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Scott - Boot camp update and interaction with other Sakai personnel. New team member Philip attended BC.
Chris - Will finalize schedule info w/Scott and confirm Ilios curriculum content with Jan
Talked to Walter Boyce (participant in spring pilot) about possible concerns about online tools changing the teaching process, e.g., verbal announcements in class vs in Announcements. Some faculty may feel pressured to use Sakai rather than continuing with their existing teaching methods.
CALF and VM staff to continue to assure faculty that the intent is not "force" but to provide tools if desired.
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CERE Implementation Meeting
Updates: Beau getting new production machine configured
; Keith extending Ilios to contain add'l course info like meeting times, etc.
Jan add'l content included (consistent) core class or not, clothing,
Chris - ; Chris stated that course notations of essential vs. required vs. optional db storage needIn 2 weeks storage needed in the database. Rick and Dave will have 10-12 sakai help video files available in 2 weeks. Clips will be as brief as possible for dwload download purposes and to minimize impact on faculty time noting length of video
IT timeline not compatible w/VM deadline, so Rick & Dave will doJan - upfront requirements .
This meeting will focus on rquirements for 2 pilot courses and student needs for spring qtrquarter.
- Links from
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- MyUCDavis to point to CERE (for the pilot courses) rather than iWeb.
- Email to be sent out to
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- these classes to notify
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- students about the pilot and CERE.
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- Faculty will try out Announcements tool
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- by sending email notification via
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- Sakai.
- Students will be accessing CERE only for these classes.
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- Course home page in
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- iWeb
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- will be a single link to
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- CERE and other links in iWeb to
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- the courses will go directly to
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- Sakai.
- Erin, and other dept admins, will be part of the pilot as well since they also email
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- students via a class.
Sites are up for spring pilots and bulk enrollment is done. Has data for email been entered?
Erin has needs for early notification for course information changes, e.g., location, schedule changes. Signing Students signing up for electives , other things are affected by class changes. Issue is notifying how to notify the correct group of students (in CERE.)
Jan - what are the essential things students need to know?
- Urgent current issues notification by email, but other information will be noted in
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- Announcements for the course.
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- In the VM Sakai instance, students can audit all courses - should they be able to self-join?
Discussions Discussion of multi-term displays for students and faculty (auto-joined courses):
How do you distinguish btwn Fall --> Winter esp. for multi-qtr quarter courses
? Term indicators? By color, by text designation? Uncouple once student has completed the course, but allow student to be able to rejoin.
Instructor can override for their TA's, etc.?
How far in advance do you we set up future courses for joining for schedule changes, prior to their actual enrollment in the course?
Suggestion: Inform students that changes are possible to courses prior to their enrollment (flux)
Potential issue for unjoining students - gradebook issues?
Possible solution: Global hide when course is over?
Re: Content Migration - This is a good opportunity for faculty to sort through their content and limit what content they want on their new sakai sites. Significant, but small percentage of faculty who never go to their online sites. .. CALF will send out printed website snapshot to faculty and request designation of what material they want on their new sitematerials are wanted on the new sites. Default is no content.
Email notification (for fall) of to faculty (cc: course leader) with deadline for response re: course materials (for fall.)
Notifications to instructors outside the school ? Notify them as well (cross-listed?).
Course worksites generated require enrollment prior to being displayed (current business rule) to avoid mass generation of online sites with no content; may need to change policy to allow early release and allow students to join. Need There is a need for project sites outside the automated load, e.g., residency courses.
Migrating content from the current system to the new system. Faculty to copy within sakai for future site updates. May require simple training session.