In general, the ability to communicate with students in courses and majors seems to be the most compelling need . Student Affairs has looked at STAR and other technologies for doing this. Deborah Scott requested assistance in defining the requirements. It was noted that daily updates of courses and majors would be necessary. The assumption that students would receive formal notices via email was questioned.
Faculty seem to take a range of positions on the subject.
How to determine the correctness of email addresses in the LDAP directory is an issue. Another need is for a central registry of all UCSB classes on the web. One way to extend the list of needs might be to ask the hosting facilities to identify categories of service which are currently causing difficulty. If items are missing from the matrix, please contact Stan Nicholson. Elements include the network, the computer and the projector.