MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

i. The Administrative Committee met to discuss this initiative and to determine the best outline for the MSVCC to follow and to recommend to the Deans. Tish stated that the committee did not want to do anything that would have any adverse effects. The committee presented a generic definition and Jennifer Leimer brought back a suggestion due to a possible issue with academic freedom. Having a broad definition will help us in being consistent across the consortium of selecting an LDA. Concern about requiring weekly assignments, concerns about the requirements for graded weekly assignments, concerns about academic freedom. We will have to table the topic and send in recommendations to Keri and Tish and ensure they are in regulation with the DOE. Tish and Keri will send out an email with the information after they draft a statement and use the DOE information and our suggestions. Deans will need to possibly conduct an email vote to have this in place for Fall 2013. ii. MSVCC defines attendance in online courses as active participation in course learning activities. Attendance should be measured frequently and should be based upon documentable engagement with course content. b. Reminder-NeTutor and McGraw Hill LTI i. Must have new McGraw Hill LTI in place in order for sync to work properly for Fall. There will be a user ID they may need for trouble shooting purposes. We will need to find out from McGraw-Hill if all colleges need to install for cross institutional purposes. Kim Harris believed it would be a requirement based on what she was told by McGraw-Hill. This is a new LTI that would need to be installed in-between the terms. ii. Must make an appointment with Zac at NeTutor to have LTI in place for Fall. iii. Jennifer Leimer asked how the colleges were determining the roles of engagement. Keri stated she has asked if Rules of Engagement must be in place in order to implement the LTI, and was told it was not a rush and that instructors could set up independent rules of engagement. Right now primary focus is on the install of the LTI. The default rules of engagement will be in order until customized ones are sent to NeTutor.

V.

New Business

a. NO ITEMS ADDED

VI.

MCCB Business

a. Running Statistics i. Turned off because it was slowing the system down. Ive is working on it in the new system. Hopes the new system will be ready in the Spring. New system will allow for uploading of courses. Akiah hopes to prevent a sneak preview of the new system at Boot Camp. Akiah was not able to share all data and Ive was not prepared for screen shots to share with the group. Akiah will keep us updated on the new system as we prepare for roll out. Keri asked if the new system will be ready in time for registration which begins in November. Akiah stated she would check with Ive on the roll out date. b. Blackboard IM Project i. Production was supposed to be available on June 22. Akiah stated that they ran into an issue during quality assurance testing. BB is doing some internal testing. We will be

updated as this project progresses. Akiah will be providing us with documentation regarding FTP information for our IT departments. We will be able to use the exact files we are already using for Canvas.

c. ET Changes for Canvas Enrollments

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