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Report - 2008 06.02 to 06.06

LMS Development

1. Gradebook: Freemarker templates handed off to UI
2. Gradebook: jQuery UI date picker implemented
3. Gradebook: Investigated jQuery flot for summary chart
4. Calendar: Freemarker templates handed off to UI
5. Amps-prog 5 set up for general access
6. Deployed user password changes to database for Stellar-test
7. Set cronjob for checking pre-registration and registration info for summer 2008
8. Documented server support changes for issues now handled by OIS
9. Investigated Safari certificate problem under Mac OS X 10.5.3.  No repro.
10. Completed Stellar 2.2 Wiki requirements

User Interface and Design

1. Completed new semester image tweaks to Stellar home page
2. UI CAMS meeting
3. Completed Gradebook workflow diagram updates
4. Began CAMS Login page layout redesign
5. Began design of CAMS and core icon for WAYF login page
6. Stellar 2.2 review meeting: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/stellar22/UX+Mindmeld
7. Updated UI tasklist for Stellar Fall release

Community Tools and Applications

1. Reset some configurations on confab http and tomcat servers so app can reliably find latex utils for plugin operation
2. Wiki presentation at IT Partners conference
3. Discussed Moira web service issues, possibilities for Confluence with Dave Tanner
4. Put together environment for building new MIT Confluence theme for 2.8
5. Clearspace meeting with IPS
6. Investigated Jira data report in Thalia project
7. Fixed a bug that caused some non-MIT users not to get permissioned properly in Confluence under the right conditions
8. IDN Steering group meeting- MIT membership in inCommon is imminent
9. 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
10. checking, identifying necessary modifications for Confluence MIT theme against 2.8
11. Got app certificate from NIST so begin testing Moira web service

Community Outreach and Research

1. Sloan Opinio feedback session
2. Stellar 2.2. Documentation discussion with Mark Wiklund from IS&T publishing
3. Stellar and wiki overview with Mech Eng faculty
4. Gradebook review with Bolek
5. Approved a number of summer and fall'08 sites
6. Addressed several Opinio questions from Sloan and SMA
7. Worked on clarifying documentation about exporting materials
8. Began compiling a comprehensive list of features supported in Moodle, ATutor, Sakai, and Blackboard
9. Researched Moodle and social constructivism
10. 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.

Report - 2008 05.26 to 05.30

LMS Development

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