MELA Minutes 2024-2025

passed. Dr. LeBrun will present this at the MAC meeting in September f. Canvas Insights i. Dr. LeBrun asked if anyone was interested in hearing more about Canvas Insights, presented by Ms. Angela Carter, and Mr. David Thalman from Instructure. If so, she could ask Angela to provide the consortium with additional sessions and quotes for Canvas Insights. Dr. Kelly Gonzalez from Meridian said yes and would like the institutional research department at MCC to be included in the demo. Jason Zuehlke from MDCC mentioned in the chat that he thought it would be beneficial to have other departments on campus present at the demo. Dr. LeBrun said it wouldn't be a problem. She also mentioned that Carley Dear from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, who presented on how they're using Canvas and Power BI, could also present to other departments within the community colleges. There was a lot of interest in this going forward; therefore, Dr. LeBrun stated she would reach out to Angela Carter, and then she and Christa would get something scheduled and sent out to the colleges. a. Dr. Wilhite wanted to give an additional shout-out Megan Akins. She also added that Megan will be added to support emails so she can follow the thread of what's going on. Megan will be working closely with Christa and will attend meetings with Sean and Megan Saxton to form a repour with vendor partners. Dr. Wilhite is working on enrolling Megan in the CCTA program that she, Kim Steinmann, and Jan Zuehlke completed last year. i. Dr. Wilhite suggested Megan connect with the community colleges and learn how each works individually in their canvas instance, which will help her build that skill set. 2. ELC Listserv Updates a. Dr. Wilhite noted she will step in and complete the task of updating the listserv since this is something Tina Bradley did. She will send the current names to all the eLCs and asked to let her know who needs to “stay and who needs to go”. 3. MSVCC Academy Updates and Change a. Dr. Wilhite noted the following is the direction the Academy is focusing on for the fall i. There will be a mix of CidiLabs trainings: live and on demand ii. Quality Committee had an ad hoc meeting this summer and discussed merging Growing with Canvas, Digging Deeper and Course development training creating a three-tier program. She will be working on assembling this with the ad hoc committee.

2. Dr. Christa Wilhite, MCCB 1. Introducing - Megan Akins!