“Faculty eCourseBook”: A Digitized Faculty Course File as a Green Campus Initiative

Abstract

Record keeping is an essential part of an academic activity for a teacher for the various quality initiatives. The course file is a document for keeping the record of academic activities of a faculty and student’s performance continuously. To ascertain the overall standard of academic process, the efficacy of course delivery and timely maintenance of assessment records is very important. These records contain a teaching plan and its execution, assessment, and other allied co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Earlier faculties were maintaining the records manually. A lot of time was required to be spent for maintaining records, which in turn used to affect their performance and productivity as a teacher. As a first step towards the betterment, faculty members used to maintain records in the form of hard copy which was written manually on a printed form. This form of record keeping had a variety of disadvantages: involving physical storage, inefficient information retrieval, and repeated paper and printing costs. To save time and as a green initiative, Institute has developed a digitized product namely “Faculty eCourseBook” for compiling, organizing, and monitoring academic activities, which is implemented through G Suite: Google Sheets. Due to which record keeping, accessing and managing has become easier, while ensuring uniformity in the record keeping. G Suite’s sharing and the relevant access permission have made performance monitoring instant, simple and easy. This practice of using “Faculty eCourseBook” at our institute is recognized as the Best Practice by AICTE New Delhi.