D2L Competencies and Org Units Hot Team - Update for Admins (Oct. 2013)

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Competencies Hot Team October 7, 2013 Jeff Bohrer

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Update on work of UW System-wide team that explored status of Desire2Learn Competencies tool. Info specific to Univ. of Wisconsin System campuses.

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Competencies Hot Team

October 7, 2013 Jeff Bohrer

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ParticipantsMadison: Jeff Bohrer (chair), Kristy Bergeron, John Thomson

Green Bay: Heather Pokorsky

La Crosse: Cari Mathwig Ramseier

Milwaukee: Sharon McCarragher, Dylan Barth

Oshkosh: Sarah Bradway, John Robertson

Stevens Point: Mary Mielke, Karyn Biasca

Superior: Stacy Leno

Learn@UW: Dan Voeks, Jane Zhang

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Goalsfrom June ’13 Site Admin mtg

1. Understand perspectives across multiple campuses

2. Identify needs, requirements

3. Determine whether UWS or campus project

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Activities

Met monthly, June – October

Individual campus calls

Document use cases and key questions

Attempts at implementation

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7 Key Findings

#1 Pockets of Interest

Each campus typically identified one program or course with interest.

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7 Key Findings

#2 Common Use Cases

Program-level

Course-level

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7 Key Findings

#3 Very Complex Issue

Technical

Academic

Instructional

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7 Key Findings

#4 Org Unit Management

Creating new org units (Program, Major, etc.)

Enrolling students in new org units

Sharing

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7 Key Findings

#5 Critical Technical Issue

Student data isn’t shared UP to program levels

Fixed in 10.1 SP8

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7 Key Findings

#6 New Admin Tools Needed

“My OrgUnit Widget” and “Org XML Tool”

Awaiting further details from D2L

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7 Key Findings

#7 Data Reporting Shortcomings

Reports available through Insights (analytics)

Stalled by critical security issue

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Next Steps

“Hot Team” morphs into “Working Group”

Interested? Join D2L Competencies email list (contact Lorna)

Finalize documents, notes on Site Admin wiki

Read up

D2L admin guides on D2L Community site

Hot Team archive on Site Admin wiki