Hi everyone!
Name: Latrice Bowman
Company/Role: University of Alaska Fairbanks /Multiple Roles (Math Faculty, Math Services Coordinator, Member of a few Faculty Senate Committees)
Location: Fairbanks, AK
How has Airtable helped you unlock wins for your work in the EDU world?
I was first introduced to Airtable on one the committees I sit on. We were looking for ways to assess our new SLOs for General Education. At the time we were using it as a database on crack. Over the years we started finding uses that allowed us to restructure our assessment process. From there I have branched to using this in my courses and our Senate has adopted this for use in many other areas. Two that I work with regularly are: testing services - uses it for organizing our proctoring for both synchronous and asynchronous courses, and Provost's office - we use this to submit and update workloads.
I am also using this in my everyday work.
As the Math Services coordinator, I use Airtable to keep track of student employees and TAs, their assignments each semester (grading, recitations, tutoring), their schedules, and codes for access to various rooms. I also use the automation to send out notifications and use the forms for documents that need updating each semester.
As a faculty member, I use Airtable in my mastery-based courses to keep track of retake attempts. I use automation to send out reminders about course progress, and I use an interface to help students track their progress.
I have found that Airtable has made many of these things, that I have done for many years, much more efficient.
