MELA Minutes 2022-2023

goes into your Google Docs or the online version of Office 365 to help coach students while they are writing and give them some originality information before they submit their assignments. b. ET Feature Request Update (Grade Change Notifications) – Dr. ChristaWilhite (MCCB) spoke with Ive regarding the feature request. He said it would take him 53 hours to develop, test, and implement. It would require an additional process like a window service to run in the background to monitor grade changes and it would then have to trigger a report to send out the notification. Since that would require about a quarter of his entire contract hours, the question was posed is the change critical. Ive does not have the hours available during this fiscal year to complete the task. The earliest he could begin work would be July 1. If it is determined to be critical, the board will allocate those hours for fiscal year 2024 for that update. Ms. Kim Harris (NEMCC) asked if it can be programmed in a different way since it time stamps when the grade is submitted. Could a column for first submissions with a date and a column for an additional submission with a date be programmed instead of a notification. Would that require less programming hours? Dr. ChristaWilhite (MCCB) will ask Ive and report back to the group for more discussion. There was some brief discussion about whether we should explore a 3 rd party product to replace the Enrollment Tool, but it was tabled since it depends on howmuch we will be using the Enrollment Tool moving forward if our sharing is reduced due to no longer having incentive funding. A Canvas Consortium call is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. today. No agenda was given in advance, but there was a request on the update of the discussions redesign to see the features that will come with it.

3. Dr. Arianna Stokes, MCCB a. MSVCC Academy