This is no more of an infringement than taking a register at the
beginning of a lecture as required by some LEAs. How are you supposed to
conform to the duty of care that you have to ensure that the students
are able to use the materials, the responsibility of maintaining quality
throughout the course (good old QAA), and ensuring you hit your learning
outcomes on an electronically delivered system?
You get this every year, some student gets an idea in their heads that
the University is "Big Brother" and is monitoring their every action -
social scientist by any chance?
Raise this with your Registrar and get a ruling if you're worried.
Tim Bentley
Senior Computer Officer
Maria-Christiana Papaefthimiou wrote:
> A student has raised with us the point that our being able to see who in
> teaching group has accessed a module-dedicated blackboard site is an
> infringement of personal freedom etc.
>
> Has anyone a view on this?
>
> Maria
> --
> Maria-Christiana Papaefthimiou
> Learning Technology Officer
> Centre for the Development of Teaching and Learning
> Room 3, HASS
> University of Reading
>
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> Fax: 0118 931 6248
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MLE Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kylie Baxter
> Sent: 07 May 2002 11:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: POWERPOINT and Blackboard (or intranet)
>
>
> At 13:03 26/04/2002 +0100, Andy Ramsden wrote:>Secondly, does anybody
> know of any alternative methods of reducing the
>
>>size of powerpoint file for distribution through Blackboard? It appears
>
>
>>that some academics do like to develop large powerpoint presentations
>>to support their lectures.
>
>
> Switch to a monochrome colour scheme? Huge sizes are often because
> lecturers use the high-colour, high-bandwith templates that come with
> PowerPoint. It's pretty easy to switch colour schemes and produce
> something that's smaller and easier to print out. Pale text on dark b/g
>
> works best onscreen, but dark text on pale b/g works better for print.
> I
> also know a lecturer who just pastes the ppt outline into word and
> uploads
> that to Blackboard, which makes for a much smaller file size and easier
> to
> print for students.
>
> Kylie Baxter, Information Officer
> University of Hull Law School
>
>
>
>>On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:46:44 +0100 "Kennedy, Lilian"
>><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I saw an interesting piece of software at the eLearning conference
>>>in Manchester on Wednesday. It's called Impatica ( www.impatica.com
>>><http://www.impatica.com> ). Taken from the brochure:
>>>"Launch the Impatica program and select the PowerPoint file you want
>>
> to
>
>>>impaticize. In seconds, it will create a corresponding Impatica
>>
> file,
>
>>>and
>>>you're ready to go. Without hassle or additional software, you can
>>
> add
>
>>>the
>>>Impatica presentation to your web site and email. ...When the
>>>presentation
>>>is accessed from a web page, a small Java applet streams the content
>>
> and
>
>>>dynamically shows the narrated, animated presentation. " File sizes
>>
> are
>
>>>very
>>>small, apparently.
>>>You can download an evaluation copy. I think it's £299 per copy if
>>
> you
>
>>>buy
>>>it.
>>>
>>>L i l i a n K e n n e d y
>>>ILT Co-ordinator
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>Andy Ramsden
>>Research Officer - Biz/ed
>>Learning Technologies Adviser - LTSS
>>
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>>Bristol University
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