Ocotillo Presentation #26

TEDitor to the rescue for online registrations, web postings & more!

presenter: Don Jensen-Bobadilla
email: don.jensen-bobadilla@gcmail.maricopa.edu
department: Training & Employee Development Center
affiliation: Glendale Community College

Co-presenters:
Bobby Sample
Deborah Krumtinger
Karen Russo
Dennis Topel

time and place: Morning (10:15 - 11:45 AM) and Afternoon (1:00 - 2:30 PM) Open Demo Computing Commons P3.26

description:
The Training and Employee Development (TED) Center provides comprehensive in-service training for faculty and staff at Glendale Community College, as well as Estrella Mountain Community College, Phoenix College, and Paradise Valley Community College. TED manages workshops and seminars that provide these employees with the wide variety of technology skills necessary to the tasks of teaching and learning. TED also facilitates events for the whole Maricopa County Community Colleges District, such as live satellite broadcasts on teaching and learning, and courses to promote personal and professional development.

These services amount to hundreds of scheduled sessions every year, and a series of registration, attendance, and evaluation processes to conduct for every one of those sessions. In short, it is a mammoth job for a training department staffed by less than a handful employees.

TEDitor was created to streamline and improve the processes of scheduling, web publishing, printing signage & rosters, and conducting short- and long-term evaluations for the hundreds of sessions TED manages every semester. With it, TED personnel can (using any web browser on any computer system from any Internet-connected location):

* Enter training registrations for individuals.
* Define, describe and catalog all training events.
* Schedule training events by dates and times.
* Preview lists of registrants and contact them via e-mail links.
* Generate pre-formatted signage and rosters for specific events.
* Obtain reports and statistics relating to past TED events.
* Provide training transcripts/history for individuals and campuses.
* Obtain graphed results of attendee evaluations from past TED events.

TEDitor also manages various automated functions to lighten the load on TED personnel, such as:

* Automated display of upcoming events on the TED web site (http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/ted), along with links to descriptions of the training sessions.
* Self-service registration via the web site, for users of any web browser on any computer with web access, from home or on campus.
* Automatic delivery of on-line evaluation forms for attendants to fill out soon after the event, and a timed follow-up 30 days later.

TEDitor helps TED succeed in the crucial service of supporting faculty and staff as a learning community, impacting the quality of education and campus services for Maricopa students.

TEDitor maximizes an extremely efficient design: multiple web-based applications that “talk” to a central database on a web server. This makes the program accessible everywhere, and capable of fulfilling multiple goals via print, e-mail, and dynamic online tools.

TEDitor consists entirely of original programs created, maintained, and continuously improved upon by the GCC Innovation Center, customized for the specific needs and benefits of TED.

For the TED office coordinator, the TEDitor is the best thing since sliced bread! TEDitor rocks!

More details and presentation materials are available in the Maricopa Learning eXchange package for this session.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/slip.php?item=1549