INTRODUCTION TO NEW INNOVATIONS First Year Student Orientation

INTRODUCTION TO NEW INNOVATIONS™ First Year Student Orientation August 1, 2013

What is New Innovations? New Innovations is a web-based educational management system for medical schools and residency programs. q As first-year students, you will use the Evaluations module. q Third-year students also use the Logger and Scheduling modules. q

New Innovations Modules q Schedules (Clinical Rotations) q Logger (Patient Case Logs) q Evaluations (Courses and Faculty)

Course Evaluation: Core Items

Faculty Evaluation: Core Items

Accessing New Innovations

Logging In https: //www. new-innov. com/Login/ You will be prompted to change your password after the initial log in.

New Innovations Home Page

New Innovations Menu Bar

My Favorites

Course and Faculty Evaluations You will use New Innovations to complete required evaluations. q You will receive e-mail notifications about evaluations. q The timely completion of course and faculty evaluations is a COM requirement. (Please refer to your syllabus for details). q Once entered, all evaluations are anonymous. q

Exiting New Innovations Hover your name at top of home page screen. Click on Log Out. You also can check for messages or change your password here.

New Innovations Help Password/General Questions: Lana Dearinger (323 -6446, ldearing@email. uky. edu) q q Evaluations: Ellen Napier (323 -4643, etnapi 2@uky. edu)

New Innovations Resources These slides will be made available on the UKCOM Assessment and Quality Management web page: http: //meded. med. uky. edu/new-innovations

Questions on New Innovations?

Course Exams - Exam. Soft™ is a proprietary software system that allows exams to be created, administered, and scored electronically. Sof. Test is the module you will use to securely take exams on your personal laptop computer. Completed exams are automatically uploaded back to a secure server. As a tutorial, a mock exam will be given: Friday, August 9, HG 611 @ 1: 00 p. m.

Sof. Test Module You will receive an e-mail instructing you to download (and register) your copy of Sof. Test You should install Sof. Test on the laptop you will be using for course exams (Mac/PC) Your Exam. Soft username is the first part of your UK e-mail address (e. g. , student 34@uky. edu) Your initial password is randomly assigned – and contained in the introductory e-mail. You will be prompted to change it upon initial log in.

Student Exam Reports Individual reports summarizing your test performance are sent to you electronically (youremail@uky. edu) in *. pdf format. At your discretion, these can be printed off and used during post-exam review sessions. Post-exam revisions may be made to correct poorly-performing test items; as a result, this exam reporting process may be repeated or delayed slightly.

Exam Contacts For questions regarding exam reports, contact Amy Murphy-Spencer (amspenc@email. uky. edu), 3231196. All questions regarding actual tests, content, test scores, or course grades should be directed to respective course directors. Please read each course syllabus carefully to identify exam dates/times, grading schemes, etc.

Exam. Soft Tech Issues Ben Lawson (323 -2840, joseph. lawson@uky. edu) Scott Pappas (323 -3580, scott. pappas@uky. edu) Stephen Welch (323 -2009, stephen. welch@uky. edu)

Exam. Soft Resources These slides will be made available on the UKCOM Assessment and Quality Management web page: http: //meded. med. uky. edu/examsoft-information

Questions on Exam. Soft?