\nThe Administrative Center provides for management of the TIM Tools suite of applications. <\/em><\/p>\n
Getting Started<\/strong><\/p>\n Customization<\/strong><\/p>\n Managing Members<\/strong><\/p>\n Working with Data<\/strong><\/p>\n TIM-O \/ TIM-LP \/ TIM-R<\/strong> Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n TIM-O<\/strong><\/p>\n TIM-R<\/strong><\/p>\n TIM-LP<\/strong><\/p>\n TUPS Opening and Closing the TUPS ARTI Action Research Tool Overview Report Tool Report Tool Dashboard Survey Tool Creating a New Survey TIM Tools Research Roundtable<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ specialty_columns=”3″][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column_inner type=”4_4″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”TTAG Header Blurb Text” _builder_version=”3.11″ saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”15999″ custom_padding=”||0px|”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text Body” _builder_version=”3.15″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can customize the content of the TUPS to meet the needs of your school or district. The TUPS is customizable in three ways:<\/p>\n 1. You can hide or show any of the eight sections of the TUPS.<\/p>\n While we find that most teachers can complete the entire TUPS in about 20 minutes, some districts prefer to administer the TUPS in sections. For example they might administer sections 1 through 5 in October and sections 6 through 8 in November as a part of an in-service activity. The Demographic and Background Information section is sometimes hidden by schools in countries where there are restrictions on handling teacher data.<\/p>\n 2. You can hide or show any item within a section.<\/p>\n Occasionally a school or district wishes to remove an item from the survey for a variety of reasons. It is easy to hide one or more items without impacting the survey or survey reporting.<\/p>\n 3. You can edit the text of any item.<\/p>\n Frequently, districts need to make small tweaks to the text of an item to clarify it for their teachers. For example, several items ask about access to a technology specialist. If your district uses a different title for the person in the role of tech specialist, it is easy to change the text of the relevant questions to reflect your district\u2019s title. You might also want to edit references to specific software to match your district\u2019s use. For example, one question asks about the use of word processors and gives examples of Word and Pages in parenthesis.<\/a> If your district uses a different word processor such as Open Office Writer, you can quickly replace Word and Pages with Open Office Writer so you teachers will be certain to understand the question.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. Hiding or Showing an Entire TUPS Section<\/strong><\/p>\n To change the visibility of a section of the TUPS, in the Admin Center<\/strong> select TUPS<\/strong> and then Sections and Items<\/strong>. Your window will look like the following screen capture.<\/p>\n On the Sections and View Items<\/strong> screen, you will see the names of all eight sections of the TUPS. To the left of each section title is a button that says either \u201cVisible\u201d or \u201cHidden.\u201d Clicking a button will toggle the visibility of the entire section. Hiding a section does not delete it from your TIM Tools instance. You can toggle it back to \u201cVisible\u201d at any time. The change to the TUPS takes place immediately.<\/a> There is no need to look for an \u201cApply\u201d or \u201cSave Changes\u201d button.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Hiding or Showing a TUPS Item<\/strong><\/p>\n To the right of each section title on the Sections and Items<\/strong> screen you will see a button called View Items<\/strong>. Click this button to display all of the items in a given section. For example, clicking the View Items button for the Demographic and Background Information section will open the following screen.<\/p>\n Notice that each item has a button next to it that says Item is Visible<\/strong>. To toggle the visibility of an item simply click the button and it will change to Item is Hidden<\/strong>. Hiding an item does not delete it from your TIM Tools instance and you can click the button again at any time to make the item visible again.<\/p>\n Once you have made the changes to visibility for items in one section, click the Save Edits<\/strong> button to save your choices and return to the Sections and Items menu.<\/a> If you do not want to save your changes, click the Cancel<\/strong> button instead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. Editing the Text of a TUPS item<\/strong><\/p>\n The text of any item can be edited. Beginning again at the Sections and Items<\/strong> screen, click the View Items<\/strong> button for the section that contains the item or items you would like to edit. For example, clicking the View Items button for the Technology Access and Support section will open the following screen.<\/p>\n Notice that the text for each item appears twice. You see it first in blue followed by a box with the same text in black. The black text is the one you can edit. Just click into the text field and make any changes you\u2019d like. In the event you decide that you want to go back to the original text, you can copy and paste the blue default text back into the edit box to return the item to its original state. In the following example, the question has been edited to change \u201ctech specialists\u201d to \u201cTechnology Support Heroes\u201d.<\/p>\n Once you have made the text changes for items in one section, click the Save Edits<\/strong> button to save your choices and return to the Sections and Items menu. If you do not want to save your changes, click the Cancel<\/strong> button instead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column_inner type=”1_2″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Previous Text” _builder_version=”3.12″ background_color=”rgba(160,181,193,0.25)” custom_padding=”8px|8px|8px|8px” border_radii=”on|3px|3px|3px|3px” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”#95b2c1″]<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe TIM-O is designed to guide principals, teachers, and others through the process of evaluating the level of technology integration within a particular lesson and helps provide a clear picture of the professional development needed to support further technology integration. Two variations of the TIM-O are available within TIM Tools. The TIM-R allows for teacher reflection and the TIM-LP is used for lesson plan review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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\nThe TUPS is the perfect tool to use annually, or at the beginning and end of any technology project to measure the changes in how teachers relate to technology in their work. It supports teacher inquiry by providing the teacher with a tool for recording changes in classroom usage of technology. The information is also useful for planning technology infrastructure and support and getting a snapshot of the perceptions of teachers.<\/p>\n
\nTUPS Intro and Thank You Text
\nCustomizing TUPS Sections and Items
\nAccessing School or District TUPS Data
\nTUPS Report Template<\/p>\n
\nThe ARTI tool provides a framework for teachers to design and conduct their own action research projects. ARTI takes teachers through the five basic steps of an action research project including: identification of a question, description of the context, data collection, analysis, and the creation of findings.<\/p>\n
\nAccessing School or District ARTI Data<\/p>\n
\nThe Report Tool allows a school or district to create new reports using the Report Builder. Choose the option to create new TIM-LP, TIM-O, TIM-R, or TUPS reports. Use the Report Tool Dashboard to review the number of complete, incomplete, published, and unpublished reports in your system. View all previous reports, along with newly created reports, in the Report List.<\/p>\n
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\nCreating a New Report – Report Builder<\/p>\n
\nThe Survey Tool allows a school or district to create surveys on new topics as needed. The surveys can be offered to TIM members only or made available to the general public. Surveys can be built from scratch or users can start with a survey from the included library of sample surveys.<\/p>\n
\nCustomizing a Library Survey
\nViewing Survey Results<\/p>\nTIM Tools Administration Guide<\/h1>\n
Customizing TUPS Sections and Items<\/h2>\n
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Figure 1. Section and View Items screen with visibility buttons to left of each section title.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Custom-2.jpg\")
Figure 2. Top portion of the edit screen for the Demographic and Background Information section<\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Custom-3.jpg\")
Figure 3. Top portion of the edit screen for the Technology Access and Support section.<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SupportHeroes.jpg\")
Figure 4. Example of an edited question. The original text is blue. The revised text is black.<\/em><\/p>\n