Optical Scanning Service

    UMass Boston Optical Scanning Services  

  Provided Through the Collaboration of:

Information Technology & Healey Library IDS Department

What Service is provided?
Who and Where?
When is the service available?
Cover Sheets Required
Contacts & further questions

What

Test scanning services are provided free of charge to any instructor at UMass Boston who elects to administer a test  for an official class using the following answer sheet forms:

• General Purpose NCS Pearson Answer sheet form no. 6703  (Green answer sheets)
• General Purpose NCS Answer Sheet form no. 4521 (Blue answer sheets) 
• General Purpose Answer Sheet 229633 (Exam System II - Pink answer sheets)

Answer sheets should be available through the instructor’s departmental office.  

Faculty evaluations   The service scans faculty evaluations submitted by departments using one of the above answer sheets to administer course evaluations.

Who, and Where

The actual scanning of test results is provided by the staff in the Healey Library Reserves/Interlibrary Loan offices on the 4th floor of the Healey Library. Programming the equipment for the service is done by the IT programming staff.

When

Office hours for running the scans are from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday. For drop off of scans outside these hours please call the Interlibrary Loan/scanning office at 7-5912.

Cover Sheets Required

All scanning jobs should  have a cover sheet appropriate for the answer sheets used.  The sheet provides faculty name, course number, date, contact person if other than the faculty member, and contact information.  Cover sheets may be copied from the PDFs below. They will also be available in the Reserves Processing  office where you leave your answer sheets (shelf located across from the department photocopier).

(PDF) Cover forms for those submitting the General Purpose Sheet - form number 229633 pink answer sheets for Exam System II 

(PDF) Cover forms for those submitting NCS General Purpose answer Sheet - form number 4521 blue answer sheets *Be sure to select the 5 answer option on the cover sheet.*

(PDF) Cover forms for those submitting NCS General Purpose answer sheet - form Number 6703 green answer sheets *Be sure to select the 10 answer option on the cover sheet.*

(PDF) Cover forms for Faculty/Course Evaluations

(PDF) Cover forms for the Nursing Faculty/Course Evaluations

Questions

All questions regarding the service or programming of new scanning functions may be directed to the scanning office at library.ill@umb.edu or 617-287-5912. The staff will be referring all programming questions to the appropriate staff in the offices of campus IT
 

For more information regarding scanning policies and procedures please consult  the Scanning FAQ page.