MINUTES
Faculty Senate Committee on Technology
3/3/2015
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Union room 226
Meeting called by Donald P Crawford
Attendees:
Don Crawford
Robert Gamez
Stacy Hutchinson
Ann Knackendoffel
Joe Lear
Brian Lindshield
Nathan Nelson
3:30pm – 3:35pm
Approval of minutes
Minutes from 2/3/2015 meeting
3:35pm – 3:55pm
Updates
Michael Raine
Dhanushka Samarakoon
Tom Schermerhorn
Ken Stafford Ben Stark
Greg Stephens
Tucker Styrkowicz
Rob Caffey
Scott Finkeldei
Approved
Office 365 phase II
We will be rolling out new features during the week of March 9. The features are:
- OneDrive - 1 TB of file storage that can be synced across all your devices
- Office Online - web-based version of Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote)
- Office ProPlus (desktop and mobile app versions of Microsoft Office)
- Office ProPlus is free for faculty, staff, and students. You can install it on up to 5 pcs or macs, 5 tablets, and 5 phones.
IT News article published in KST on Wednesday.
The expanded pilot of OneDrive and Office Pro Plus including the sysadmins, the O365 steering committee and ITS has gone well. The mobile and
desktop clients for OneDrive and Office Pro Plus are working.
Communications in K-State Today and social media are beginning this week. Thank you for your continued support. Our next committee meeting is
scheduled for next Thursday, March 12.
iSIS
- iSIS (the student information system) is going to be rebranded. You can probably guess why. A public announcement is expected soon.
- A new automated process to collect missing SSNs and ITINs was deployed last week. Domestic students who do not comply within two weeks of
notification will automatically have an enrollment hold placed on their account. See this webpage for more information.
- An RFP was issued in December for an enterprise mobile solution for K-State. The best and final negotiation is expected to be completed by the
end of the week.
- The third release of the KSU Advisor Center is on track for delivery in late spring. See the product roadmap for more information on the specific
features in this release.
3:55pm – 4:45pm
KSOL Canvas
Classic to Canvas migration
Rob Caffey Scantron and related discussion
Scott Finkeldei
- There are 4825 Spring 2015 courses at K-State and 951(20%) have been upgraded to Canvas.
- We will provide support for the current process in KSOL "Classic" through Jan. 1, 2016, and introduce a new process and transition assistance
throughout the Fall 2015 semester.
- Multiple methods to obtain training are being offered to accommodate.
- Feature enhancements
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) components
- Spring ’15, Photo Roster
- Spring ’15, Scantron v2
- Summer ’15, Dropped student report
- Fall ’15, Grade submission
- Fall ’15, ELP
- Jan 2016, Scantron v3
- There are no controls to prevent Canvas being utilized for search committee work, promotion & tenure packet, etc. However, there is currently no
support for using Canvas in this manner. Office 365 SharePoint may be a platform for this type of collaborative work space.
4:45pm – 5:00pm
New Business
- Adobe
Effective February 27, 2015, Adobe Creative Cloud will be the exclusive source for all future Creative suite licensing. This means that Adobe Creative
Suite 6 will be discontinued under current licensing programs. All other Adobe products available under volume licensing, like Adobe Acrobat and
Adobe Captivate, will be unaffected by this change. Contact Kathy Leonard with InformationTechnology Services if you have questions.
- Zoom
We currently have close to 2,000 users who have not switched over to the new Single Sign-On for Zoom, we will be delaying the deletion of old Zoom
Accounts who have not made the switch. Users will now have until May 18th to make the switch over to SSO.