Report - 2008 05.26 to 05.30
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.