Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
August 5, 2015
Present:
Bruce Campbell (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Trevor Bain, Steven Bourque, Andrea Chappell, Marko Dumancic, Bob Hicks, Bill Ince, Dave Kibble, Robyn Landers, Paul Miskovsky, Carl Nagel, Jason Testart
Regrets:
Erick Engelke, Dawn Keenan, Sati Singh
Agenda
- Chair’s remarks [10 min.]
- Approval of the minutes of the meeting of June 25, 2015 [5 min.]
- Independent building routers and fibre diversity follow up (Bruce Campbell) [5 min.]
- Long term agenda items discussion – what’s next? (see list of remaining topics) [20 min.]
- Roundtable discussion – all [30 min.]
- Next CTSC Meeting
[Will be held Thursday, August 6, 2015, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 111.]
Chair’s Remarks (Bruce Campbell)
- CECA will be formally taking over the WaterlooWorks project. They have been controlling the project for some time now, this is just formalizing the process. IST will be in a supporting role going forward.
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes from the meeting on June 25, 2015, were accepted as distributed.
Fibre Diversity Follow up
- Follow up to ensure that members are comfortable with accepting the risks associated with the current fibre diversity and router set up and the approach discussed by Steven Bourque at the previous meeting.
- Members all agreed that they are comfortable with this approach.
Long Term Agenda Topics – what’s next?
- The long term agenda items’ descriptions have been added to the CTSC website.
- Members will review the items and consider which to discuss in the upcoming meetings.
Roundtable Reporting
Applied Health Sciences (Trevor Bain)
- Moved a group of people to Tech Town.
- There are some concerns about being able to provide proper support to them since they are not in the same building.
Instructional Technologies and Multimedia Services, IST (Andrea Chappell)
- CrowdMark (electronically assisted marking tool) has been purchased by Math.
- First production term will begin in the Fall.
- Productivity Innovation Fund (PIF) grant for Learning Outcomes Assessment has involved lots of testing on a program called Insights (by D2L).
- They are now rewriting that entire system over 2 years into it; we are pushing back a bit since the project will be ending by the time the system is rewritten. .
Environment (Marko Dumancic)
- Finishing up the interactive campus map project.
- Just finished prepping to rebuild labs for next term.
- We are in the response phase now of the Privacy audit.
Client Services, IST (Bob Hicks)
- The web development group has planned out 5 sprints to focus on development for the remainder of 2015.
- Will also be looking into web pages for Faculty members.
- Cassandra Blanchard is now the full time account representative for Applied Health Sciences.
- The WCMS has now moved passed 500 sites; about 300 existing sites left to migrate.
Computer Science (Bill Ince)
- The first research group is about to be put behind the firewall soon.
- Still dealing with the aftermath of the flood in our computer lab from last year; just got an extension on the insurance deadline.
- Our Twiki was hacked; it was missing a patch so we have since patched it.
- We need to keep track of our TA’s and it is currently done in a FileMaker database; moving it to the OAT database.
- This topic could require future discussion since others are interested in a common system to track TA’s.
- If we considering switching to CrowdMark it would mean we would have to hand label our exams.
- We had a large number of access categories for our key fobs in Computer Science, so those have been reduced; this creates scenarios where staff within CS could get access to areas they should not have access too.
Math (Robyn Landers)
- Migration to the new NetApp is just about complete.
- Still having issues with MapleTA 10 migration; there have been integration issues with D2L.
- Moved the last of our servers off of Windows 2003.
Science (Paul Miskovsky)
- We are in week 2 of eValuate for this term’s evaluations; hoping to get a 50% return rate this term.
- We are working on version 2 of eValuate now; should be ready for December.
- Will begin working on a survey system to be used for checklists for labs for health and safety purposes; should have something ready by the end of Fall.
Library (Carl Nagel)
- Alison Hitchens has been hired as the new Head, Digital Initiatives in the Library.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held on August 6, 2015 at 1:30pm, in EC2 111.