MELA Minutes 2024-2025

iii. The academy will be piloting course pacing with Course Basics. Instead of multiple offerings, it will be one six-month session where anyone can enroll at any point during this time and complete at his or her on pace b. Dr. Wilhite asked if there were any questions. One question was posed about the cost of the CCTA. i. The cost is $1400 and does not include the support benefit. Christa stated if someone is a veteran admin he or she does need the entire program as in Core 1 and Core 2. She found the API elective was beneficial and there will be more electives becoming available. You can isolate and register for the courses that may be beneficial and not take the whole program. She asked Jason’s opinion, 1. He found value in the course, even though some content was repeated. He stated the way they presented it added significant value. For example, after learning about RSI, he took the CCTA course, where they used Canvas basic tools and they backed RSI effectively. There were only two elective options when he enrolled, but they are adding more this year. He chose the tier-two support package but hasn’t used it yet so that he might switch to the basic package next year without the extra support. The year-long contract allows him to skip tier one, but they were quick and efficient when he used tier one. ii. Dr. Wilhite added if anyone would like her to share her documentation on the subject she would be glad to. presentation for the WOW award. Part of her concept is producing a video which showcases how the consortium collaborates, offers professional development, and encourages students to work with technology. Her deadline is October 2 so she asked to please have these photos to her by the end of September. 5. SmarterProctoring (SP2) a. SP2 has never supported ProctorU issues. Issues with ProctorU will go to them not SP2 or RegisterBlast (RB). SP2 is not involved unless it is with scheduling issues. b. Dr. Wilhite had a side conversation with Sean and Shalon regarding roster sync which involves students being removed when they are no longer in the class, so seats can become available. Sean does have a ticket in within engineering to make that happen. One of her deliverables coming out of this retreat is to give Sean a workflow chart of canvas student status that is either active, inactive, or deleted to help him solve the sync issues between smarter proctoring and RegisterBlast. This is something the consortium has been asking about for 9 years. 4. Photos Needed! a. Dr. Wilhite noted she will need photos to create a video