Highlights

Request your Illinois Compass Course Site(s) Now

Avoid the crunch at the start of the Spring 2008 semester. You can request your Illinois Compass site(s) by filling out our course request form. Requesting your site(s) now will ensure that they are built in a timely fashion and that you can start building your instructional material or redesigning your copied course site (s) now. Best Strategies for Revising Copied Course Sites clinics are available this month. See schedule below.

Retirement of CITES WebBoard Service

The CITES WebBoard service will be retired on December 31, 2007. After this date, this page and any boards currently being hosted on the CITES WebBoard service will no longer be accessible. Service retirement information will be updated on the WebBoard information page.

Featured Events

Instructional Technology in the 21st Century: Tapping into the iPod Generation

December 5, 2007
3:30 P.M. ~ 4:30 P.M.
144 Loomis Lab

This event will be presented by Donna J. Charlevoix of Atmospheric Sciences.

The experience of a college student has been transformed over the past decade by technology impacting every facet of their lives. Classes at many universities, including Illinois, are embracing an increased role of technology in instruction and learning, particularly in the combination of online instruction with classroom meetings for small class sizes, typically less than 30 students. The use of synchronous and asynchronous online instruction is well documented, and the use of blended formats of instruction - combining online instruction with traditional classroom meetings - is becoming widely recognized as an alternative course format. More...

Illinois Compass Grade Book Walk-In Clinics

This clinic is for existing users of the Illinois Compass Grade Book. EdTech staff will be available to assist faculty and staff with calculating final grades, calculating columns, importing final exam grades, posting final grades, and other Illinois Compass Grade Book issues.

Space is limited for each session. To register for this event, go to the EdTech calendar.

Partner Events

Library and Faculty Collaboration Series: Incorporating Subject Matter Library Resources into Illinois Compass
Target Audience: History
December 4, 2007
1:30 P.M. ~ 3:00 P.M.
291 Undergraduate Library

Library and Faculty Collaboration Series: Incorporating Subject Matter Library Resources into Illinois Compass
Target Audience: Psychology
December 5, 2007
1:30 P.M. ~ 3:00 P.M.
291 Undergraduate Library

Upcoming Events

Illinois Compass Clinic: Best Strategies for Revising Copied Course Sites December 6, 2007
1:30 P.M. ~ 2:30 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Illinois Compass Grade Book Walk-In Clinic
December 7, 2007
10:00 A.M. ~ 12:00 P.M.
2404 DCL

Illinois Compass Grade Book Walk-In Clinic
December 10, 2007
2:00 P.M. ~ 4:00 P.M.
2404 DCL

Illinois Compass Clinic: Best Strategies for Revising Copied Course Sites December 13, 2007
10:00 A.M. ~ 12:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Illinois Compass Grade Book Walk-In Clinic
December 17, 2007
9:00 A.M. ~ 10:30 A.M.
2404 DCL

Visit our Workshop Offerings for more information about other workshops offered by EdTech.

Resources

CITES Educational Technologies
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/edtech/

Illinois Compass Login
http://compass.uiuc.edu

Course Site Requests
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/edtech/teaching_software/compass/siterequest.html

CITES Classroom Technologies
http://classtech.cites.uiuc.edu/

CITES Help Desk
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/help/

Center for Teaching Excellence
http://www.cte.uiuc.edu/

Blackboard
http://www.blackboard.com

Educause Learning Initiative
http://www.educause.edu/eli

Save Your Grades

In the Illinois Compass Grade Book, by clicking the "Export To Spreadsheet" button, you will be able to backup your section's grades as often as necessary. This task is recommended for all faculty and TAs using the Grade Book feature throughout the semester as well as archiving your grades at the end of the semester.

Brown Bags

Making Our Own Learning Explicit and What That Means About Our Teaching
December 5, 2007
12:00 P.M. ~ 1:00 P.M.
23 Illini Hall

Contact Us

CITES Educational Technologies
2304 Digital Computing Lab (DCL) 1304 W. Springfield MC-256
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-1078
edtech@uiuc.edu

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