Faculty Profiles

Goal: Collect faculty feedback on:

• Basic reasons for change and UC Davis' involvement in the Sakai initiative;
• New system's interface, tools and features
  • Introduction of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing;
  • Drag and drop functionality from the desktop
  • File storage (250MB?)
  • Assignments tool
  • Web Content tool with its ability to integrate a Web site into a list of tools;
  • Communication tools
    *Gauge faculty reluctance (incl. pilot participants and peers)
  • Are there tools and capabilities important to them that are not yet available?
  • Is the new system intuitive?

Sample Faculty Profile

Name:

Discipline:

Familiarity with course management tools:

• Experience with MyUCDavis:
  • Which tools?
  • For how long?
  • If no experience, briefly explain why.
• Other tools:

Reasons for joining the pilot:

• Any particular course or project?
• Which tools?

Case Study

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Faculty Profiles / Spotlights / Testimonials

SAMPLE FACULTY PROFILE

Name:

Discipline:

Class/Project:

QUESTIONS
As you give the interview, please keep an ear open for a "Memorable Quote." In each faculty profile, we would like to include one larger pull-text quote that will catch reader's attention

Background:

• How long have you used computers to create materials for your courses?

• Where do you generally work on course creation?

• Before experimenting with Sakai, were you already using MyUCDavis? If so, for how long? Which tools did you use?

• Before joining the pilot, were you using resources outside of MyUCDavis in support of teaching? If so, what were those resources?

Using Sakai:

• Why did you decide to join the pilot? Were there specific tools or features that initially interested you? Did you feel a specific class especially lent itself well to Sakai's features?

• Briefly describe your unique project.

• What were your first impressions of the new system? Did you find its navigation intuitive?

• How much time did it take to familiarize yourself with the system's tools and features?

• Do you feel comfortable using Sakai? Do you feel you know/understand the system?

Tools and Features:

• What specific features of Sakai did you use and how did you apply them to your course?

• What features did you like about Sakai? Why?

• What features did you dislike about Sakai? Why?

• Are there important tools and capabilities that are not yet available for your use?

• What other programs did you find yourself using in the creation of documents for courses?

Help:

• If you couldn't get something to work, what did you do?

• Have you required much assistance? If so, in what areas? What methods of assistance did you find most useful?

• What kind of training is most helpful for you?

Benefits:

• What key benefits do you anticipate from your use of Sakai?

• What key benefits do you think would be important to present to other instructors interested in using Sakai? Why?

Conversion to Sakai:

• What concerns do you have about moving to a new system?

• How could these concerns be alleviated?

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