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(not all notes attributed as I'm new to this group)
The planned implementation of Sakai 2.1 is underway:
- Beau Patrette reported several bugs being worked out prior to the rollup, most importantly a distauth issue in collaboration with Scott A.
- other issues noted in testing included a known 'out of memory' issue and poor performance in gradebook
- faculty clients with special needs may require custom design requests for VM sakai instance beyond the current scope
- tear-down/rebuild scheduled for late 1/18/06 after the Vet School Computer Committee demo
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Beau demoed JIRA http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/jira and the group discussed ways to enter, resolve and close bugs.
CERE Implementation
Per Jan Ilkiw, Associate Dean - Academic Programs, Vet Med is proceeding with their own instance of sakai at this time to meet the needs of their school. Kirk Alexander, Mediaworks, is acting as the conduit between faculty and programmers to ensure that these needs (and the needs of the campus at large) are met.
Jan is currently focused on the many decisions being make regarding curriculum and content for the new db system which will integrate w/sakai.
January 18th is the launch date for the CERE campaign which include using screen shots of CERE for presentation demoing to faculty.
Rick Hayes spoke of the plan to use Captivate to train faculty on using CERE. The recordings will not include the skinnable parts of the screen (i.e., header identifiying CERE vs. My) so that the results are generic enough to be shared
across campus. An initial recording would demonstrate to faculty how to migrate content (webdav). Faculty feedback is requested to determine what defaults should appear on the left-hand menu.
Further discussions included:
- determining the best time for pilot release to both new students in the fall and existing students; it's critical to point returning students from iWeb (the VM intranet) to CERE.
- brief mention of the 2 courses scheduled for spring pilot: 414C, Veterinary Toxicology, and 405, Vet Parasitology.
- Help Desk support (within the school) for any users who encounter difficulties and the possibility of using VM first/second year students for additional support.
Fall 2006 classes start September 11 with orientation the week prior.