Orientation/

Just wondering how the orientation went.

And I wanted to expand on why I was encouraged about orientation becoming a reality by my meeting with Linda and the parking lot mini meeting with Pat East. After talking to Pat about how Datatel interacts with Angel, it seems clear that we don't know if we can incorporate the adaptive release cababilities of Angel for a pre or post registration interactive guide for potential students AT THIS POINT. But Pat said there is a new version of Datatel coming out this summer and with Angel 7.2 coming out this fall, the chances hopefully increase that an orientation component can be accomplished.

The encouraging for me part is the willingness and the potential to work on this issue. The online committee is going to expand to include several new people including more faculty, some different reps from B. Center, and from CIS (who understand Datatel and can work with the committee to actualize the potential) and the registrars office. Instead of discrete groups, unconnected with different perspectives working separately on different parts of the problem we will have the potential to put all the peices together and work toward a commonly understood goal. I hope anyway.

Cindi