Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
July 15, 2015
Present:
Bruce Campbell (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Trevor Bain, Marko Dumancic, Erick Engelke, Bob Hicks, Bill Ince, Dawn Keenan, Dave Kibble, Paul Miskovsky, Carl Nagel, Terry Stewart, Jason Testart
Guests:
Chris Calzonetti
Regrets:
Steven Bourque, Andrea Chappell, Robyn Landers, Sati Singh
Agenda
- Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
- Approval of the minutes of the meeting of May 28, 2015 [5 min.]
- Software Development (Erick Engelke, Dave Kibble, Bill Ince) [30 min.]
- Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
- Next CTSC Meeting
[Will be held Thursday, July 9, 2015, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 111.]
Chair’s Remarks (Bruce Campbell)
- Terry Stewart’s last meeting today; Campbell thanked Stewart for his contributions to this committee over the years.
- Welcomed Trevor Bain to the committee, who will be replacing Stewart as the Director of Information Technology in Applied Health Sciences.
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes from the meeting on June 11, 2015, were accepted as distributed.
Software Development discussion
Erick Engelke, Bill Ince and Dave Kibble initiated the discussion on Software Development.
- Today’s discussion is meant to jumpstart the topic and get members thinking about it.
- Often times, something useful is developed locally in a faculty and it would be beneficial to a wider group within the university; we need more clarity on how to effectively expand and support those projects.
- It is difficult to maintain and continue updating the technologies when the person(s) who developed it originally leaves the university.
- Instead of always outsourcing development projects, we need to look within and see what we could be developing on campus.
- There is lots of development happening on campus, the problem is that it lacks standardization and framework for expanded use.
- Framework needs to be established in order to advance this topic.
- CTSC could develop guidelines/rules that we can direct people too when they are interested in developing.
- Further discussion will take place offline and at a future CTSC meeting.
Roundtable Reporting
Engineering (Erick Engelke)
- We have developed a new system that will log in the entire lab of computers into local accounts to more easily proctor exams.
Arts (Dawn Keenan)
- Had issues with the lock down system for exam processing in a lab this past week.
- The exam required access to LEARN but nothing else.
- The problem appears to be solved at this point.
- The eValuate pilot in Arts is going forward this spring with 51 course sections involved; we have been very pleased with the work Science is putting in, particularly with Mirko’s dedication to helping us.
Science (Paul Miskovsky)
- Will now be charging for the use of our computer labs by other faculties going forward; it involves lots of prep time to prepare the labs for each exam.
Library (Carl Nagel)
- We have emergency phones in secluded areas of the Dana Porter Library and we are concerned about the effects of the weekend’s PBX upgrade outage. Nothing can really be done.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held on July 23, 2015 at 1:30pm, in EC2 111.