January 17, 2007
VetMed Developers Meeting
01/17/07
Servers
Beau is currently working on a PPS datafeed problem. Banner and Mothra were a go, but PPS data is an issue.
Upcoming Product Demo
Dave reports that an Australian company will demo their media repository product for VetMed soon. The single sign-in media repository works with Sakai 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 items on the list:
Evaluation System:
Offer comment line for instructor (e.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 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 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 research or independent study courses
Need mechanism for defining and pulling in courses w/o students where sites are 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).