Category: Projects and Processes
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Top knowledge champions share their secrets
The Knowledge Base (KB) is the central repository for LITS IT documentation and the key component of Emory’s Knowledge Management process. The ITSMO Team wanted to recognize two of its most prolific users to exemplify how useful the tool can be for all of LITS. Messaging Team – Jay Flanagan “One of the things my team…
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Emory Shared Data reimplementation
In early July, after a long “burn-in period,” Phase III of the Emory Shared Data (ESD) project was closed. ESD is the person registry that supports the Emory identity management system. The very first record entered into ESD was on May 11, 1992. “After 22 years, it was time to bring the service into LITS’…
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Special Collections Request System goes live
On Thursday, October 9, the Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library (MARBL) launched a new Special Collections Request System. This system allows MARBL users to register and request materials online. By registering with the system, users are able to request materials directly from the Emory University Libraries’ catalog and finding aids database, view their patron…
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Symplicity Insight application becomes “ASST”
The Symplicity Insight application has been Emoryized as the Advising and Support Scheduling Tool (ASST), pronounced, “assist”. Below is an article that Steve Savage (Emory College Office of Undergraduate Education) wrote as a promotion for the new system in January 2014: “As the name suggests, the new system allows undergraduate students to schedule academic advising…
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Emory Libraries launch Course Reserves application
This past May, Emory Libraries launched Course Reserves, a new tool for Library patrons (staff, faculty and students) to access course materials that are requested to be held in reserve by instructors. Physical materials (books, videos, music, etc.) are kept on reserve in various Emory Libraries, and electronic materials are available through Course Reserves. Course…
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Monitoring tool gives real-time data on transplant success rates
Kendra Bryant and Jeff Weaver, members of the Information Technology Data Solutions (IT Data Solutions) group, recently presented a demonstration of a business intelligence (BI) tool that uses the data warehouse to help doctors understand transplant success rates. The monitoring tool, called the Rolling Cohort Summary and Dashboard, was the first tool at Emory to take raw…
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Learning Analytics at Emory
In May 2013, Academic Technology Services at Emory University made the decision to begin its investment in the emerging field of learning analytics with a pilot installation of Blackboard Analytics for Learn™. With the pilot now successfully complete, and the product licensed for another year, we look forward to several other initiatives meant to encourage…