CCSS Updates

Report - 2008 06.09 to 06.13

TBC EOD 06.17.2008

LMS Development

User Interface and Design

Community Tools and Applications

Community Outreach and Research

Report - 2008 06.02 to 06.06

LMS Development

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 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.