3:00p.m., October 18, 2017. NH 3118
Attendance
Present:
Donald Duff-McCracken (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Pavol Chvala (guest), Lannois Carroll-Woolery, Jamieson Cox (guest), Daniella Cross, Michelle Douglas-Mills, Graham Faulkner, Laurel Forbes, Chris Francis, Tasha Glover, Troy Grandy, Marlon Griffith, Danielle Jeanneault, Andrea Jennings, Joe Kwan, Martin LeBlanc, Andrew McAlorum, Amy Meredith, Isaac Morland, Liam Morland, Edward Nguyen (guest), Joe Radman (guest), Elizabeth Rogers, Melanie Scott, Alex Struk (guest), Chris Shantz (guest), Jodi Szimanski, Michael Tjendra, Heather Wey, Yifei Zhao (guest)
Regrets:
Marta Bailey, Janice Cooke, Sarah Forgrave, Tom Graham, Melissa Holst, Stephenie Koerne, Kevin Paxman, Trevor Ridgway, Susan Shifflett, Kayla Snyder, Lori Suess, Andrew Smith, Claire Taylor, Mirko Vucicevich, Chao Yang
Absent:
Herbert Balagtas, Jim Johnston, Carlos Saavedra, Andrea Sweet
WatPD’s WCMS quiz tool module (Jamieson Cox)
Jamieson Cox and Edward Nguyen presented on the WCMS quiz tool they created for the EDGE program. Topics included:
- Why did we create the quiz tool?
- How did we create it?
- How does it work?
- Demonstration
- What are its limitations?
- What do we want to do next?
- Questions/feedback
View the full presentation on the WCMS quiz tool.
Comments & discussion
- If anyone has any questions or would like to follow up regarding the WCMS quiz tool they can contact Jamieson Cox.
Approval of the minutes of August and September meeting
The minutes from the previous two meetings were accepted as distributed.
Business Arising
None.
Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) updates
Technical update (Joe Kwan Kevin Paxman)
- Current sprint heavily focused on Drupal 8 development, particularly single page sites.
- Beginning to prep for the v2.6.0 release for the WCMS; features and timing will be released in a few weeks.
Training update (Andrea Jennings)
Migrations and training – by the numbers
- 720 sites live
- 50 in progress on pilots
- WCMS training courses: 3,818 attendees
What’s happening with the WCMS?
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On Web Resources
Web courses
All SEW courses offered throughout November and December will be posted soon on the Web Resources website.
Drop-in lab
Lab will be closed October 26
If you require special arrangements outside of the regular drop-in hours please contact Andrea, ajenning@uwaterloo.ca. Regularly scheduled WCMS Drop-in lab hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm in MC 2060.
Portal update (Pavol Chvala)
The Portal team provided an update to the committee on the Portal. Topics included:
- New features
- Student Design Kit
- Event registration
- Campus partnerships
View the full presentation on the Portal.
Comments & discussion
- How do we get our student centric events into Portal?
- All events are actually in the Portal but the current issue is discovery; they would need to subscribe to the events for a specific site to have them included in their feed.
- The event registration tool is an excellent new feature that has had some interest from others on campus to use it for more events.
Graded browser support (Joe Kwan)
- Recently updated the Graded Browser Support table (PDF).
Other business
Accessible PDFs
- There are still lots of people seeking help with making their PDFs accessible; are there any good resources out there that we can direct people to that would help with this?
- Not a simple process unfortunately.
- Liam Morland distributed information to the committee on webinars that can help with making PDFs and Word Documents accessible.
Web steering update
- Continued the redirection discussion we had at the last WAC meeting; this is a bigger issue that the steering committee wants to address and discuss some of the logistics surrounding it.
- It will be included in a revision to the campus domain name management policy which will be brought back to this committee following review by web steering.
- Faculty presence on Web Steering has been discussed multiple times.
- Previously had UCIST members attend but none have lasted longer than a meeting or two.
- Happy to announce that we have invited Marlon Griffith to join the Web Steering Committee as a faculty representative.
Meeting adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 4:33 p.m.