ITC Minutes: October 4, 2019
Meeting called to order at 1:17pm
Attendees:
S Barnett, L Casas, J Foshay, J Lee-Partridge, J Melnyk, C Menoche, K Meyer, K Misra, J Nicoletti, L Washko
Guests – G Claffey, A Kullgren, S McNickle, T Rivera
Approval of Minutes September 6, 2019 (Melnyk/Barnett)
Chair Announcements
None
IT Announcements
OneDrive is coming for students, faculty, and staff. The target completion date is January 2020. IT will migrate your M: drive files to OneDrive at that time. Effective October 15, all new Bluenet accounts will no longer get an M: drive. Student WWW folders, currently part of M: drive, will not be part of OneDrive. The functionality of the WWW folders will be available with the IT subscription to Microsoft Azure Development Tools. IT will be holding informational sessions.
Microsoft Teams, a collaboration tool available through Office365. It is used for communication and file sharing. IT is currently piloting this tool with a few departments. If successful, Teams could eventually replace department netshares.
MS Bookings is currently being used with Advisors and is available for faculty to use to schedule students for office hours. Stuart Barnett is interested in using it in the English Dept.
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Online security is everyone’s responsibility. Emails will be going out during the month.
IDTRC Announcements
There is a IDTRC & CTFD (Center for Teaching and Faculty Development) event on Friday Oct 11, 12:00p-2:00p, which will feature engaging conversation about Generation Z students. Lunch is included so participants must sign up. Contact the IDTRC to more information.
Committee Reports
P&T/ITC There have been discussions in the Faculty Senate about this. Senate approved that any faculty, at any level, can now opt-in to do online submissions. Discussions ongoing.
Website Advisory Ongoing question about how this committee will move forward.
Online Learning: The current evaluation tool has some limitations. The committee needs to explore other options. Working on the process. For questions about this email: courseeval@ccsu.edu
New Business
Formed Software Requests subcommittees: C Menoche, J Partridge, L Washko, H Rudzinski, K Misra
Formed Hardware Requests subcommittee: C Menoche, H Rudzinski, J Partridge
Charles will send out an email to see if anyone else wants to serve on these subcommittees.
Adjourned 2:03pm.