July through September 2008
Stellar 2.2 was released on August 25, 2008 for the Fall 2008 semester. It included new features and usability improvements to the Gradebook, enhanced OCW and eReserves workflow options in the site request process as well as tighter integration with information provided to students by the MIT Libraries. The User Guide and other documentation were enhanced with additional screenshots, updates and training videos. Hardware was upgraded for better performance and users saw their file size upload limit increase from 100 to 250 MB.
On Monday, September 8, 2008 Stellar hosted 1101 concurrent users, a new record. In Q1 680 course sites and an additional 101 sites for the Physical Education Department were requested and provisioned. 623 non course related project sites were also created for use during the Fall semester. Currently 80% of possible Institute courses are on Stellar.
The MIT Wiki Service was hosting a total of 952 wiki spaces at the end of Q1, up from 719 in Q4 2008. Of these, 247 were newly provisioned and comprised 152 class-related (i.e. linked to Stellar class sites) and 95 non-class-related spaces. The Sloan School of Management led with the highest number of departmental users (at 448, up from 120 in Q4) while IS&T remains the most avid departmental user of the wiki service, with the highest number of logins (33604). The Wiki Service has grown 295% since July 2007.
The TeamSpaces pilot, based on Jive Software's produce, Clearspace launched during the second week of September. As of the end of Q1, 5 classes in DUSP, the Writing Program, Political Science and Sloan are using the service. Several projects have signed on as well, including the cross-departmental Concentrated Solar Power on Demand project and the Innovations in International Health initiative. TeamSpaces uses MIT Touchstone, including CAMS, exclusively for authentication. Of the Oct 1 user base of 282, 24 users, most of them Tufts and Harvard students participating in an MIT DUSP course, were holders of MIT Touchstone collaboration accounts.
MIT's Thalia currently has thirteen DLCs as customers, up from 6 in January of 2008, with a total of 451 user accounts. Customers are using Thalia to store images destined for publications, images of MIT functions, and as a storefront to sell images. A total of 13,264 images, using 102.58 Gigabytes are stored on Thalia's secure servers. AP, HST, MISTI, PSB, and RD are the most active customers. Thalia has grown 600% while in pilot over the past twelve months.
Report - 2008 06.23 to 06.27
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