Report - 2008 06.09 16 to 06.13
TBC EOD 06.17.2008
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LMS Development
- Calendar: Export vCal and iCal freemarker templates tested against dummy data from the backend
- Calendar: Modify template for schedule view to show short week names
- Calendar: Changes made to data model to accomplish the above
- Calendar: Compared and updated corrected templates and began testing on Amps-prog-5
- Gradebook: Merged ajax grade history into trunk to alleviate the script-too-long-http-500 error bug
- Gradebook: Refactored cumulative/weighted grade calculations to be done consistently and in one place
- Gradebook: Refactored all grade entry to be done consistently and in one place
- Gradebook: Normlized weighted cumulative grade in roster view and exported formats
- Gradebook: Enabled filtering of dropped students
- Gradebook: Fixed encoding problems with entering special characters
- Gradebook: Added warning for duplicate assignment titles or short names
- Gradebook: Diagnosed and fixed problem with amps-prog-5, classloader issues and incorrect db.properties settings in atstellar and courseguide
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- Code validation/QA of Calendar and skins
- Materials page reconfig and prototyping
- Modified CAMS login page layout
- Mobility: Made final tweaks to m.mit.edu before launch of v 1.0
- Surveys: Placed updated version to amps-prog-5 for crtitique. Can be reached via surveys link from http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/S/project/testforarti/
- Gradebook: Various tweaks to ftl files ( roster.ftl, details.ftl, dashboard.ftl, summary.ftl, summaryChart.ftl )
- Gradebook: CSS adjustments to Gradebook graph
- Gradebook: Functional spec updates and information pertinent to test plan sent to QA
- CoursePicker/Atlas: Usability testing update sent to stakeholders
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- Reviewed and updated LMS feature comparison
- Generated end-of-term message to users
- Worked with Diane Webster on documentation needs
Report - 2008 06.02 09 to 06.0613
LMS Development
- Gradebook: Freemarker templates handed off to UI
- Gradebook: jQuery UI date picker implemented
- Gradebook: Investigated jQuery flot for summary chart
- Calendar: Freemarker templates handed off to UI
- Amps-prog 5 set up for general access
- Deployed user password changes to database for Stellar-test
- Set cronjob for checking pre-registration and registration info for summer 2008
- Documented server support changes for issues now handled by OIS
- Investigated Safari certificate problem under Mac OS X 10.5.3. No repro.
- Completed Stellar 2.2 Wiki requirements
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- Stellar demo for Mark Wiklund and Diane Webster from IS&T publishing; Diane is going to help us with documentation for the 2.2 release
- Met with MIT medical about potentially using Stellar as a medium for disseminating health and wellness information to faculty/students
- Approved summer and fall'08 sites
- Set up and populated a Stellar site for Diane Webster (technical writer) to use
- Responded to a number of general support issues from SDM related to access to past sites and general awareness about archiving policy
- Investigated issue with certificates in Safari on Leopard
- Reviewed latest client satisfaction surveys and followed up with unhappy clients
- Met with PE regarding use of the Stellar Gradebook
- Meeting with Bryan re customer support and RT process
Report - 2008 0506.26 02 to 0506.3006
LMS Development
- Stellar 2.2 workplan revisions made, based on new task breakdown
- Updated JIRA tasks based on above
- Gradebook: Implemented makeup grade functionality
- Gradebook: jQuery table sorter interacted badly with our original design for the makeup grade layout (i.e., makeup grades had their own row), had to be redesigned
- Gradebook: Implemented letter grades in the back end, began front-end work
- Gradebook: Cleared up issues relating terminology, button placement, etc.
- Freemarker conversion: done for changeevent, event, pageIntroText, delete and csvCalendar xsl files.
- Freemarker conversion: Jquery date and time picker used for setting the event date/time in the template.
- Freemarker conversion: Behaviour of time picker modified as suggested by Joanna.
- Freemarker conversion: Updated the schedule view template to show up academic events when clicked Show Academic Calendar in the tool.
- Kuali student post-conference evaluation
- Moodle, ATutor review planning and review
- Continued consultant resume reviews
- Researched Touchstone and Touchstone CAMS integration development
- Completed OTI Web services (both SOAP and RESTFul services over HTTP)
- Completed OTI RESTful services support JSON, HTML and XML output
- OTI Apache CXF dependency abstracted cleanly
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