Report - 2008 06.23 to 06.27
TBC - EOD 2008 07.02
LMS Development
User Interface and Design
Community Tools and Applications
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
User Interface and Design
- 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
Community Tools and Applications
- Wup description of wikis cert and touchstone authentication for Hermes project
- Consolidated Wiki collection of technical docs regarding Clearspace
- Contacted Dean Barnhart re social networking needs
- IdM steering group meeting
- Confluence upgrade readiness work
Community Outreach and Research
- 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
User Interface and Design
- Completed new semester image tweaks to Stellar home page
- UI CAMS meeting
- Completed Gradebook workflow diagram updates
- Began CAMS Login page layout redesign
- Began design of CAMS and core icon for WAYF login page
- Stellar 2.2 review meeting: https://wikis-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/confluence/display/stellar22/UX+Mindmeld
- Updated UI tasklist for Stellar Fall release
- OTI: PHP SOAP client completed.
- OTI: demo completed and shared with CCSS team
- OTI: Working on enabling JSONP (cross domain ajax) for RESTFul web services
- OTI: Started on unit tests for web services
Community Tools and Applications
- Met with Staff Diversity council regarding Wiki use
- Contaced Jive for more specific explanation of ClearSpace SSO integration
- Experimented with using php SOAP client to populate Clearspace groups and spaces
- Worked on new MIT Confluence theme for 2.8
- Began testing Moira web service
- Continued investigation of problematic scaffolding plugin in Confluence
- Continued working on modifications for Confluence MIT theme against 2.8
Community Outreach and Research
- 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
User Interface and Design
- UI SAIS meeting
- UI CAMS meeting
- Updated project files with all versions of Gradebook Makeup Grade mockups
- Completed version 2 of Stellar Dashboard design
- Reviewed Opinio UI work, Gradebook edits and Calendar front-end
- Stellar 2.2 review meeting: https://wikis-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/confluence/display/stellar22/UX+Mindmeld
- Stellar tutorial video v1 completed
- CAMS - brainstorm meeting for user workflow on main pages - several tasks coming up in early June
- OmniPlan / Daptiv update
- Discussed Materials page updates with OCW
- Daptiv automation review with Amon
- 2.2 UI workplan revisions made, based on new tasks
Community Tools and Applications
- Reset some configurations on confab http and tomcat servers so app can reliably find latex utils for plugin operation
- Wiki presentation at IT Partners conference
- Discussed Moira web service issues, possibilities for Confluence with Dave Tanner
- Put together environment for building new MIT Confluence theme for 2.8
- Clearspace meeting with IPS
- Investigated Jira data report in Thalia project
- Fixed a bug that caused some non-MIT users not to get permissioned properly in Confluence under the right conditions
- IDN Steering group meeting- MIT membership in inCommon is imminent
- checking of current installed Confluence plugins against v. 2.8. most ok so far; scaffolding plugin problematic -- broken in 2.8 default theme, but works properly with 'classic' theme
- checking, identifying necessary modifications for Confluence MIT theme against 2.8
- Got app certificate from NIST so begin testing Moira web service
Community Outreach and Research
- Sloan Opinio feedback session
- Stellar 2.2. Documentation discussion with Mark Wiklund from IS&T publishing
- Stellar and wiki overview with Mech Eng faculty
- Gradebook review with Bolek
- Approved a number of summer and fall'08 sites
- Addressed several Opinio questions from Sloan and SMA
- Worked on clarifying documentation about exporting materials
- Began compiling a comprehensive list of features supported in Moodle, ATutor, Sakai, and Blackboard
- Researched Moodle and social constructivism
- Got in touch with Lori Breslow, Director of TLL (http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/tll/index.html) to find out more about prominent teaching/learning styles, processes and pedagogies we need to support.