Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Technology Activity
and Status Report
August 2009
Pepperdine IT Summer Initiatives. Attached to this report is a list of summer projects. For
more details about a particular project, contact the appropriate IT director listed on the chart.
Blackboard Upgrade Postponed. With the introduction of the Sakai pilot this fall and the sig-
nificant feature changes that come with the Blackboard 9 upgrade, Pepperdine IT is postponing this up-
grade until next spring.
Faculty Training Report. As part of an ongoing effort to support faculty, Technology and Learning
worked with Dr. Joy Asamen of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) to develop
the layout and structure of an effective wiki space for the education and psychology divisions to share
and post their program reports and academic evidence. In addition, the team trained a senior GSEP
administrator in the use of Google Apps at Pepperdine. At the Graziadio School of Business and Man-
agement, Technology and Learning provided Excel training for office staff that covered features such as
highlight duplicates, remove duplicates, sorting, and filtering. This training will help the staff to quickly and
effectively clean and use data extracted from C2C for their programmatic needs.
Faculty Training Events Offered this Fall. The fall training schedule for faculty and instructors
is being developed. Topics will include: Sakai in 60 Minutes, Sakai Gradebook, Blackboard in 30 Minutes,
Online Course Evaluation Project Underway. For the past year, the University has been
piloting online course evaluations; each school is currently at a different stage of testing and implementa-
tion. This summer, GSEP and the School of Law conducted their own online evaluations with the course
evaluation vendor. The vendor is set to release a new tool in August that will allow C2C data files to be
automatically uploaded into the online course evaluation system. This tool will make it easier for the
academic community to set up their own online evaluations.
Student Services
GoPrint Installed for Students. The GoPrint application has been installed on all University
copier/printers in public areas that primarily serve students, such as the libraries and computer labs. Stu-
dents can now print directly to copier/printers on their campuses.
Student Judicial Action System Migration in Progress. Pepperdine IT’s Information Serv-
ices and Connection to Community teams are helping Student Affairs migrate their files to a new web-
based judicial action system, which will provide better tracking and reporting features.
University Data Center is Going Green! Pepperdine IT is currently working with Facilities,
Maintenance and Planning to measure the power that could be saved if Pepperdine University’s Data
Center is hosted virtually (via cloud computing) rather than onsite. Many activities, such as this one, have
been undertaken to manage energy consumption in the University community. As the University’s de-
mand for storage and processing capacity rises, IT is working to find powerful, yet efficient solutions to
meet increased demand for energy.
Psychology Clinic Scheduling Tool Installed. A new client scheduling application, Titanium
Scheduling, has been installed for GSEP. This database-style program is being used to schedule clients and
maintain client records. In order to comply with patient privacy rights, the server dedicated to Titanium
has strict access control and encryption.
Tyler Campus Center (TCC) Wireless Upgraded. The Pepperdine IT Network Engineering
team has completed a network design to enable the new wireless system in TCC to effectively support
a large number of simultaneous users in the main dining area, particularly in situations where the build-
ing is used as an emergency shelter.
Network Upgrade for Baxter Drive Residences. Pepperdine IT Systems and Networking is
replacing the antiquated DSL equipment in Baxter Drive residences with new equipment that has en-
hanced features such as voice and data integration and higher maximum download speed of 6 megabits
per second. To date, ten residences have been upgraded. The project is scheduled to be completed by
the end of August.
Mainframe Decommissioned. The mainframe, which was replaced by the Connection to Com-
munity portal, was turned off at the end of July. To access data previously stored in the mainframe, please
use the C2C query tools. For more information, contact Danna Gianforte via email at
danna.gianforte@pepperdine.edu or call x4642.
Online Requests. In July 2009, there were 190 additional requests for support managed through online web
request forms. The top two types of requests were for departmental telephone service (60 requests) and network
resources (30 requests). SunGard does not charge the University for support requests that are made directly via
the web request forms. The online forms can be accessed at http://services.pepperdine.edu/it/forms/.
Anytime Support User Survey. Through an automated feedback process, all Anytime Support Desk callers
are provided the opportunity to complete a Web-based feedback survey. In July 2009, 181 (11%) of 1,642 survey
requests sent to customers were completed. The five-question survey uses a “1 to 9” sliding scale with “7.00-9.00”
equal to Excellent.
Staff Support by Major Area. All IT Division employees are allocating their day-to-day efforts using client,
project, and task codes. Using this data, total division-wide staff effort for July 2009 was distributed as follows.
Support for Schools. Of the effort provided to Pepperdine Schools, the breakdown is as follows.
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