IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: John, Jared, Marc, Janel, Ken, Dorothy

New projects

• Two part-time employees added to list of Clark's old projects
  
• Ken: TTIX, Dist Ed Website, Drivers Ed
• RJ: Online Course Proposal form, assessing, updating courses, Webpage templates
• Tyrell: CTC course management, ITR tool
• Ken -- make sure task list has name by assigned course

Discussed time frame for receiving content from negligent instructors (sometimes no content from instructor, enrollment set at zero, but students are enrolled anyway)

Ideas discussed for getting content in on time:

• Setting June 1 for fall content deadline, July 1 absolutely last time for content
  
• Possibly docking compensation or offer course the following semester (Development Compensation Form says we can penalize by withholding compensation, but we have never done this)
• Give date for receiving full content, then say we will do courses that meet deadline first, and others may be pushed back to another semester
• If instructional designer does not have confidence in course, pull course (not sure we can recommend to do this or tell them we will do this)
• Could we tie instructional compensation with quality of teaching? No, we cannot
• We do not have ability to ensure quality of online courses
• Our only leverage is that we do development. Many instructors rely on Dist Ed only to service courses
  

Accepted ideas for getting content in on time:

• What matters most is students (not our ease, not instructor)
• Instead of penalty, lower base compensation and give bonus for getting content in on time
• In initial meeting, explain base compensation (reduced by half) -- if content in by April 1, get full bonus; if content in by June 1, get partial bonus
• Send Jared wording about compensation and bonus (emphasize bonus)

ESMG 3100 -- Shawn Peppers needs to talk to Vickie about compensations, ITR level (without much detail about compensation)

CA 1150 -- Packer has some content, not complete. Have e-mailed advisor and others, still no content. Course was set at zero until we received content; department enrolled 19 students anyway. Still have to provide course

TECH 3850

• Have full content for spring delivery
• Janel, if comfortable for fall delivery, talk to Lynn Pavia and department head - if it can be ready for fall, go ahead

CSSE -- Ken to demo next week

• Minimal or no maintenance
• If random people filling up form becomes problem, may do some sort of Captcjha to prevent spambots (See TTIX site)

Japanese

• Ken working on Game garden with RJ -- view flash game tomorrow
  
• Has made UVU-themed flashcards
• Get XML format from John to upload respondus quiz file
• RJ to redesign Webpage
• Language changing to Arabic -- Default on flashcards changes, doesn't let characters flow together -- need to be able to change to fonts that work
• May not be feasible in everyone's browser -- canvas not stretchable (will work with size of Chinami's image
• Need to visit how stored -- if we can save out jpeg, jpeg can be saved to Moodle; if not jpeg, cannot be used outside of database. Save as jpeg, do not maintain database for course

MGMT 2350 (Business Statistics) -- Need to assign instructional designer. Not sure if spring or summer; waiting for proposal to assign

Marc has not heard from Karen Mizel