Agenda

Notes

Action

Status

Minutes of last meeting

The minutes of the meeting on 11th November 2003 were approved.

The minutes of the extraordinary meeting on 19th January 2004 were approved.

Matters arising

Student login monitoring

EK had provided reports on CAM student logins in each of the 3 locations.

JSB had written to Julian Lintell-Smith to request information about application usage. JLS replied that ISO had never managed to get application usage stats to work, but would have another look at it.

Software moves

JSB had talked informally with Tom Manns to see how problems could be resolved. This had been useful and a dialogue will continue.

Computing Developmental Engagement (from November)

JSB had contacted Peter Hicks to express concern that this Committee had not been approached on the matter of the Computing DLE report. Peter had responded by inviting JSB to join the working party.

Capital expenditure plans for 2003-2004

JSB had passed on the Committee's alarm about the budget cut. In response ECAM had allocated an extra £150k.

Authorisation for wireless access

RT asked if it was necessary for academic staff to authorise student applications for wireless access. EK said it was just part of the registration process but because no student presenting their HEMIS number would ever be denied use, EK reported that it was part of registration process at present but is being reviewed.

Faculty IT Committees

JSB reported that he had expressed this Committee's deep concern on the membership of the Committees. Faculty Board had now reconstituted them with departmental reps now included on the Strategic Committee.

Computing Developmental Engagement (from January)

JSB reported that he had forwarded the list as the Committee's response to Peter and Frank's memo and to put the ideas forward to the Faculty for consideration. A Wednesday 5 had been held on the matter and that had raised further ideas. The matter was currently with Peter Hicks.

Subsequent to the meeting, a memo was received from Peter Hicks outlining the current state of play on the review.

Capital expenditure plans for 2003-2004

A 5 page list of bids was discussed and prioritised taking academic considerations and the delivery of courses into account. A summary of last years priority levels was available for comparison. It was noted that last year the budget was underspent by 15/20% because some items were cheaper than estimated. It was also noted that some of the bids would need future recurrent expenditure.

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Page 1 - Brett Stevens - Upgrade to 3ds Max 6 was given 4 on basis of (1) expense and (2) not strong enough case. Subsequent to the meeting, Brian Heal informed JSB that he preferred that 3ds Max not be upgraded this year.

The result of the prioritising was that all priorities down to 7 could be bought and a further £60,000 would be needed to fund down to 6.

It was felt that more information was needed on a new multi-media lab and what the consequences of not upgrading software would be.

JSB

The updated table of bids with priorities given is available on:

http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/briggsj/ccc/orders/2004/bidsc.htm

24/7 support for student learning

To discuss the levels of support for student learning needed outside weekdays 9-5.

Carried forward to next meeting

JSB

Any other business

None identified.

Date of next meeting

To be fixed. Middle of summer term.