LMS Committee Meeting Notes

Friday, February 4

Focus Group 1: Teaching and Learning – Managing and Delivering Content

Cindy Jorth reported.

Just started in the discussion area. Group 1 Discussion.

Managing and delivering Content has started

More to do online. Help invited.

Michael, Cindy and Laura contributed. Brian added today.

Use language not necessarily consistent with WebCT. How do we accomplish these tasks? Language in open source?

Focus Group 2: Program Assessment

Margaret Owens reported. We met on Monday and most members there. Conversation centered on assessment and can an LMS assist with that? Can LMS features help with assessment of student learning outcomes. Can LMS interface with STEPS? Can we embed assessments with shell level of a course not just course sections but at a higher level? Placement tests possible? Benchmarking? What does it really mean?

Baccalaureate as well as Graduate programs. These questions for the entire committee came forward:

• Does this LMS help us teach and manage a course?
• Does this LMS help us document & record SLO assessments?
• Is this LMS easy to support and maintain? For users?
• Is this LMS compatible with other CSU Chico technology infrastructure?

Context NOT set for LMSes in general. Look at section, course, dept. and college level. How can a system like this be mined for the information wanted? Can data be extracted easily and at multiple levels? Can other software extract data?

Focus Group 3: Supportability & Sustainability

Brought in experts, Matt Philipps from TLP and Ryan Esposto from STCP. See Group 3 area in course for extensive notes.

Focus Group 4: Enterprise Needs

Met at lunch on Thurs. (I stepped out of the room. No notes.)

How do we weave student input into this strategic review? (Bev)

Faculty can help address this from their course experiences. (Brian)

Ryan Esposto and Student Computing has given input to Group 3.

Terminology:

Enterprise means a system on campus that lots of people touch often.

• Important to work we do on a daily basis.
• Supports all courses.
• Supports other Infrastructure systems.
• Does our LMS need to interact with everything?
• Ask the vendors what the road map is?

Association of users to courses, majors, options, departments, colleges, etc?

Question of System-wide standardization on LMS? No way we will all get pulled together.

Are there any ties to the Academic Senate to decide this? Cindy offers to bring it up, if we want. NO. Bill Post will want the committee to recommend to him, who will then go to Deans and Senate to, and B2000. Brian is involved in B2000.

Looking at the Evaluation Form for the general sessions, let’s pare down the questions in areas 3 & 4.

Timeline Reviewed:

No changes to times suggested for vendor visits

Action Items:

• Evaluation Forms – process and finalize your group questions to Laura and Bill by Wed., Feb. 9^th.
• Each group submit names of suggested invitees to Bill and Laura by Tues. end of day, Feb. 8^th.