Application Achievements

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UAEU Learning Management Systems

Learning Management System (LMS) is core teaching and learning tool that is vital for any Higher Education Institute. To deliver world class learning & teaching experience, UAEU has adopted Blackboard Learn LMS, Blackboard one of the critical systems in UAEU and serves as one stop shop for all academics needs, that engages Students and Faculty to allow providing the learning resources, developing and tracking the assignments and assessment, and online interaction and collaboration between Faculty and Students. In the year 2018, certain development has been applied to the area of Blackboard and introduction of more supportive Solutions to enrich and supplement the Lesson delivery and Learning experience through Blackboard LMS.

Blackboard Analytics for Learn (A4L):

To make learning and teaching processes efficient, learning technology backed with analytics/BI engine is needed and here where Blackboard Analytics for Learn comes into picture. With a joint effort between DoIT and CETL, UAEU implemented and lunched A4L. It has been introduced to offer a complete line of data and analytics suite, provides a great experience to the different user groups to deal with actionable data and critical insights with unique opportunities to optimize resources and study closely critical success factors as per the requirement. Briefly, Blackboard Analytics for Learn can be used to achieve different goals, such as but not limited to: Instructors can analyze the way learners engage with courses in fine-grained detail, Evaluate program effectiveness and improve annual assessment planning for assessment and accreditation, and the Improve enrollment, increase student retention, and optimize institutional performance with Blackboard Intelligence. Blackboard analytics brings the opportunity to improve the performance using evidence based approaches and gain all round support for deploying best practices in the institution.

Panopto

To serve the increasing needs of using videos with in Lesson Delivery, to provide an enhanced framework for Blended Teaching and Learning process and in line with UAEU’s Vision “The University of Future”, Panopto is introduced. Panopto provides options for lecture capturing, video streaming and video content management. For the convenience of educators and students, Panopto is tightly integrated to Blackboard, so academic users can perform all their activities from creating videos to embedding and streaming without having to leave their Blackboard course page.

Blackboard Upgrade

Blackboard is the backbone system for UAEU Teaching and learning process, thus keeping this system up-to-date is essential to realize the best performance with the evolvement of the usage of Blackboard by UAEU Faculty and Students. Part of continuous enhancement and improvement, during the summer break of 2018 Blackboard is upgraded with introducing key enhancements as following some and not only:

Drag and drop files – Instructors & Students can quickly and easily drag and drop files from your desktop to upload them.
Improved mobile experience- many tools are now mobile-friendly including blogs, journals and discussion boards and finally hamburger for easy navigation.
Improved Performance and Stability.
Assignment Submission receipts for Students – a submission receipt gives students assurance about their work and can provide evidence for academic disputes.
Missing coursework reminders – Instructors can now send email reminders directly from Grade Center columns to students and members of groups who have missing coursework.
Chemistry notation support – Chemistry tools, like an embedded periodic table of elements, are now included in the math editor found in the Content Editor.
Grade Center improvements – When multiple-attempt assessments are set to calculate using the first or last attempt, a new filter is available to show or hide other non-counted attempts.

Alumni & Student Official Document Services

Digital Documents using Blockchain

Blockchain Technology has been introduced in UAEU by implementing Digital Credentials for UAEU Students and Alumni. The project had went through different phases; the first phase focused on issuing the Digital Credentials by establishing the solution that allows the following deliverables:

Provide a Publisher Application for Registrar office to issue Digital Documents (i.e. Diploma, Transcript, etc.) to the Blockchain and share them seam¬lessly with UAEU Student/Alumni.
Provide a Verification Portal to the Digital Document Recipient (e.g. Employers) to verify the Digital Document shared by UAEU Students/Alumni.

The second phase streamlined UAEU Student/Alumni Documents services with Block¬chain by adding the option to request the digital documents online and fully integrate these services with the Publisher application, which should publish the request to the Blockchain and issue the digital documents.

Printable Document Requests Enhancements

Current students and alumni members can request official documents such as Transcripts, Degree, To Whom It May Concern letter. The process of requesting such documents has been improved and simplified. Students and Alumni can submit their request online, pay applicable fees and for some requests, receive the document instantly by email. The improvements in 2018 release includes
(1) Document delivery either by pick up from the University or delivery by Courier to a selected destination.
(2) Payment for the applicable fees and currier delivery fees by either credit card or pre-charged student ID.

UAEU Passport

UAEU Passport was the wrap-up milestone in introducing a comprehensive Blockchain Tech implementation in UAEU, and it has considered the last phase of the project. UAEU Passport is a digital wallet application. It is an Academic Record-Keeping for UAEU Students and Alumni that store their digital documents issued to Blockchain. The application allows UAEU Students and Alumni to manage, use and share their digital documents.