IDS mtg notes 4/7/09

* = To Do
! = Alert
? = Question
- = Ongoing

RJ
Inline quiz on the gamegarden
Tech 3010

JR
- Course backups - almost finished

Ken
Marsha Haynes - Career Services Orientation
ITR mtg
! Tyrel "T-Bone" is in charge of ITR web page

T-Bone
- MGMT 3430 Pulled apart epack and made Web links in Vista

Dorothy
CLSS 1010 finished, sending to JR

Janel
- Len Pugh content reviewed
- John McLean content reviewed, discussed

Kevin
Finished SWF learner
! Will be working on dotProject
! Japanese

Shaline
* SOC 1010 powerpoints
- TECH 3400 course with Marc
* ART

Travis
* DENT look, will send to Jared and Janel
* YouTube EDU - make dP Project and Tasks;
John can get the YouTube EDU account through Ray?

Adam
TECH 3010 video done; get with John to approve the video
Need Political Conversations from Jared

Jared
* Political Conversations blurb
ITR reviewed
Proposed DE instructional bonus system
! Giving presentation today on online cheating
Course content coming in for DENT, MGMT
- Chou's epack

IDS mtg notes - 3/31/09

I'm going to get back in the habit of posting our IDS meeting notes here on the unit's blog.

* = To Do
! = Alert
? = Question
- = Ongoing

Tyrel
Moodle selective release
-Course backups
!WebDav needs to work on backup computer
*Janel will send Hwang's UVID to Tyrel
*Tyrel try to hunt down the PHP/mysql XML metadata system
*Move RSS onto desource.uvu.edu

JR
-Course backups

Ken
Learned about SVN; svn.uvu.edu; WebDevServices uses it
*Set up SVN for us with UVIDs
dotProject hosted by UVU
*Working with WDS to consolidate our dP servers
Flex is the AWESOMEST!

Jared
!Order software
*ITRs
Course content in
-Prototyping
TTIX tentative schedule is up
*Remind Marc of course ID
!Meeting with Lori and Mike today

Shaline
-Course backups
Ready to work on SOC etc

Janel
Content from Len Pugh in
!May have to revise CLSS course
Waiting for stuff from George for internship
-Advanced tech online class
-Copyright class
*Janel will identify important course criteria

Travis
DENT looks ready for internal review
*Jared will come down to T's office to review them
Helped SC with pens, Wendi with faculty training conference
iTunes U - structure and metadata docs delivered. Apple servers have 500gb to the institute; our own server, just provide them the RSS
!Ray Walker has access to iTunes U. He can give access to DE to a section or portion
*Write justification email and send it to John to send it to Ray

Adam
-Finishing Political Conversations DVDs

Dave W.
-Telephone services video; rough cut ready
1310 video; adding b-roll to enliven
-Ensure that video size is consistent
-Investigating Flash streaming

RJ
*Buy CS4
-Online degree proposal form

Blackboard Vista 4 Course Design Guidelines

A few Vista course construction protocols in addition to notes posted during our Blackboard Vista migration:

• Use banner.jpg on the homepage, not the front.jpg--that's too big with our current design.


• Lessons in Learning Modules should be complete: they need to be linear, and include any quizzes, discussions, or assignments attached to a given lesson.


• HIDING most Tool links in the Course Tools menu may reduce student confusion and encourage them to access activities in the proper order. This is done by going to Manage Course > Course Menu and HIDE on Assessments, Assignments, Discussions, Learning Modules--this is important because
  
  
  
  1. we don't want students to wander aimlessly--the lesson is the core of the course;
  
  
  2. the labels for these areas do not always match the instuctors' labels, adding more confusion
  
  
  3. these general areas often put items in "alphabetical order", also known as "arbitrary order". We manually structure learning modules for a reason.
  
  


• If lessons have titles or subtitles, put them in the Description field of the learning modules.


• Make sure the CSS files are referenced by course pages. This problem is evident if the font is a serif, rather than sans-serif, font.


• When making quizzes follow these guidlines unless specifically instructed not to:
  
  
  
  • Midnight should be interpreted as 11:55pm/11:59pm not 12:00am
  
  
  • Release the score once the quiz has been submitted and all the questions have been graded.
  
  
  • Do NOT 'Show the correct answer for each question.'
  
  
  • Randomize answer choices in multiple choice quizzes
  
  
  • Add questions to a quiz using a question set to randomize question order