MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

Spring, online was scheduled to start the same day as traditional. Recommend to push back the calendar one week to have online start after traditional. If there are any suggestions or corrections, please send to Keri and Tish for review. MCCB Business a. Akiah gave out three documents: MCCB Learning Update, Tasks, and Implementation b. HelpDesk-Approved by board. Waiting to be signed. c. Textbooks-Textbook information is provided in the ET but the pricing is not included in the ET, Akiah has suggested we add a pricing field in the ET. Bookstore prices vary by College. Students who are non-local may not have access to other college’s textbook prices. Textbook prices will need to be made public otherwise we will have to add a field in the ET which would require someone to manually put the prices in the ET or we could link to a URL that lists the prices and ISBN numbers. The textbook information must be made public. Recommend that we discuss with local Bookstore managers and present at the May meeting. d. Email from Canvas Project Manager-for the ET to work, all Colleges instances must be on the same layer of the database. Currently our instances are on different layers, which means that each college instance has to copy and redirect script to a new instance located on the same layer of the other colleges. New Business a. MSVCC Resources page design-Currently titled as MSVCC Resources, recommended to be called Resources. PRCC asked why we would need to have the page for all students if it is only for MSVCC students. Akiah has asked for recommendations on redesign so it will make sense for all students who click on the tab since more content than just MSVCC content will reside on the page. Keri will send an email out and during our May meeting, we will present changes. b. ELC Association officer nominations and election in May-Elections will take place in May. Please think of nominations for Secretary and Vice President. VIII. Open Forum a. Incompletes-how will we handle incompletes from Blackboard to the move to Canvas. PRCC is recommending incompletes only be issued for an emergency and must be done by June 1, 2013. Holmes has a policy that states a student has 30 days from the start of the next term to complete an incomplete. Northeast is printing off exams and students will have to come to the college and complete the paper test instead of doing it online. Each College needs to decide and report how we will handle incompletes. b. Archiving Blackboard content-Bb has quoted $65,000 to get us 3 semesters of past content. How we will access the content and retrieve the content is up in the air. Jennifer Leimer stated that D2L has quoted a low cost to archive D2L content. This is an item that needs to be addressed ASAP! Keri has requested that Akiah address this matter ASAP and report to the group so that we can address how we are going to data mine and handle incompletes. c. Survey-Now that Christian is gone, Beverlin has asked when the MSVCC should survey open and close. The group would prefer a reminder email be sent when the survey opens. The survey opens the Monday of the 8 th week and close on the Friday of the 12 th . The opening date is an issue since the opening of the survey is basically after the end of the first 8 week term. Beverlin stated that as we move forward the survey should be date driven by the term. Sharing Circle Suspended until completion of Canvas integration

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