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Dan - on Unicon training sessions: Interesting to see training curriculum - too long and covered too much; backwards introduction of some tools, e.g., starting Tests & Quizzes w/Templates. Take Home Lesson - keep it simple, start with a limited menu from day 1; showing tools advocates using them; launch with Resources, Announcements for the intro to Sakai with more advanced training later. Intro to Sakai in 1.5 hour format; give faculty time to get used to the tools before introducing other (mature) tools. Faculty in training session were overwhelmed by number of tools and frustrated by overlap of functionality in tools.
Message that VM wants to give their faculty - simple, functional, w/limited tool accessibility, since everything is new to them. Separate classes for quizzing, discussion, etc., one topic at a time. Must be done in computer lab to get hands on experience.
Issues on Resources: Need to increase 20 MB file size to ?; current manual process of converting to One Note OneNote files - ppt slides & pdfs are huge as content may encompass multiple lectures; students assisting faculty by uploading ON OneNote files for faculty prior to the lecture - maybe minutes before.
Jan - we need to encourage faculty to get deliver content at least 24 hrs prior to allow time to for upload and for student downloads prior to lecture.
Pilot users for spring; webdav WebDav makes it easy to move content up - on Mac, using Goliath w/next release. Build , although there will be a fix with next Sakai release. Process worked out to build folder structure in sakai, then move over files using webdavWebDdav. Determined that they will not give faculty default folder structure.
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