Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Author: Ezra S F

  • Integrating D2L-Drupal Via LTI #USGRockEagle13

    Tom Boyle, Kennesaw State University Half Drupal and half Desire2Learn interest. Request to determine how to decrease time it takes for an online student to go from application to orientation to advisement to registration. Orientation took place in Desire2Learn. Script looks for applicants in Banner and creates the user in Bulk User Management. Registrar enrolls…

  • BOF Windows Powershell #USGRockEagle13

    Bird of a Feather so open discussion. Intro question: How are you using it? How do you like it? Good sources of documentation? Information? Tools/Modules used? e.g. editors, PowerTab module, ISE ScriptingGuy, Codeplex, etc/ Using Powershell: User-written functions, cmdlets, modules Version 3? Version 4? Discussion: Passing around various books. Manning occasionally has half off deals…

  • D2L Faculty Readiness #USGRockEagle13

    Dee McKinney and Kathy Whitaker, East Georgia College 3k students, access inst, grant associates degrees, Many students first generation in family. Part of first Georgia implementation group so started Fall 2012. VP Academic Affairs asked all faculty to 1) upload a syllabus, 2) keep the grade book updated. So students can tell where they are…

  • Security Inside Out #USGRockEagle13

    Eddie Carter and Orrin Char, Oracle Identity management and security and access management. Eddie wore a UGA shirt. Guy in front of me made fun of him obviously not wanting to sell to Georgia Tech. Turns out he’s from  Kennesaw. The GT-UGA rivalry knows no bounds. Love it! Handout: Database firewall more auditing and ACLs…

  • Minimal Downtime #USGRockEagle13

    Marc Pare, Oracle Why work on weekends or late at night? (For us because of director policy because accidents during the day changes untenable with clients. But this is targeted to Banner to not GeorgiaVIEW.) Weblogic High Available Topology (Maximum Available Architecture) Client > Apache Server or OHS > WLS Cluster (> Admin Server) >…

  • D2L Tips and Tricks 10.2 #USGRockEagle13

    Terri Brown and Louise Fechter, Georgia Southern University Upgraded to Desire2Learn 10.2 in July 2013. (Actually from 9.4.1 to 10.0 earler then later to 10.2.) Support plan: revised training, more documentation, briefed support team, wrote “tips & tricks”. When get calls, walk through the task then follow up with a document. If no doc exists,…

  • GA Southern’s D2L Journey #USGRockEagle13

    Eric Floyd and Terri Brown, Georgia Southern University Real-Time Ellucian integration not cross-listing. Lack of quality control for release just before start of term. Hotfix soon after resolved. 10.2 released late (June not May) so missed between terms window. Upgrade broke real-time again, but because delayed until August got the fix before upgrade. Tried cloning…

  • Columbus State Degreein3 #USGRockEagle13

    Web site:  columbusstate.edu/degreein3 Mary Covington, Executive Director, IT Services, Columbus State University Notes from session: Program: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant. Degree in 3 years. 1st year get a certificate. 2nd year get an Associates. 3rd year get a degree. $18,000 degree. At least 1/3rd low income. Early intervention. All online courses. Standardization of…

  • Motivation 3.0

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    A recent event reminded me I should read Daniel Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. I picked it up in August to read, but since my copy is a hard back the Georgia heat would warp it, so I left it forgotten in the bedside table. So here I am, thoroughly…