Agenda: May 1, 2020

ITC Agenda
Special Topic/Focus: 100% Online Teaching Transition
May 1, 2020
1:15 pm WebEx Meeting

  1. Minutes of April 3, 2020
    1. Pending
  2. Announcements
    1. Chair Announcements
    2. IT Announcements/Updates
    3. IDTRC Announcements/Updates
  3. Committee Updates
    1. Quick Update: Learning Management System RFP and LMS Sandboxes (TB)
    2. Quick Update: P&T/ITC Subcommittee
  4. Old Business
    1. NA
  5. New Business
    1.  Elections
      1. University elections are still to held
        1. Consider only continuing
        2. Elections in the first meeting in the fall
        3. Electronic vote after University election results
          1. End of semester
          2. Right at beginning of fall
    2. CCSU’s 6 New Workgroups – Technology
            1. Membership
              1. Chair – Sean McNickle – IT
              2. Tom Burkholder – AAUP Representative
              3. Diane Cannata – Clerical Union Representative
              4. Nicole Elsinger – Student
              5. Amy Kullgren – Client Support Services
              6. Jennifer Nicoletti – IDTRC
              7. Stan Styrczula – IT
    3. Possible software costs trim: Maple TA 2018/Mobius (cost vs. usage) A
    4. Any reports of forms that still need to be turned into online formats?
    5. Transition to on-line classes, teaching, and learning — to date and beyond
      1. What are some elements that are working?
      2. Ongoing requests for summer and beyond (hardware and software)
        1. Request for Quality Matters Training
        2. Request for hardware for certain applications (e.g., tablet and stylus)
      3. Discussion of recourses for Meetings and Synchronous Teaching
        1. Working, not working as well as needed, not working at all
          1. Reporting of not just what is working but also what is not working, and what will not work.
        2. Gathering what else others might want
        3. One size is not fitting all
        4. Alternate tools and solutions
        5. Ongoing, more, and deeper/more comprehensive training for the tools, in context, and teaching focus (e.g. Whiteboard)
        6. Tools/software fatigue, especially of not finding solutions that are adequate/meet the needs, especially for teaching.
      4. Gathering and helping software and hardware challenges for summer classes and especially if classes start/are online (e.g., advanced software purchases)
      5. Concerns of need to be on campus in summer to have technology ready for the start of the fall
      6. Best path for ongoing questions, complaints, needs?
      7. For the summer and especially if for the fall (and beyond?) what could be different, needs to be different, and will be different. How do we identify this and how to get there?
    6. And…. .?