The pilot CD-ROM project, hosted in the Library Media Center, establishes a foundation for multimedia delivery as part of instruction. In addition, the upgrades to the HTC networking should now support multimedia to the desktop where licensing allows. During the summer of 1997, a dozen faculty from 8 different disciplines formed the Presentation Workgroup to explore using presentation software in the classroom and beyond. Procedures Ongoing reliability of academic applications Various tools are now in place to quantify the reliability and efficiency of the campus network, although they have not been used in any systematic way. Because student preferences are stored on the server, they can follow students as they work at different workstations.
Students can customize their desktop and applications as they see fit.
Changes are planned and consensual A planning group for the development and implementation of the Instructional Palette met weekly throughout the spring semester, and regular reports were made at CTC meetings and via A1. We have much work to do in this area, however, as many faculty remained unaware of the changes in the academic network and were caught by surprise. Maintenance All of the GCIS groups have been involved in documenting technology procedures and then following the processes developed. A notebook for tracking IP addresses was developed so that more than one person can perform this task. All of these databases are planned to be merged into a new database proposed for development in 1997-98.