Winter 2020 EEE Updates

by Michael Schwyn Huang | Dec 21, 2020 | Announcements

New EEE+ Home Page
Visit the new hub for all things EEE+ related at https://my.eee.uci.edu/home. You’ll find links to all of the EEE+ tools, support, and contact information. Check back in the future for updates

Dear Instructors,

As 2020 comes to a close, the EEE team wanted to share a few updates that will hopefully help ensure a smooth beginning in the new year.

A New Home for Evaluations  The new home for final evaluations, as well as self-activated midterm evaluations, is EEE+ Evaluations. This new, full-featured tool, is where administrators and instructors can go to create and review evaluations, and where students will go to complete them. If you’re looking for older evaluations results from the EEE Legacy system, you will need to contact your Department Evaluations Administrator while we transition the data over to the new tool. We expect that instructors will be able to obtain this data themselves by Spring 2021. For more information on viewing results and using EEE+ Evaluations, please click here.

Other Updates and Tips

• We are always reviewing and integrating new Educational Technology tools into UCI Canvas. Visit https://edtechtools.eee.uci.edu for a list of available and under-review tools.
• Respondus users: If you’ve copied your UCI Canvas course space from a previous term, make sure to click into the Respondus dashboard before students attempt to access your exams. The connection to Respondus isn’t active for copied exams until you do this.
• To add TAs to your winter Canvas course space, use the EEE+ Assistants Manager tool.

If you have questions about using EEE+ Evaluations or Educational Technology tools, please contact eee-support@uci.edu.

Best regards, The EEE Team

Check Your Physical Device Security

by Michael Schwyn Huang | Dec 17, 2020 | Announcements

Dear Colleagues,

Physical security can be just as important as cybersecurity in protecting your devices against crime and breaches of security. We would like to share a reminder to periodically check your physical computing environment for anything suspicious connected to computers.

Keylogging hardware devices capture and record all of the keystrokes between the keyboard and computer for an attacker to collect and view. Similar to software keylogging malware, the data collected could include email and chat messages composed, as well as websites visited, passwords used, and other personal data. Hardware keyloggers are difficult to detect and require a physical inspection of your environment, especially if your USB inputs are not very visible. See below an example of what they may look like.

Tips for maintaining physical security of your devices

• Check computers for anything suspicious or unrecognized connected via USB or other ports
• Store your devices securely when not in use
• Use a password manager, limiting the need to key sensitive information
• Use multi-factor authentication to limit the impact of a stolen password
• Stay current with the latest security updates and anti-virus software to prevent software keylogging malware

If you find anything suspicious connected to your device or in a computing area on campus, please report it to security@uci.edu.

Thank you,

Josh Drummond
Chief Information Security Officer

Digital Active Learning Webinars, Fall 2020

by Michael Schwyn Huang | Nov 16, 2020 | Announcements

The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation is offering 8 digital active learning webinars for instructors, covering topics related to educational technology tools. Please register now to attend the live webinars.

Each session will be recorded and can be viewed at any time. In order to view past webinars, instructors should enroll in the Remote Teaching Webinars Canvas course here: https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/enroll/DWWGWC.

• Monday, 11/16, 11am: Increase synchronous interaction with Poll Everywhere (View Recording)
• Monday, 11/16, 3:30pm, Promote student collaboration with Perusall (View Recording)
• Thursday, 11/19, 11am, Foster metacognition process with YuJa Quiz
• Thursday, 11/19, 3:30pm, Encourage Student Engagement with Piazza
• Monday, 11/30, 11am, Reinforce Academic integrity with Respondus
• Monday, 11/30, 3:30pm, Deliver inclusive synchronous teaching with Zoom & Otter
• Thursday, 12/3, 11am, Enhance assessment delivery with Gradescope
• Thursday, 12/3, 3:30pm, Cultivate academic writing skills with Turnitin

If further teaching assistance is needed, please schedule a one-on-one DTEI office hour consultation.

If you have additional questions or need more information about workshops, please contact DTEIsupport@uci.edu.

Distance Learning Privacy Advisory

by Michael Schwyn Huang | Jun 22, 2020 | Announcements

UCI Community,

When the University of California, Irvine (UCI) suspended face-to-face instruction and quickly switched to distance learning in response to a global pandemic, we increased use of teleconferencing and virtual meeting platforms to deliver course content.

This privacy advisory informs users accessing UCI courses from outside of the United States that local privacy or security laws may affect their account and impact the ways the users interact with Zoom and other UCI teleconferencing solutions. For those accessing services outside the US, UCI has chosen the most secure data routing options available to us through our 3rd party service providers.

Users participating in classes via virtual meeting platforms from outside of the United States may encounter limits in function or access due to these local laws, which may differ from UC or California standards.

If you have concerns or identify limits to accessing your coursework, please talk to your instructor to discuss alternatives.

Tom Andriola

Vice Chancellor for Information, Technology and Data, UC Irvine

Chief Data Officer, UCI Health

Kirsten Quanbeck

ADA Compliance Officer

Associate Chancellor for Equal Opportunity and Compliance

Michael Dennin

Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning

Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education