Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Category: Conferences

  • 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…

  • USG Annual Computing Conference

    Some of you may have noticed me posting on Twitter using the #usgre10 hashtag. This was the recommended tag to use when posting about the conference. In talking to a director at a university in the University System of Georgia, he said something interesting which had been said to my CIO, “More good for the…

  • BbWorld 2008 Call for Proposals

    Last year, we three DBAs submitted three proposals thinking one might be accepted. All three were. Its daunting to think of something because we are behind the times. We run Vista 3.0.7 while almost everyone else is at least on 4.1.x or higher. Also, we ended up changing our presentations last year because we were…

  • Coradiant TrueSight

    Several of us saw a demo of Coradiant Truesight yesterday (first mentioned in the BbWorld Monitoring post). Most of the demo, I spent trying to figure out the name Jeff Goldblum as one of team giving the demo had the voice and mannerisms of the actor’s characters. Had he mentioned a butterfly, then I definitely…

  • Rock Eagle Wrap-Up

    Index of posts: RE 2007: GeorgiaVIEW Meeting (Pre-Conference) RE 2007: Birds of Feather: GeorgiaVIEW Vista RE 2007: Top Ten Disruptive Trends RE 2007: Birds of a Feather: Luminis RE 2007: Administering Sakai RE 2007: GeorgiaVIEW Vista File and Content Sharing RE 2007: USG Digital Content Repositories: Resources to Share After this point, I got wrapped…

  • RE 2007: GeorgiaVIEW Meeting (Pre-Conference)

    I am blogging from the pre-conference GeorgiaVIEW meeting @ Rock Eagle yesterday afternoon and this morning. I enjoy connecting with people around the state of Georgia who use our Vista system. Most of them do not make it to BbWorld. Some hot topics: Alternatives to Blackboard Vista Training Content repository Returning Reports and Tracking to…