Electronic Resources at UTC

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has a variety of electronic resources to assist you in successfully performing your adjunct faculty duties. Listed below are some of the more common resources but if there is a specific need that you have feel free to contact the Walker Teaching Resource Center (425-4188) for help accessing other campus teaching resources.

UTCOnline (Blackboard)

Our online course delivery system, UTCOnline, allows you to interact with your students electronically. Every course taught at UTC has a UTCOnline component created and populated with the enrolled students for that course. While we do not recommend first time faculty devoting all their time to learning all of UTCOnline's features, there are some features that will help you be organized and hopefully decrease the time it takes you to do the things you want to so with your students. For example.

Posting course materials -- By placing course materials such as the syllabus inside of UTCOnline, students can get to a copy at any time. No more lost syllabi needing to be replaced.
Electronic office hours.-- With UTCOnline , you have ready access to your students email addresses. This allows you to send emails with one students or to all students at once. Notice a problem on an assignment? Just log into UTCOnline and fire off an email to all your students to correct it.. You can also carry on specific topical discussions with students in the discussion area. The beauty of which is that students do not all have to participate at the same time and all get to see the discussion in order.
UTCOnline have a gradebook feature-- This allows you to post your students grades in a manner that is secure and convenient for the student. They do not have to spend a lot of time trying to track you down and you do not have to worry about students calling you to try and get you to give them their grades over the phone (which actually violates Federal law to do. Don't give grades out over the phone). By posting grades in UTCOnline , the students have access to their grades 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Fell a little intimidated by UTCOnline? No problem. The teaching resource center provides training courses in a variety of aspects of UTCOnline usage. Click here to see the seminar offerings.

Mocsnet

Mocsnet is UTC's networking resource that brings together all of the various electronic services and presents them in a unified place. It also allows the user to have one username and password to access all of these resources. Besides being a portal to other campus resources, Mocsnet provides the following services directly to faculty, staff, and students.

Email - All faculty, staff, and students are required to use the official University provided email address for university related correspndence. The system can be accessed using any modern email program as well as through the web interface accessible form anywhere you can get an internet connection. Email accounts are automatically generated when an employee is put into the human resources computer so please make sure your paperwork is in order and in. You can usually check and see if you are in the system yet by trying to look yourself up in UTC's online directory.
File storage - Facutly are alloted 200 megabytes of online storage on a special server that is backed up frequently. This means that if you put information on our server, it will be copied and stored in a safe place. Even if the server is completely destroyed, your data that was present during to lsat backup will be safe.
Personal Web Page - Some faculty choose to communicate with student en masse using a web page. If you choose to do this instead of using UTCOnline , a space is provided for you. Just remember that no identifying student information or grades can be published on a regular web page. Your web page is located in your personal file storage area in a subdirectory named Public_html. Everything you place inside this subdirectory is visible to everyone on the internet. To have files that are private to you, make sure to place them anywhere but the Public_html subdirectory.

Here is a link to the UTC Mocsnet Portal

Computer hardware problems -

Call the Help desk at 425-4000 if you have any trouble with any hardware that you use to teach. They will either be able to help you get it working or they will know who to put you in contact with in order to get it fixed.

Classroom hardware -

Same as above. Call the Help Desk at 425-4000. Really, they can help.

Software installation and maintenance

See the pattern developing? Call the Help Desk at 425-4000. They will help you get in touch with someone who can help.

Software Training and Guidance

OK, the Help Desk does not do this. But they can help you get in touch with the Walker Teaching Resource Center (425-4188) who can. While the teaching resource center does help people figure specific issues with programs, we do not provide basic level training in using Windows and Microsoft Office programs. We can however recommend places that do provide this type of low level training.