Sakai is unavailable Wednesday, August 23rd, for system updates and maintenance. OIT plans to have it back online by the end of the day.
August 2017 Archives
Faculty and instructors who taught Summer 2017 courses should look for email messages (dated 8/21 or 8/22) with the results of their Student Instructional Rating Surveys.
CTAAR is currently using two survey systems:
- For surveys conducted in Sakai: results are in an ".html" file attachment included with the email.
- For surveys conducted in EvaluationKit: results are availlable now for download through https://sirs.ctaar.rutgers.edu/pilot and an addendum (statistics page only) will be sent as an ".html" file attachment in a few days.
For surveys conducted in Sakai, department administrators can view the survey results (statistics only) now through the SIRS Archive, https://ctaar.rutgers.edu/archive/ , and the survey reports with open-ended comments will be uploaded to Sakai dropboxes over the next several days. For surveys conducted in EvaluationKit, department administrators have full access immediately through the EvaluationKit link.
Faculty who use eCollege ("Pearson LearningStudio") for their courses must migrate their courses to another system due to the discontinuation of the eCollege / Pearson LearningStudio product, as previously announced last year.
Pearson officially discontinues support for eCollege at the end of the current Fall 2017 semester. 3rd-party integrations such as Turnitin.com will cease functioning within eCollege by the end of the term.
As of January 1, 2018, eCollege will go into an extended, limited-functionality mode for Rutgers' use; this is intended to provide additional time for moving courses to other systems. The limited functionality will impact students and we strongly recommend using other systems by the start of the Spring semester. All access ends on June 1, 2018 [UPDATED, this date is earlier than previously announced].
Faculty may move their eCollege courses to one of four supported systems:
- Blackboard (Newark and RBS)
- Canvas (primarily online courses as a direct replacement for eCollege, also available university-wide)
- Sakai (university-wide)
- Moodle (RBHS)
The Center for Online and Hybrid Learning and Instructional Technologies (COHLIT) provides assistance to faculty in moving their courses. Please refer to the following web pages for more information:
We have posted the Spring 2017 results of the Student Instructional Rating Survey. They are now available to students and the university community. Log in to the SIRS Results web site using your NetID - https://sirs.ctaar.rutgers.edu/
The posted SIRS results include the statistical summaries of the Student Instructional Rating Surveys. We do not post the open-ended student comments, nor do we post the results for Teaching Assistants. Instructors received their own survey results previously, by email on May 15th, or (for paper-based surveys) by campus mail care-of their department chairs in July. Faculty and instructors should retain their individual survey results for future reference.
