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Title: Grad Tools Pilot


1
Grad Tools Pilot
  • Grad Tools and The Dissertation Checklist
  • CARAT Updates Presentation
  • March 19, 2004
  • Presenters
  • Michelle Bejian Lotia, Duderstadt Center
  • Rex Patterson, Rackham

2
Investigation
  • Rackham and Media Union Partnership
  • Conducted Study and Focus Groups
  • 40 participants (students, faculty and staff)
  • Assessed need for web-based dissertation tool
  • Gained insight on current processes
  • Identified user requirements
  • Researched peer institutions
  • Recommended the development of Grad Tools

3
Project Timeline 
  • Pilot
  • Fall 2003 - Student training and evaluation
  • March 2004 - Second student evaluation
  • Spring 2004 - Integration of evaluation feedback
  • Participants
  • 16 Doctoral Students
  • 12 Doctoral Programs
  • Grad Tools Go Live Fall 2004
  • All doctoral students can create their own site

4
Software Environment
  • Part of CourseTools Next Generation
  • One web environment for many uses
  • Courses, projects and collaborations,
    dissertation
  • One-click access to sites
  • Accessible to UM and external users
  • UM users use uniqnames and Kerberos passwords
  • External users use their email addresses
  • Based on CHEF 1.0 framework
  • Integrated with Rackham and MAIS data
  • Framework migration to Sakai 1.0/CHEF 2.0 in
    Summer 2004

5
Features 
  • Dissertation Checklist - documents the major
    steps in the process that a student might
    typically follow toward degree conferral
  • Schedule - record students personal, committee
    and Rackham milestones
  • Announcements Rackham news, upcoming workshops,
    changes to deadlines, etc.
  • Resources - documents can be stored, organized
    and shared links to important resources to
    assist with the research and writing of the
    dissertation

6
Features (continued)
  • Discussion - committee members and the student
    can have interaction online to provide comments
    on the drafts of the dissertation
  • Chat Room student may send messages to others
    that are signed onto their site
  • Email Archive - allows group email to be
    established, sent and archived
  • Grad Tools Help - provides online documentation
    for student, department staff, and committee
    members

7
Dissertation Checklist 
  • Overview
  • student driven/interactive
  • access to individual site is student controlled
  • provides 32 major steps including all Rackham
    required steps
  • includes links to helpful information sites
  • ability to add departmental, individual student
    and committee member steps
  • legend indicating responsible actors associated
    with each step

8
Dissertation Checklist  (continued)
  • Overview
  • prerequisites are noted with reference number(s)
    for the prior steps that must first be completed
  • option to show/hide completed checked off steps
  • date step was checked off appears if cursor is
    moved over the checkmark
  • updated weekly via extracts from MPathways
    (student records) and the Office of Academic
    Records and Dissertation (doctoral degree system)

9
Conclusion 
  • Doctoral Degree The Steps
  • http//www.rackham.umich.edu/OARD/docsteps.html
  • Project Team
  • Monique Washington (Rackham)
  • Jody Misiak (Rackham)
  • Dick Ellis (Duderstadt Center)
  • Questions and Answers
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