TAC Meeting Minutes - April, 2007

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Technology Advisory Committee Minutes

April 13, 2007

HBE Dean’s Conference Room-noon-1:39 pm

Members Prese= nt: John Crandall, Mark Jordano, Val B= acik, Ward McCracken, Mike O’Neill, Theresa Vitolo, Virginia Arp, Sue Grand= e, Laurie Bednar, Marion Gallivan, Tim Downs, Nick Pronko, Jay DiFrank.

Members Excus= ed: Carolynn Masters, Cindy Duda

Thank You and Lunch

Mark thanked the committee = for this year and thanked Jill for setting up the lunch.

The top two initiatives, we= bmaster and digital dais increase, made it into the budget because of the strength = and support of Dr. Taylor and Linda Wagner.

ITS Updates (informational)
- GUXpress – Spring Registr= ation

John thanked Jay DiFrank f= or the time entry and Laurie Fullerton and Marilyn Moore for reducing the number of students in registration period. &nbs= p; There was an average of 20 students per group registering every 15 minutes from 4:00 pm – 10:30 pm= . There were no system issues and 87% of the students registered on line. For Gannon small registration groups were a successful work around. In some way small groups are consi= dered a step backwards.

Registration Statistics:

06/FA Average Registration= Group Size 242=

06/FA Sessions at 5:00 and= 7:00 &= nbsp;

06/FA Registration from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

07/SP Average Registration= Group Size 87<= /p>

07/SP Sessions every 20 mi= nutes

07/SP Registration from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

07 FA Average Registration= Group Size 20

07/FA Sessions every 15 mi= nutes

07/FA Registration from 4:00 pm – 10:30 pm

06/FA % registered online:= 87%

07/SP % registered online:= 74%

07/FA % registered online:= 87%

Val thanked Dr. Downs for the use of his conference ro= om and for making copies of the minutes.

Approval of the March 8, 2007 Minutes (action)

Virginia made the motion to approve the minutes and John seconded them. All were in favor, with no abstentions, and the minutes were approved.

o = Emergency Broadcast System=

§§ It is not part of MyGannon Assista= nt.

§§§Int= ernet Bandwidth

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Angel

o = There will be 30 training sessions

o = 107 faculty registered in introductory Angel training

o = About 50 faculty still need to migrate, CETL will be calling each faculty member<= /p>

o = Six faculty migrated for Spring

§§o = Adjunct faculty need to convert their course content

o = Blackboard Server will end on December 2007 or January 2008

o = All summer courses will be on Angel over the summer

o = Faculty need to know if the students have dropped or added classes

o = Angel will be updated nightly from Datatel

R18

Tentative go live date is May 26, Memorial Day weekend; fall back date is July = 20.
Procomm is going away, and there will be no help with Procomm after the conversion.

Membership

The following members have = expiring terms:

o = TLTR co-chair, Theresa Vitolo

o = Administrative Computing co-chair, Jay DiFrank

o = SGA representation for TAC

o = Sue Grande

o = Katie Draghi

The committee was disappoin= ted in the lack of attendance by the SGA reps.

Val informed the committee that the May 3^rd meeting is cancelled. She also asked the committee to think about unit plan ideas over the summer.

The ITS strategic plan will regroup with guidance for strategic plan.

The next TAC meeting will be the first week in October, 2007.

Miscellaneous

Work is being done on a job description for the webmaster
Some of the accredited HBE programs need to maintain a website

Audit by Julie Wolfe on journal entries

o = More detailed audit to verify security levels

o = Need to develop procedure to make sure security levels are updated and accurate<= /p>

John made the notion to ad= journ and Ward seconded it.

The meeting adjourned at <= st1:time Hour=3D"13" Minute=3D"30" w:st=3D"on">1:30 pm

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