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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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- Urgent current issues notification by email, but other information will be noted in Announcements for the course.
- 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.
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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.