Information Technology Council Meeting
6/10/05
Present:
Arnold Miller chair on behalf of Jan Fox
Review of Minutes from 4/8/05. Approved as amended
Miller: I have asked Terri Tomblin-Byrd to stop by to discuss the conversion of Banner onto the Linux platform.
Terri
Byrd: There was a successful migration of the Banner Administrative Information System from the VMS operating system platform to the Linux platform. We still have some residual issues; mostly affecting the back end technical people and the background batch jobs that are run every night. All of the critical pieces have been completed. Most of the issues we are dealing with are print queue clean ups. We also have moved from a weekly cold backup of our data base to hot back ups. Last Friday Banner did not go down and we did our first hot back up.
We are now running as close to a 24/7 shop as we can be.
Conversion should be business as
usual but faster. I haven’t heard any
complaints yet.
Miller: We will have less down time unless we are doing maintenance on the Banner system. This is a real feather in their cap for Terri and her group. Jon Cutler and his group have also provided invaluable assistance in this effort. We have to be one of the first institutions in the world to be running totally on this platform. There are up to 10 other institutions and we all made the change within the last month or so. Everyone seems to be having the same issues and same successes. This is a threshold for us to move to a platform that has a future.
Committee Updates:
Miller: Internet bandwidth was cut back by half for the summer. We haven’t seen any demands for more bandwidth with the exception of raising bandwidth for the presidential announcement.
The phone system merger is still on for the July 4th weekend. There will be forthcoming announcements to remind everyone of the change. We will have a common dialing plan between the med school and the main campus. The only change will be the move to 5 digit dialing which may cause some initial headaches. Per Mike: the advantage to the medical school is the ability to report, as the source number of the med school, one central defined number for the medical departments rather than individual physicians’ phone numbers showing up on caller id’s. Just remember the rule; you dial the last 5 digits of the phone number.
Jody Perry will be leaving his
position as lab manager. We will be
looking to replace him as soon as possible.
We wish him well in his new position at
Monica
Brooks: We haven’t received data files for migration to new software because we are negotiating a new price with the old company for extraction of data. Jingping is in contact with III to find out what they need for extraction. We will postpone training to August or September. We should be up and running in January.
Hensley: We are trying block scheduling this summer for orientation. We are building schedules for incoming freshmen so that they will be scheduled for courses together. Right now it is very labor intensive in the Dean’s offices. The first day of orientation is Tuesday. It is a culture change for us to build blocks for scheduling, but it is going well so far. If the block doesn’t work for a particular student, the student can adjust their schedules when they come to orientation.
We will have a North Central visit in July for our online degrees. That has been speeded up so we can get a visit and approval to offer online degrees. We feel really confident that we are in good shape for the Higher Learning’s review and that approval will be forthcoming.
This is an area in which we have a solid foundation and we are excited for the visit.
Remember that orientation is our bread and butter and we need to make sure we all do anything we can to make the experience a good one for students and parents.
Michael
Misiti: I am dong the telephone directory
for students and my deadline is today.
The directory comes out in October and since the new dialing plan will
be in effect in July, should the phone book reflect the 5 digits in the phone
numbers? It is suggested that Michael
meet with
A representative from Ruckus has
been contacting SGA. We did a trial run
with Javey Vance and he did not see any reason to use this product. Per
Mike
McCarthy: I have the online version of the HIPAA training for anyone wanting to take the training.
David: The big news in Distributed Education is the NCA visit.
There are over 2000 students enrolled in e-courses this summer.
We anticipate that we will be up to 96 courses online in the fall.
We have 1700 students enrolled in e-couses for fall so far.
We are in the midst of a search for an Instructional Designer.
Don
Combs: My
main thing now is the computer classroom/lab in
We will be changing out the
computers in the
COMPUTING SERVICES
RATE SCHEDULE
Miller: All changes are in red type.
Most of the substantive changes begin on the second page.
A new item is the Surplus Computer Sale and processing involved for sanitizing computers before the sale. Income from any sale goes to recovering the cost of processing. We are willing to share the itemization and details of costs of recovery if anyone should want an accounting of these amounts.
In order to keep this process clean, we have to follow the same prodecure when a computer is moved from one department to another. We don’t want files of one person left on a computer that is moved to another office in a department. We use the same sanitization and reformatting process for moving computers around the campus for a fee of $100.00 per.
Off campus Internet dial up service is going away. We will no longer be selling that as a service because WVNet will no longer be offering the service. We will be moving support for this back to WVNet.
CD/DVD duplicating service is a new service. We have purchased new equipment to provide this service. This fee is what we propose for small runs of duplicating service.
Server/Database services are the significant changes. This is for managing servers for other departments. The cost scale has changed to make it more rational.
Vote held until July meeting.
DISTRIBUTED
EDUCATION RATE SCHEDULE
David
Johnson: The first area is the production rate schedule is for ITVS. This is the updated rate schedule for ITVS; we have always been a billing entity. Most of these charges have stayed the same; we just needed the updated schedule for the MOU.
Hosting is when we have an
organization or entity that has online courses that are outside of our Banner
system that require separate administration.
A student taking the course could be outside our institution or it could
be an institution such as Glenville where we are hosting their entire online
presence. WVU,
We have made the offer to outside
institutions that if they come to
The Acclaim Grant, Merit Grant and
the
Vote tabled until July meeting.
THIRD PARTY
CONTRACTS FOR E-COURSES
David
Johnson: We came up with a direct cost based on the number of students in a section.
All we are asking is that if the department wants to provide a third party course (i.e. painters) we need to make sure a fee is included in cost to cover the actual costs incurred for the technology.
There is issue taken about the direct/indirect cost to be added to the fee charged for the course.
It is agreed that this matter needs further discussion offline and discussion with Herb Karlet, Don Combs and Frances Hensley.
SUPPORT POLICIES
& SUPPORTED PRODUCTS LIST
Miller: There are no substantive changes in these two documents. I just tried to clarify the terminology in what we call various support. This is the same policy you see every year. We are just required to update them each year.
We will consider this the first reading of all of these policies. After I meet with Jan we will determine what policies warrant an e-mail vote and what matters can wait until next month’s meeting.
Adjourned.