The URI Student Directory has been added to Rhody Connect! It joins the Faculty/Staff Directory under the new Campus Directories icon. You can now email fellow students and add them to your phone’s Contacts from within the app. To safeguard privacy, users must be logged in via URI Single Sign-On to view student information.
Changes to User Login
- Biometric authentication capabilities have been added to user login.
- User name now shows Preferred Name as defined in eCampus.
Part of: Administrative and Business / Student Information Management
Technical Lead
University of Rhode Island online scholarship system.
https://uri.academicworks.com
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Starting in Fall 2020, all URI courses will be using Brightspace to deliver course content to our students. Our previous LMS, Sakai, will remain operational only for archival purposes until January 8th, 2021.
Brightspace Support
View Brightspace Training Schedule and Office Hours Get Help from Brightspace Departmental MentorsBrightspace Design Guide and Video Training
URI Online Brightspace Design Guide (Google Doc) URI Video Series on Designing Online Courses in Brightspace (on YouTube) Brightspace Video Tutorials (from D2L) URI Tech Day Training VideosKnowledge Base Articles
A collection of searchable knowledge base articles on how to teach effectively using Brightspace.
How-To Guides
Self-Paced
Basic Brightspace Course
Introduction to Brightspace basics. It takes about 2 hours to complete and is a prerequisite to the Online Pedagogy course.
Online Workshop
Online Pedagogy Course
A 4-week, asynchronous online workshop that provides best practices to enhance your online teaching skills using Brightspace.
Free Resource
Brightspace Community
A free resource that provides just-in-time training tips, quick refreshers on how to effectively use tools, additional resources and learning aids.
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Brightspace
Starting in Fall 2020, all URI courses will be using Brightspace to deliver course content to our students. Our previous LMS, Sakai, will remain operational only for archival purposes until January 8th, 2021.
Students
Faculty
Staff
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.
Panopto is here! Please visit the Panopto Service Page for login and usage info.
Part of: Advanced Applications / Multimedia Software
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.