Updated Faculty/Staff Directory

The Rhody Connect Directory module has been updated and is now easier to use. You can now call or email faculty & staff, and/or add them to your phone’s Contacts, all from within the app.

Access to Gmail and Virtual ID Card

Version 1.1 released: Gmail and Virtual ID Card icons have been added to the home screen. iOS users will need the newest release of Rhody Connect to enable direct access to these apps. If tapping the icon brings you to the App Store, and you already have the app installed, an update is needed. More information on updating the app is available at Apple support.

Part of: Advanced Applications / Multimedia Software

Executive Lead

Robert Viens

Technical Lead

Katie Babula
kbabula@uri.edu

Support Team

ITS AV Systems

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Panopto is a video capture and replay platform fully integrated with our Learning Management System (Brightspace). It is the recording and replay system used in our 21st century classrooms.

Update

ITS is organizing a collaboration with key university organizations currently developing and using paper forms in both academic and administrative arenas as well as using different online tools to develop, route and record approvals of these online forms.

Goals

  • Identify and agree to a common cloud service that will provide a platform for university colleges and departments, both administrative and academic, to migrate existing paper forms to the online service as well as establish new forms and use the online service to route and record digital approvals of the form.
  • Establish common digitized new Forms standards and approvals consistent with existing Faculty Senate and University procedures.
  • Establishing onboarding policies and procedures for any division, college or department that may want to purchase their own license for the system and use it in conjunction with other departments.

Background – To begin the process, ITS met with representatives from Enrollment Services, Human Resources, Budget and Financial Planning, Graduate Admissions, Controller’s Office, and Payroll to establish common understanding of needs, requirements, goals and objectives of this service. Graduate Admissions recently engaged an online service tool performing similar functionality and each of the departments listed, as well as others at URI that this group interacts with, were in the stage of considering various products.

July 2020 

  • Team established.
  • Initial meeting to establish scope, goals, objectives and requirements as well as discussion of options, timelines and resource allocation.
  • Graduate Admissions provided a demonstration of the product they have in use with discussion of usability, functionality and use within URI.
  • Next steps established.

August 2020 

  • Additional services reviewed online by the team with considerations of feasibility, pricing and URI Purchasing procedures as well as reaching out to other higher education institutions to determine if they have solutions in use, what those are and how they feel the service is working.
  • Additional online demonstrations.
  • Group decisions of plan, challenges, implementation, onboarding procedures and guidelines.
  • Development underway of onboarding procedures and guidelines.

 

 

 

Student Remote Computer Lab Access via Webex

URI Has enabled a Webex feature known as Webex Hands-on-Labs. 

This feature will allow users to schedule access to remote lab computers, reserving a block of time with specific applications. 25 Computers are now available with more being deployed covering lab applications such as

  ArcGIS, Lectra, SPSS, Gmetrix, Goldratt, Minitab

Please visit the URI KB https://kb-interim.its.uri.edu/ for additional details.

 

Rhody Connect

 

Part of: Communication and Collaboration / Remote Collaboration
 

Executive Lead

Karen Lokey

Technical Lead

Catherine White
cathywhite@uri.edu

Support Team

ITS Innovation

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Stay connected. Be informed. Find your way. Rhody Connect, the official mobile app of the University of Rhode Island. With Rhody Connect, you will find the campus information you need plus personalized access to university services from the convenience of your mobile device.

Project Update-Getting Ready for Fall Start

Classroom Technology Trainings to Begin Next Week

Faculty will be receiving targeted classroom training emails based on eCampus course listing room assignments. All in-person trainings this year will be booked as individual trainings to allow for social distancing and classrooms used for training will be chosen based on ease of faculty access. 

Training emails will also include a ‘Quick Start’ guide for each particular media system type, when available. As classroom system updates are completed, in person training will broaden and additional training accommodations will be made available. 

AV Systems will offer remote training sessions as needed for the in classroom technologies. 

All training questions can be sent to cmaking@etal.uri.edu.

Panopto Procurement

URI classrooms will have Panopto as their main resource to conduct live course webcasting from classrooms as well as easily record lectures in classroom spaces. This resource will also be available for use from personal laptops so Instructors can webcast from home or other locations as needed.

With Brightspace integration, Instructors will be able to access Panopto content and features extensively from within Brightspace. 

Keep an eye on the ITS Training Calendar for Panopto Info and Training Sessions Starting soon! 

 

Part of: Teaching and Learning / Learning Management
 

Executive Lead

Karen Lokey

Technical Lead

Catherine White
cathywhite@uri.edu

Support Team

ITS Innovation

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To support learning outside of the classroom, we have partnered with Instructure’s Canvas Credentials to facilitate recognition of faculty, staff and student micro-learning and completion of training activities.

Project Update 8/11/20

Currently cameras and microphones have been installed in:

  • Ballentine Hall 1st floor classrooms
  • Bliss Hall
  • Swan Hall 2nd and 3rd floor classrooms
  • Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering general assignment classrooms

These currently installed spaces amount to about 30 classrooms ready for final software deployment with a total of about 146 classroom spaces slated to receive updates across the University campuses.