MELA Minutes 2024-2025

Monday. From the consensus in the meeting Most schools had not been receiving the promo emails about the academy so Dr. Wilhite said she will start adding them in both the MeLA chat and MeLA course until this is resolved. She stressed the importance of us being able to share this information about upcoming webinars with the academy. 6. Catalog Updates - Legacy vs Storefront: MCCB Feedback: Dr. Wilhite informed us that some of the Canvas user interface adjustments in JavaScript in the fall impacted Catalog functionality for some institutions. At that point, a lot of link navigation and catalog vanished. However, when she switched to the new catalog Storefront and entered as an admin, all the functionalities remained the same, seemed a lot cleaner, and all the navigation links were available. One advantage of Storefront is that institutions do not have to use custom Java or CSS to brand their catalogs. It mimics the functionality of the theme editor in Canvas. So, it will automatically work when they make those back-end user interface changes at the instructor level that can impact your custom scripts. Dr. Wilhite wanted to make catalog users aware of some of the benefits of Storefront and it is available. 7. Bug Zapper (ha!) Dr. Wilhite noticed on the Padlet that someone asked about New Quizzes updates and specifically looking for bugs(issues) and workarounds. She talked with Nikki and suggested a one-page document listing the bugs and how to resolve them. Nikki agreed it was a really good idea, so she started a Google doc to get information about what bugs instructors are experiencing with New Quizzes. Hopefully, this will help to Zap these issues! 8. Overall Vibe Check re: MELA/MSVCC/College Needs: Looks like everyone is happy! 2. MSVCC Committees 1. Academic Officers: Tish Stewart (HCC) stated because we didn’t have a meeting in December the calendar was voted on via email and approved. It now must go through the AOA. 2. Quality Committee: Michelle Pickering (MGCCC) there were not updates at this time. 3. Support Committee: Jason Zuehlke was out, but Dr. Wilhite added that she met with Jason in December and updated him on the accessibility documents that had last circulated during the