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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
TBC - EOD 2008 07.02
LMS Development
User Interface and Design
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Community Outreach and Research
Report - 2008 06.16 to 06.20
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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- Reviewed and updated LMS feature comparison
- Generated end-of-term message to users
- Worked with Diane Webster on documentation needs
Report - 2008 06.09 to 06.13
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 06.02 to 06.06
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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