Submitting an Assignment to Turnitin

Turnitin is a website that allows both Lecturers and Students to check Students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases of web pages (current and archived), student papers, newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books. Students whose Lecturers do not use Turnitin in their courses can now submit their assignments to Turnitin within myeLearning from the help course myeLearning 101 for Students. Turnitin will produce an originality report that will assist you in revising your assignments by highlighting sections that are not properly paraphrased, quoted, or cited.

Click here for instructions on accessing this facility.

Lecturers, if you're interested in using Turnitin in your course, feel free to contact us.

For more information related to using myeLearning, send an e-mail to: myeLearning@sta.uwi.edu.

Keeping Track of Student Attendance

The attendance feature in myeLearning, is designed to allow lecturers to keep an attendance log of the students in their course. This tool is especially useful for large courses with tutorial sessions. Tutors can log student attendance and students can view their personal attendance record.

Click here for instructions on using this feature.

For more information related to using myeLearning, send an e-mail to: myeLearning@sta.uwi.edu.

New and Updated MIT OpenCourseWare Courses

The MIT OpenCourseWare website has posted new and updated courses. Some course titles include:

3.A27 Case Studies in Forensig Metallurgy
6.973 Communication System Design
21F.027J Visualizing Cultures

The courses are available on the MIT OpenCourseWare website at: http://ocw.mit.edu/.

For assistance in using the MIT OpenCourseWare website, contact the myeLearning team at: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu.

Abilene Christian University providing incoming freshman with iPhones

"As of fall quarter 2008, Abilene Christian University will be the first school in the United States to equip all its incoming freshmen with iPhones. The school has developed about 15 applications for these phones, including course registration, 3-D campus maps, surveys, podcasts and emergency alerts. "

Read Lorna Collier's full article here.

News from the AFP: Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool

"Wikipedia, the open-source internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, is now becoming a teaching tool for some professors who require students to write Wikipedia entries in lieu of term papers."

Read the full article here.

Lecturer & Teaching Assistant Survey

In order to assist the myeLearning Team in providing you with quality service, we ask that you complete the Lecturer and Teaching Assistant myeLearning Questionnaire. This survey asks general questions about your myeLearning use including information about your satisfaction with support and training.

This survey has 27 items and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Your feedback is anonymous. No identifying information will be collected.

Click here to begin the survey.

If you have any questions about the questionnaire, feel free to contact the myeLearning team at: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu.

Announcements: myeLearning

Semester II myeLearning Courses
Students will no longer have access to their Semester II courses in myeLearning after May 14th, 2008. If you would like your students to have access to your course after this date, send an e-mail to: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu. Be sure to include your course code, title, and the date you would like students to be removed.

New Semester III myeLearning Courses
If you would like to use myeLearning in a course your teaching in Semester III, request a course shell by clicking on the Requests a new course link available in the Course Request Block on the myeLearning course portal.
Once you have added resources and activities and you are ready for your students to have access, send an e-mail to: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu. Your course will be reviewed and you will receive an e-mail confirming that students have been given access.

Semester III myelearning Courses Taught in Previous Academic Years
If you have a Semester III course that was taught in a previous academic year, please let us know if you would like a copy of the course or a new course shell. Outside of revising the resources available in your copied course, dates of assignments and activities should be updated as well. Once are ready for your students to have access, send an e-mail to: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu. Your course will be reviewed and you will receive an e-mail confirming that students have been given access.

For more information about myeLearning e-mail: myelearning@sta.uwi.edu.