TLC Faculty Survey (19 questions)

1. TLC Faculty Survey (19 questions) February, 2008

2. 1. What is your instructional classification level at UMSL?

4. 2. What is your gender?

6. 3. What is your age?

8. 4. What is your ethnicity?

10. 5. As part of your instruction last semester, how often did YOU utilize technology to engage in the following activities? Please choose the appropriate response for each item:

12. 6. How often did you ask your students to engage in the following activities? Please choose the appropriate response for each item:

14. 7.To what extent did technology help you accomplish the learning goals in your course? Please select that apply:

16. 8.Have you had experience with checking out equipment from TLC (still and video camera, laptop, transcriber, projector, whiteboard screen etc.)?

18. 9. Which statement(s) describes your reason for using the TLC? Please choose all that apply:

20. 10. How many times this semester did you: Please choose the appropriate response for each item:

22. 11. Please rate your agreement with the following statements about the TLC. Please choose the appropriate response for each item:

24. 12. Which statement (s) describes your knowledge of TLC workshops and help sheets? Please choose all that apply:

26. 13. Did you ever have a negative experience in the TLC?

28. 14 If you had a negative experience, please describe it here: Respondents,"Response Date","Response Text“ 1,2/19/2008 11:04:00 PM,"Staff sometimes very busy“ 2,2/19/2008 11:16:00 PM,"Sometimes large training sessions (classes?) in the Jack Taylor Lab are loud.“ 3,2/20/2008 2:53:00 AM,"Work for one of our grants taking too long to be completed.“ 4,2/20/2008 4:25:00 PM,"I was told repeatedly that my students could ask for assistance in creating web pages, which was a major assignment for the class, but several students complained that the staff said they could not help, and when I asked a few technical questions during a class I was holding in the lab, the desk attendant was unable to answer"

29. 15.Describe your most positive experience in the TLC.

30. 15 Describe your most positive experience in the TLC. Respondents,"Response Date","Response Text" 1,2/19/2008 11:04:00 PM, "Holding classes in the Taylor lab“ 2,2/19/2008 11:16:00 PM, "TLC assistants have been very pleasant to work with, and are willing to go the extra mile to answer questions, fix problems, provide assistance." 3,2/20/2008 12:08:00 AM, "Staff is always willing to do what it takes to help faculty and students." 4,2/20/2008 2:53:00 AM, "Brian Huxtable is amazingly helpful." 5,2/20/2008 3:28:00 PM, "helpful staff" 6,2/20/2008 4:25:00 PM, "the ability to hold class in the JT Lab is great. I love the ability to direct the class on webquests while lecturing and watching them." 7,2/20/2008 4:42:00 PM "There is always a positive attitude of support and assistance with problem-solving issues that arise." 8,2/20/2008 5:09:00 PM, "Using the TLC for my students to take their mid-term and final exams on the computer as opposed to having them write out thie essay responses. It's so much easier for me to read their essay responses and the students appear to like it also." 9,2/20/2008 8:30:00 PM, "Staff always help me solve my tech problems" 10,2/20/2008 9:34:00 PM, "Olena Zladko scheduled and conducted a specialized portfolio workshop for my seminar class." 11,2/25/2008 4:30:00 PM, "The TLC staff helped me create cd's I needed for my class instruction." 12,2/28/2008 5:28:00 PM,"Using My Gateway-Discussion Board, grading, announcements etc. Being able to scan a lot of pages and post them in Course Documents. Staff is helpful and nice." 13,3/8/2008 2:05:00 AM, "assisting me without complaint when I needed it"

31. 16.What can be done to improve the TLC?

32. 16.What can be done to improve the TLC? Respondents,"Response Date","Response Text" 1,2/19/2008 11:04:00 PM, "More staff, more hours, more short courses" 2,2/19/2008 11:16:00 PM, "Make it easier to find and use the web-based reservation system. I've used it many times but always have to search for it, and it's not as ""intuitive"" as it might be." 3,2/20/2008 12:08:00 AM, "Can we clone it on North campus?" 4,2/20/2008 2:53:00 AM, "Funding for more staff to provide free services in website development and maintenance." 5,2/20/2008 4:25:00 PM, "more printers" 6,2/20/2008 4:42:00 PM, "Need more flip cameras and transcribers of some sort to check out. If digital transcribers are bought, students need to also have access to digital tape recorders." 7,2/20/2008 5:09:00 PM, "On occasion, the noise level is a little high with students talking to each other rather than working on the computer." 8,2/20/2008 6:10:00 PM, "The TLC has an odd practice of closing during semester breaks, for extended periods of time. I can understand abbreviated hours, but I think extended closings is a bad idea and leads to complaints (complaints to everyone else except you all probably)." 9,2/20/2008 9:34:00 PM, "The TLC website is difficult to navigate." 10,2/25/2008 4:30:00 PM, "Students can complete their portfolio work on a more timely basis if it is possible to open the TLC over spring and fall breaks." 11,3/8/2008 2:05:00 AM,"more weekend hours"

33. 17. Have you implemented a new technology in your course in the past year?

35. 18.What new technology did you integrate last semester, and why?

36. 18. What new technology did you integrate last semester, and why? Respondents,"Response Date","Response Text" 1,2/19/2008 11:07:00 PM,"MyGateway small groups for discussion. I had previously used only the ""Discussion Board."" But class size made it feasible and preferable to have small groups." 2,2/20/2008 4:29:00 PM,"web page building, because the syllabus required it, and I thought it was helpful" 3,2/20/2008 4:43:00 PM,"We did a Live Classroom with audio this semester." 4,2/20/2008 8:31:00 PM,"videos that the students have access to thru mygateway – streamed – so they could watch on their own time" 5,2/20/2008 9:14:00 PM,"use of video in coursework" 6,2/28/2008 5:29:00 PM,"Using MY Gateway" 7,3/8/2008 2:07:00 AM,"assignment submission on MyGateway, Flip cameras, group discussion board, online class sessions and file exchange. To improve student learning, and convenience; my learning and convenience."

37. 19. Was there a reason you did not add new technology this past semester? Anything we could support better?

38. 19.Was there a reason you did not add new technology this past semester? Anything we could support better? Respondents,"Response Date","Response Text“ 1,2/19/2008 11:16:00 PM,"Didn't need additional technology.“ 2,2/20/2008 2:29:00 AM,"No.“ 3,2/20/2008 2:53:00 AM,"I am not comfortable with technology.“ 4,2/20/2008 5:09:00 PM,"I'm satisfied with my use of technology in the courses I teach.“ 5,2/20/2008 9:34:00 PM,"No time to be creative and learn anything new.“ 6,2/25/2008 4:32:00 PM,"I would attend a workshop on new technology possibilities. I know the names of options but not what skills are involved in trying them ( i.e. video streaming, making dvd's, using digital cameras efficently, webquests). So, an overall workshop of options and then what steps are involved to create new technology for each would be very welcome."