MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

development and/or CEU credits at their institutions. Martha Lou has volunteered to handle the CEU credits for instructors who need them. iii. Sharon Jones and Terry Pollard have been working on a student orientation tutorial in Blackboard. The orientation session will assist students with navigation through the course. MGCCC asked that this type of orientation be built for Desire2Learn also. Jennifer and buffy will be willing to help Terry with the development of the orientation module for D2L. Terry will get with Jennifer and Buffy on the development for Desire2Learn. e. Compiling Minutes – Jennifer Leimer. We have a good record of minutes from meetings since 2003. We have been consistent since then on the minutes. Before that time, we are not sure if we have a great history of the minutes from those meetings. If you have a good record of the minutes from the very beginning, please provide those to us. If you have them in electronic format, or a hard copy for us to scan, please bring to the next meeting. We would really love to see some sort of index created so that people could search discussions from previous minutes. If any of you have some ideas or suggestions for doing this that would be wonderful. f. Round Table Discussions – Christian Pruett. We have talked a great deal about evaluated the DLC meetings over the last several months. I have always said what a wonderful group that this is and how easy you all are to work with. Dr. Qualls is also a very good advocate of what we do. This group gets a lot done during the meetings. One of our strong suits is our collaboration. We would like to restructure the way that we conduct our DLC meetings. This will take effect during our July meeting. The following items will be restructured: i. DLC Meetings - we would like to re-start the strategic plan committee breakout sessions. We need to ensure that each committee is looking at the strategic plan on a regular basis. Terry will setup a series of rooms in the Bb Community site for regular committee meetings. This will require more collaboration and extra work, but there is a lot that we can gain and learn from one another. We want to ensure that the DLC meetings are more interactive and engaging. The chair, or designated spokes person, can report on committee progress to-date. The second part of the meeting is to have a focused discussion. This discussion will be approximately thirty minutes. The focused discussion topic will be added to the agenda prior to the meeting. Everyone can participate in this discussion on the day of the DLC meeting. We will still be keeping up with the Learning Circles and Open Discussions. ii. Committee Assignment ACTION ITEMS :  Best Practices – Continue to present to the group for new and improved ideas on training. If there is anything that this group can do, please let us know.  Technology – had a long talk with Ive on our roles in the ET. There is a lot of confusion on each of these roles and what each role has rights and privileges to do. Before we create anything new in the ET, this committee needs to go through each role. We may be able to consolidate roles, rather than having multiple roles that use the same tools.  Quality – we need to review the surveys for students, course, and faculty surveys. We also may want to have a student withdrawal survey.  Support – to work with Patrick and David at Presidium and provide feedback on how many tickets were submitted, how many were escalated, how many of these tickets were resolved. This will require some communication directly with feedback.  Administration – Tish and Christian will continue to finalize policies and procedures. We were supposed to go through our Deans on the noon Friday recommendation. We will also work on the Strategic Plan. He has received dates from the Technology Committee and have included those dates.

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