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  • “Respond” Web-Based Audience Response System

    The Office of Medical Informatics is pleased to announce a new service currently under development and ready for beta testing by faculty and students. Respond is a simple, web-based audience response system. It requires no special software or plug-ins, just a web browser and an Internet connection. This includes “smart” phones and PDAs. [Click on [...]

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    • Another New Template Feature: Rename Articles / Disable Google Calendar

      For those interested in renaming the “Recent Articles” text on your home pages, you will now find an option under the menu ‘Appearance’ / ‘Theme Options’ called “Articles” Title on home page.
      Enter into that field whatever you would like to call the Post listing on your home page (e.g. Events, Announcements, etc.) and the title [...]

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      • New Template Feature: drop-down menus

        For sites utilizing the COM “top menu” theme, drop-down menus have now been enabled.

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        • Competency Evaluations in ModCore

          Many clerkship directors are already using a feature of our legacy system called “roll-up”. These evaluations are done in two steps, with initial input from clerkship faculty followed by a summative evaluation completed by the course director. The data from the first step are rolled up and summarized on the summative form. This information is [...]

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          • Core Systems Update 2009

            It’s time for a core systems update. We’ve made significant progress over the past six months or so. (Compare with the 2008 and 2007 updates.)

            The most significant recent milestones are:

            Replaced LDAP with direct access to the Bridges directory for demographics in FIND.
            Maturation of COMTrac integration with FIND and ModCore.
            Course and faculty evaluations moved from EvalSuite  to ModCore.
            Launch [...]

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