Chairperson Taylor called the University Technology Committee meeting to order at 10:00 a.m. in Bldg. 15 Room 1105.

Approval of Minutes - November 19, 2007

Chairperson Taylor asked if the UTC members had any changes, additions, or corrections to the Minutes from November 19, 2007. No changes were noted and the Minutes were approved as submitted.

Announcements

Taylor announced that the UTC will continue to meet in the current room (15/1105) through the spring semester with the possible exception of May 2008 meeting.

Update: Blackboard Performance Issues

Tony Turrin stated that a patch was applied to the Blackboard system over the Thanksgiving weekend and seems to be operating well. He reminded the group that Blackboard will be unavailable over the holiday break to complete several areas of work. The plan is to split Blackboard into two (2) parts: one (1) live production area where you the current semester is managed and one (1) archive site that will house all the old courses and development courses (no "live" classes). These patches and applications are necessary to ensure that Blackboard is performing as well as it can. Information will be going out today on how to access http://bbarchive.unf.edu and can also be found on the Center for Instruction and Research Technology http://www.unf.edu/dept/cirt/bb/index.html website.

Turrin stated that additional messaging will continue up through the holiday break in preparation for the "go-live" date of January 2, 2008.

Update: Content Management System

Fred Sudler informed the group that a kick-off meeting was held this past month with 352 Media Group. The vendor has provisioned the hardware we need and is working on building the site at their physical location during the holiday break. The site should be completed by the first week of January 2008. Garry Houser has already transferred all the UNF webpage code and material to 352 Media Group so they have all the information that they need. We should then be able to login to their site to see the material for review and then run parallel during the month of January. The information will then be copied back to our site.

Sudler reminded the group that on January 14, 2008, Ektron will conduct a five (5) day onsite intensive technical training session for the .net programming developers.

Update: Campus Technology Committee

Katharine Brown stated the group is still looking at the Windows 2007/Vista issue. She said that The Center for Professional Development & Training (CPDT) is preparing training so that faculty may initiate their own training during the spring term. The CTC will now encourage the faculty to start this training

Report: GOT

No report.

Report: IT Security Action Team

No report.

Report: Campus Information Display Action Team

No report.

Report: Portal Committee

Scott Bennett stated the committee is currently assigning people to review the various tabs and the channels within those tabs. The committee is still looking at a mid-January 2008 timeline for roll-out and Sharon Ashton will begin providing updates to the campus community.

The committee's next meeting is tomorrow 12/11/07.

New Business

No new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:10 a.m.