Meeting Notes

Bob Henshaw
Vicki Kowlowitz
Wallace McClendon
Tim McMillan

Call to Order
Welcome and Introductions

Announcements

• Reminder that Blackboard representatives will be on campus next week to hear feedback from UNC faculty. Contact Kathy Thomas about attending the special faculty session next Wednesday from 11:30am-1pm.
• Jim will be following up with Judith Wegner about the FITAC memo on scholarly publishing directions. Has suggested a panel discussion led by the Provost and VP for Libraries. Ann Okerson has a website devoted to discussion of these issues. Jim also referenced article by Lila Guterman in the January 30 Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Jim Noblitt, Linda Carl, Charlie Green, Kathy Thomas and Bob Henshaw attended a Feburary 2 workshop sponsored by UNC TLTC to get become more familiar with the methodology used by the Pew Course Redesign Program. A campus committee will be evaluating institutional and course readiness in the near future.

Software Secure (Greg Robinson, OASIS)

A suite of tools designed to promote student attentiveness and compliance with the Honor Code in a laptop environment. SecureExam ocks down laptops to prevent use of other applications, monitors time of interaction with exams, and encrypts completed exam to prevent authorized editing. Instructor decrypts exams via the Secure Grader product. Works only in conjunction with MS Word and MS Excel. All application functions are supported.

Jocelyn Neal (Music) has used it and was very pleased, as were her students. The essays were better because they could be edited. Initially gave them the option to use the laptop or traditional bluebook, but will be phasing out bluebook option.

SecureExamClassmate is used to discourage use of other applications during class. Students must log in, current product appears to be limited to roughly 70 concurrent connections. Instructor has the ability to push out select URLs for students to access. Todd Taylor (English) is implementing it in a film class with 140 options.

SecureExamBrowser prevents students from copying/printing content during class.

Comments:

• Just a reminder that this software does not defeat traditional cheating techniques.
• Students looking at other students' screens during exams is an issue to consider in stadium seating arrangements. Perhaps multiple versions of the exam.
• What about departmental budgets for printing exams?
• Can final exams be stored for the minimal 1 year period in a digital format?

For more information, see the Software Secure website at: www.softwaresecure.com.

Future Agenda Items

Updates on spam and efforts to filter it (Judd Knott and Chris Columb)

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Agenda: Sue Goodman's show-and-tell, Scott Adams on technology in the classroom

SEE ITRC about recommended spyware removal.