Quickstart Guide to UT Austin Acronyms and Abbreviations
In your first days at UT Austin, you have probably encountered a bewildering sea of the abbreviations and acronyms that are part of the UT Austin lexicon. Here's a "starter-pack" of TLA's (three-letter abbreviations) and more, decoded to help make sense of UT's shortcut names for people, places, and services.
AEMS Austin Exchange Messaging Service – collaborative e-mail and calendaring service
AI Assistant Instructor, or graduate student instructor (GSI)
ASPECTS Advancing Students’ Professional Excellence with Certificates in Teaching Series – for graduate student instructors
Bb Blackboard - course management software
BWY Building code for The Bridgeway, home to DIIA staff offices and testing center at 2616 Wichita Street
CBE credit by examination
CII Collaborative for Instructional Impact, a DIIA program
CIS Course-Instructor Survey
CLIPs Class Information Pages
CONNEXUS Connections in Undergraduate Studies – interdisciplinary and cross-cultural programs of study
CPS Classroom Performance System - a software/hardware system that allows you to easily get instant feedback from your students using remote control devices
DEFINE Departmental Financial Information Network
DIIA Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment
EAP Employee Assistance Program
eGB eGradebook – UT's online gradebook
EID Electronic Identification – UT assigns each person an Electronic ID (EID) that can be used to allow access and to transact business with the University over the Internet
EIS Enterprise Information Services; part of ITS
EOS Equal Opportunity Services at UT Austin
EUREKA! Enhancing Undergraduate Research Experience, Knowledge and Access – online research guide and database
FAC The Flawn Academic Center, site of a new collaborative learning space, coordinated information resources, and instructional services: DIIA, ITS, Rhetoric and Composition, the Writing Center, and the School of Information
~FAST Tex Faculty And Student Teams for Technology program
GSB Graduate School of Business, home to DIIA staff offices and Multimedia Lab (GSB 2.130).
GSI Graduate Student Instructor
HOOP/PM Handbook of Operating Procedures and Policy Memoranda
HRS Human Resource Services
IAE Instructional Assessment and Evaluation group
IAR Instructional Assessment Resources, a DIIA Web resource
IDA Interactive Degree Audit, Office of the Registrar
IDC Instructional Development Collaborative, a DIIA program
IF Individually funded account – a UT Austin personal computer account managed and paid for by you personally or by your department
IITAP Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program, sponsored by the Provost and administered by DIIA
IRB Institutional Review Board
ITAC Information Technology Advisory Committee
ITID Instructional Technology Integration and Development group
ITS Information Technology Services
IWD Information and Web Design group
MAI Building code for the Main Building, or the Tower, home of DIIA staff offices (22nd floor)
NFS New Faculty Seminar
OCA Ongoing Course Assessment – online assessment tool
OGS Office of Graduate Studies
ORSC Office of Research Support and Compliance
OSP Office of Sponsored Projects
PAC Performing Arts Center
PCL Perry-Castañeda Library – the University's main library
SIS Student Information Systems, Office of the Registrar
SMF Student Microcomputer Facility (aka "the Smurf")
TACC Texas Advanced Computing Center
TCC Thompson Conference Center
TEL Technology Enhanced Learning group
TLE Teaching and Learning Excellence group
UMBS University Mailbox Service
UT ID physical ID card issued by the UT ID Center