University Technology Committee
MINUTES
August 8, 2011
Members Present:
Lance Taylor (Chair), Marsha Lupi, Gerald Merckel, Jim Owen,
Catherine Christie, David Fenner, Deb Miller, Len Roberson,
Marianne Roberts, Diana Tanner, Katharine Brown
Others Present:
Kathy Hughes, Dmitriy Bond, Bill McSherry, Pat Plumlee
1. June minutes
 Lance reported one correction to the minutes from Deb Miller which was a
misplaced paragraph; it was accurate but placed with the wrong committee.
Minutes will be amended and will stand as submitted.
2. Announcements
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Membership – Lance Taylor
 Len Roberson is assuming the role as vice-chair and will continue the
role as representative from the Distance Learning Committee. Thanks
to Deb Miller for serving as the vice-chair.
 Katharine Brown will be replaced by Diana Tanner.
 The chair of the Faculty Association Campus Technology Committee,
Cynthia Jordan, will be replaced by Lauren Newton.
 Thanks to both Katharine Brown and Cynthia Jordan for their service.
 There will be a new representative from the Coggin College of
Business to replace Bobby Waldrup awaiting a response from Dean
Samant.
 Kathy Hughes announced James George as the new Assistant Director
for User Services.
3. Report: Distance Learning Committee – Len Roberson
 The biggest announcement is about the distance learning fee that was
approved and assessed last week. It is $35 per credit hour that is identified as
“DL” in the scheduling process. The committee will make sure that courses
are coded correctly because the authority from the state to assess the fee stems
from the Florida Distance Learning Consortium and the catalog in which we
submit all DL courses for the state. This is strictly for “DL”, not hybrid.
Shawn Brayton will work at the catalog level to attach the fee to all courses
coded “DL”. Projected revenue: $740,000. The guidelines at the state level
provide a long list of what the DL fee can be used for. It all has to go to the
development and delivery of distance learning. The significant impact for this
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year will be an increase in the instructional design staff and the number of
faculty being supported financially through training at the university.
They are working on fall schedule for dates they will meet.
4. Report: Campus Technology Committee – Cynthia Jordan
 No report.
5. Report: Blackboard - Deb Miller
 A maintenance window, August 10 – 14, is coming up in which they will be
installing Service Pack 6 which has a lot of bug fixes for grade center and
course file items also study mate class.
 Upcoming projects are the hardware build out and evaluation of Learning
Objects 4 which has blog, wiki, and podcast tools; with version 4, it moves to
a vendor hosted solution that is linked from Blackboard but is not hosted at
UNF.
 The help desk is working on a self-service video version of the student
Blackboard email file storage and myWings training session for students. The
training sessions are held several times before the beginning of the semester
but are not typically well attended. With more DL coming, this should be a
good resource for students.
 Another thing we are talking about is making Firefox part of the campus
client, and we’ve been advocating for this with the Campus Client Committee
who doesn’t think it’s a good idea. We are continuing the discussion.
6. Report: IT Security Action Team – Jeff Durfee
 No report.
7. Report: Internet Presence Committee – Scott Bennett
 Dmitriy Bond reported that in the last couple of months, there have been a
number of migrations done throughout the campus mostly in Academic
Affairs and Student Affairs. In the last couple of weeks, they have migrated
the following sites: Library, COAS, Math & Statistics, and Women’s Center.
The following sites are in progress: Enrollment Services including OneStop,
OIRA, Admissions, Coggin College of Business and Psychology. Student
Affairs is almost done. Brooks College of Health is in discussion with
Marianne Jaffee regarding scheduling for migration.
 There are a number of features that were not available when the migration was
started, so once migration is finished, they will begin implementing these new
features on other sites.
8. New Business
 Catherine Christie had a question on why her application for administration
rights was turned down without a reason and also wanted to know about the
appeals process. She realizes she could call a C-tech, but she sometimes has
issues very early or late in the day. Jim Owen responded that some requests
they are getting are minor so they are deferred to the Help Desk. When it
comes to other technologies that are being used in the classroom, they are
given more weight. It is discussed as to what actions to take. They will
certainly revisit requests as many times as they are submitted. Lance
interjected that there are two points raised here: there was no call back and
there is an appeals process which is through the Provost. Lance will
investigate why Catherine did not get a call back. If she has reapplied, then
we will see how the process goes. Deb also heard that other faculty members
had not heard back and that you are supposed to get the reason why you were
denied. She asked if there was an ITS site that outlines the process. Lance
said he will check on this and will send this out to the committee.
Meeting adjourned at 10:20 a.m. The next meeting will be held on September 12, 2011
at 10:00 a.m. in the Student Union 58W/Room 3804.