MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

2005 – May Distance Learning Coordinator’s Association Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Minutes

A meeting of the Distance Learning Coordinator’s Association was held on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 in the Conference Room at the State Board for Junior and Community Colleges building in Jackson, MS.

Attendance was as follows:

College/Association

Representative(s)

Coahoma

Absent

Copiah Lincoln

Laura Lofton

East Central

Katie Sparkman

East Mississippi

Andrea Scott

Hinds

Absent

Holmes

Tish Stewart

Itawamba Meridian

Ellene McCrimon

Hubert Yates

Mississippi Delta

Jackie Bailey-Hall

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Jennifer Leimer and Mark Smith

Northeast

Absent

Northwest Pearl River Southwest

Phyllis Johnson

Absent

Alicia Shows

SBCJC

Audra Kimble, Beverlin Givens, Ive Burnett

I.

CALL TO ORDER. Ellene McCrimon called the meeting to order at 10:10am.

II. The minutes from the association meeting on April 6, 2005 were approved with one amendment on item III E. The word offer was changed to host in the last sentence.

III.

Director's report

a. Blackboard Update: Audra Kimble stated that Blackboard has asked DLCs to please report all errors or problems so that they can research them. Please include details of the problem including BB ID number. b. Ms. Kimble has begun the purging of users in Blackboard. The users in D2L have been purged. c. A request for proposal for a new learning management system has been issued. In the mean time, the current contract with D2L that was originally purchased for MSVCC by Copiah-Lincoln Community College has been revised with an upgrade to 5,000 users. d. Ms. Kimble asked DLCs to poll instructors to find those who are interested in additional D2L training and give names to Ms. Kimble. e. Ms. Kimble reminded members about the naming scheme in D2L. Usernames for instructors should be firstname.lastname. Usernames for students are the same as in Blackboard, first initial, lastname, last four numbers of social security number.

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