Office of the University Registrar

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Have grading questions? Need a little help? Check out the Autumn 2011 edition of the quarterly Online Grade Submission newsletter here.

The Office of the Registrar has published the latest Grade Submission newsletter for UW staff and faculty, designed to assist you with the grading process. Access the Summer 2011 newsletter here.

The Summer newsletter documents how to use the new online grade submission tool known as GradePage. Gradepage is a fast and simple-to-use tool that allows you submit online grades.

Have feedback? Use our contact page to let us know your thoughts.

The latest Grade Submission newsletter for UW staff and faculty, designed to assist you with the grading process, has just been published by The Office of the Registrar.

Access the Spring 2011 newsletter here. Have feedback? Use our contact page to let us know your thoughts!

As part of our ongoing mission to provide the best in useful information to the University, ADM is upgrading our suite of reports. In the past, many of our reports have been printed and distributed on paper. This has been a cumbersome process that has not only slowed our ability to respond to the changing needs of the campus community, but been pretty hard on the trees, too.

So, we’re converting lots of reports from paper to pixels.  Some will stay on the ADM website, others will move to the Enterprise Data Warehouse, still others will be distributed as PDF files via email.  It’s a sizable task and it will take time, but in the end we’ll be able to provide information to the campus much more efficiently.

And while we’re at it, we are modernizing the content, too.  We have a new version of the QuickStats.  We’ve changed some parts and added others.  Take a look:

https://depts.washington.edu/reptreq/reports/quick_stats.php

If you have any feedback, we’d love to hear it: reptreq@uw.edu

Olaf Buntrock, Web Manager, Office of the Registrar

“Webmaster,” says Olaf Buntrock, the Office of the Registrar’s latest staff addition, “is a bit of a ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ -era label.” He adds, with a grin, “Who could master the whole Web, after all?”

Olaf brings with him experience from both the corporate and government arenas as a web producer with companies such as Microsoft, Disney and the Department of Licensing, as well as a academic background, as a former high school teacher of Visual Communications and Digital Production. Born in New Jersey and transplanted at an early age, Olaf grew up in the mountains surrounding Boulder, Colorado, home of the University of Colorado. When not playing with pixels in Photoshop or weaving dreams in HTML, he is an avid skier, gardener, chef, yoga enthusiast and father to the bright and precocious 17 year-old senior at Mt. Rainier High School in Des Moines, Washington.

“Being immersed in the web publishing business since Netscape 1.0 and 28K modems to today’s slew of devices that capture and display web content wirelessly, I’ve come to appreciate the fluid nature of information technology and education. Accessibility, usability and discoverability are large parts of my  focus on the web, and it’s very exciting to be able to bring more of the best of what the web has to offer to the staff and students at the University of Washington, in an atmosphere of intellectual curiousity and nimble technology. I look forward to learning as much as I can while providing the best web experience possible for all our students and staff. The web, by its very nature, belongs to everyone, and everyone should be able to use it effectively, efficiently and with no small bit of enjoyment as well .”

A recent segment on KOMO news has created some confusion regarding the release of directory information via the UW’s iPhone app.

As always, the UW is in compliance with federal regulations regarding what student information it does and does not release. Students are allowed to designate whether they want to allow a specific set of their information to be made public or not. The iPhone app uses a small subset of that information and releases it only for those students who have designated that they are willing to let the UW release that information.

More information on the Federal Education Right to Privacy Act (FERPA) is available at uw.edu/students/reg/ferpa.html, which also contains links to MyUW, where students can change their FERPA release flag.

The Office of the Registrar is excited to announce that Virjean Hanson Edwards has been appointed University Registrar, effective November 1^st.

Virjean’s leadership at the Registrar’s Office spans 12 years, including positions as Assistant, Associate, and Interim Registrar.

Philip Ballinger, Assistant Vice President for Enrollment noted that Virjean is “known across campus as a capable leader” and “an ardent guardian of and expert on the student record.” Please join us in congratulating her on her new appointment!

The October 28^th, 2010 Issue of UWeek published an article after interviewing Matt Winslow, Acting Associate Registrar of the Room Assignment and Time Schedule Office.  The article illustrates the challenges faced by the Time Schedule Office each quarter to assign rooms and meet the needs of many, while maximizing the best use of limited-space.

Every quarter, Winslow’s office juggles factors of time, day, location and more to match classes and rooms with the least amount of faculty inconvenience and wasted time and space. They are assisted by the Classroom Support Services Office, which sees to classroom technical needs and longer-range planning.

Learn more about the Room Assignment and Time Schedule Office and the process for assigning classrooms in the full UWeek article.