Best Practices in Developing an Award Winning Website (Room 2220)
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Presenters: Guy Winter, Kerri Pepperman, Suzanne Copsey, Kathy Moody
Primary Topic Area: Communications
Description: The presentation will provide an overview of all of the steps (activities and deliverables) that the Michigan Creative team took in constructing the new admissions.umich.edu website.
Summary: The new Undergraduate Admissions website recently won a Gold Case award for best website. Michigan Creative will present an overview of how they worked with Undergraduate Admissions to design and develop the new site. The presentation will provide insight into the activity and deliverables of the project in order to showcase best practices for a website redesign.
Expertise Level: Introductory
Exam Scan - Returning Paper Exams to 1,300 Students Electronically (Room 1240)
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Presenter: MaryBeth Stunkel
Primary Topic Area: Faculty and Student Service
Description: Even something as simple as returning exams becomes a logistical hurdle when you have 1,300 students in a class. While online exams are an option for some courses, many courses—especially those that require complicated equations and hand drawn solutions—still need pencil and paper based exams. But once instructors have graded the paper exams, how do they efficiently return them to students, prevent cheating, and still be able to regrade individual exams as necessary? LSA's Instructional Support Services approached ITS' Teaching and Learning team looking for a solution.
ITS' Teaching and Learning did not have a ready-made solution to the problem, but that didn't stop them. They reached out to colleagues on other ITS teams to co-develop a solution. The ITS Document Imaging service scans student exams and stores them in M+Box, where instructors have access to all graded exams but students can access only their own. In addition to developing a scanning process and scripting the M+Box component, the teams collaborated with LSA to develop a complete process: from labeling the exams, delivering graded exams, scanning, moving scans to individual student folders in Box, and accepting requests for regrades.
This process piloted with CHEM 210 and CHEM 215 in Fall Term 2015, and an expanded pilot is taking place during Winter Term 2016. Upon refinement based on the results of the pilot, the service will be available to courses across campus with similar needs. The service will result in reduced need for space to store/distribute old exams, fewer staff hours returning exams, reduced cheating from tampering with returned exams, faster return of finals at end of the semester, and other surprise enhancements.
Summary: Even something as simple as returning exams becomes a logistical hurdle when you have 1,300 students in a class. Exams identified with barcodes are scanned and a file created for each exam, named with the student’s uniqname and exam ID. Using a custom script, the resulting files are placed in an M+Box folder for each student, allowing them to view, download, and print, but not alter or delete the exam. Hear how this collaborative effort saved hundreds of hours of instructor time grading and returning exams to students while eliminating the possibility of cheating by altering graded exams.
Expertise Level: Intermediate
FreezerNanny, an Internet of Things Invention, Now a Game-changing U-M Startup (Room 0230)
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Primary Topic Area: Information Technology
Description: AFreezerNanny live demo showing:
- A quick on-site installation
- A mobile-friendly user interface
- Rising temperature will send alert out immediately through email, text and call
- A mouse click can slightly warm up the probe and trigger a real-world alert
- Miscellaneous sensors, such as light and humidity
Summary: FreezerNanny, an Internet of Things invention, was originally developed in MBNI to monitor 80 lab freezers and room temperature, humidity and light. Unlike traditional freezer monitoring devices that use a special wireless network, FreezerNanny harnesses MWireless, the campus WiFi network. FreezerNanny also has many other unique features and the lowest cost. UM Tech Transfer Office saw the market demand and FreezerNanny's potential, then helped to form FreezerNanny.com, which is now serving other UM units and is also ready for researchers outside of UM.
Expertise Level: Introductory
Patient Check-in Optimization Initiative (Room 1230)
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Primary Topic Area: Patient Care
Description: The checking-in process for new patients at the Spine Program and others can be time consuming. It requires each patient to fill out multiple forms that doesn't only take time but requires information that may impact the way their treatment is designed. If patients are given enough time to fill out the forms, outside their appointment time, it will improve the flow of patient check-in and increase the time they spend with their providers potentially increasing billable minutes. Likewise, patients who are non-English speakers require even longer times to have these same forms to get filled out potentially spending valuable minutes in non-revenue mode.
To improve check-in process for new patients at the university's PMR Spine Program PT/OT Clinic, we propose to adopt the following.
- Send links to New Patient Forms via Portal or Text Messages to New Patients prior to their appointments. This would allow patient to fill out the required paperwork in their own time and avoid congestion at the check-in desk and avoid delays in seeing their therapists.
- Translate forms into different languages to allow non-English speaking patients access to forms without having to wait for their interpreters.
Decreasing times spent on filling out paperwork will allow patients to get seen on time, creating potential increased revenue to the clinic and improving customer service.
Summary: This initiative allows us to think of innovative ways to improve the quality of care the patients receive and create a potential for increased revenue by using currently available technology such as patient portal access and text messages. By giving patients access to New Patient Forms outside of their allotted appointment time will allow them to provide more accurate information that is necessary to deliver proper care but also allow their providers to spend more billable minutes.
Expertise Level: Intermediate
Negotiation: All You Have to Do is ASK! (Robertson Auditorium)
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Primary Topic Area: Serving The Public Good
Description: A small group breakout session to explore techniques in negotiation in all areas, including contracts, personal salary negotiation, or even hotel rates. This session is targeted to people who wish they knew how to negotiate, and have not had the confidence to try. For example, these techniques could be used by prospective employees to negotiate better salaries, or by event planners to negotiate better rates for hotels, catering, event venues, printing, etc.
Summary: The session will begin with examples of success using the techniques that will be presented. It will be followed by some role-playing in order to "try on" or practice some of the techniques for participants to gain confidence and skill to apply in their professional and personal lives.
Expertise Level: Introductory
