Report - 2008 05.26 to 05.30
Community tools Tools and applicationsApplications
- Clearspace meeting with IPS
- reset some configurations on confab http and tomcat servers :upped Apache cache timeout for certs to 2 hours, fixed a PATH setting so app can reliably find latex utils for plugin operation
- Wiki presentation at IT Partners conference
- Discussed Moira web service issues, possibilities for Confluence with Dave Tanner
- Put together environment for building new MIT Confluence theme for 2.8
- Investigated Jira data report in Thalia project
- Fixed a bug that caused some non-MIT users not to get permissioned properly in Confluence under the right conditions
- IDN Steering group meeting- MIT membership in inCommon is imminent
- checking of current installed Confluence plugins against v. 2.8. most ok so far; scaffolding plugin problematic -- broken in 2.8 default theme, but works properly with 'classic' theme
- checking, identifying necessary modifications for Confluence MIT theme against 2.8
- Licensing meeting with Kelly Perkel (Jive) re Clearspace
- Fixed table width=100% problem in Confluence MIT theme
- Got app certificate from NIST so begin testing Moira web service
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- Sloan Opinio feedback session
- Stellar 2.2. Documentation discussion with Mark Wiklund from IS&T publishing
- Stellar and wiki overview with Mech Eng faculty
- Gradebook review with Bolek
- Approved a number of summer and fall'08 sites
- Addressed several Opinio questions from Sloan and SMA
- Worked on clarifying documentation about exporting materials
- Began compiling a comprehensive list of features supported in Moodle, ATutor, Sakai, and Blackboard
- Researched Moodle and social constructivism
- Got in touch with Lori Breslow, Director of TLL (http://web.mit.edu/tll/index.html
) to find out more about prominent teaching/learning styles, processes and pedagogies we need to support.
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- UI SAIS meeting
- UI CAMS meeting
- Updated project files with all versions of Gradebook Makeup Grade mockups
- Completed version 2 of Stellar Dashboard design
- Reviewed Opinio UI work, Gradebook edits and Calendar front-end
- Stellar 2.2 review meeting: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/stellar22/UX+Mindmeld
- Stellar tutorial video v1 completed
- CAMS - brainstorm meeting for user workflow on main pages - several tasks coming up in early June
- OmniPlan / Daptiv update
- Discussed Materials page updates with OCW
- Daptiv automation review with Amon
- 2.2 UI workplan revisions made, based on new tasks