End of Course Evaluations

Students, if you have not had a chance to complete your end of course evaluation, it’s not too late! Availabilty of the links have been extended to August 5, 2009. We look forward to your feedback on how we can improve in future online offerings.

Registering Fall 2009 GMBA Online Courses

Greetings,

Fall 2009 semester is starting in just a few weeks. If you haven’t registered for our online courses yet, please send in your registration request to gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu right now before the courses get full!

The Global MBA program is offering more than 20 online courses in Fall 2009. Here are just a few of interesting online courses available for you to consider while you’re registering for Fall 2009.

FIN 6310.0G1, Investment Management, by Dr. Ted Day

The course examines a range of issues concerning the management of investment portfolios. The course objective is to provide an understanding of the role of modern financial theory in portfolio management and to present a framework for addressing current issues in the management of financial assets. The concepts and techniques examined are also useful in financial planning and personal investment decisions.

IMS 6320.0G1, International Corporate Finance, by Dr. Jonathan Hochberg

The global business environment is such that managers with international know-how will be invaluable to their organizations. Knowledge of international financial issues is expansive and varies from hedging profits in a foreign currency to protecting against foreign exchange exposure. In this course students will learn how to deal with issues faced by managers operating in the global financial markets. The purpose of this course is to analyze the critical factors, risks, and decisions that relate to both the short-term and long-term financial position of the firm in an internationalized setting and discuss strategies for dealing with these added complexities.

MKT 6330.0G1, Brand Management, by Abhi Biswas

This course will study the role and philosophy of brand management in the strategic marketing process and the resulting effects on strategic and marketing decisions.  Topics will include the strategic brand building process, segmentation and positioning for building brands, consumer behavior, brand information systems, building brand equity and the application of brand management using marketing principles.

Please see GMBA Fall 2009 Course Offering page for more information.

Registration Fall 2009

Early registration for Fall 2009 is currently taking place.  If you are ready, you can send your registration request to gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu from your UTD email account.  You can access your email through Galaxy.  Your class schedule will show up in the new student system ORION.

Tips on taking online exams

Greetings,

Some students experienced a few issues during the recent online midterm exams.  I would like to clarify and share the following with everyone:

Saving answers: We strongly recommend saving each answer immediately (click Save button below each question) after you make the selection or enter your answers. Don’t wait till the end trying to save all questions at the same time. You risk being timed out for keeping idle for too long and also risk running out of the time at the end of the exam without being able to save the answers you’ve already selected. When exam time expires, you CAN’T SAVE any answers you’ve selected. You may still be able to click answer choices or type in the answer boxes, however those will not be saved if your exam time has expired. You will be able to submit your exam as it is without being able to save any changes or any new answers. So watch your exam clock very closely and be sure to save your answers on time.

Copy and Paste: For the essay type of questions, please directly type into the answer box and save periodically as you go.  If you need to work on Word or Notepad first, you will be able to do Copy and Paste. Please use keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl +C and Ctrl +V on PCs), right-click menu is usually disabled for the exams in WebCT/eLearning.

Course Access:  When you take the online exam, it may also help to directly login to the course at http://elearning.utdallas.edu, instead of accessing course through UTD Galaxy to avoid possible Galaxy time out issue.

Browser and other technical issues: Be sure you run through browser check to validate your browser and with only one correct version of Java installed. Please see the Check Browser link at eLearning login page and also see the course Getting Started page for more information. For any technical assistance, you can reach 24/7 UTD eLearning Support.

Hope these tips may help in your future online exams. Please email som-elearning@utdallas.edu if you have any questions.

Security Alert Pop-up

You may have already seen this announcement UTD eLearning Admins posted in WebCT.  Just like to note that if you don’t plan to use Chat tool in the course for any login session, you may click “Cancel” instead of “Ok” so that the alert message will not pop up again for the rest of your session. We hope this issue will be getting resolved shortly. 

Securrity Alert Pop-up
July 6, 2009 11:18 PM

Due to system maintenance performed on 5 July 2009, WebCT is currently displaying a pop-up Security Alert window upon login, and occasionally the message repeats during a session. This security alert warns of a security certificate name mismatch. This alert does not pose a security threat. The alert must be acknowledged with an OK response in order to access the WebCT Chat tool; the alert has no other effect. We are currently working to relieve the condition that has generated this security alert. Thank you for your patience while we resolve this issue.