Desire2learn Accessibility Interest Group: Teleconference Details

Teleconference details

• Date: Fri, 09 Jan, 2009
• Time:
  • 8 AM (Pacific)
  • 9 AM (Mountain)
  • 10 AM (Central)
  • 11 AM (Eastern)
  • 4 PM (UTC)
• Phone code: 0490#

Agenda

tba

Minutes

N.B. Ken will miss all or part of the Friday telecon. We need a
volunteer for notes.

Notes

• Fusion 2009 presentations? Kyle on course content, coming out Guelph

conference in May. Could be respun for different venue. Question of whether we should have a user-submitted session or a D2L sponsored session.

• UIUC collaboration application (current site replacement): Sandra

will take on main management of new site. New application: can have
multiple users for editing and selected privilege. Application is
mostly ready. Hadi will send information to Sandra and Dave and Mark
and Kyle.

• D2L-run AIG page: Sandra: A way to submit problems straight to D2L.

Would contain information/ability on how to submit a concern straight
to D2L. Would also point to and repeat information from the
collaboration site. Essentially a D2L hosted means for simply finding
out what the collaboration is currently up to and what it has done.

• Question of a list for participants/discussion forum: Mark:

Multi-state list already exists, MSDL Tech, has a presence from D2L,
place where community of admins can post ideas and have access to
Sprint team, within D2L. Mark thinks they would like to have a bigger
group.

• Overall on new tools for make collaboration run smoother and be more

visible: Dave and Sandra, brainstorming a way to better communicate
more broadly. No definite plans.

Conferences

• Fusion and Klye a session on course content, do we want to do a more

technical session. Hadi: what about a session that highlights the accessibility features of the product, not so much a before and after, as a walk through of scenarios that demonstrate the accessibility of the product. Something that is not an adjunct to the conference as something that is part of the mainstream promotion of the product, a session that illustrates the product. Would be great to attract folks with more diverse experience.

• Educause: if Kyle wants to propose: good; if AIG or AHG group want,

this will be pushed by Terry Thompson. Blackboard has already
committed a person to the panel for Denver Educause. Can we get a
commitment from D2L?

• Terrific news: Sandra: D2L is now an approved vendor at California

State University System. CSU re-evaluated LMS systems, using a
pre-release version of Blackboard and the current D2L. Angel, Moodle,
Blackboard, and D2L are now approved vendors.

Survey: Sandra will send finalized questions to Ken, who will dump
them into SurveyGizmo and pass back the link (done).

Participants

• Sandra Earl, Desire2Learn Incorporated
• Dave Lockhart, Desire2Learn
• Hadi Rangin, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign