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Timimg of maintenance and code upgrades; current QA cycle is to rollout from local development to my to cere.
When can we take CERE down on regular basis for non-critical OS patches, code upgrades & bug fixes (note: critical patches must be ASAP)? Comparison drawn to MyUCD downtime where student quiz attempts fail - downtimes are not published to the general population. VM team needs to determine optimal day/time frame for upgrades and provide notification for all users.
Captivate
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Help Movies
Rick completed first few movies for review prior to making available to faculty and students. Noted that navigation flow can be difficult when scrolling involved
, screen visuals not as clean as he would like. Initial movies about 2 - /2.5 mins minutes long; request that the team will review the movies.
Discussion of where the content will be available?
Ray - . Issues of localization if integrated into CERE help file location
What are procedures for local changes to sakai (such as adding these links - etc.)?
B most Most common localizations are property file tweaks; mngd most changes managed by svn;
prefer the VM team prefers embedded help movies within CERE help files rather than outside location, even for new users, this is so that support is available within the application.
So, a local change - so like this needs to be done in the upgrade cycle and must be redone when there are major Sakai help releases. Process for sakai help release integration needs to be worked out, but is common to other localization processes.
Ilios: Intelligent Library Information Online System
Keith demoed Ilios to VM team
access for instructors, course directors, dept admins
written in cf; reviewed editing capabilities for course information
MeSH terms (medical terms assoc. w/course)
accurate population is critical to courses; probably an instructor function; potentially tied into evaluations
course per term - model for rollout to next term; freeze for previous courses; MyInfoVault does not contain course information, hand entered model - no info on what was taught
course/sessions/offering (date/time/faculty)
need to revise terms displayed to be consistent with other systems
(some display term revision already done)
John Gardiner themed
to be the authoritative source for all VM courses