MELA Meeting Minutes 2019

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Call to order 9:00 am

II. Approval of May Minutes (No June Meeting) - Christa Wilhite made the motion to approve the April minutes. Amanda Hood seconded. Motion carried.

III. Approval of July Agenda— Jennifer James made the motion to approve the May agenda. Christa Wilhite seconded. Motion carried.

IV.

Unfinished Business

V.

New Business a. Krista

i. Catalog Credit Card Implementation Update 1. PRCC, Jones, and ICC are a pilot group. MCCB is required to use DFA, but institutions are not required to use DFA unless they prefer to. Krista provided us with the steps for credit card processing with Catalog using MSI. Individual bar codes are needed for each course, not each section. a. Contact Mississippi Interactive (MSI) b. School confirms flow of funds c. School provides MSI with bank information so that MSI can make deposits d. MSI will complete bank disbursement form the school reviews and approves e. MSI completes NIC disbursement form that allows processor to be setup in the MSI payment system f. MSI will assign a Merchant ID and Organization ID in TPE— this is required for Canvas to enable payment processing portal. g. Canvas will be provided with Merchant ID and Organization ID. These elements are required in order to enable the payment processing portal. h. Once payment processing portal has been enabled, SKUs will be assigned to each class or product being offered i. Test payments will be performed by MSI and confirmed by the school that the test payment was accepted by the school’s bank. j. Once test payments have been completed and confirmed, MSI will move processor into production for use. ii. MILD Grant 1. No immediate interest in increasing the MILD Grant funds. There was discussion of concern regarding the longevity of the MILD Grant.

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