VetMed Developers Meeting
01/17/07
Servers
Beau is currently working on a PPS datafeed problem. Banner and Mothra was were a go, but PPS data is an issue.
Upcoming Product Demo
Dave reports that an Australian company product: Single will demo their media repository product for VetMed soon. The single sign-in media repository works with Sakai - will be getting a demo on campus soon. Sounds according to the rep. The product appears to be full-featured , and robust.
Review of Winter/Spring 2007 Gap Analysis
https://confluence.ucdavis.edu:8443/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=21347
Reviewed new
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items on the list:
Evaluation System:
- Offer comment line for instructor (ege.g., Gina Davis - Small Animal handling session) to help identify individuals for the evaluatee.
CREST:
- Fix the show IP Grading
- Drop select controls and grey text when items are not valid selections
Database:
- Handle exceptions for nightly updates - append to local tablespace.
- Rearchitect nightly updates to allow for more frequent updates (30-minutes or hourly). Update from Ray - currently takes 15-20 minutes for Banner/PPS/Mothra nightly
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- update. Rewrote code to minimize to about 2 minutes; will implement shortly.
- Develop role management to allow for local roles, guests, CE and Open Campus students. Ray has done some preliminary work on defining VM roles matrix which
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- team reviewed.
- Ilios checks UCDMain; modify so that if course description not found, check for it in UCDCAF (note: per Ray, probably won't exist here either.) Often for
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- research or independent study courses
- Need mechanism for defining and pulling in courses w/o students where sites are
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- desired by faculty, generally resident courses (ending with R)
Additional Notes
- Ray will be meeting w/Kirk re:collaboration efforts with IET. Dave will be posting Captivate files to share with IET.
- Need to work on Help files for CREST and evaluation system (for admins).