Office of the University Registrar http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog Preserving the UW's history and forging its future. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:32:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Transcript window closed on 12/16/11 from 3 – 5 p.m. http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/12/12/transcript-window-closed-on-121611-from-3-5-p-m/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/12/12/transcript-window-closed-on-121611-from-3-5-p-m/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:32:26 +0000 msaavedr http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=652 The Transcript window at 225 Schmitz will be closed on 12/16/11 from 3 – 5 p.m.

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/12/12/transcript-window-closed-on-121611-from-3-5-p-m/feed/ 0 Online Grading Information for Autumn 2011 (faculty and staff) http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/12/02/online-grading-information-for-autumn-2011-faculty-and-staff/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/12/02/online-grading-information-for-autumn-2011-faculty-and-staff/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:14:28 +0000 msaavedr http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=649 Have grading questions? Need a little help? Check out the Autumn 2011 edition of the quarterly Online Grade Submission newsletter here.

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/12/02/online-grading-information-for-autumn-2011-faculty-and-staff/feed/ 0 Grades Newsletter (Summer 2011) Available for Staff and Faculty http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/07/15/grades-newsletter-summer-2011-available-for-staff-and-faculty/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/07/15/grades-newsletter-summer-2011-available-for-staff-and-faculty/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:42:56 +0000 msaavedr http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=645 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.

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

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/05/10/grades-newsletter-spring-2011-available-for-staff-and-faculty/feed/ 0 The Office of Academic Data Management is renovating! http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/02/15/the-office-of-academic-data-management-is-renovating/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/02/15/the-office-of-academic-data-management-is-renovating/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:31:01 +0000 msaavedr http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=609 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

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/02/15/the-office-of-academic-data-management-is-renovating/feed/ 1 Meet OUR’s New Web Manager http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/01/28/meet-ours-new-web-manager/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/01/28/meet-ours-new-web-manager/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:39:31 +0000 olafb http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=595 Olaf Buntrock, Web Manager, OUR

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 .”

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2011/01/28/meet-ours-new-web-manager/feed/ 0 Confused about directory release information? http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/12/17/confused-about-directory-release-information/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/12/17/confused-about-directory-release-information/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:39:34 +0000 msaavedr http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=584 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.

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/12/17/confused-about-directory-release-information/feed/ 0 Virjean Edwards appointed University Registrar http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/11/03/virjean-edwards-appointed-university-registrar/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/11/03/virjean-edwards-appointed-university-registrar/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:12:33 +0000 msaavedr http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=576 The Office of the Registrar is excited to announce that Virjean Hanson Edwards has been appointed University Registrar, effective November 1st.

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!

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/11/03/virjean-edwards-appointed-university-registrar/feed/ 0 UWeek showcases the hard work performed by the Room Assignment and Time Schedule Office http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/10/28/uweek-showcases-the-hard-work-performed-by-the-room-assignment-and-time-schedule-office/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/10/28/uweek-showcases-the-hard-work-performed-by-the-room-assignment-and-time-schedule-office/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:09:40 +0000 msaavedr http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=571 The October 28th, 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.

]]> http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/10/28/uweek-showcases-the-hard-work-performed-by-the-room-assignment-and-time-schedule-office/feed/ 0 UW Time Schedule archive now available online http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/09/27/uw-time-schedule-archive-now-available-online/ http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/2010/09/27/uw-time-schedule-archive-now-available-online/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:14:36 +0000 admin http://depts.washington.edu/registra/blog/?p=563
In August, 2009, the Office of the University Registrar (OUR) posted on this blog an archivist internship position. Back in May, 2010, the OUR announced that intern’s first project: the UW General Catalog archive. Today, we are happy to announce the publication of another archiving project: the quarterly Time Schedule archive.

What’s included?

The archive contains copies of the UW’s quarterly Time Schedules from the previous quarter, back through autumn quarter, 1968. From that date through summer quarter, 2002, the Time Schedules are available as searchable PDF documents scanned from the printed editions. After that date, the Time Schedule became an online-only publication and links to those quarters’ editions are presented as web archives.

Each scanned edition is in PDF format so it is viewable by any computer, and range in file size from 2-24 Mb (though the majority are about 15 Mb). Page numbers and file size are listed for scanned editions. Because they were scanned from original documents, they retain the charm of actual printed pages; some have hand-written notes or dog-eared pages. Luckily, optical-character recognition (OCR) software is good enough to recognize the words on the page so that each file is searchable. Just enter a word(s) in the search field your PDF software.

Some editions were unavailable for scanning and are note included in this archive. Missing editions are displayed in gray. If you have a copy of a a missing Time Schedule that you’d like to contribute to the archive, please let us know.

Why is it important?

Providing these quarter Time Schedules to the public in an easily-searchable format has many benefits to the University. Most of the benefits of publishing the archive of General Catalogs apply to Time Schedules as well. In addition, this archive:

  • Allows alumni to determine the location and instructor of courses they took, information that is not included on their official University transcript.
  • Provides a record of administration and registration procedures for that quarter.

A few words of thanks

The OUR would again like to thank those who made this project possible:

  • Intern Talea Anderson, UW MLIS graduate student – Talea worked closely with the OUR’s Time Schedule office and the UW Libraries to scan and digitize the Time Schedules; and
  • Anne Graham with the UW Libraries’ Digital Initiatives Program – Anne and her group provided the hardware to prepare and scan the Time Schedules for posting.
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