Academic Computing Policy Advisory Committee
Minutes of October 19, 2011
Proceedings of the Meeting
- Meeting called to order at 3:05 pm
- Approval of minutes
- September 21, 2011 - Add Azad Ali and remove Ivan Fortushniak from those attending. With the change from "Cunningham will look into" to "Cunningham will provide" regarding streaming server. The minutes were approved as revised.
- Co-Chairs' Report
- Financial report - McElroy - $12,804.92
- Announcements - McElroy
- Email was sent university wide announcing the Path Lab is in transition - should consider no longer in existence. Information Commons Helpdesk in the Library is taking over for the Path Lab.
- Membership - McElroy
- New members: Azad Ali - Eberly, Ivan Fortushniak - Fine Arts, Ben Ford - LESC, Humanities, Ed Zimmerman - Library (Mark Allen attending for Ed), Mike Nelson - Student Government
- Standing Reports
- Report from The CIO office - Balint
- Status of D2L/Moodle - including conversion tool - The Office of Distance Learning is now a customer of IT Services for online learning technologies. Utility path for migration from Moodle to D2L is 13 months late from vendor. Deployment of Moodle Community Service V2 will be fall 2012. D2L has not yet delivered the migration utility. Between 10/31 and 11/4/11 the D2L conversion will be deployed (then has to be tested), will be looking for faculty members to test the upgrade. No organizational structure to cover training workshops, documentation. There are two ITS employees to cover Moodle and D2L so no formal workshop training will be scheduled. Will need creative means to inform faculty of changes in programs. It is not known what the new President/Provost will decide regarding D2L and Moodle. Bill assured the members of ACPAC that a speedy transition will not happen if have to change to D2L, it will probably take 1 years to convert from Moodle to D2L. Currently 亚色影库 is around 80/20 (Moodle/D2L), some students are using both. Use of D2L is growing, Moodle is not decreasing. Ken Sherwood thanked Bill for his pragmatic handling of this situation. Azad Ali, JB Smith and Tess O'Neill also thanked Bill.
- Update on prioritized Academic Affairs and Council of Deans IT projects.
- MMC Upgrades - completed.
- DegreeWorks - well underway, faculty training fall of 2012.
- Digital Repository - Theses and Dissertation repository transfer done.
- Rank of Projects - go to Council of Deans in November for final approval of ranking. Ken Sherwood moved (Gian Pagnucci seconded) that ACPAC reconfirm project ranking. Motion passed. Dan Yuhas reported that equipment needs to be purchased for item 6 - Streaming Service similar to youtube, funding need to be identified for this but the Digital team is working on. Bandwidth implications are definitely an issue for streaming service. Bill feels that all seven projects will be approved.
- Guest Wireless - report next meeting.
- Report from Student Computing Subcommittee - Patrick McDevitt
- John Lowry is joining the team. Three issues: (1) how do students use the facilities, (2) provide a computing portal, (3) Seaboard - growing change
- Report from the Emerging Technologies Subcommittee - Sherwood
- will be meeting week of Oct. 24
- Report from the Student Operations Group - Blood
- 911 - if student hasn't provided information there is a hold on their account.
- Looking at possible changes for Winter Term.
- Online message - late fees.
- Banner upgrade - went smoothly, potential for Banner 9.
- Report from On-Line Learning Subcommittee - Brzycki
- Two workgroups - Evaluate software and Technology use and needs. Accessibility workgroup began meeting again this summer.
- Report from the DE Planning and Work Group - Brzycki - no report
- Report from Branch Campuses - O'Neil
- Northpointe is happy. The Dean at Punxy campus questioned how old the hardware is not just in the labs, but the instructor pc's in the classroom. Is the age of the computers the reason the computers are crashing? In 2013 the rotation for replacement computers will begin again. Tess also questioned what time the phones at the IT Helpdesk in Delaney are answered? Helpdesk is open from 7:30 to 5:30 M - F.
- Reports from the Action Teams
- Training/Professional Development Action Team - Pagnucci/JB Smith
- Gian Pagnucci recommended that there be an online listing of training available to faculty in the 亚色影库 search field and/or within the online calendar system, also that there be an online flow chart for requests for assistance by faculty. Dan Yuhas replied to a question regarding new product training - faculty should start with their college CTM. The CTM could then bring the issues to TOT if necessary for more formal training setup.
- Would like the development of an Academic Software Tool Kit - does not exist at this time, might need a separate Tool Kit for Distance Learning. There is a foundation in place (Admin Tool Kit) that could be built on.
- The team feels that have accomplished their charge and would like to be disbanded.
- Optical Test Scoring Action Team - McElroy
- Nate met with Joanne Kuta week of Oct. 10. Questions: how will ITS segue into the new system, how will it affect the faculty, do the current envelopes need to be updated? Joanne might meet with Deans/Chairs to discuss the development of a P type drive that would allow faculty to have access and ability to print their own reports.
- Student Pictures Action Team - JB Smith
- Team members: JB Smith, Tess O'Neill, Dan Yuhas, Mark Staszkiewicz. Jim Lenze question if student pictures can be loaded into D2L. JB will schedule a meeting of team
- ePortfolio Action Team - was Jack Scandrett - need to find a replacement.
- New Business
- Email accessibility for temporary - next meeting.
- Old Business
- Student Wired Network Access (RESNET) - Cunningham
- Need to have a room identified to get quotes on wiring costs.
Meeting adjourned at 4:50 pm.