TestSVM DEVELOPERS MEETING
Scott F. - Course evals coming along; using Maven to build & deploy as a tool. Will need to split out among services & APIs.
Calendaring - first draft from Chris - in design stage, to integrate in Subversion w/build
(Aaron/ec calendar events - will be here for boot camp)
Glenn re: core changes 2 days ago. Bwtn 2.1.1 & 2.1.2
J. Gardiner - jgardiner@ucdavis.edu Sakai UI DG
Used local instance for design process
Keith on Ilios; importing from CATH? by termcode
Ray - Reordering working before & after feed - if content, date, time changes
Erin's scheduling process in Ilios - ordered initially by content
faculty changes, i.e. solidifies topics and order (general sourse/session info),
then Erin matches to locations and date/time of offering
web form w/AJAX? drag & drop functionality
Dan - training session last Friday; lots of things we don't want to do; tools not taught as SVM would want to teach - ie, every tool, every function. not all tools are hooked into each other yet, or to gradebook. Student usage? study areas, faculty interest in allowing students interaction w/their materials; potential for confusion btwn sakai internal tools and current UCD tools. Need to firm up list of tools that
will even be optional. Will roll out additional tools as they are vetted as solid and useful to VM. Faculty reactions during training over duplicate functionality - faculty have limited time - 8 hrs for early adopters means less training time for others. Mental workflows don't adapt easily. Too many rabbit trails. "If you're showing this to me, you must want me to use it." Simple, short list of tools w/focus on what faculty really need.
Rick - Captivate list of proposed topics; campus list is very extensive and broad. VM list will be shorter and to the point focusing on specific needs. Met w/Nancy & Chris again to discuss; short clips; firming up list.
Jeff @ Berkeley & Merced very interested in training clips; tool tip documents to be used as initial script for training; utilize ETP? students to record from scripts;
Integrating Help files w/media icon - 2 mins, brief and succinct, w/Indiana tips and pdf tool tips. Probably an outside side - ETP tech tool tips? Ray - Timeline for creating these clips; Rick - will discuss in 2 weeks mtg
Beau - Chris's machine tb prod model; racked at DC, needs config; my down due to rack shuffling yesterday?
Ray - Able to recruit a new Java/Sakai resource - not sure where to put him
CERE MTG
Review of Rick's Captivate list - focusing on core kernel; will email to Jan for approval. Automated course sites; project sites w/more flexibility; next week - codify all the standards for clips.
Training sessions: Dan - interesting to see training curriculum - too long and covered too much; backwards introduction of tools, i.e., starting w/templates. Tak home lesson - keep it simple, start w/a limited menu from day 1; showing tools advocates using them; Resources, Announcements, intro to sakai w/more advanced training later.
Intro to Sakai in 1.5 hour format; give faculty time to get used to the tools before introducing (mature) tools. Faculty overwhelmed by number of tools - frustrated by overlap of tools.
Message that VM gives faculty - simple, functional, w/limited tool accessibility, since everything is new to VM faculty. Separate classes for quizzing, discussion, et.c one at a time. Must be done in computer lab to get hands on experience.
Need to increase 20 MB file size to ?; manual process of converting to One Note files - ppt slides & pdfs are huge as content may encompass multiple lectures; students assisting faculty by uploading ON files for faculty prior to the lecture - maybe minutes before.
Jan - need to encourage faculty to get content at least 24 hrs prior to allow time to upload and for student downloads prior to lecture.
Pilot users for spring; webdav makes it easy to move content up - on Mac, using Goliath w/next release. Build folder structure in sakai, then move over files using webdav. Determined that they will not give faculty default folder structure.
Where we will pull topical outlines for spring? 414C and 405 (Pat and Walter) from Ilios - will get session topics today. Will manual load, if needed.
Carl Coka? re: what? Twin Peaks linkage to the library? Researching now. Dan has partial install of DSpace; Rick reviewed others' content, need to experiment to see if it's useful; doesn't look like there's a batch/bulk upload function w/default metatdata. Harvest Road/Hive - commercial version; may need to sign up for demo account to see how it works (Portland used it?)
client? interactive online quiz need; needs it to be accessible behind iWeb for both students and certain outside users. Type of quizzing tool? Already built - needs it to be launched ASAP.