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ETLG Monthly Meeting:  Wednesday Jan 6, 2016  1:00-4:00pm.

In Attendance:

 

Member

Campus

In Attendance

Jenn Stringer

Berkeley

X

David Levin

Davis

X

Paul Ver Wey

Davis

-

Shohreh Bozorgmehri

Irvine

X

Mathew Williams

Irvine

X (on call)

Todd Van Zandt

Merced

X (on call 1pm-2:45pm)

Israel Fletes

Riverside

X

Sheryl Hathaway

Riverside

-

Michelle Lew

UCLA

X

Rose Rocchio

UCLA

X (on call)

George Michaels

Santa Barbara

X

Jim Phillips

Santa Cruz

X

Jeff Henry

San Diego

 

Dan Suchy

San Diego

X

Gail Persily

San Francisco

X

Mary Ellen Kreher

UCOE

X

Mike Wood

UCOE

X

Jim Davis

UCLA/ITLC Liaison

-

Tom Andriola

UCOP/ITLC

X

Meggan Levitt

UC Berkeley

X

   

 

  1. Piazza Update and next steps (what is plan B) (Jenn) (20 min)

    1. Looking for UC wide agreement with proper T&C.

    2. Tom Trappler leading negotiations with support group.

    3. Piazza using several campus branding without permission; consider asking legal to remove the Cal logo

    4. Possibly have individual campuses reach out to Pooja (Piazza CEO) directly and warn (Plan B) - discourage its use, advise faculty, develop our own, use LTI  (into LMS) to anonymize student identity at the vendor (embed engagement meter inside LMS course)

      • Pitch it as a way to get better data back to faculty on tool usage by using the CASA engagement meter

    5. Ask David Kay (kay@uci.edu; Chair of the systemwide University Committee on Academic Computing and Communications (UCACC))

      • what should be our next step

      • how aggressive does the UCACC feel the UC system should be in protecting data / security at vendors like Piazza.

      • what are the best ways to get word out to faculty / students on this

    6. To-Do

      • Israel - to write letter on behalf of ETLG to Tom Trappler with proposed “Plan B”, group discussion, appeal to Pooja.

      • Communication to UCACC committee with ETLG stance and thoughts, difficulties in moving this forward. Get their insight. (Mary-Ellen and Shohreh to help draft letter).

      • Create tech working group (LMS LTI) with a campus rep for each LMS (3-4). Rose can support tests with CASA campuses.

        • Canvas - Berkeley

        • Blackboard- San Diego (Dan Suchy)?

        • Moodle - UCLA

      • Draft Advisory to faculty regarding using third-party cloud tools similar to University of Toronto - http://teaching.utoronto.ca/ed-tech/teaching-technology/piazza/.

  2. Instructional Cloud Computing Resource (20 minutes)

    1. UC Irvine Cloud Computing  http://sites.uci.edu/cloud/

    2. Create working group to explore options, Mike Wood.

    3. Engage CDL. Jenn will get contact.

    4. Engage Cloud Computing workgroup, Gabe Youtsey.

  3. Camtasia Agreement (David Levin)  (10 min)

    1. Camtasia studio, Camtasia for Mac, Snagit - 3 year license. ~15K for Davis.

    2. David to relay to Tom Trappler current interest from campuses.

    3. Consider asking Procurement departments on our campuses about including clauses to enable virtualization of licenses, floating licenses, etc. (e.g., SPSS if possible).

  4. Campus Updates (Berkeley/Davis/UCLA) (45 min)

    1. UCLA

    2. Berkeley

    3. Davis

  5. COVC Document - (40 min) - Update

    1. Principles Document

    2. COVC Document

      • COVC document changed to a campus opt-in model.

      • Work on LMS Data Repository Pilot

      • Get UCACC buy-in.

  6. Berkeley Tour: Academic Innovation Studio (60 min)

    1. Tour studio

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