Sakai v2.4 Enhancements

Sakai v2.4 Tools

These are simple tests (no detailed instructions) for new features. Try them out on the test server when test releases are completed. Tests are described in bold dark blue. If you check out these new features and please report any problems by email and note the feature/Jira you are reporting on in case we need to submit a Jira fo the Foundation.

Announcements

SAK-704 Released to QA for testing on 6/1/07 QA results (smartsite-test 2.4-015): Passed 6/15/07

• Scheduled release (i.e. a future posting date) and retract dates for announcements SAK-8777
• Added support for show/hide similar to Resources tool; expands on and replaces previous draft functionality. SAK-8637

1. Create an announcement scheduled for a near-future release and end date/time. Change the Email Notification to High. Verify it is not visible to others until the release date/time and that it is no longer visible after the end date/time. Ask other team members to email you when they receive the email notification.

Report Announcement feature testing results to: SAK-704

Assignments

These enhancements were postponed for a post-release version of the 2.4 Assignments tool. Do not test until after the post-release patches.

From an email from John Leesia on 5/24/07
Features that will be available via an Assignment tag that can be added to the 2.4 build:

• Allow instructors to enter a grade for students who haven't posted a submission (SAK-6614)
• Provide an additional assignment type which doesn't require an electronic submission (SAK-8285)
• Send an email to the student to confirm their submission (SAK-271)
• Add the ability to upload a zip file containing submissions (SAK-8589) and several bug fixes and minor enhancements.
• Ability to reorder the Assignment List to a user specified order. (SAK-9795)
• Due date can be set in 5 minute increments (SAK-7406)

Turnitin and GMT related changes will also be included.

Deferred until 2.5 - additional design work is needed

• Allow assignment that is linked to gradebook to be graded using the gradebook (SAK-7474)
• Provide a setting on the Assignment to allow all students to resubmit (really two capabilities - a global resubmit setting and an optional 'allow multiple revisions' when submitting. (SAK-7483)

Calendar

SAK-713 Released to QA for testing on 6/5/07 Passed by QA on 6/8/07

• Add week/month view option (SAK-8399)
• Use color-coding for event types (SAK-5073) (requires sakai.properties settings)
• Small I18N issue (SAK-8541)
• Show more event info (attachments link to schedule event - SAK-8398)
• Quartz job to add the Calendar Summary to existing sites.

QA for Schedule/Calendar

1. Access the Schedule tool in your course. Add several events - individual, repeating, various types, with an attachment - all during June and July 2007.
2. Return to Home for your course. Select Options in the Calendar frame. Set some event types to High and some to Low. Set colors for these priorities. Change your calendar setting to weekly instead of monthly.
3. Verify that your days with events are set to the highest priority color for the events that day. Verify that you can see events by the week.
4. Add sakaistu1 into your course (if not already added). Log in via xlogin URL as sakaistu1. Select Schedule from My Workspace and verify you can see events for your course (and others!) Verify that you can select events to see more details, sort by week or month, and open or download attachments from events.

Report Schedule/Calendar feature testing results to: SAK-713
Test SAK-648 next now that you've got some future events!

Chat Room:

• refactoring which fixed significant stability and performance problems.
• Support multiple concurrent chat rooms.
• Normalize chat's schema into relational tables (conversion from XML storage). (SAK-8508)
• Rewrite UI in JSF. (SAK-8508)
• Refactor manager class for easier plug in of other messaging platforms like XMPP.
• Now will import any rooms created as well as the synoptic view options. (SAK-5917)

Gradebook:

These changes are specific to the Sakai 2.4 release.

• A per-installation configurable spreadsheet download (SAK-7713)
• Section/Group specific spreadsheet downloads based on the user's filter options
• Support for course grades indepedent of grade calculation scheme
• Simplification/clean up of student view (SAK-7036:Implement Student View of Grade Comments)
• Participation in Sakai migration/archiving service (SAK-7583)
• Participation in Sakai Event tracking (SAK-6207)
• Allow comments for each assigned grade (SAK-7031)
• Expanded services for client tool integration
• Fix to critical grade data contention issue (SAK-7407)

QA for new Gradebook features

Test: Export/Download your Gradebook spreadsheet for a section/group in the course.

Messages/Forums (formerly Message Center):

• Split former "Message Center" into two tools, namely Messages and Forums.
• Addition of Message Notification synoptic view
• Support for importing Forums & topics from other sites added
• Group awareness added
• Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.
• "Quote" feature (Insert original text in forum messages)
• Display statistics for user's postings and read messages in Discussion Forums
• Ability to expand all discussion forum posts to include body text, not just subject heads
• Revamped UI of Forums
• Ability to moderate topics

News:

• News feed settings will now import. (SAK-5920)
• News events (read, update feed) will be logged. (SAK-6212)

Page Order Helper

SAK-727 Released to QA for testing on 6/6/07 QA results (smartsite-test 2.4-015): Passed 6/15/07

• Allow Page Order Helper to override toolOrder.xml rather than conflicting with it. (SAK-7341)

QA test available at: Tests for Sakai v2.4 Enhancements#Test for Page Order Helper functionality

Report Page Order Helper feature testing results to: SAK-727

Resources

SAK-744 Released to QA for testing on 6/11/07 Testing Completed 7/18/07

• Content Handlers to mount external resources in CHS and navigate into packaged resources (SAK-4602)
• Fix to issue where uploading files take up their entire size in system memory. Now streamed.
• Resource "Type" registry for identifying new content types
• Move implementation of "Form Items" out of "content" project and use type registry to maintain their presence in Resources tool
• Add support for Citations and/or Citation Lists in Resources tool (as a new type registered in the registry)
• UI changes to action links in Resources listing
• Allow a new root level folder in ContentHosting for private application collections (SAK-7700)

Rather than specific tests for new features, we're using the new Resources test provided by the collaboration team. Run through the test document TC-Resources.xls
Report either a pass for your OS/browser or list any issues you encountered in: SAK-744

Roster:

• Add group/section support to tool. (SAK-6231)
• Add new print friendly view. (SAK-7340)
• Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.

Search:

• The ability to set a single app server for search indexing, while other nodes connect to it via webservices. For performance concerns in larger installations. See sakai.properties settings above. (SAK-7494)
• Multi-site search. (SAK-8717)

Section Info:

• The automatic creation and representation of SIS-provisioned course structures, metadata and memberships (aka Sections).
• Support for multiple meeting places and times per Section.
• UI refinements for filtering view.
• Configurability to ensure that the application functionality and UI match local institutional needs and SIS data.

Syllabus

SAK-705 Released to QA for testing on 6/1/07 QA results (smartsite-test 2.4-015): Passed 6/15/07

• Print-friendly view. (SAK-8548)

1. Create some syllabus items. View, select Printer icon, and print to see if the items fit well on a printed page.

Report Syllabus feature testing results to: SAK-705

Tests & Quizzes

TestsandQuizzes

SAK-706 Released to QA for testing on 6/1/07 QA results, 6/18/07, smartsite-test 2.4-017: Passed all but step 1: can't send email to students with apostrophes in their names.

• Added email functionality to allow instructors to email invididual sudents from 'Scores' screens, SAK-7094
• Allow instructors to give individual students permission to re-take the assessment SAK-7093
• A disable/enable toggle of all FCK Editors in Authoring screen. SAK-5904
• Random questions and multiple attempts: added flavor of randomization selection for random parts. SAK-7696 - see specific test above.
• Allow Samigo contents to be imported from other Sakai Sites using the Site Info tool's 'Import From Site' link. SAK-7378
• Allow instructors to change feedback settings after assessments are published. SAK-3943
• Change the 'copy' function in question pool to be a deep copy, rather than a link. SAK-3526
• Implemented IMS content packaging to allow import/export of assessments with attachments SAK-5419
• Allow importing of Samigo assessments to Question Pool. SAK-6993
• Importing simple text formatted assessments to Samigo using Word-2-QTI converter. SAK-8642

QA for Tests & Quizzes

1. Create and release a quiz with another tester as the student. After the 'student' has taken your quiz, send him/her and email from the Scores screen.
2. Create and release a quiz with only 1 submission allowed. After the 'student' has taken your quiz, go to the Scores -->Submission Status screen, find the student and select Allow Retake?. Verify the student can retake your quiz.
3. Author a quiz and try toggling the editors off and on.
4. Requires Instructor access to 2 or more sites. Create quizzes in one site. Log into a second site and select Site Info --> Import from Site --> and select 1 or more sites. Check Tests & Quizzes. Verify that your quizzes were copied successfully to the second site.
5. Create a quiz and publish it with a specific feedback. Take the quiz as a student and verify the feedback setting. Now, as Instructor, change the feedback setting. Take the quiz as a different student and verify the new feedback setting.
6. Create a simple question pool. Copy the question pool. Edit a question in the copied pool. Verify that the original question in the first pool is unchanged - i.e., the second pool of questions are truely copies not linked to the originals.
7. Create a simple quiz and include 1-3 questions with attachments. Export the quiz using the "Content Packaging" choice. Import the quiz AS AN ASSESSMENT (note - does not work for question pools). Import the quiz into another site and verify that the attachments are imported.
8. Run through the import of a single-section assessment as a question pool one more time to verify that it works in the public release.
9. When we implement this tool, you will see a Quick Create button next to the Create option in Samigo. Try out this feature as if you were an instructor seeing it for the first time.

Report Tests & Quizzes feature testing results to: SAK-706

Web Content:

• Now imports with title and URL intact. (SAK-5919)

Wiki:

• auto-save feature
• includes now supported
• various UI improvements (SAK-4679)