MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

Thursday night rather than push back course work further. If not then this weekend during the wee hours. ii. Enrollment Tool a. Presented seven enhancements that are currently being coded to be deployed by January 1, 2005 b. Four items listed that need to be addressed further. Mr. Pugh suggested that a DLC subcommittee look at these. Mr. Pugh expressed concern that adding the change of grade feature would not be considered acceptable. Several suggested that an electronic signature should included. Mr. Pugh asked Alicia Shows to write down a “process.” c. Mr. Pugh clarified to members how improvements to ET should be dealt with. d. Ms. Natalie Young expressed concern that course details are still not current in many classes. iii. Fall Survey Deployment: Mr. Pugh asked if the following time frame October 18- November 19 was ok. Association members asked how we could increase the number of participants….Margarett Britt used assignment manager to track. iv. D2L Desicsion continue to use and revisit in February v. Bb Portal- Items submitted to Jason for inclusion have not been completed because bb portal is not functioning at 100% and when it is corrected, he will get these things implemented. vi. Spring 2005 consortium fee collection: a. Association will pick up MSVCC budget January 1 b. MELO fee has been deferred c. Blackboard fee will attempt to be deferred d. State board will pay MSVCC salaries e. Monies will need to be sent in as quickly as possible. f. Data will need to be in and clean AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. Mark Smith asked for a three week time frame to get the student data as accurate as possible. Jason said the data would probably be pulled at the end of the third week. g. Jenniffer Wamsley asked what fees colleges assess for online fees. Members gave various answers to the question. Many expressed concern about high cost to students. Mr. Smith asked members to compare our cost to universities and other online institutions. h. There will not be fall 04 assessments at this time. i. Time frame for collecting will be addressed after the summer term and the MSVCC has had a chance to get a. November 1 deadline for report to Jason about concerns with how the policy worked this semester. Business and Bookstore Managers are planning a meeting concerning this and DLCs are encouraged to ask if they can attend and to interact with b & b mgrs about this. Hopefully, they will come up with a policy themselves. Communication between DLCs/DLCs and Bookstore Managers/Bookstore Managers/DLCs needs to increase.

vii. Textbook policy

B. Blackboard Day

i. 9:00 am October 13

a. Four people coming from bb. Training specialist, Sales Rep… b. Andrea and Debbie will present an update on Insite

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