colleagues from around the world in the field of online education and training. Plus, Madison is a beautiful place to visit in the summer. If you’re not familiar with this event, and want to find out more, I encourage you to visit their website at www.uwex.edu/disted/conference. Hope to see you there.

Twitter hashtag for the event is UWdtl14

Josh Lund (FITS) came across an interesting product at the NMC conference recently. The Swivl is an iPhone/iPad/camera base that sits on a table or mounts to a tripod, and then enables you to use your mobile device to record video. The recording can combine slides from your computer with the camera feed. The camera follows the remote control, so you can walk around the room doing a presentation and stay in frame.

The company offers a free 30-day demo, so this is something Josh and I will be taking a closer look at.

The DePaul University Library will be migrating the Library's Web site to the SharePoint platform this summer, with an expected launch on August 28, after the end of the summer session. Most major library systems will continue to operate unchanged as will the structure of our site during this migration, so if you are familiar with how our current site is organized, you will find the new one similar in almost every respect.

The Library wants faculty to be especially aware that our URLs will change when we migrate, so with the exception of the Library Homepage, all other URLs beginning with library.depaul.edu/ will need to be updated in your course materials and D2L.

Starting July 25th, the Library will make the new Web site available to faculty and students at special locations in the Richardson and Loop Campus libraries. More information on the specifics will be communicated closer to that time. Please contact the Library's Coordinator for Web Services, M Ryan Hess, if you have any questions.

• Import of a MyLab course should be done before students are enrolled in the MyLab.
• Once the course is integrated with the D2L course, students who are enrolled in the D2L course will then be prompted for an access code the first time they click on a MyLab link in the D2L course.
• Once they register their access code, they will have single sign on access to the MyLab resources from within the D2L course.

Kate Daniels of FITS shared this piece of research (An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning) that makes five assertions about synchronous learning:

1. Synchronous meetings are biased against certain time zones.
2. Synchronous meetings are culturally unaware.
3. Synchronous meetings are biased against families and busy people.
4. Synchronous meetings that involve audiovisuals are elitist.
5. Synchronous meetings rely heavily on linguistic capital.

Over the next ten or so weeks, the Career Center and related areas will be executing a digital and social engagement initiative geared toward students who are set to graduate in 2014 (Handbook for Surviving the Gradpocalypse). At the heart of the campaign is a micro-website and blog:

http://survivethegradpocalypse.org

DePaul students, faculty and staff will be tweeting with the hashtag #Gradpocalypse.

Students (and other interested parties) can sign-up to join the site by text message:

Text SURVIVE to +1 312-756-7274 to join.

DePaul’s Information Services has sent out this message to all (still) running Windows XP:

Thank you for all your assistance coordinating the removal of Windows XP computers from your department. We have finally come to the end of the road. As previously communicated, it is critical that all University workstations are moved off the Windows XP operating system by April 1, 2014. While we have been encouraging everyone to migrate any capable workstations to the Windows 7 operating system, and replace older computers that are not capable of running Windows 7, there seem to be some Windows XP workstations scattered about. This email describes how we will be disabling their use in order to protect the DePaul computing environment.

On Tuesday, April 1st, Internet access will be restricted on remaining XP workstations and users will only be able to access the Windows 7 migration tool and the U & W network drives from these workstations. The desktop backgrounds will be updated to a bright yellow on April 1st to further notify users of these restrictions.

On Monday, April 7th, any computer still running Windows XP will no longer be allowed access to the DePaul network or accept logins. If a user needs data off an XP workstation after this date, they will be advised to contact the TSC for support. Users will be required to provide their own local storage media such as a thumb drive or portable hard drive. Once this requirement has been met, a technician can be deployed to allow the user access to the computer in order to copy data from the computer to the portable media. After this point, the machine should be sent to Procurement Services for salvage

To determine if a workstation or laptop is capable of running Windows 7, or to schedule an upgrade to Windows 7 on any of the 'capable' workstations above, please log into the specific Windows XP workstation in question as an administrative user, and visit http://offices.depaul.edu/is/services/computers/Pages/Windows-7-Migration-Registration.aspx (Note that you can also access this resource by going to the main IS web site (http://offices.depaul.edu/is) and clicking "Services"->"Computers"->Windows 7 (Under Operating System Support).) This tool will assist you in scheduling a memory upgrade (if needed), a Windows XP to Windows 7 migration (if capable), or identify that the workstation cannot be upgraded and will need to be retired or replaced.

If you have any questions about this process, please contact the Technical Support Center at +1 (312) 362-8765.

I received two separate faculty enquires about Tableau use at DePaul this week, so thought I would share information for other faculty interested in teaching with the software. Thank you to my colleagues in Information Services for providing additional information.

Faculty can apply for the Tableau for Teaching program here:

http://www.tableausoftware.com/academic/teaching

When accepted, faculty and students have access to the software

Full-time students can get a student license by applying here:

http://www.tableausoftware.com/academic/students

As far as enterprise arrangements, there are report reader licenses and report writer licenses. Our Tableau enterprise report reader license for DePaul allows everyone working here to view Tableau reports that are published privately for DePaul. Report writer licenses can be had on a named user basis in the region of $1,500 each.

Tableau public is a free version of the report writer license, but it comes with a couple caveats like limitations to the number of rows of data it will handle, and any reports you publish, and any data they contain become public domain and freely available on the Tableau website.

I had a pleasant conversation with Conor Noonan from BlikBook this morning. BlikBook positions itself as “an online platform helping lecturers manage workload and improve student engagement.” Essentially it is a discussion area that can be used by students and academics. It is free to use.

We use Desire2Learn, Blackboard Collaborate (known internally as “Online Rooms”) and Scopia extensively within the College of Business, so there is little impetus to use another platform for discussion and collaboration unless the new platform has these two features:

1. Improved ease of use
2. Full integration with the Desire2Learn gradebook

• Increased participation
• Anonymous posting
• “Ownership” (i.e. engagement)

After April 8th 2014, support for Windows XP and MAC 10.6.x. in Remote Proctor Now will be terminated.

On April 8th 2014, anyone running XP or MAC 10.6, and attempting to take an exam using RPNOW, will receive a message indicating that they detected they are running one of these unsupported operating systems. It will also state that they are welcome to continue using the unsupported Operating System with the understanding that there is no support. If in the case the product doesn’t work, they will then have to either upgrade their operating system or use another computer.

Mike Pritchard, Enterprise Account Executive at MakerBot, is coming to DePaul on April 29th to demonstrate 3D Printing. Over the weekend, Mike sent me a photo he took at the University of Illinois MakerLab. The MakerLab is part of the business school, but also services many different departments.

Worth taking a deeper look:

http://makerlab.illinois.edu/

Dan Heiser shared this AACSB International post with me (Business Faculty in the Land of the MOOCS). Although the post is from December of 2013, it is worth a read....

The complete article is here.

Earlier today I received an email asking about TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology - one of the university committees I participate in). In a typically lazy move I Googled for a page on the Web that I could share. Unfortunately the top result was one of my earlier blog posts about TLT (with out-of-date information).

So, to help fix things, here is updated (2014) information on TLT:

To provide a forum for faculty, academic support staff, and Academic Affairs/Information Services representatives to evaluate the current functioning of course based and research technologies as well as to recommend the adoption and funding of new or expanded technology solutions in direct support of the academic enterprise and Vision twenty18.

• All such proposed technology policies and procedures affecting faculty and directly impacting the academic enterprise are sent by the committee to faculty council for review and approval. All other university-wide technology policies and procedure proposals are submitted by IS to the university’s policy and procedures approval process.
• Specific recommendations for prioritization of teaching-and-learning-related technology projects are made by the committee and sent to IS/Academic Affairs or other appropriate units.
• Specific recommendations for project funding are forwarded by the committee to Academic Affairs, IS, or other appropriate funding authorities.
• The committee shall be informed of policy and procedures, project prioritization, and funding decisions.

• Bob McCormick (Co-Chair)
• Corin Pitcher (Co-Chair)

Ovetta Sampson wore a great piece on Online Learning (Ten Ways to Spice Up Online Teaching) for the Driehaus Dispatch. The article is worth reading in detail, but the ten takeaways are:

1. Seek expert resources.
2. Connect to D.O.T.S.
3. Be prepared.
4. Create a presence online.
5. Assess student learning.
6. Allow students to get to know you and other students.
7. Get student feedback.
8. Create narrative structure for the students.
9. Do not overload students.
10. Do it because you love it.

General Summary:

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, record, edit and produce video material for online, hybrid and web-enhanced courses.
• Manage all Driehaus College of Business video content and assets.
• Create Driehaus College of Business reusable learning objects, and record selected events.
• Edit, update and produce multimedia materials and learning objects.
• Consult on best use of DePaul video technologies, multimedia materials and learning objects.
• Showcase and market DePaul courses through electronic means and public events.
• Future duties may require supervision of student workers and graduate assistants.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• College degree.
• Video production expertise.
• 5+ years of editing experience with Apple Final Cut Pro HD.
• 5+ years of technical production.
• Computer literate, with knowledge of video editing software, audio mixing, streaming technologies, HTML, and Adobe Photoshop.
• Skilled in lighting production, stage management and field production techniques and standards.
• Skilled in visualizing and shooting concepts effectively.
• Skilled in video pedagogy.
• Ability to work some evenings or weekends.
• Ability to periodically spend extended periods of time standing during filming.
• Ability to move camera and lighting equipment in the studio and out in the field.

Preferred Requirements:

• Business degree.
• Experience in online course design.

3D Printing is the process of creating a solid object from a digital model. With the right equipment and designs, you can print virtually anything. The technology has been around since the 1980s, but in recent years the price of a 3D printer has dropped dramatically. Consumer units can be purchased for as little as $3,000.  These printers are affordable, personal fabrication tools, compact enough to sit on any desktop, and can allow anyone at any skill level to become producers, inventors and artists.

3D printers, in an academic setting, could allow students to participate in project-based learning that is experiential in nature with real-world applications. 3D printing engages students in the world around them, kindles a curiosity about how machines work, how objects fit together, and how the designers, architects, and inventors who build the products, spaces and technology in their lives have found solutions to a variety of design problems.

Mike Pritchard, Enterprise Account Executive at MakerBot, will demonstrate 3D printing, how Innovation Centers are transforming education, how 3D printing turbocharges rapid prototyping, and answer your questions.

MakerBot Industries is a Brooklyn, New York-based company founded in January 2009 producing 3D printers. They have distributed about 45, 000 3D printers worldwide.

3D Printing in the news:

• CNN Heart Surgery


• Robohand Prosthetic


• First 3D Printed Hybrid Robotic Exoskeleton Helps Paraplegic Woman Walk Again


• Will 3D Printing Upend Fashion Like Napster Crippled the Music Industry?
  
  

Next week the offices of the Career Center, Financial Fitness, and Alumni Sharing Knowledge will be focusing their efforts to provide extra service to students who frequent the Lincoln Park Campus as LAS-inclined major:

Career Center Pit Stop
SAC 1st floor Pit - 3/10/2014 - 10:00 am
Do you have a question about your resume? Need assistance with a cover letter? Want tips for getting using your DePaul.Experience account? Drop by the Career Center Pit-Stop! Come get drop-in career advising, resume & cover letter reviews, assistance applying for jobs and navigating DePaul.Experience. No sign up necessary! http://careercenter.depaul.edu/lifeafterlpc/ | #lifeafterLPC

Get career advising, resume & cover letter reviews, assistance applying for jobs! http://bit.ly/lifeafterlpc #lifeafterLPC

Freelance 101 Workshop
Lincoln Park Student Center, room 315 - 3/11/2014 - 1:30 pm
Have you ever wanted to be your own boss, or perhaps get paid part-time so that you have the freedom to do what you want and for who you want? This workshop will help you understand the ideas and nuances behind freelancing as it is not for everyone, and definitely not easy, but the rewards can be wonderful. In this workshop you will contemplate how individual values/skills match those of success freelancers, learn about resources to find opportunities, the basics on how to budget your finances, and to hear from a couple of successful freelancers on how they got started. http://bit.ly/lifeafterlpc | #lifeafterLPC

Want to be your own boss? It isn’t easy. Here’s some help: “Freelance 101 Workshop” http://bit.ly/lifeafterlpc #lifeafterLPC

The Real World Isn't Sorted by Major
Lincoln Park, SAC 151 - 3/14/2014 - 11:00 am
Writing papers on your favorite topics, following a list of prerequisites -- if only life after college were that simple! Unfortunately, the vocational paths we take after leaving our comfortable college bubble are rarely as straightforward. In fact, you may find that many of the jobs that you're considering after college to be loosely, or not at all, connected to the subject matter of what you've been studying. If the "real world" is not sorted by major, then how do we bridge the gap between "the final playpen" and the world of work? Join the Career Center for a discussion about your major, life beyond college, and how to apply your skills in areas you might not have considered.  http://bit.ly/lifeafterlpc #lifeafterLPC

Let's talk about your major, #lifeafterLPC, & how to apply your skills in areas you might not have considered: http://bit.ly/lifeafterlpc 

Is Grad School Right for Me?
Lincoln Park, SAC 151 - 3/14/2014 - 1:00 pm
Designed for students who are contemplating applying to graduate school, this workshop will help you decide whether graduate school is the right option for you. Learn about the application process, the financial decisions you will have to make, and resources available to help you choose and evaluate potential graduate and professional school programs.  http://bit.ly/lifeafterlpc #lifeafterLPC

5 Tips for Financing Graduate School
SAC 151 - 3/14/2014 - 2:00 pm
Are you considering graduate school but not quite sure how you will fund it? Topics will include calculating total costs, basics on various funding options including loans, grants and scholarships and a method to determine if you are borrowing wisely. #financialfitness *Life After LPC Week offers a series of career-related activities and seminars specifically designed for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences majors, however all DePaul students and alumni are invited to attend. For more information on Life After LPC Week including a full list of events, please visit  http://bit.ly/lifeafterlpc #lifeafterLPC

If you have been at DePaul for any length of time, you know that we take pride in the fact that "the city is our classroom" and in the many academic programs that take advantage of the opportunities the city provides for teaching, learning, and research. The DePaul University Library has been a long-time partner to academic programs that, in the spirit of our strategic plan, aim "to deepen the university’s distinctive connection to the global city of Chicago." For example, many of you know that we contribute to the "Common Hour" instruction that takes place as part of first-year program’s "Chicago Quarter" courses (and are currently assessing the impact of that contribution as part of a research grant funded by the Association of College & Research Libraries). For classes conducting Chicago-centered research, librarians also provide specialized instruction and research consultations that promote more informed use of popular and scholarly sources documenting the life of the city. We also provide specialized service for those wishing to learn more about the city through our Chicago Collection and our Chicago Research Guide(s). We collect rare books, manuscripts, and other materials as part of our Chicago collections in the Department of Special Collections and Archives and are active partners in the Lincoln Park Community Research Initiative. Finally, and most recently, we have established active partnerships with colleagues at our nearest neighbor in the cultural heritage community as part of DePaul’s partnership with the Chicago History Museum.

Tom Maier and I attended the Adobe Seminar (Exploring Creative Cloud for Enterprise) this morning. At the event Tom and I asked:

1. Where can faculty, who may be intimidated by the Adobe resources for creative professionals, get documentation on how to use the Creative Cloud programs? i.e. Where can you get info on the fundamentals?
2. Where can faculty get and see examples of best practice in education using the Creative Cloud programs?

Josh Luttig, my colleague in Information Services, just shared these Adobe Creative Cloud resources with me:

• Adobe Education Exchange (free tutorials and professional development): http://edex.adobe.com
• Adobe TV (tons of free videos) http://tv.adobe.com
• More learning tutorials: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/learn/tutorials.html

• May 27, 2014
• September 30, 2014

• Date: March 25, 2014
• Time: 10-11 a.m.
• Location: Lewis 1266

• Date: February 25, 2014
• Time: 10-11 a.m.
• Location: DPC 5114 (Dean's Meeting Room)

1. Go http://D2L.depaul.edu
2. Click on the course you want to activate.
3. Click “Edit Course” on the far right side of the course navbar.
4. Click “Course Offering Information” under the “Site Setup” heading.
5. Check “Course is Active.”
6. Click “Save” at the bottom. Your course is now activated. Students will see your course listed in their “My Courses” widget when they log in to D2L.

• Faculty support via fits@depaul.edu
• D2L requests via http://www.itd.depaul.edu/lmsforms/allforms.aspx
• Online tutorials via http://teachingcommons.depaul.edu/Technology/d2l/index.html
• Workshops via http://fits.depaul.edu/workshops/Pages/default.aspx

Next week, I will be providing a Technology Tuesdays session on Google Glass:

Google Glass is a combination of wearable computing and Augmented Reality. It is a computing device worn like a pair of reading glasses, which provides optical and audio information to the user. Rather than having to get out a cellphone, you could instantly see directions, photos, emails, alerts, etc. in your immediate field of view. Google Glasses allow the wearer to take pictures and to record video. You can even videoconference with them, or chat on the ‘phone. Some privacy proponents believe that this device crosses a line, allowing the wearer to record video and audio surreptitiously, or use face-recognition apps to identify strangers.

In this hands-on session, discover what exactly Google Glass is, and potential uses within the classroom for both educators and students.

Next year, your students may be wearing Google Glasses to class…

• Date: February 25, 2014
• Time: 10-11 a.m.
• Location: Dean’s Conference Room (5114 DPC)

Currently we have an issue with the most recent version of Internet Explorer and Remote Proctor Now:

Secured exams taken with Remote Proctor Now on a Windows PC with Internet Explorer 11 installed on will not work. The option to “Go to Submit Quiz” is unclickable, and students will not be able to complete a secure exam.

Students using Mac OS X are unaffected by this issue.

Students using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.0 (but not Windows 8.1) will be able to take secure exams if they do not have Internet Explorer 11 installed. Earlier versions of Internet Explorer (such as Internet Explorer 9 or 10) should allow for successful completion of a secure exam.

There is a process to rollback/downgrade to an earlier version of Internet Explorer, described below.

Students using Windows 8.1 are unable to rollback/downgrade to an earlier version of Internet Explorer 11. The only solution is to use a different computer, with does not have Internet Explorer 11 installed.
We are working with Desire2Learn for a solution to the issue.

The process for uninstalling Internet Explorer 11 is as follows:

• Go to Windows Update > View updates and find the line for Internet Explorer 11 and uninstall from there. This requires a computer restart.
• After that, in order to prevent Internet Explorer from auto-updating, open IE10 and click on the gear in upper right corner of Internet Explorer and choose “About Internet Explorer” and uncheck "Install new versions automatically" and follow prompts.

I will be guest presenting on Social Media at the upcoming MBA Primer. The MBA Primer is a great DePaul program, that assembles a focussed series of topics taught by DePaul faculty (and folks like me). I enjoyed the session last year, and look forward to doing this again. Registration is open, and the message below should help you discover more.

I will be teaching on the 29th April (Naperville) and 1st May (Loop).

Register Today and Earn credit with DePaul’s MBA Primer Program or Entrepreneurship Primer Program DePaul University’s Management Development Center (MDC) offers a 15-week “mini-MBA” program that will keep you current in today’s changing business environment, enabling you to learn new business concepts and update management skills you already have for a fraction of the price of a traditional MBA program. The MBA Primer Certificate Program provides an overview of managerial theories and techniques, ideal for those looking to better understand business practices, update current skills or are contemplating enrollment in a traditional MBA or other graduate business program.

Taught by experienced industry professionals and faculty from DePaul’s prestigious Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, this program can also be applied as a credit waiver for one elective course if you continue with your MBA at DePaul University.

Register today. Classes begin March 11th in Naperville and March 13th in the Loop.

DePaul University is offering a 15-week Entrepreneurship Primer Certificate Program where individuals will gain a theoretical MBA foundation as well as practical, real-world skills to launch a business venture. The program is taught by DePaul faculty as well as experienced entrepreneurs, and is designed for leaders, corporate employees, and others with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Register today. Classes begin March 19th in the Loop.

For more information about MDC programs and offerings, please visit our website at cpe.depaul.edu/mdc or contact Eilish McDonagh at 312-362-5295. 

The Center for Black Diaspora will be screening "Stateless,“ a film by my colleague Scott Erlinder. The film will be followed by a discussion.

This is part of the year-long theme: "Migration and Citizenship: Issues and Debates.”

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:30 - 4:30 pm as part of the series, "Stateless" will be screened. Stateless is a film on Rwandan refugees and the United Nations Hight Commission for Refugees. The film has been given a case number (essentially a legal argument) by the UN and has now been accepted in 4 festivals - 2 of them international.

The event will be held on the Lincoln Park campus, in the Dorothy Day Room (400) John Richardson Library.

Update: Video is available online here.

My colleague Sanjay Deshmukh discovered that PaperShow, the extremely useful pen-based presentation tool that I have recommended here at DePaul and beyond, will no longer be supported here in the U.S. This means that the dot-paper and other supplies will soon no longer be available to purchase. It may be possible to import from Europe, though.

If this is a device you use, I would recommend stocking up on supplies. Unlike the Livescribe pens, it is not possible to print your own dot-paper.

There are alternatives to PaperShow, but none of them are a true match:

Wacom Cintiq

Windows Surface

Livescribe

iPad

• MAC OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Support ends as of April 8th, 2014 - New current supported versions will include: 10.7.x (Lion), 10.8.x (Mountain Lion), and 10.9.x (Maverick)
• Windows XP – Support ends as of April 8th, 2014 - New current supported versions will include: Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.0 & Windows 8.1

Do you want to improve your business skills in 2014? Are you thinking about getting your MBA? Enroll in DePaul’s MBA Primer this February!If you’re interested in continuing your education in the field of business, then DePaul’s Management Development Center offers courses to set you on the right track.The MBA Primer Certificate Program will enhance your managerial skills and give you a better understanding of the latest business theories and practices. Taught by industry experts, this 15-week program will give you an overview of the fundamentals taught in a traditional MBA program.Here’s what one of our students has to say: “DePaul University’s MBA Primer Program gave me a fresh perspective on the latest thinking in business. It was truly an investment worth making and has already paid dividends in helping me grow our business.” –National Business Manager, Waste Management Inc.The next program begins on February 4th at DePaul’s Naperville Campus and February 6th at the Loop Campus.Not sure if the MBA Primer Program is right for you? Why not come to our FREE MBA Primer Information Session on January 22nd from 5:30pm-6:30pm at the Loop Campus to learn more? Instructors and program staff will be there to answer your questions about the prerequisites and benefits of DePaul’s Primer programs.

FITS has this to say about emailing in the new Desire2Learn:

If you need to send an email to your class, please be sure to use the "Email Classlist" button located at the top of the Classlist page. This has replaced the "Email everyone on this tab" button that we had in the old D2L version. Please see the attached screenshot or these instructions: http://d2l.iddresources.org/pdf/Email%20Quickguide.pdf This is important because if you have your Classlist view set to 20 students per page and you try to check them all and click the "Email" button, the email will only go to the selected students on that page. So, any students beyond 20 will not be included in the email.It's also a good idea to add any important emails to students as News Items in your course: http://d2l.iddresources.org/pdf/News%20Quickguide.pdf

Desire2Learn was upgraded over Thanksgiving. Here is the update message from FITS:

As you log into your Intercession and Winter Quarter classes you will notice that D2L looks different. DePaul upgraded from D2L 9.4 to D2L 10.3 (a jump of 4 versions), so a lot is different, but be assured that all of your content is still there and your courses should function much as they always have. The D2L update does, however, bring a modernized, touch-friendly look and feel to D2L, a completely revamped Content tool, and often-requested feature updates to Discussions and Dropbox. Highlights of these new features can be found in this short video: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the D2L Upgrade (7:04). The print version of the The Hitchhiker's Guide is also available.For more information about the new features please see the newly revised print documentation (videos will be added soon) on the Teaching Commons website . Training sessions and open labs have been added throughout December and January for those that prefer attending a workshop. To register see: http://fits.depaul.edu/workshops/Pages/default.aspx

• Lightning Digital AV Adapter
• Lightning to VGA Adapter
• Apple 30-pin to VGA Adapter
• Apple 30-pin Digital AV Adapter

Daniel Stanford and Josh Lund of FITS recently shared an interesting resource with me. Moblab provides simulation-style games that can be freely used by College of Business faculty in their courses. Several of the games are designed to represent different economic forces and principles that can be hard to explain through traditional lectures.

• Dr. Richard Baraniuk, Rice University
• Sally Johnstone, Western Governors University

• Who: Professionals in distance education/training with any level of experience
• When: Aug 7-9, 2013
• Where: Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin
• Cost: $465 ($505 after 7/22). Group rates and virtual conference option available.

My colleague Doug Lee Miller is on the Advisory Board for Social Media Week in Chicago. This is a reminder to look out for some great events hosted at DePaul (and other venues). An agenda should be up soon...

Presentation Resources

Five Methods of iPad Lecture Capture

• Ask3
• Doceri
• Doodlecast Pro
• Educreations Interactive Whiteboard
• Explain Everything
• ScreenChomp
• ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

• AirServer
• Reflector

• VGA to HDMI
• HDMI to VGA
• Zoom H2

On Friday, Jan Gollins and I were presented with the 2013 Kellstadt Marketing Center Distinguished Professional Educator Awards For Excellence in Teaching. I love teaching for the Kellstadt Marketing Center, so the award means a great deal to me. I have learnt much from watching how others at DePaul teach, and if i do something well it is because I have had so many great people demonstrate what works well in the classroom. Congratulation Jan!

I had a quick look at LaunchPlan this Monday. The CEO and co-founder (Ray Di Nizo) was good enough to provide an overview of the functionality and purpose. The site operates as a collaborative environment in which students can work together to create a comprehensive business plan. The process is templated, with milestones and checklists. Much of this could be accomplished with tools like GoogleDocs, but there are some robust financial modeling functions that help students avoid tactical missteps in creating the plan.

LaunchPlan does not currently integrate with D2L, and I did not see an easy way to export grade information. With the right instructor this could be a powerful teaching tool – the critical element would be demonstrating to the students how LaunchPlan could facilitate collaboration. However, without that element students are likely to gravitate towards tools that they are currently comfortable with.

Cost is $60 per student.

Faculty interested in exploring can contact LaunchPlan for review access.

The company seemed to be very responsive to suggestions for improvement.

Update

Josh Lund and his colleagues in FITS have some useful advice for those of you using Online Classrooms (Blackboard Collaborate) in Desire2Learn:

When you are running an Online Classrooms session, there is a command to copy breakout whiteboards to the main room. This will bring them in as separate areas under the pull-down box that usually says "public room" in the upper righthand corner of your screen.

For example, you might create three rooms, and the participants each drew on the whiteboard. When copied them back in, they showed up in the menu as Room 1-1, Room 2-1 and Room 3-1. This also means that if they had created additional pages in the whiteboard, they would have been copied in as 2-2, 2-3, etc.

It may be that you have to copy the stuff back in before you close the rooms and bring participants back, so here's the order FITS suggests:

1. When participants are ready to return, copy the breakout whiteboards to the main room.
2. Then bring back the participants to the main room.
3. Finally, close the empty breakout rooms. You should have access to all the whiteboards now.

• Showing how an equation could be solved / Time Value of money / T-accounts, etc.
• Annotating an Excel spreadsheet
• Annotating a PowerPoint presentation
• Drawing lines of connection on top of a website, video, architectural plan, etc.
• Sketching the construction of a graph
• Annotating economic forecasts
• Constructing a project plan

• Wednesday, June 12, 2013 – Kaltura Education Video Summit
• Thursday, June 13, 2013 – Kaltura Enterprise video Summit

• Keynote, Dr. Richard Baraniuk, Rice University, speaking on “Disruptive innovation via open educational resources”
• Keynote, Dr. Sally Johnstone, Western Governors University, speaking on “Envisioning a competency-based future”
• Forum topics on “Open Educational Resources (OERs): Potential and pitfalls” and “Competency-based assessment: How and why to get started”

• how to download and use OpenOffice, the capable, reliable, free and fully legal alternative to expensive Microsoft Office available for both Macs and PCs
• how to capably use word processing for academic writing, including the insertion of footnotes/endnotes, images, charts, pagination and document-building as .pdf’s
• how to use a computer to digitally record and edit sound (such as lectures) using free Audacity software, and load it to a portable sound player to conveniently listen to it
• how to collect and present data relevant to decision making in chart form to foster and substantiate analysis, in the context of evaluating purchasing choices in laptop and tablet computers (which can aid in their practical preparation for college!)
• how to create and edit digital images and video using common modern devices such as smart cell phones and iPods, and editing images and video with legally free software
• an understanding and appreciation of computer ethics and safe, legal downloading
• how to access, navigate, and use Desire2Learn (although the course does not require it).

The Office of Student Involvement (OSI) has come up with the Photo of the Day for the month of May. DePaul students (and staff and faculty) may want to tag their tweets and Instagram pictures with #DPUPhoto.

The topics for each day in May are:

1. Involvement
2. Office of Student Involvement
3. Study
4. Service
5. Gadgets
6. Recycle
7. Leadership
8. Relaxation
9. T-shirt
10. Mentor/Professor
11. Food
12. Dibs
13. Quad
14. Blue Demon
15. Letter
16. Community
17. Ticket
18. Style
19. Red
20. Class
21. Swag
22. Blue
23. Sports
24. Smile
25. Commute
26. Culture
27. Chicago
28. Stress
28. Campus
30. Socially Responsible Leader
31. Vincentian

On Wednesday, April 24th, DePaul will be hosting the annual Major & Minor Fair. This is a great event which allows undergraduate students the opportunity to explore more than 100 major and minor options that we offer at DePaul.

You can RSVP here.

“For just $150, you’ll get transferable college credit in key general education subject areas such as: Intro to Programming, Intro to Psychology, Elementary Statistics, College Algebra.”

1. Assign students randomly to two groups (A and B), each of which has its own exam, and there is a different set of randomizing groups for each set of three exams.
2. I've used release conditions on the grade items, the quizzes and the link from content so that the students will only see the stuff they are supposed to see as a group member.
3. In order to make the weighting work in the gradebook, I have made a category for each exam that has the two A and B versions, set to drop the lowest grade.

Josh Lund was looking for a good permalink for an article, so he asked a librarian. They directed him to their brand new permalink tool, which adds in all the stuff to funnel it through EZProxy: http://libguides.depaul.edu/linktool

DePaul’s Division of Enrollment Management and Marketing has just published the 2012 Enrollment Summary booklet (as a PDF).

Online Benefits

• Flexible class structure to work into your personal weekly schedule


• Study at your own pace—any hour of the day, from any place in the world with Internet access.


• Opportunity to revisit material as much as you need for comprehensive learning


• Modular content, with video lectures, online quizzes, online exams, and rich discussion.


• Access to material 24 hours a day, 7 days a week


• Instructors available regularly for direct feedback and help with content

Courses are taught by top-ranked faculty with a commitment to teaching excellence and innovation. Faculty include former and current high-level working professionals from a network of accounting firms.

The MSA degree requires the completion of 15 courses. Students who have not already taken introductory accounting at the undergraduate level are also expected to complete ACC 500 Financial Accounting.

11 Accountancy courses

• ACC 541 Financial Accounting Theory & Practice I


• ACC 542 Cost and Managerial Accounting I


• ACC 543 Financial Accounting Theory & Practice II


• ACC 545 Advanced Topics in Accounting Theory


• ACC 547 Audit and Regulation of Corporate Financial Planning


• ACC 548 Tax Treatment of Individuals and Property Transactions


• ACC 550 Advanced Topics in Auditing


• ACC 551 Tax Treatment of Corporations and Partnerships


• ACC 552 Legal and Ethical Environment of Accounting Practice


• ACC 640 Accounting Theory and Policy Formulation


• Accountancy or Business Elective

4 Management Core courses

• ECO 501 Concepts of Micro and Macro Economics


• FIN 555 Financial Management


• GSB 420 Applied Quantitative Analysis


• ACC 535 Accounting Systems

Course Schedule