Training Sessions

I will be doing two more Brown Bag sessions which will be broadcast over the HITS network and eventually posted here.

Thursday 9/17 will do a general overview of eCAFE, followed by going through the staff site in detail. The goal of this session is to go through all the options the staff have on the site and cover them in detail.

Thursday 10/15 will also do a general overview of eCAFE, but will be followed by my going through the instructor portion of the site in detail. The goal here is to have this be a training session for instructors.

Participating Campuses

While we have some usage at all 10 campuses, those that are using eCAFE exclusively for Fall 2009 are as follows:

Hawai'i CC
Windward CC
UH West Oahu
Kaua'i CC
Maui CC

This will be the first semester for Maui and Kaua'i. Here's hoping for a smooth transition to eCAFE!

Spring 2010 Tentative Schedule

Spring 2010 (January 11th (first day of class) - May 5th (last day of instruction))
Staff: Mon, Feb 1 – Thu, Feb 19 (secretly open through the 21st), 3 weeks
Faculty: Mon, Mar 8 – Fri, Apr 02 (secretly open through the 4th) 4 weeks
Students: Mon, April 19 - Thu, May 6 (secretly open through the 9th), 3 weeks
Results: Thursday, May 20th
Publish: Monday, June 7th

Fall 2009 Schedule

Fall 2009 (August 24 (first day of class) - Dec 10 (last day of instruction)):
Staff: Tue, Sept 1 – Wed, Sept 30 (secretly open through Oct 4th), 4 weeks
Faculty: Mon, Oct 5th – Thu, Oct 29 (secretly open through Nov 1st), 4 weeks
Students: Mon, Nov 23rd – Thu, Dec 10 (secretly open through the 13th), 3 wks
Results: Thursday, December 24th
Publish: Mon, January 11th

Summer Session

You may have noticed that I posted a tentative summer session schedule two posts ago. We are planning on doing a pilot test of the summer session this Summer (2009). If you'd like your organization to participate in the pilot test, please contact us at cafe-support-l@hawaii.edu.

Brown Bags

I did a Brown Bags talk today, titled "An Introduction to eCAFE." It was recorded, so when that's ready, I'll post a link to the video here along with a link to the slides. The presentation itself was fairly short, around 12 minutes, but this was followed by roughly 30 minutes of questions.

One of the questions was pertaining to instructors who want to use the system, but their organization (campus/college/dept/etc) isn't signed up. The answer is that any instructor is free to log in during the instructor open period and enable their surveys. By default, instructors in participating organizations are already enabled, but if you aren't in one, we disable your surveys so you don't get an unpleasant surprise. All you have to do is click the "Enable" button next to your survey, and then add questions, and you're all set.

Spring 2009 Schedule, Tentative Summer Schedules

Spring 2009 (January 12th (first day of class) - May 6th (last day of instruction))
Staff: Mon, Feb 2 – Thu, Feb 26, 4 weeks
Faculty: Mon, Mar 2 – Fri, Apr 03, 5 weeks
Students: Mon, April 20 - Thu, May 8, 3 weeks
Results: Thursday, May 21th
Publish: Monday, June 8th

Summer I (May 26 (first day of class) - July 2 (last day of instruction)):
Staff: Mon, May 25 – Thu, June 4, 2wks
Faculty: Mon, June 8 – Thu, June 18, 2wks
Students: Mon, June 22 - Thu, July 2, 2wks
Results: Thursday, July 16th
Publish: Mon, August 3rd

We will not be offering eCAFE for Summer Session II this year.