CNAC Minutes[Draft]
July 12, 2007
2:00-3:45 p.m.
DP 428
Present: Tim Ireland, Wish Leonard, Barbara Menich (Recorder), Alex McCulloch, Shabiran Rahman (Chair), Charles Woods
- Basecamp presentation (Allan Bell)
Basecamp is project management utility that improvesorganization and time management, reduces emailing, etc. Features include a calendar, blogs, messaging, to-do lists, milestones and a time-line, posting files that can be sorted in various ways, and writeboards (like a wiki).
- Approval of the minutes from June 28th, 2007
The minutes were approved with some corrections.
- Additional agenda item (Tim)
Tim discussed the summary of the LibQUAL preliminary report.CNAC will go through Tim’s work at a future meeting.
- Basecamp discussion
- Using Basecamp will require a change of work mode. CNAC will need to commit to Basecamp, bookmark it, check it regularly, and use it.
- LibQUAL will be the project on Basecamp.
Action: Shabiran will request that Allan sets up a Basecamp account for CNAC. Shabiran will do the to-do list and create deadlines for the project. Shabiran will also ask Allan if there is some training that CNAC can do or any helpful online tutorials.
- Feedback from Guelph
Guelph sent out the comparisons in the form of charts. These need to get worked into the report at some point.
- Sensus (Charles)
- The group reviewed the web-survey tool Sensus as described at the site:
Charles walked the group through the demo survey. It was noted that the product had several important capabilities that other survey software such Survey Monkey did not have, including a large number of SPSS-friendly export options, an email module, scripting and logic control, and validation testing. Twenty instances are licensed for campus usage and seven are in use.
Action: Charles will request a test account that would allow the group to evaluate this new tool.
- Survey Research Centre
The IST seminar on Sensus included an introduction by Kathleen McSpurran on the services provided by the campus Survey Research Centre:
Charles noted that support seemed available from the centre for all aspects of survey methodology. It was reported that a data-analysis component of the service may be able to provide free data-analysis by graduate students.
The group agreed to invite Kathleen McSpurran to the next CNAC meeting to further describe the Survey Research Centre mandate and services.
For the next meeting:
-At the next meeting, the group will discuss the mandate of CNAC. Group members should review the mandate of CNAC before the next meeting.
-The group will look at the input from the managers.
-Kathleen McSpurran from the Survey Research Centre will be in attendance.
Next meeting: Thurs. July 26 at 10:00 a.m.