Members

Invitees: Alex Axelsson; Alfonso Bradoch; Dianna Fisher; Lindy Foster; Julie Greenwood; Brian Lindsley; Bill Loges; Mike Bailey; Tamara Mitchell; Jane Nichols; Tabitha Pitzer; Shannon Riggs; Derek Whiteside; Jacob Jones; Robin Pappas; Cub Kahn; Jon Dorbolo; David Goodrum; Tasha Biesinger; Raffaele De Amicis; Phil Harding; Rene Reitsma

Attendees: Diana Fisher; Lindy Foster; Julie Greenwood; Brian Lindsley; Bill Loges; Mike Bailey; Tamara Mitchell; Tabitha Pitzer; Shannon Riggs; Jacob Jones; Robin Pappas; Cub Kahn; Jon Dorbolo; David Goodrum; Tasha Biesinger; Raffaele De Amicis; Rene Reitsma; Lynn Greenough

Minutes/Notes

Change in Faculty Members

Raven Chakerian has moved on to a different committee. We can now welcome: Phil Harding, Chemical Engineering; Rene Reitsma, Business; Raffaele De Amicis, Computer Science

Canvas Native Cross-listing

Committee reviewed needs and concerns for improved course cross-listing functionality, as discussed at Sept. 5 meeting.

Office of the Registrar (OtR) raised concerns:

  • Instructors cross-listing courses that do not share appropriate credits, or that don’t meet at the same place/time
  • Are there controls to keep students from viewing each others’ information in the course sites?
  • OtR is considering process to review cross-listing requests. Approved requests can be cross-listed by the Canvas administrator

NameCoach

New integration proposal – this tool provides a way for students to quickly record their own name; the audio file can be made available in Canvas course sites in which that student is enrolled. Recording their name is entirely optional. Depending on how we configure it, students may also choose to enter their preferred pronouns.

Follow-up questions:

  • Are students/faculty asking for this service?
  • If we enable the roster for student viewing, can students opt out (so that only the instructor can see it)?
  • If we enable the NameCoach roster in all Canvas sites, can the instructor hide it in their individual course?

Akindi

New integration request by College of Business - Akindi is a web based assessment system that automates the creation and grading of multiple choice examinations for K-12 teachers and college/university instructors. Unlike the Scantron system that relies on proprietary scanners and paper, Akindi allows users to use any scanner and any sheet of paper, which may help OSU realize significant savings.

  • Workflow for creating, printing and handling the score sheets is TBD
  • As noted by Kavinda Arthenayake, we’ll need to mind security and confidentiality of the grading process – especially with the use of any scanner/any piece of paper format.
  • Impact on the .75 FTE in Printing and Mailing who is funded by the Scantron self-support service is TBD

Bridge Implementation Update

  • Scope of implementation has been reduced until FTE are approved to administer Bridge and ensure successful implementation and adoption.
  • Critical training needs as defined by HR will still be met on-time, even with reduced implementation scope
  • The basic system implementation is complete: root account configured; single sign-on enabled; ONID accounts created from Banner data

Non-ONID access to Studio sites

  • Right now there’s no way to add users to do not have ONID accounts to Studio sites
  • There’s not a large demand, but we do have defined use cases (e.g., Quality Matters external reviewers for Ecampus courses, particularly with publisher content; members of committees with sensitive data, such as the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee)
  • We can use existing Canvas functionality and 3rd party systems to allow users with social media accounts (Google; Facebook, Twitter) to log in with their username/passwords
  • The external users would not be able to be enrolled in academic course sites
  • The Canvas team will provide more details at the next meeting

Advisory committee status report

The Fall 2017 advisory committee status report has been posted to the Learn@OregonState website

New tutorials on the Learn@OregonState site

  • Tips on early term grade display and communication - these were created for Science upon the Dean’s requirement for instructors enter grades in Canvas and notify students by the 4th week of the term if they appeared to be at-risk, based on initial assessments.
  • Tutorials - a Flash-based tool will no longer be supported in Kaltura as of Dec. 31, 2017, so the Canvas team created a handout for instructors on setting up video assignment