AREN (Alabama Research and Education Network) http://www.asc.edu/network/index.shtml and
ASA (Alabama Supercomputer Authority) http://www.asc.edu/index.shtml
We have two computer classrooms, BAB 207 and 211, as well as two monitored open labs BAB 214 and 215. There are also computers in the Study Room (BAB 120), which are available Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. and Friday from 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The computers are using Microsoft Windows XP with the latest version of most software titles we have available.
Faculty who expect your students to use the labs' software are strongly encouraged to test the required software features first. CBA Network Support will work with faculty and students to resolve unexpected bugs in the lab's configuration. We do limited troubleshooting, however, in spite of our best efforts, you should not assume everything is working appropriately until you have checked the computers out for yourself.
Banner Self-Service for Faculty and Advisors is the administrative software for Student Information, Finance, and Human Resources.
The Banner Self-Service/Ferpa training is required before Faculty can access and use the Banner system. In the training class you will learn to view class lists (rosters), enter mid-term and final grades, and other features related to the progress of your students. You may register for the Banner Self-Service/Ferpa training at the Class Registration Server. User access (UserID and password) will be activated after attending a training session. For questions about training contact CNS at cns-training@uah.edu or 824-2644. For questions about Banner IDs and passwords contact CNS' Help Desk at 824-2639.
A basic tutorial on logging in and grading inside Banner is also available here.
Calendar Network Software is available. Contact Linda to have the software client installed on your PC. At your option, you can share your calendar with others on campus, invite others to meetings, check for meeting time conflicts, etc. You will also be able to access your calendar appointments, to-do lists, ... using any browser connected to the Internet.
UAH email accounts are available for all UAH faculty/staff/students. CBA Network Support provides assistance for all BAB users electing to use the Pegasus email client. Pegasus CBA address books and distribution lists are maintained on the local CBA LAN. Email account holders may elect to use their own choice of alternative email client software or use UAH's browser-supported email client at http://webmail.uah.edu/.
Scanning services are available from the office of testing services (BAB 226) to any instructor who uses multiple choice tests for classroom assessment. Provided free of charge are student answer sheets, printouts of results, and statistical reports. The instructor will need only to provide a separate exam key and complete a checklist indicating the different reports to be generated. Reports available to the faculty include individual test results report, individual item response report, item analysis report, test score distribution report, and frequency distribution report.
Dean Billings and the Executive Committee have approved the 2003 Faculty Activity Report format. The approved format is to be used also for reappointment, tenure, promotion, graduate faculty nomination and for past five years faculty data report for AACSB International accreditation. The form is available for download at http://CBA.uah.edu/far.html or here.
UAH Faculty Handbook is online at: http://www.uah.edu/facsen/Faculty%20Handbook/TOC2.htm
Dr. Gerald Karr, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is the current Faculty Ombudsperson. The ombudsperson is someone elected or appointed to investigate reported complaints or issues, report findings, and help to achieve equitable settlement. The ombudsperson serves as an intermediary between parties. The ombudsperson is independent, impartial, universally accessible, and empowered to recommend. The ombudsperson maintains confidentiality wherever reasonable and possible.
If you have issues or concerns that could be addressed by the Faculty Ombudsperson please contact Dr. Gerald Karr at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, TH N 261 or 824-6330, or karr@mae.uah.edu.
Submit lab, laptop and/or classroom w/projector requests/reservations online through forms available from your office. All requests should be submitted over the Internet at http://mis.uah.edu/forms/request.cfm. One or more week's advanced reservation should ensure the availability of these resources.
A tutorial on using the request form is available here.
For schedules and availability click here.
To view lab, laptop or classroom w/projector schedules and availability, check over the Internet at http://CBA.uah.edu/reservations/reserv.htm
If you need to check out a laptop PC for temporary use over a weekend, for a trip, or presentation outside our building, complete the online reservation request form available over the Internet at http://mis.uah.edu/forms/request.cfm. We normally have a few laptops available for faculty/staff use. Note, none of these are available for long-term use.
Visit http://CBA.uah.edu/library.html for links to Library Online Business Resources or you may visit the UAH Salmon Library website for additional information at http://www.uah.edu/library/.
Available in Adobe PDF format, the faculty guide to library services handbook provides information about the library, such as ILL/document delivery, research database access, reserves, and circulation privileges. The handbook is available here.
Network Support has provided several different places and methods for storing and making accessible your data files to students, faculty, and staff, by assigning different network drives to perform these functions. Following is a description of the network drives and their functions:
N:\ DRIVE : Students may submit files to faculty from the labs by copying the files to faculty folders on the N:\ drive. You may have your students submit assignments to you in this manner in lieu of diskette or paper copies. You must first see me to set up one or more folders on these drives for you.
S:\ DRIVE: Faculty can make files available to their students from all BAB computer labs by placing the files in the course folders available on the S:\ drive. The S:\ drive is also accessible to users in the VBRH lab, M-10. (Please remove files in your course folders no longer needed. See the Director of CBA Network Support about setting up folders to support your classes for the upcoming terms.)
T:\ DRIVE: Faculty, staff, and student assistants have read-only accessibility to folders and files on the T:\ drive. Documentation from the Dean's office is placed in the "CBADoc" folder on the T:\ drive.
U:\ DRIVE: Faculty can create a back up for their files by placing a copy of the files in a folder under their name located on the U:\ drive. A faculty's U:\ drive folder is accessible only by each individual faculty member.
V:\ DRIVE: The V:\ drive is a common drive that allows faculty, staff, and student assistants to exchange non-sensitive files with each other, without having to send email attachments. Anyone accessing the V:\ drive can read, write and delete to any of the folders and/or files. Please remove files from the V:\ drive folders no longer needed, as it should be used to store files temporarily. This folder is not accessible by lab PCs.
W:\ DRIVE : Faculty and staff can publish to the web merely by copying html files to their folder on the W:\ drive. The URL or Internet address to access your web pages would be: http://CBA.uah.edu/username/filename.html . For example, my web pages are located at http://CBA.uah.edu/whittena/index.html . Simply replace "whittena" with your user name & "index.html" with your file's name for the address to that file. If you do not have a folder on the W:\ drive, check with Network Support in BAB 329, 824-6510. Faculty/staff/students may also use FTP to publish web pages to http://webpages.uah.edu/.
Network Support can assist faculty produce and publish to a UAH media server streaming audio-visual Power Point presentations to supplement traditional course presentations or as a part of a distance learning course.
Located in BAB 226, the Office of Instructional and Testing Services provides faculty with free classroom test scoring scanning service, and administers the deferred examinations for each semester. This office also coordinates the Student Instructor Evaluation processes.
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