MELA Meeting Minutes 2019

3. Open Forum

a. Marketing for Military presentation by Dr. Tim Lea (Amanda Hood)—Director of Veterans Affairs at CLCC. CLCC changed some of their marketing material to include veterans to capture their interest in online classes. Colleges from across the nation at Camp Shelby. Bellevue University and Columbia College were present—Dr. Lea noticed soldiers in attendance and were most attracted to brochures that featured military marketing materials. Dr. Lea proposed that MSVCC consider marketing services for all community colleges in an effort to attract more students to online classes. Keri Cole-- the substantive change to be able to advertise completing an AA degree online for the consortium has been reviewed and approved.

Some colleges are seeking separate degrees for various pathways. This may lead to an individual substantive change for those pathways.

b. CSS for Removing To Do List…Pros and Cons (Christa Wilhite

Jennifer Leimer---you can’t trust custom Java script. When Canvas decides to change, the custom script goes away leaving us to find another way. Instructors are responsible for explaining to students how to navigate their course(s).

Buffy Matthews—If you set up modules so that they have to go through the progression of the module, this forces the student to go to modules rather than relying on the To Do List.

Marie Roberts—It had been removed for her faculty, but they requested to have it reinstated.

c. “Regional” Turnitin presentation on Contract Cheating/Different Types of Cheating (Christa Wilhite) ECCC has a proven case of contract cheating. Is there interest in sending faculty to a statewide meeting with Turnitin. A virtual session was suggested to be more accommodating to faculty members.

d. Marie Roberts—scheduled downtime for state board equipment moving will be a hardship for students in a 4-week online session. The MELA group will suggest moving the dates

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