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The Learn@OregonState Advisory Committee guides the design, implementation and development of the Learn@OregonState ecosystem in alignment with OSU’s strategic goals. The committee’s charter is to review, evaluate and prioritize proposed changes to the Learn@OregonState platform. Evaluation criteria are based on impact to learners, instructors and data, as well as potential legal, technical, FERPA and disability access issues.
The Learn@OregonState Advisory Committee works in partnership with a standing team called the Learn@OregonState Task Force. This team works directly with tools in the platform; they meet bi-weekly throughout the year to review new features, upgrades, integrations, user communication and support, vendor relationships and product management, and ongoing evaluation and assessment of current and new learning tools.
As of June 30 2022, Oregon State University is no longer a member of the Unizin consortium. As part of this departure, the MyLA student-facing learning analytics pilot was canceled and the MyLA tool was removed from Canvas courses involved in the pilot.
Older courses in Canvas are automatically archived each year at the end of spring term. Since implementing the archiving process in September 2021, about 183,000 courses have been archived from 22 past terms and 132 requests from faculty to unarchive course sites have been processed.
The Resources button added to the Canvas Global Navigation Menu was used about 25,000 times to direct 11,680 unique users to the centralized Where Do I Go For Help? repository in the first month (Sept 7 through Oct 7, 2021).
The Learn@OregonState Solutions Architecture task force has reviewed and approved the following tools and updates in Canvas.
The integration for Akindi (a grading platform used by College of Business) was adjusted to bring it into alignment with OSU's best security practices for Canvas integrations. Specifically, the Akindi developer key was scoped to ensure the integration has appropriate access to data in Canvas.
The Ally accessibility integration was added to Canvas. This integration provides an institutional accessibility report for all Canvas course sites and also provides course-level accessibility reports and tools for faculty. The Ally tools primarily focus on improving accessibility of and providing alternative formats for uploaded files.
The Ed Discussion tool was added to the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Engineering Science Ecampus subaccounts.
The Gradescope integration was updated from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 standards. This change primarily improves privacy and data security of the tool.
The Kaltura integration was updated from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 standards. This change primarily improves privacy and data security of the tool.
The Microsoft Teams integration was added to Canvas. This integration allows faculty to automatically provision a Microsoft Team with a synced roster from their Canvas course site.
The Peerceptiv developer key was modified to allow group functionality. Faculty use Peerceptiv to enable peer-review and assessment of a variety of assignment types.
As of June 2022, the Qualtrics integration has been used by about 12,000 unique users. Qualtrics was integrated with Canvas in January 2021.
The Zoom integration was updated from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 standards. This change primarily improves privacy and data security of the tool.
Term end dates were adjusted so all terms end at 11:59 pm the day prior to the first day of the following term. Previously, most terms ended at 12:00 am midnight, some terms ended at 1:00 am due to daylight savings changes.
UIT Academic Technologies performed a significant update to the “Add TA” as a result of findings from a Gender Mag review session. The Gender Mag process helps developers identify features of a software tool or web page that can be improved to accommodate multiple cognitive styles. The updates made the “Add TA” tool more accessible and easier to use.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Lynn Greenough (chair) | Academic Technologies - UIT |
| Mike Bailey | Computer Science - Faculty Senate representative |
| Tasha Biesinger | Academic Technologies - UIT |
| Stefanie Buck | Open Oregon State |
| Kristina Case | Academic Technologies - UIT |
| Raffaele de Amicis | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Faculty |
| Mike Jefferis | Associate Registrar |
| Cub Kahn | Center for Teaching and Learning |
| Randy Ocampo | Disability Access Services |
| Robin Pappas | IT Innovation - UIT |
| Rene Reitsma | College of Business Faculty |
| Tera Stegner | Public Policy Graduate Research Assistant |
| Karen Watte | Course Development and Training - Ecampus |
| Zach Wellhouse | Libraries |
| Weiwei Zhang | Academic Technologies - UIT |
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