Welcome to the IT Exchange February 22, 2011

Announcements

Agenda MSU’s Institutional Data Policy –Don Ries, Enterprise Information Stewardship Future MSU Course Management System –Brendan Guenther, Virtual University Design and Technology Videoconferencing –Laurence Bates, College of Education Virtualization –JJ Streiff, Health Information Technologies

Institutional Data Policy Don Ries Enterprise Information Stewardship

New Policy Institutional Data Policy (IDP) The IDP became effective January 1, 2011 Any questions? Support/training going forward? Securing Institutional Data website:

Institutional Data Policy What and Who Defines Institutional Data and Confidential Data Sets minimum expectations for protecting the security and integrity of institutional data All faculty, staff and students are individually responsible Units responsible for implementing training and oversight procedures

Institutional Data Policy Questions?

Moodle Preview & Limited Field Trial February 22, 2011 Brendan Guenther Director vuDAT On behalf of LC&T Moodle Implementation Team

LMS Futures Running ANGEL since 2003 Planning to run 7.4 until at least 2014 – Contract allows us to continue to run ANGEL 7.4 past 2014 – Limiting factor will be browser compatibility Expect to have two systems for a few years – Allow people time to move on their terms Currently looking at Moodle 2.0 Considering also looking at Instructure Canvas Already considered BB9, D2L, & LON-CAPA 3

How We Got Here “LMS Futures” committee Led by Byron Brown Core members from VP-LCT’s units Tom Davis, Sev Grabski, Brendan Guenther, Matt Kolb, Ryan Yang Met with Faculty representatives from each college Brown Bag Presentations, ICTC, Other Venues

Timeline

Summer Limited Field Trial Will run a controlled pilot during US11 Selected several courses Each has an alternative LMS with content already implemented there (for safety) Tried to represent diversity of offerings GEO 221 Weisenborn CEP 820 Wolf NUR 426 Cook ORCBS Winslow et al ACC 230 Jacobs SW Stutzky

Preview System Allows for experimentation NO “live” courses Unsure if content can be exported Interested in feedback IT staff welcome …and anyone else in your unit can join you Request access through DLS Online form will be available soon vuDAT blog will have an announcement when this is ready for you to use. Should be ready by Spring Break (+/-)

Questions for IT People Do you want to be able to run you own Moodle? – For a department? – For an individual course? Who are the important audiences for service? If you want to innovate on the main system – How should we handle enhancement requests? – How fast/often do you expect Moodle to change? – What transparency do you expect? – What input would you like to have? What data integrations are important?

Questions / News Subscribe to feed at blog.vudat.msu.edu

Videoconferencing Laurence Bates College of Education

Videoconferencing (v-meets ???) We, Me and 4G College of Education Laurence Bates

Transformation of HIT datacenter JJ Strieff Manager of Network Infrastructure Health Information Technology

Transformation of HIT Datacenter servers + 1 mainframe 300 desktops Single 5 ton AC unit 10MB network via coax Absolutely NO redundancy

Transformation of HIT Datacenter physical servers (mostly Dell 1 & 2U systems) Almost 3000 desktops 20+ individual UPS 20 Ton AC unit with dual condensers 1GB Ethernet network (from datacenter to desktop) Generator backup Some redundancy but several remaining gaps

Transformation of HIT Datacenter Jan 2010 Proof of concept with VMWare Both Servers and Desktops POC returns favorable results July 2010 RFP released for virtualization initiative Jan 2011 all hardware, software and professional services acquired.

Transformation of HIT Datacenter 2011 VMWare EMC NS960 All Fibre Channel Storage 15 HP C7000 Blades Dual 6 core Intel Processors 192GB RAM Liebert 14KVA UPS Redundant 10GB fabric inside the datacenter with redundant 10GB feeds to the campus network.

Transformation of HIT Datacenter Overall Goals Consolidate as many physical servers as possible –75% Convert as many as 1800 desktops to virtual –Student Labs and Clinics first –Repurposing the existing desktop –Replacing existing desktops in the future with thin clients –Utilizing Linked-Clones as much as possible –RTO for roaming profiles

Next Event IT Conference Tuesday, June 7, :00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. visit computing.msu.edu/itconference for more information