INTRODUCTION TONEW INNOVATIONS™

First Year Student OrientationAugust 1, 2013

What is New Innovations?

New Innovations is a web-based educational management system for medical schools and residency programs.

As first-year students, you will use the Evaluations module.

Third-year students also use the Logger and Scheduling modules.

New Innovations Modules

Schedules (Clinical Rotations)

Logger (Patient Case Logs)

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.

You will receive e-mail notifications about evaluations.

The timely completion of course and faculty evaluations is a COM requirement. (Please refer to your syllabus for details).

Once entered, all evaluations are anonymous.

Exiting New Innovations

Hover over 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)

Evaluations: Ellen Napier (323-4643, etnapi2@uky.edu)

New Innovations Resources

These slides will be made available on the UKCOMAssessment and Quality Management web page:

http://meded.med.uky.edu/new-innovations

Questions on New Innovations?

Course Exams - ExamSoft™

ExamSoft™ is a proprietary software system that allows exams to be created, administered, and scored electronically.

SofTest 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, HG611 @ 1:00 p.m.

SofTest Module

You will receive an e-mail instructing you to download (and register) your copy of SofTest

You should install SofTest on the laptop you will be using for course exams (Mac/PC)

Your ExamSoft username is the first part of your UK e-mail address (e.g., student34@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), 323-1196.

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.

ExamSoft 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)

ExamSoft Resources

These slides will be made available on the UKCOMAssessment and Quality Management web page:

http://meded.med.uky.edu/examsoft-information

Questions on ExamSoft?