MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

Office

College/Association

Name

President

Northeast MS CC

Kim Harris

President Elect Pearl River CC

Kimberly Ellis

Haley Duck

Secretary

Meridian Community College

(CW filled in for this meeting)

I.

Call to order - 9:00am

II. Approval of September Minutes – Jennifer James made the motion to approve, Jennifer Leimer seconded. Motion Passed.

III. Approval of October Agenda – Jennifer James made the motion to approve, Kimberly Ellis seconded. Motion Passed.

IV.

New Business A. Krista LeBrun

1)Update on RFP – ITS has received clarification from second vendor, but will need an additional clarification for the difference between conferencing and audio/web/video conferencing (number of participants seems to be the difference). This impacts billing. However, second vendor has gotten price down to $238k a year in comparison to the $500k paid to Blackboard for Collaborate and Messaging. Once we receive the clarification, ITS will offer a contract. ZOOM has been in contact with ITS, but it is a silent period, so no communication with the company. ITS feels confident ZOOM will contest disqualification. If they contest, it will put us at a standstill with the contract. Resolution may take two to three months before we can move forward with new contract. 2)Loss of Service @MCCB – Replacing hardware that caused the outage last week. Service will be interrupted at 10pm tonight for possible 2 hours. Presidents and local IT teams have been notified.

B. Shalon Farris

1) ET Feature Request Updates – Reported all requests to Ive. A few have been completed and the rest should be completed in 2 to 3 weeks. She will reach out to individuals for needed clarification, and she will be adding a feature request option for attendance.

V.

Unfinished Business

VI.

Action Items A. Canvas Catalog – April 2017, Krista presented price of Canvas Catalog if purchased as a consortium. May, we decided to vote to see about adding to Canvas contract after Hinds piloted Catalog. Keri

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