VetMed Developer's Meeting
Chris/Dave - Reported on recent CERE student feedback meeting with (a) student in attendance.
User experience the primary complaints:
- students annoyed with extra tabs - not seeing instructions; possibly need Quick Tips more prominently displayed
- Help files universally ignored...
- Some students have difficulty seeing "Login" on initial exposure to the application. After use, no longer a problem.
Other internal notes:
- Need to update gateway text for pending fall launch. Use iFrame or something that will allow quick updates of text rather than requiring a server restart
Chris - Working on use cases and wireframe designs. Need to determine of goals for scheduling/Ilios for Fall
Rick - Has Captivates for review. Received some feedback from faculty on sakai, e.g., faculty frustrated at not being able to resort Resources in the desired manner, i.e., by lecture order or to display most recently added or updated material prominently; Jira bug noted on this issue.
Noted that version 2.x may have different Resource functionality.
Currently, Resources are sortable by name or by date - can also create folder hierarchy by name.
client saw 20MB warning message although file did upload
team will do additional testing re: spurios error messages
will be doing Captivate on WebDav and alert faculty to this method
Movies stored on media server
some reviewers dislike scalable movies due to possible bluriness
loadtesting - different possibilities
Best practices, recommended routines for using sakai coming into question
Beau/Chris/Rick - e.g., course archiving-set user roles to audit 3-4 weeks post; procedures for copying content into new quarter - use case suggests duplication of content - Resources, websites,etc.; also, request-based course setup (some faculty w/early needs) to mimic import tool setup; archive courses at 4-year mark as well; use cases about 50-50 re: blank course or content loaded on generation;
Beau - media server in setup as nsf/samba server; possbly dav; rich media will sit here and be accessible as network mounted content to CERE courses; url-referenced vs. WebDav sakai method discussion:
issues - multi-course content, or content not strictly identified w/course; internet connectivity requirements? content currently distributed on multiple systems; centralizing content pieces; pipe is 100MBx2 - load considered about 60 concurrent users;