MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

visibility of the DLCs. Christian suggested the Academic Dean to nominate the second person everyone disapproved. Christian will take it to Presidents to get the name changed approved. He also recommended there will be need to re-write the By-Laws, etc. Jennifer advised to just make the change to E-Learning, and other changes be made later. Tish suggested Christian goes to the President and then to Dean’s meeting or send a representative to push for the change. Tish suggested keeping the voting policy as ONE from each college. Christian stated it is important to so things can stop being tabled and things to get done, by expanding the group. DLC need to keep this mind and bring some ideas or suggestion to next meeting. This will be further discussed in the November’s meeting. c. Committee Reports: Best Practices – Terry Pollard, not present at the DLC Bootcamp meeting. Rebecca reported they are going to split the 6weeks course into smaller courses (1 or 2 weeks training). The committee is working on Grade Center Training, more on how to use Blackboard Platform. Christian said they will meet with Yvelin to discuss Turnitin training for MSVCC Faculty. i. Technology Committee: Chris Square, not here, no report. ii. Quality Committee: Jennifer is working on the faculty evaluations. She received several evaluations from other schools and will meet with her committee to make smaller. iii. Administration: Policies and Procedures: Tish said the committee will take parts of the Policies and Procedures and work on it to keep it updated. d.Learning Circles: Jennifer Powell November, Lametrius in January, Jackie Bailey Hall in February e.Open Forum: Lametrius wanted to know if we could put something in the Policies and Procedures that addressed online students auditing courses. Christian stated he did not think that online students were allowed to audit MSVCC courses. Christian will check and find out information about auditing online courses. f. Julia Parker asked about the update in Blackboard on having the students or the faculty’s name listed once logged into the course site. Christian commented that doing this modification in Blackboard 8.5 could have caused some problems; however, it may be possible to do in Blackboard 9.0. g.Dianne Nichols wants the traditional course to mirror online course with students being withdrawn in the Grade Center. Traditional and Online would like to have the student stay in the Grade Center after being withdrawn. Christian stated that he will push this to Wade; it was approved by all DLC. h.Enrollment Stamp, Michele asked if a decision was made on Enrollment Stamp for update on textbook information, Christian said Ive will have this ready by Spring Semester. i. Christian said Blackboard will be at the Ridgeland Campus November 6, meeting with the Institutional Effectiveness team discussing Outcomes. If you are interested in attending please do so. j. SharePoint: Jennifer Leimer asked if anyone knew anything about SharePoint. Christian stated it was created by Microsoft and it was much like Outcomes and has to be customized. Colleges maybe able to share data, a viable alternative to Outcome. A lot cheaper than Outcomes. Have its own LMS, it’s on an open server therefore it creates a privacy issue. Christian stated that this was still on the table and nothing has been decided.

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