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Mar 07, 2016
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Big data analytics has matured so well it's no longer an experimental tool. Benefits are being reaped in every business and institution. Some of the key benefits of big data analytics areFaster and better decision makingPredicting future trends and forecastingGenerates new products and servicesProvide instant statistics on your websiteNow how can your department reap the same benefits. Department Logistics Service is the answer. It enables you to manage the faculty, courses, locations, schedules and other relevant department data in the
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Mar 05, 2016
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CircleRAM
Cloud refers to implementing services using shared resources, internet and devices on demand. Technology implementation for productivity improvement was expensive and time consuming. Not anymore. Since 2012, Cloud computing revolution has enabled businesses to implement productivity improvement tools with very very low cost and in short time. It's time that departments can leverage and take advantage of cloud computing technology and raise the bar for department productivity while saving dollars every day.Department Logistics Service is here to enable your department withimproved
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Mar 02, 2016
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CircleRAM
Students are always under time pressure during the term with their homework assignments, quizzes, and final exam preparations. On top of that pressure there are activities that take long time impacting their productive life. These activities may include but not limited to areTrips to department or faculty office to collect green sheet, syllabus, assignments, etc.Visiting and waiting during office hours seekng approvals for necessary from faculty for pre-requisites, or recommendations letter etc.Running around to find out which classroom is their section
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Feb 29, 2016
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CircleRAM
Paper forms are used in every department for either internal processing (Grade changes, Filing incomplete and so on) or by students for either filing a petition or requesting a copy of their transcript. Do you or your students have to stop everything you’re doing just to fill out something before you can continue work or get an authorization of some sort? And what if this paper based forms need to be put online. You don’t have to hire a developer to do
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Feb 29, 2016
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CircleRAM
Accreditation, Compliance, Law, Regulation, Transparency, Policies, StandardsAll these words run through our head when we think about Compliance. Needless to say, these are important artifacts for Governance and running a department effectively.Focusing of quality and successful implementation of Student Learning Outcomes, Academic Senate at State level has started discussions on the importance of;1. Collecting Syllabi each term from Faculty as record and keeping those on file for certain number of years.2. Mention of Student Learning Outcomes on Syllabus as means
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Feb 26, 2016
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CircleRAM
Departments have long been managing forms independently while duplicating the effort thousands of times. It’s time to contribute your share and help making world better place. Future of department community and sharing of electronic forms is here. To see the available community forms at no cost to you Login to CircleRAM Department Logistics Service
Click on “Manage Forms”
Click on “Custom Forms”
Click on “on arrow image” to subscribe
To share your custom form, it’s as easy as
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Feb 24, 2016
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CircleRAM
Paper forms are used widely in most of institutions. However some institutions have moved to electronic forms and reduced their paper trail and saved millions of dollars every year. For example GE started filing their taxes online few years ago and reduced their paper trail significantly. Why not college departments convert their paper forms online?Departments have paper forms like paid office hours, grade change requests, incomplete contracts, and more. It’s time to relook at if that’s the best way while
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Feb 23, 2016
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CircleRAM
It is the start of the term and you have announced the schedule few weeks before. Students are registered in classes are looking forward to learning. Faculty are ready to start the quarter and need to publish their schedule and office hours. So the natural way of doing this
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Feb 22, 2016
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CircleRAM
Final Exam schedule is generally created by educational institutions, based on a master calendar. Faculty create the calendar based on the master schedule during the term. The schedule is generally shared with students and department office (in case students need information). This information is generally compiled and emailed by Faculty to department and students. It is also posted by Faculty outside their office. Generally, creating and mailing such schedule can cost each faculty about 1 to 2 hours. This task can
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Feb 19, 2016
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CircleRAM
We at Department Logistics want to recognize Dr. Ray Bareiss for his work and guidance to educational community.
Dr. Ray Bareiss, former Director of Educational Programs and Professor of the Practice of Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has provided faculty with guidance on Experential Learning. Dr. Bareiss is currently working as Senior Vice President of Socratic Arts and Chief Education Officer of Experiential Teaching Online, a leading provider of online courses and degree programs in partnership with top universities. He
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Feb 19, 2016
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CircleRAM
Departments collect and manage syllabi in word documents and personal folders. Syllabi is circulated on papers to whoever needs them. Modifying and correcting syllabus content is very time consuming. FInding historical course syllabus is even more difficult. Why not maintain syllabi in one database and make it super easy to update and share.CircleRAM Department Logistics service is here to help manage syllabi in central database that enables the collaboration with relevant department personnel. Service helps you search and report syllabi,
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Feb 17, 2016
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CircleRAM
Schedule for classes taught by Faculty is a critical part of Department's database. The planning of a schedule taken several steps and coordination between faculty and department heads - Finding what courses each faculty can teach, scheduling preferences, teaching seniority, room’s availability and so on. All of this work is done by emails, google docs or excel documents. This increases clutter in mailbox and information has to be prioritized manually, making it error prone.So what can you do instead? Manage this in
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Feb 13, 2016
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CircleRAM
Classroom Availability : How can you get a quick snapshot of Classroom and Labs schedule?Classroom and lab scheduling is one of the most tedious daily activity when you cannot see what has been scheduled in what location. On an average people spend 30 to 60 mins per day to schedule a room resolving all the conflicts. CircleRAM Department Logistics service is here to get rid of your headache and schedule a room without any conflicts in seconds. Service lets you search
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Feb 13, 2016
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CircleRAM
Keeping up to date contact information for faculty and staff, is critical for each department. What if you need to contact your faculty and staff in emergency - Current contact information might be your only way to keep reach them. You can send emails requesting the most current information, or use Google forms or send out Word docs for department members to update. Either way, think about the time it would take to update or to create a single source
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Feb 13, 2016
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CircleRAM
Greetings from CircleRam - Department Logisitics.
Have you ever wondered, why with all the technologies we have, we are still dependent of filing cabinets and wasting hours filling paper documents, submitting it for signatures, and more often than usual things get lost in the circulation?
CircleRam provides a solution to manage your department business from your screen. You can contact your faculty and staff, prepare and send important documents such as teaching preferences to faculty electronically, collect office
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Feb 12, 2016
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CircleRAM
Historically department data such as faculty and staff information, terms, courses, sections, classrooms, labs, etc. have been collected manually spending numerous hours. In most of the cases the data is managed on papers. Wouldn’t it be easier to manage the data collaboratively by all department staff online from anywhere? Department Logistics is a service of CircleRAM. This service enables has “Manage Database” feature for department employees to add and update data online for terms, courses, sections, locations, faculty and staff. Salient
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Feb 10, 2016
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CircleRAM
Most educational institutions have complex heterogeneous IT systems, which have been running in production for a long time. Department heads have to access several interfaces for their day-to-day activities and face challenges in accessing information on their fingertips. Slow response to finding information can lead to delays in key departmental activities like schedule creation and information sharing takes time with emails. Data collection for contact information, schedule preferences from faculty, office hours and final exam schedule can become laborious task.Centralizing
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Feb 09, 2016
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CircleRAM
Department data has been on the paper for long time and there is lot of opportunity to bring paper forms online with department database and key actions online. This will reduce the carbon footprint significantly making world more greener. Department Logistics gets you organized by letting staff and faculty access and update their data at anytime from anywhere with click of a button. Department Logistics product increases faculty & staff productivity of daily activities. It allows your staff to update
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Feb 09, 2016
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CircleRAM
Department data has been on the paper for long time and there is lot of opportunity to reduce carbon footprint and make world more greener and pleasant. Here is how you can pledge to go green this year.Avoid paper forms by bringing them online using DLAvoid driving between departments or colleges using online workflow feature of DLArchive the historical data and shred the piles of paperReduce use of pens and pencils by using electronic document signing feature of DLReduce class
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Feb 09, 2016
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CircleRAM
Even though you are experienced leader and your department website looks great, do you find yourself investing too much time managing department activities such as collecting syllabi, faculty office hours, maintaining a list of courses, updating faculty and staff contact information and so on.What if you could get your department website to automate all of those labor intensive taking and save hundreds of hours a month performing such tedious activities.Department Logistics is a service of CircleRAM. It can be used
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