MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

a. Mr. Pugh presented seven enhancements that are currently being coded to be deployed by January 1, 2005 (See Attachment) b. Mr. Pugh listed four items that need to be addressed further. (See Attachment) Mr. Pugh suggested that a DLC subcommittee look at these further. Mr. Pugh expressed concern that adding the change of grade feature would not be considered acceptable. Several suggested that an electronic signature should be included. Mr. Pugh asked Alicia Shows to write down a “process.” c. Mr. Pugh clarified to members how improvements to the 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 a. Mr. Pugh asked if the time frame of October 18-November 19 was acceptable. Association members discussed how to increase the number of participants. iv. Desire 2 Learn Decision a. Mr. Pugh stated that the association would continue to use the Desire 2 Learn platform and would revisit the discussion in February. v. Blackboard Portal a. Mr. Pugh stated that items submitted to him for inclusion have not been completed because the portal is not operating at full functionality and when it is corrected, he will get these things implemented. vi. Spring 2005 consortium fee collection: a. The DLC Association will pick up the 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. Mr. Pugh said the data would probably be pulled at the end of the third week. g. Jenniffer Wamsley asked what fees other 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. The time frame for collecting for the fall term will be addressed after the summer term. vii. Textbook policy a. Mr. Pugh gave a November 1 deadline for reporting concerns with how the textbook policy worked this semester. b. Business and Bookstore Managers are planning a meeting concerning this and DLCs are encouraged to attend and to interact with business and bookstore managers about this. c. Association members agreed that communication between DLCs/DLCs and Bookstore Managers/Bookstore Managers/DLCs needs to increase.

B. Blackboard Day

i. 9:00 am October 13 a. Four people will be coming from Blackboard to present. b. Andrea Scott will present an update on Insite

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