MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

evaluation remain in the instructor role. The last request was to add the List MSVCC Proctor Exam to the DLC roll and to add a prefix dropdown menu for quick reference. b. Jennifer Leimer will also be completing future Enrollment Tool requests for the switching the Duplication and Modify Course buttons. When building courses, if you click enter on the keyboard it automatically forwards to the course duplication screen. We would like for it to automatically modify when clicking enter. She would also like to discuss the possibility of switching the instructor/faculty user ID from Social Security Numbers to college identification numbers. Currently we are unable to enter school IDs without leading zeros. Christian stated that you have to also understand that we share faculty members and they would have different ID numbers for each college in which they teach. That is why the SSNs are still being used. Jennifer Powell recommended that those faculty use different accounts for the different schools. Christian added that if the instructors use two different accounts that they cannot use the same password for both accounts. This causes several problems with the Enrollment Tool. Instructors should also not use password as their account password. New Business a. Wimba Regional Training Conference Call – Scott Smith. Face-to-face training sessions will begin next week in Northern and Central Mississippi. Phyllis (NWMCC) and Tish (HOLMES) have kindly agreed to host these trainings. The northern region training will be held Monday, November 17 th and Tuesday, November 18 th . Central region training will be held on Thursday, November 20 th and Friday, November 21 st . These training sessions will be 9:00-4:00p.m. on each day. Jamie Green will be conducting these training sessions on functionality and use. Scott will email everyone the agenda’s for training. Scott will be contacting each facilitator for directions. Alicia (SWMCC) has been kind enough to host the southern training region. These trainings will be held on Thursday, December 11 th and Friday, December 12 th . The Thursday session will begin at 10:00a.m. – 5:00p.m. and Friday’s session will begin at 8:00a.m.-3:00p.m. Scott Smith will conduct the southern region training. Chris Jenkins asked if he could attend a different region’s training if he was unable to attend the full training in the central region. Scott stated that this would not be a problem, as long as the training numbers did not exceed 25 participants per session. Wimba currently has software in development with Blackboard that will allow us to take the Bb server and reach out to multiple Wimba servers. Currently all of MSVCC is connected to one Wimba server. This bridge is designed to allow institutions with significant Wimba usage to hit additional servers. This bridge will be setup at the end of November. As soon as it is setup Wimba will conduct the necessary testing. They hope to have this ready by January 1, 2009. It is a very fast turnaround time for moving institutions from the original server to another server. You will not see any intermittent downtime. At this time ICC, NWMCC, JCJC, and Holmes foresee increased usage. MGCCC and MCC will likely mandate usage in future terms. Those schools are planning a roll out over the next few semesters.

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