Welcome! NCC Liaison Meeting

December 8, 2015

New Pricing - Mitinet Full Circle Support Ohio

Price increase for Mitinet’s Full Circle Support As of January 1, 2016, the new price per library

will be $99.00

NoodleTools – Things You Should Know

E-mail forwarded to you on December 4, regarding:Google Apps authenticationSandbox access for new version of NoodleToolsRollout schedule and details

Google Apps Authentication

Google Apps authentication option, providing single-sign on access to NoodleTools.

All schools using Google Apps for Education (GAFE) are encouraged to take advantage of this single-sign-on option.

Google Apps Authentication

To view the blog entry that describes the feature and provides info about how to send NoodleTools a request go to: http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/1192

Allows you to install NoodleTools as a Google App

It is a Google Marketplace app that must be installed by the Google Apps for Education administrator of a school or district.

Google Apps Authentication

• Step 1: Requesting Google Apps SSO – You need to inform the NoodleTools team that you are going to be using Google SSO.

NOTE: Google SSO will not work if you simply install the app on your side without informing NoodleTools.

To submit a request, you must complete the form:http://noodle.to/gappsform

Google Apps Authentication

• Request may take a few days to process.• Google SSO is not required just because your

school uses Google Apps.• Information about Google SSO activation,

checking, installation, accessing the app, and FAQs are available from the blog post.

• Allows users to link to a previously-created account.

Sandbox for New Version of NoodleTools

Five to ten schools will be testing the beta version of the new Noodle Tools this week.

Rollout schedule and important details

• Winter break has been chosen for a significant update process related to the new website design.

• Saturday December 19 and 26th and potentially a few days before the New Year will be designated for this work, and NoodleTools will be offline for parts of those days.

Rollout schedule and important details

Stage 1 – Saturday, December 19th

Overhaul of the Noodletools.com website design

Stage 2 – Following website update, additional updates (beginning December 26th) will incorporate the new NoodleTools interface.

Expect some downtime over that weekend as they migrate data to the new system.

Can we opt-out of these changes?

NoodleTools expects that most (if not all subscribers) will want to move to the new version.

Student and teacher accounts will be migrated seamlessly to the new interface.

If for some reason your schools or district prefers to opt-out of that update temporarily, you have that option.

To opt-out, please let Damon know at: damon@noodletools.com before 12/18.

Stage 2 timing is flexible, Stage 1 changes are NOT optional.

What technology staff needs to know:

December 19th – NoodleTools domain will be changing the domain for the NoodleTools application.

Existing links to NoodleTools will not break, they will automatically redirect to the new domain.

If your schools uses a proxy server for access, or your school has whitelisted the domains for web filtering or firewall access, changes to those configurations may be required.

What technology staff needs to know:

Internet Explorer (IE) versions 9 and lower will no longer be supported.

Please verify that you have access to Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or IE version 10 or higher.

Tutorials for the New NoodleTools Version

http://noodle.to/webinars

After the Stage 1 (December 19th) updates, additional tutorials will be available.

November 10, 2015 INFOhio Technical Roundtable 16

http://libguides.infohio.org/isearchstatewidetoolkit_educators

Wendy Fisher, World Book

What’s New with World Book?

Andrea Eshelman, Cengage Learning

Integration, Collaboration and Differentiation with Gale

Lunch Break

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch - Pizza and salad and pop!

Stephen Reyes, OverDrive

Samantha Hendzell

Porter Library, Book Talk

Rebecca Shook

Porter Library, Book Talk

Materials

All materials from today’s event will be posted to:

www.nccohio.org/library/liaison(with permission)

Reminder: Next Meeting

Wednesday, March 9th 2016

The 2015-16 Meeting/Training Schedule:

http://www.nccohio.org/library/events