It is Board Week at The Texas A&M University System. For the week of August 13th, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
There is a TTVN Board Meeting on Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.
There is a retirement reception for Gary Sera on Tuesday
The CEOs and Presidents meet with the Chancellor at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday
The Academic Technology Council meets at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday
The Board of Regents meets on Thursday
There is a Board Workshop at 9:00 a.m. Friday
The 2019 Texas A&M University System Technology Summit Call for Presentations is now open!
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System-Wide Contracting News
New
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development
- Captioning Services will provide members with closed caption, transcription and subtitling solutions to make video accessible, searchable, SEO-friendly and more engaging; conversations with vendors selected by CATIE are underway
- Learning Management Systems Awardees D2L, Canvas and Blackboard have been have been sent agreements for review. All three have returned them with comments to OGC. OGC has completed their second review of the Canvas and Blackboard agreements and returned these two contracts to the vendors for review and signature.
- Maxient will provide members with a tool to manage student discipline, academic integrity and Title IX matters; a master services agreement has been sent to the Student Affairs Committee
- Proctoring Solutions RFP is being reviewed by OGC
Repeats
Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- Access Data provides members with preservation hold software (in annual assessment)
- Banner COE provides members with Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Cisco SmartNet offers members equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Comevo provides members with online orientation software services (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality for all members (discretionary)
- DocuSign provides members with electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- Duo provides two-factor authentication for all members (discretionary)
- Examity provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
- eXplorance provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- GovQA (WebQA) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution for all members (in annual assessment)
- Hootsuite enables members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard (discretionary)
- IOTA Solutions provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Laserfiche provides members with the digitization of documents, the automation of records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
- Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
- ProctorU provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary)
- Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (in annual assessment)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility for 54 cents per web page per year (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Syncplicity licensing is available for all members (in annual assessment)
- Varonis will provide members with insider threat protection (discretionary)
- WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available to all members at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
SCIO Trips/Visits
- Texas A&M (August 15 - 17)