NewsCenter to Launch Monday, August 30

The University Affairs Division has been working for the last several months to produce a new online publication called "NewsCenter." The News Center will feature everything you find in NewsBytes—and more—in a fresh and simple new way.

Please continue sending in your submissions, calendar events, professional announcements and everything else you would regularly send to NewsBytes. These announcements will all have a place in the News Center.

We know you will enjoy the new site, which will give all audiences—employees, media, parents, students and the community—a broad picture of our excellent Sonoma State University faculty, staff and students.

Expect to see News Center in your email inbox on Monday, August 30! If you have any questions or comments, please contact Jessica Anderson, NewsCenter Editor, at 4-3086 or email newscenter@sonoma.edu.

Fall Convocation is Monday, August 23

Faculty, staff and students of Sonoma State discuss the future of the university in these challenging times at the upcoming Fall 2010 Convocation on Mon., August 23 in Person Theatre.

A complete schedule of events includes:

9 a.m. — Welcome, Dr. John Wingard, Chair of the Faculty
9:25 a.m. — Bridgette Dussan, President, Associated Students
9:35 a.m. — Dolores Bainter, Staff Representative to the Senate
9:45 a.m. — Dr. Andy Merrifield, President, California Faculty Association
10:10 a.m. — Dr. Saeid Rahimi, Provost/Vice President, Academic Affairs
10:30 a.m. — Dr. Ruben Armiñana, President of the University

A question and answer period follows. School meetings are held in the afternoon:

1 p.m.-3 p.m. — School of Arts and Humanities, Carson 68
2 p.m.-4 p.m. — School of Business and Economics, Schulz 3001
2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. — School of Science and Technology, Darwin 103
2 p.m.-4 p.m.— School of Social Science, Stevenson 1002
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. — School of Education, Schulz 1121

For more information, visit the Fall 2010 Convocation website.

Update Regarding Migration from WebCT to Moodle

Sonoma State has selected Moodle to replace WebCT, which has been discontinued by the vendor, as the University’s Learning Management System (LMS). A detailed message will be sent to all WebCT-using faculty by Mon., August 30, outlining the process of migrating existing courses from WebCT to Moodle.

Basic Information:
• Winter 2011 will be the last term WebCT will be used for courses.
• Moodle will be the sole learning management system beginning Spring 2011.
• Faculty will no longer have access to WebCT after February 2011.
• Faculty are not required to use Moodle with their courses.
• Faculty will need to actively participate in the migration process to move course content from WebCT to Moodle (look for detailed outline next week).

For non-WebCT faculty, access online training through Lynda.com (available now), attend new-user workshops starting in October, and request a sandbox course after mid-September.

"Moodle is an exciting opportunity for teaching and learning innovation at Sonoma State," says Barbara Moore, director of Web Services.

To learn more, visit the SSU Moodle webpage. Questions may be directed to Barbara Moore, at barbara.moore@sonoma.edu.

 

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