MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

c. 120 people d. 13 tables setup – grouped by one DLC and mixed college (not necessarily by discipline)

C. Association By-Laws i. Mark Smith stated that he created a very basic (general) draft and asked for input on changes to the by-laws. Jenniffer made a motion to accept the by-laws as written and Audra seconded the motion. D. Student ID vs SS# in Bb logins i. Jennifer expressed interest in having an autoemail…Jason said that this needs to be written down…Richard suggested adding a “finishing” step so that when ii. Jennifer, Richard, Andrea, and Hubert wi… will work on items 1, 2, and 4 of item II on Jason’s Enrollment Tool Items i. Spoke with Ray Smith—says most of the issues we have listed are local issues. Working on disaster recovery plan for state network. Ongoing work on bandwidth and infrastructure enhancements. More communication on new tech needed from tech group ii. D2L pilot meets many of the current objectives iii. Minimum network applications in progress…fall 04 /spring 05 deadline. Asked members to add to list provided. Email ideas to committee since we only have one meeting left this year and draft of operational plan is due in February. a. Mark Smith added that online student services have to be added based on SACs requirement b. Mark Smith gave an overview of Safe Assignment a plagiarism prevention tool. To his knowledge, Safe Assignment would have to be implemented on the MSVCC server since it is a plug-in to blackboard. Members had positive remarks about this and expressed an interest in learning more about it. Alicia suggested that we ask our local schools to take a look at it . B. Training: Mark Smith i. Needs Assessments for DLCs, Instructors, Students need to be developed. Review end of course evaluations will be used to determine students needs. Jenniffer expressed concern that we have a hard time already getting students to respond to surveys and is concerned that we will not have enough participation. Mark suggested that Jason create a system wide discussion forum for students and faculty. Jason expressed concern about having an unmoderated discussion and will only consider this if dlcs share the moderation. He also stated that it would not be very easy to create this type of discussion. Jenniffer uses an email “focus group” and says it works very well to gather information from students. Any areas members would like added to surveys. a. Alicia expressed concern that withdrawn students are not being counted in survey. Mark stated that these students still have access to the survey in MSVCC student profile. Topic of the Day A. Technology: Alica Shows

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b. Ellene’s secretary emails all withdrawn students asking them to complete a survey : why did you drop, how many courses are you taking, what helped you get started etc….Jason suggested that we have a survey added to auto-email

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