Instructional Technology & New Media

What's New

In recent weeks, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has learned of and tried to work around issues related to the new version of eInstruction's Classroom Performance System (CPS) "clickers." Specifically, we have received reports of students getting a "duplicate pad ID" error message when they try to click, and we've heard some faculty have to wait as long as a minute to move from one question to another.

If you record in-class lectures and make them available online, why would students still come to class? If they don?t?but can pass exams?does it matter? While faculty have mixed feelings about recorded lectures, a combination of new technologies makes it possible to allow ONLY students who attend class to access recorded lectures online, for the purposes of review (not discovery).

While the interface to Turnitin has changed, the status of the plagiarism detection software's use at UMBC remains unchanged.