Wednesday, May 4, 2011 FTC minutes
1. Hardware
repair: Hardware repair services
will be outsourced on or about July 1, 2011. FTCs will be notified across
campus when decision reached.
Should save money and speed up repairs – procedure will remain
roughly the same for staff or faculty user.
2.
Gasson Hall new electronic environment: new design standards equal to what will
be in Stokes.
20
rooms
New
capability for digital inputs and wiring
Rooms
will have either podium or freestanding rack depending on size
Digital
(HDMI/DVI) and analog (VGA) inputs
Screens
16X20
Projectors
HD capable – 1080i
DVD/VHS
combination decks
Push-button
controllers (as elsewhere across campus)
e-Control classroom monitoring software – monitoring
from a central office
ÒSelectÓ
rooms will have Classroom Capture and iClickers
Access
to Gasson August 17 means a 2 week
window for installs
All
faculty teaching in Gasson will be email alerted
about the new equipment. Training
available. Media Tech Services
will have staff in Gasson during first week to
assist.
3. Student
laptops. Because so many
students come to BC with PCs purchased elsewhere, a major change, as yet
incomplete, is sought by ITSÉ. See
below.
4. Raffle. Our
customary end-of-academic-year drawing by lot of techno-goodies this year
includes:
three iPad 32 WiFi-s;
an iPod Touch 32;
[all with AppleCare]
and some USB flash drives.
Correction (on May 5, 2011): memo from Barry Schaudt:
The decision to make changes to the BC Laptop program was far closer
to
being made than I understood and presented
to you on Wednesday, May 4,
2011. I would like to give you the latest.
Due to the success of the Bookstore/Follett selling Apple systems in
the
past year and the declining number of PCs
sold through BC's Back to
School program:
1. All laptops will be offered through the Bookstore/Follett this
year.
Last year, the Bookstore sold Apples and students went through a
separate ITS selected online vendor for Dell
sales. This year the
Bookstore will offer Apple and HP Laptops, providing one-stop
shopping
for students and equal representation of the two
main operating systems.
2.The Windows laptops will no longer come with a BC image. The
impact of
this change is anticipated to be minimal
since the Help Desk is
already supporting a multitude of
hardware/software configurations
using the Microsoft Deployment Tool
(MDT). Students will continue to be
able to download Office and Virus
Protection software from the BC
Software page.
3.The Bookstore will be marketing their offerings. They are in the
process of developing a postcard that will
be sent to all incoming
students (undergraduate and graduate) very
soon. ITS websites will be
updated accordingly and Training and
Communications will provide talking
points for staff that interact with
incoming students and parents.
The final ÒLunch with Information technology ServicesÓ is Thursday, May 5, 2011 in Lyons Rat at noon.
Headliners
Barry Schaudt
Mary Durr, Director, TCs
Scott Olivieri, Manager, Web Technologies – support for all bc.edu websites (servers, sites, and web design
Manish Puri, Manager, Middleware Services – ÒMiddleware supports application infrastructure and services. Some of the tools and services supported include:
Identity Management technologies
Network-related technologies
University portal environment
McAfeeÕs ePO and VirusScan
Emergency notification system
Print management servcies