DMACCs Adventures in SharePoint

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DMACCs Adventures in SharePoint

• Greg Martin, VP Information Solutions
• Ann Watts, Instructional Design Coordinator
• HP Higher Education Summit
• February 2, 2006

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Des Moines Area Community College - Highlights

• Largest community college in Iowa
• 6 campuses throughout central Iowa
• Serve over 24,000 students a year
• Over 75 career and vocational programs
• 750 FT faculty and staff
• Around 2,000 adjunct faculty

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Our Service Area
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Our Mission Creating Opportunities for Your
Success
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Department Philosophy

• Exceptional customer service
• Service department
• Our success is dependent on developing strong
  relationships with our customers based on trust
  and credibility
• How do our decisions affect our customers?
• Balance between giving faculty what they want and
  what the college can afford and support

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Some Background

• 4 years ago -
• 6 Campuses technologically separated
• 5 different operating systems
• No desktop standard
• No shared storage
• Slow recovery process

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We Needed Help!

• We chose HP to standardize and lay the
  infrastructure groundwork for our future.
• At the same time, we created a new strategic
  plan to lay the philosophical groundwork.

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DMACCs Strategic Plan Some Top Trends and
Issues

• CAMPUS CLIMATEImprove communication,
  cooperation, problem solving, respect and
  innovation.
• RESOURCESAcquire new resources while better
  utilizing existing resources to meet
  ever-increasing student needs.
• INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERYIncreased learner-centered
  flexibility in the scheduling of courses and the
  format of curriculum. Needs will be met anytime,
  anywhere

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We asked what technologies would address those
issues

• What technology will really help our students,
  our faculty and staff? Beyond being neat or
  cool.  
• How does the technology fit into our strategic
  plan?
• What makes this the best investment of our
  limited funds?     
• What are the ongoing and unintended consequences
  and costs? People, time and upgrades?

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Im so glad you asked the questions, Boss!
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Heres what we looked for

• A portal to serve staff and students at six
  campuses
• Scalability
• Adaptability as technologies/needs change
• Affordability
• Ease of use
• Anytime / anywhere access

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We chose SharePoint

• Leveraged our existing Exchange Server
• SharePoint Portal Server
• Windows SharePoint Services
• Choose Your Own Adventure
• - Live Communication Server
• - Biz Talk
• - Etc.
• Add and customize at your own pace

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DMACC is using it for

• My Site
• Department sites
• Sites for our at-risk students
• Targeted information
• Class web sites to make it easy to communicate
  information to students

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Training
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Outreach to Students in Need of Help
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For Diversity Training
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Departmental Sites for Collaboration
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Departments control their own sites OR . . .
The Beauty of Web Parts!
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Web Part Scenarios

• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/
  wssapps/default.mspx
• Room Equipment Scheduling
• Travel Request
• Help Desk
• Expense Reimbursement
• Go-to Site for Employee Training
• Etc.

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Basic Class Website

• Announcements
• Events and Calendar
• Course Documents Syllabus, PowerPoints, Lecture
  notes, etc.
• Web Links
• Discussion Lists
• Surveys

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A Site Customized for a Business and Technical
Writing Class - The instructor added a subsite
for peer editing a paper.
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A Site Customized for a Macroeconomics Class
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Adding an EBook to a Class Site

• Partnership with Thomson Learning Labs

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Things We Learned

• Have the whole picture in mind before you start.
• Involve everyone you can from the beginning.
• Remember that you are doing this for your
  STUDENTS!
• Partner!
• Technology is just a tool. Learning is the goal.
  

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Questions?
Feel free to contact us. Greg Martin VP
Information Solutions, DMACC gcmartin_at_dmacc.edu
Ann Watts Instructional Design Coordinator,
DMACC alwatts_at_dmacc.edu http//www.dmacc.edu/inst
ructors/alwatts