Starting today, August 6, 2008, you can request SPARK courses and sign up for SPARK to SPIRE Grade Upload directly in SPIRE. This replaces the SPARK Course Request Form previously available on the OIT Web site. If you haven’t requested your SPARK course(s) for Fall 2008, you can now use SPIRE to submit your request.…
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SPARK Users: Get Ready to Wrap It Up!
We are approaching the end of yet another semester – time to wrap up any loose ends. If you use SPARK, here are some reminders to help you out.
Upcoming Events: SPARK Community of Practice Lunch: Strategies for Using SPARK in Large Classes
Our second and final SPARK Community of Practice Lunch of the semester will be Thursday April 24th, 11:45-1:00. For this event we will be revisiting a topic from our Fall series of events: Strategies for Using SPARK in Large Classes. Our guest speakers will be Professors John Gerber and Susan Han, both from Plant, Soil…
This Week: Getting Bubble Sheet Exam Results into SPARK
It’s not too late! There are still a few spaces for Friday’s workshop: Getting Bubble Sheet Exam Results into SPARK. Friday March 28th, 10:30am to Noon. Just finished administering a mid-term using bubble sheets (i.e. OPSCAN)? Bring your exam scores and we’ll show you how to convert and upload them into SPARK as a convenient…
Journaling in SPARK
For those of you that may have missed our SPARK Community of Practice gathering on the Journaling tool; our presenters have copies of their handouts and slides that you should take a look at. Journaling can be a powerful pedagogical tool and the Journal and Discussion tools in SPARK provides one way to implement journaling…
Upcoming Events: SPARK Community of Practice Lunch and SPARK Short Topic Workshops
In addition to our returning SPARK Community of Practice lunch events we will also be offering several new SPARK workshops on short topics. SPARK Community of Practice Come join us for a the SPARK Community of Practice lunches to see interesting way that your colleagues are adapting differnt SPARK tool.The first event of the semester…
Upcoming Events: Grading in SPARK and Excel
To start out the semester with a bang, we are offering several events in February related to SPARK and Grading. On February 12 & 13 we are offering a “SPARK Help Clinic” from Noon-3:00 for instructors and TAs who want to drop in and get help. If you want to reserve a specific time slot,…
2007 Numbers: Fall SPARK Numbers
The end of the year is upon us, so we take a few moments to reflect on the events and look at some of the numbers for what Academic Computing has done this past year. This semester was the first non-pilot semester for SPARK, we had: SPARK courses: 753 Instructors: 529 Departments: 80 Student Seats:…
SPARK Community of Practice Thoughts and Reflections
This week we hosted our third and final SPARK Community of Practice gathering of the semester. As was the case with previous events this one filled our conference room to capacity. We hope to continue these events in the spring semester, and would like your input on how we can improve upon them. To review,…
SPARK Community of Practice: Strategies for Using SPARK in Large Classes
Our third and final SPARK Community of Practice lunch of the semester will be Thursday, November 15th, 12:30-1:30 p.m. “SPARK Community of Practice” is an interest group for faculty and instructors who are interested in discussing the successes, challenges and best practices they have discovered while using SPARK as well as finding out about the…
TIP: Getting Started in SPARK
Here are some suggestions to make getting started in SPARK a little easier: If you plan to upload Word documents We strongly recommend converting any Word documents to PDF or html format prior to uploading them into SPARK. Files in PDF or html format will display in the student’s browser, while files in Word format…