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Community Pickleball Activity/Study

Submitted by: Ryan Cox, rcox13@cub.uca.edu on 05/13/2024

My name is Ryan Cox and I’m an occupational therapy student at UCA. My capstone is focused on helping adults find meaningful activities they can engage in throughout their lives. As part of this project, we will be hosting pickleball activities for all adults ages 40+. At these activities, participants will learn the rules of the game, proper body mechanics, and injury prevention strategies to help them avoid common injuries. It will be held on Tuesdays at the UCA HPER Center from 6 pm – 7:30 pm starting this week on the 14th. I’d love to invite all UCA faculty, staff, and community members to participate!

 

New Sensitivity Levels for Respondus Monitor

Submitted by: Tonya McKinney, tmckinne@uca.edu on 05/13/2024

Controlling your sensitivities is a good thing. That’s especially so in Respondus Monitor (https://web.respondus.com/he/monitor/).

The flagging system in Respondus Monitor now supports three sensitivity levels: Strict, Standard, and Relaxed. The default setting is Standard, and it produces results like before. The Strict sensitivity setting detects when portions of the face have moved outside of the video frame or when both eyes of the test taker aren’t visible. When this occurs, a Partial Missing flag will appear in the proctoring results.

With the Relaxed setting, what you’ll notice most is that it reduces the sensitivity of Missing flags. If the face or eyes are partially missing from the webcam video but Respondus Monitor can still detect the student is there, the Missing flag is less likely to trigger.

Which of the three settings should an instructor choose? It depends on the testing scenario. The relaxed setting might be preferred with open-book exams since students often turn away from the webcam to look at notes or books. Strict sensitivity might be appropriate for tests where students aren’t using outside resources like books, calculators, or scratch paper.

One of the best aspects of the new sensitivity setting is that an instructor can select it after students have completed their exams. This is possible because the setting appears on the proctoring results page. When the sensitivity level is changed, the Review Priority scores and the rankings of the proctoring sessions are immediately updated for the instructor.

To learn more about proctoring results in Respondus Monitor, such as flagging, milestones, and Review Priority events, select Understanding Proctoring Results from the Respondus Monitor dashboard.

Related articles:
— Why We Do Our Own Machine Learning – Respondus Monitor’s computer vision system differs from other proctoring companies in that it doesn’t use off-the-shelf machine learning models that were trained with generic data sets. Read More: https://web.respondus.com/why-we-do-our-own-machine-learning/

— Enhanced Flagging for Respondus Monitor – A proctoring system that flags too much is like the boy who cries wolf: after a while, you start to ignore the warning. Read More: https://web.respondus.com/enhanced-flagging-respondus-monitor/

— Respondus Monitor Paves the Way – When driving along a road, have you ever encountered a freshly paved section? That’s what the latest release of Respondus Monitor feels like. Read More: https://web.respondus.com/respondus-monitor-paves-the-way/.

— New Features: Faster Proctoring Results for Respondus Monitor – The average time for Respondus Monitor proctoring results to become available to instructors is now less than 10 minutes. Read More: https://web.respondus.com/faster-proctoring-results-for-respondus-monitor/

 

Employee Service Awards Survey

Submitted by: Christina Lammers, clammers@uca.edu on 05/13/2024

Our office has prepared a campus-wide survey to gather information regarding future service award programs for UCA employees. Your feedback will assist us greatly in planning this program.

Please complete the survey – it’s short and will only take a few minutes. The deadline is Monday, May 20th at 4:30 pm. Thank you!

https://forms.gle/JRTBCKGZ4AxyY24v7

Miss UCA Send Off Party!

Submitted by: Stephanie McBrayer, smcbrayer@uca.edu on 05/09/2024

The Miss UCA Send Off Party is planned for Thursday, May 30 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm in the Cafeteria’s Executive Dining Room.
You’re invited to join us for a reception honoring the Miss University of Central Arkansas, Kennedy Holland. She will be leaving to represent UCA in the Miss Arkansas Competition in Little Rock from June 8th – 15th at the Robinson Center.

Remarks at 4:30pm.
Refreshments will be served.

Contact: missuca@uca.edu
Instagram: @miss_uca

uca.edu/missuca