POLICY

The CSD Department sponsors an electronic tablet loaner program to support academic and clinical education of graduate students in their first year.  The electronic tablets are purchased with CSD student technology fees.

A CSD electronic tablet will be assigned to each first-year graduate student.   Department-assigned electronic tablets may be taken off campus for off campus clinical and community outreach, course assignments, and for course-related research for the academic year.  However, students strongly encouraged to return the electronic tablets to the file room (Chester Park 156A) each day when not in use.  Students must make the tablets available for maintenance upon request.  The tablet MUST be turned in at the end of Summer Session of their first year to a staff or faculty member in the CSD Department.  Students must sign and date the electronic tablet agreement and upload it below. 

Students may choose to decline participation in the electronic tablet loaner program. Students who decline participation  are still responsible for accessing the materials needed for their education. No personal electronic tablets may be used for clinical education.

PROCEDURE

1. Students must attend orientation to the electronic tablet loaner program to receive a tablet.  At the orientation, the student must create a password with 16 characters (like a phrase), including 1 number, 1 special character ($,#,?, @, !),and no predictable sequence (e.g. 1,2,3 or a, b, c).  Suggestion for passcode would be is to use your x.500 as your passcode.

2. When a student has been assigned a CSD electronic tablet for the year, the student must sign and date the agreement and submit it to the department.

3. Students must make the device available to the department for maintenance upon request.

4. Students may take the device off-campus for education purposes.

5. Students are advised to store the device on the charging rack in the CSD Department.

6. Students may request apps using the apps request procedures set by the CSD Department.

7. Students must return the electronic tablet to the department before summer session of their first year in the program.

Apps Request Form

Policy

The CSD Department approves the purchase of applications for academic and clinical education as funding permits. Applications are reviewed and approved based on their relevance  and unique contribution to addressing program goals and learning outcomes. Approved apps will be purchased for all loaner electronic tablets and will not be purchased for select devices.  

Procedures

Apps requests for academic courses: 

1. Faculty members wishing to purchase apps for an academic course are to contact the department chair with the request.

2. Upon chair approval of purchase, faculty members work with the executive administrative specialist for upload of apps to student-assigned electronic tablets.

Apps requests for clinical courses (8397, 8497): 

Apps Request Form

1. Faculty or students wishing to purchase apps for clinical courses fill out the apps request form.   Students completing the form must have a faculty sponsor co-sign the request.  The requesting faculty or student submits the form to the department's executive administrative specialist. Requests will be considered in the order they are received.

2. The executive administrative specialist reviews the request for feasibility to purchase through the volume purchasing program documents funding available for the purchase.  The executive administrative specialist forwards the request to the clinic director for review.

3. The clinic director reviews the app request for its alignment with the program mission and its unique contributions to clinical education (e.g., lack of duplication with already existing tools). The clinic director makes a recommendation for purchase or deferment of purchase. The clinic director forwards the request with recommendations to the department chair for review.

4. The department chair reviews the apps request along with  the feedback from executive administrative specialist  and the clinic director. The department chair makes the final recommendation for purchase, based on appropriateness of request and finances available for purchasing the apps.  The department chair returns the form to the executive administrative specialist. The executive administrative specialist informs the requester of the decision and assists with purchasing as appropriate.

Requester: Complete the Apps Request Form and give it to the executive administrative specialist.

Current Apps on Electronic Tablets

To aid in determination of requests, here is a list of current apps on the iPads. The Department will not approve requests for apps that duplicate actions of apps already available on the electronic tablets.

Current Apps