STATE OF CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE

1102 Q STREET
SACRAMENTO, CA 95814-6511
(916) 445-8752
HTTP://WWW.CCCCO.EDU

August 1, 2000

TO:

Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges
Chief Instructional Officers of the California Community Colleges
Chief Information Systems Officers

FROM:

LeBaron Woodyard, Dean
Instructional Resources and Technology

SUBJECT:

Preliminary Announcement Regarding California Virtual Campus Course Hosting Program

In an effort to facilitate online course development by California Community Colleges, the Chancellor's Office is pleased to announce a statewide online course-hosting plan that will be available to all community colleges for the 2000-2001 school year. This plan has been developed by and will be operated through the coordinated efforts of the five California Virtual Campus Centers (CVC).

Intended to support colleges in their online startup efforts, the hosting services program provides the following opportunities to California Community Colleges for one year:

• Participation in the CVC WebCT or Blackboard license at no charge for a fixed number of user accounts.

• Scalable WebCT and Blackboard licenses that enable colleges to purchase additional user accounts, or unlimited licenses at heavily discounted rates.

• Free online course hosting on a WebCT or Blackboard server, provided by the CVCs.

• Free support for faculty using WebCT and Blackboard as part of the hosting program.

• Free license to all colleges for the use of an online, interactive survey tool, to assist in measuring course quality, as well as collecting data regarding online course development.

• Ongoing training opportunities for faculty throughout 2000-2001 in the use of both WebCT and Blackboard provided by the Regional Centers and the Professional Development Center.

• Access to a WebCT and Blackboard development server for course development and for training.

It is the goal of the CVC to make this hosting program available to host online courses and development for the Fall 2000 semester. The Center Directors are currently working together to develop a standard set of policies and procedures that will be distributed to each of the colleges by the target launch date of August 21, 2000.

Following the implementation of this interim online course-hosting program for 2000-2001, planning will begin for long term online course hosting that will provide an ongoing solution to colleges for hosting and course management system licensing.

For additional information about this program, please contact the person for your region that is listed below:

Bay Area Region-CVC1
Martha Mills
Project Director
martha_mills@dadistance.fhda.edu
(408)-257-0420

Los Angeles Region-CVC2
Andy Howard
Coordinator
AHoward@rh.cc.ca.us
(562)-463-5605

Southern California Region-CVC3
Pat Arlington
Coordinator
CVC3@cccd.edu
(714)-241-6173

Statewide/Rural Region-CVC4
Paul Meyers
Project Director
pmeyers@cc.cc.ca.us
(760)-384-6239

Professional Development Center
Joe Georges
Project Director
jgeorges@cvc.edu
(310) 660-3686