MELA Minutes 2024-2025

report showing how each institution is accessing the information. Seth should be sending this out, and she will forward it to everyone as well as with Dr. Graham, and she'll disseminate it to the presidents. Dr. LeBrun is working on providing the 2028 projected budget . Instructure is set to conclude in 2028 so she is in contact with Jason Carter to get assessment data. In addition she will guestimate Aspire EDU, CidiLabs, and Smarter Services which concludes on July 1, 2027, by projecting the average 2% to 3% annual increase. She also mentioned the service the consortium chooses to add for ensuring that courses are in compliance with the upcoming Accessibility of Web Content federal regulations should be factored in. She doesn’t foresee the MAC wanting to discontinue any of the services. The MAC meeting is January 28 and she will let us know what the group decides. 2. Wilhite 1. Contact List Updates.: Dr. Wilhite asked for us to verify all the information on the contact sheet and included a specific person vendors should reach out to. 2. Canvas Regional Webinar - Padlet: Dr. Wilhite stated at Nikki's Canvas Regional Webinar, Nikki had a Padlet up that anyone could add any topics that they would like to see her cover at the quarterly consortium calls. She also mentioned Canvas is going to try to come in person tentatively between April 8 and 10 for meeting with the consortium. 3. TurnItIn Webinar Reminder: TurnItIn will host two webinars on January 29 th . One at 11:00 is for admin only and one at 2:00 is about empowering students with Draft Coach. She explained Draft Coach is part of our service with TII and it works by letting students get real live writing feedback while they're working within Microsoft Word. Dr. Wilhite added the training will be available through the Academy so faculty can have access to it at a later date. 4. CidiLabs Check-In 1. ReadyGO Beta: Dr. Wilhite wanted to update the association about the new improved ReadyGo (Beta) version. It is now available and can run in tandem with the current version of ReadyGo. She and Dr. Lebron have a meeting with CidiLabs scheduled for February 3 and will be getting more information about RG. She does know that it requires an addendum to the contract. Therefore, they are going to try to learn a little bit more about that and why a new contract would be required. She does know the RG beta version has