Current UAB IT and Student Initiatives

  • UAB Mobile
  • Blackboard Connect for Learn
  • Clickers

Blackboard Availability*

  • 2013  99.986%
  • Jan     100%
  • Feb     100%
  • March  100%
  • April     99.944%

 

  • 2012   99.967%
  • 2011   99.97%
  • 2010   99.86%
  • 2009   99.89%

*excludes scheduled maintenance;
Blackboard availibility guarantee -
as of May 2011 - 99.9%


Blackboard Utilization

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GOAL:

Provide consistent, accessible, personalized and collaborative environments to enhance the student experience. 


OBJECTIVES:

Develop a student network, hardware and software strategy.

    1. Monitor network usage and proactively forecast and deploy wireless access points as needed.
    2. Enhance the self-service method for restoring service for quarantined computers.
    3. Support software initiatives to ensure student success.
    4. Create a student multimedia center.
    5. Explore options for expanding technological solutions available to students.

Develop a student mobile learning strategy that blends with the overall UAB mobile strategy.

    1. Implement mobile applications for the learning management and student information systems.
    2. Expand mobile-enabled websites.
    3. Develop custom applications that address UAB student needs.

Promote student awareness about information security and privacy, appropriate use of the UAB network, IT services and campus safety initiatives.

    1. Attend student orientation sessions, provide informational websites, and host a cybersecurity awareness month.
    2. Support enhancements to UAB's Emergency Management Notification system.
    3. Solicit feedback from students regarding UAB IT services.
    4. Improve communications of appropriate use of the UAB network and enhance the self-service method of restoring service.
    5. Increase awareness and utilization of UAB IT services including the software licensing program.

Resources for Students: