MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

2004 – October V1 Distance Learning Coordinator’s Association Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Minutes

A meeting of the Distance Learning Coordinator’s Association was held on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 in the Conference Room at the State Board for Junior and Community Colleges building in Jackson, MS.

Attendance was as follows:

College/Association

Representative(s)

Coahoma

Letha Richards Laura Lofton

Copiah Lincoln

East Central

Terri Windham and Katie Sparkman

East Mississippi

Andrea Scott

Hinds

Richard Blackburn

Holmes

Audra Kimble

Itawamba Meridian

Ellene McCrimon

Hubert Yates

Mississippi Delta

Jackie Bailey-Ball (Via CCN) Mark Smith and Jennifer Leimer

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Northeast Northwest Pearl River Southwest

Jenniffer Wamsley

Natalie Young

Janice Poole (Via CCN)

Alicia Shows

SBCJC

Jason Pugh and Beverlin Givens

I.

CALL TO ORDER. Ellene McCrimon called the meeting to order at 10:00.

II. The minutes from the association meeting on Wednesday, September 1 were approved as presented. III. Unfinished Business

A. Consortium items and activities. Jason Pugh

i. Blackboard problems –bb had network problems at beginning of term as a result of not being prepared for the growth that they incurred in the fall. A new data center is in being developed and should be available soon to help relieve network strain. Problems we are having now are not related. This problem is database related. Bb had an outside administrator come in and “tune” the system and, it has been determined that the db software and hardware need to be updated in order to resolve our problems. Thursday night is the first available time to make the migration; the next available day would be Monday. Bb will need an eight hour window of downtime in order to complete the process. Mark Smith and Richard Blackburn both stated that they would like to wait until Monday so that we can prepare the faculty to backup. Mr. Pugh also indicated that we could possibly get the upgrade done this weekend. Mr. Smith recommended and the association agreed that we go ahead and do it

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