1. What if I forget the password to my account at eInstruction?
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Email
eInstruction tech support directly at techsupp@einstruction.com. (See Sec. I.5,
for more information on technical support.)
2. What if I forget my password to get into my class
record (Sec. II.2) on the web?
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Please
send your email to ctalk to ask
for your password word, which is referred to as the “signup password”.
Using the system in the
classroom:
3. During
a question/answer session, how do I change the respond board size.
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Click
the "Grid" button on the response board to toggle between the
enlarged-mode and reduced mode.
4. What happens if I forget to close the response
board/ or the question menu bar at the end of a class?
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Send
an email to ctalk right away, we might or might not be able to redeem your
record.
5. What
happens if you have opened cps-system did not ask any question on that day?
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You
will receive an automatically generated email informing you that the class
record is empty.
6. Is the UT-cps Support Project affiliated
with eInstruction?
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No,
it is not. Our project could have been named as: UT- Wireless Classroom
Communication System Support project. "Classroom communication
system" is a generic term for a system, which is, by means of hi-tech,
designed
* to promote classroom attendance and participation,
* to engage students' attention and
* to make the instructor more aware of the comprehension level of the class.
We believe in this approach. Many students in our past and present classes have
benefited from this approach.
The goal of our support-project is to improve the quality of undergraduate
teaching, especially large-class teaching on our campus through promoting and
supporting the use of wireless classroom communication system(s).
The present cps-system represents our best effort in getting a cost-effective
system for our instructors/students. As far as our support-project is
concerned, we would like to make sure that the present system continues to stay
competitive. In the future, if a better system coming along, we may consider
switching to it to further benefit instructors/students.
7. Since students need to
pay to use the cps-system, is there any departmental endorsement on the use of
the system?
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In
UT Physics Department, the undergraduate committee has reviewed the use of
cps-system in physics classes. Below is the committee's position. The use of
cps-system is meant
* to promote classroom attendance and participation,
* to engage students' attention and
* to make the instructor more aware of the comprehension level of the class.
Since a student pay the enrollment fee only once in a semester, the more
classes using the system, the more benefit will it be to the student. Its usage
is on a voluntary bases. The committee endorses the use of the cps-system,
including the ongoing fee structure.
Classroom equipped with/without CPS:
8.
Which classrooms in College of Natural Science (CNS) are equipped with
CPS?
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Following CNS multi-media classrooms are presently equipped with cps: GEA
105, PAI 2.48, PAI 4.42, PAI 3.02, RLM 4.102, RLM 6.104 and WEL 3.502.
9.
What should I do if I want to use CPS in a multimedia room which is not equipped
with CPS?
We must distinguish between
College of Natural Science(CNS) MM-rooms and Non-CNS MM-rooms.
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For
the former CNS-dean's office is responsible for funding the technology in the
classroom and maintaining everything about the classroom. All the classrooms in
GEA, BIO, ESB, PAI, WEL, RLM, TAY, and GEO belong to Natural Sciences. The
dean's office buy multimedia equipment for those rooms, including CPS systems.
And the staff of the dean's office install and maintain the equipment.
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Multi-media
classrooms in other buildings belong to other Colleges. For instructors who
would like to use cps in one of
NON-CNS classrooms, there are two scenarios:
1) the instructors may contact the
respective college, which has the jurisdiction over the classroom, see if the
college is willing to install cps. If so, the instructor should contact us (UT-cps-Support
Project: chiu@physics.utexas.edu) and also signup at Sec. I.2 on the
UT-cps-Support Project homepage.
2)
Alternative they should contact Morrie Schulman of CIT ( email-to: <schulman@mail.utexas.edu>) for
individual faculty cps-support.
10. Has there been inquiry on the use of cps
in colleges other than college of natural science and college of Engineering on
UT campus?
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Yes, see for example the
entry on UT (cps) Bulletin dated 4/21/03. .