CCSS Updates

Report - 2008 06.02 to 06.06

TBC EOD 06.17.2008LMS Development

User Interface and Design

Community Tools and Applications

Community Outreach and Research

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
8. OTI: PHP SOAP client completed.
9. OTI: demo completed and shared with CCSS team
10. OTI: Working on enabling JSONP (cross domain ajax) for RESTFul web services
11. OTI: Started on unit tests for web services

Community Tools and Applications

1. Met with Staff Diversity council regarding Wiki  use
2. Contaced Jive for more specific explanation of ClearSpace SSO integration
3. Experimented with using php SOAP client  to populate Clearspace groups and spaces
4. Worked on new MIT Confluence theme for 2.8
5. Began testing Moira web service
6. Continued investigation of problematic scaffolding plugin in Confluence
7.  Continued working on modifications for Confluence MIT theme against 2.8

Community Outreach and Research

1. Stellar demo for Mark Wiklund and Diane Webster from IS&T publishing; Diane is going to help us with documentation for the 2.2 release
2. Met with MIT medical about potentially using Stellar as a medium for disseminating health and wellness information to faculty/students
3. Approved summer and fall'08 sites
4. Set up and populated a Stellar site for Diane Webster (technical writer) to use
5. Responded to a number of general support issues from SDM related to access to past sites and general awareness about archiving policy
6. Investigated issue with certificates in Safari on Leopard
7. Reviewed latest client satisfaction surveys and followed up with unhappy clients
8. Met with PE regarding use of the Stellar Gradebook
9. Meeting with Bryan re customer support and RT process

Report - 2008 05.26 to 05.30

LMS Development

1. Stellar 2.2 workplan revisions made, based on new task breakdown
2. Updated JIRA tasks based on above
3. Gradebook: Implemented makeup grade functionality
4. Gradebook: jQuery table sorter interacted badly with our original design for the makeup grade layout (i.e., makeup grades had their own row), had to be redesigned
5. Gradebook: Implemented letter grades in the back end, began front-end work
6. Gradebook: Cleared up issues relating terminology, button placement, etc.
7. Freemarker conversion: done for changeevent, event, pageIntroText, delete and csvCalendar xsl files.
8. Freemarker conversion: Jquery date and time picker used for setting the event date/time in the template.
9. Freemarker conversion: Behaviour of time picker modified as suggested by Joanna.
10. Freemarker conversion: Updated the schedule view template to show up academic events when clicked Show Academic Calendar in the tool.
11. Kuali student post-conference evaluation
12. Moodle, ATutor review planning and review
13. Continued consultant resume reviews
14. Researched Touchstone and Touchstone CAMS integration development
15. Completed OTI Web services (both SOAP and RESTFul services over HTTP)
16. Completed OTI RESTful services support JSON, HTML and XML output
17. OTI Apache CXF dependency abstracted cleanly

User Interface and Design

1. UI SAIS meeting
2. UI CAMS meeting
3. Updated project files with all versions of Gradebook Makeup Grade mockups
4. Completed version 2 of Stellar Dashboard design
5. Reviewed Opinio UI work, Gradebook edits and Calendar front-end
6. Stellar 2.2 review meeting: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/stellar22/UX+Mindmeld
7. Stellar tutorial video v1 completed
8. CAMS - brainstorm meeting for user workflow on main pages - several tasks coming up in early June
9. OmniPlan / Daptiv update
10. Discussed Materials page updates with OCW
11. Daptiv automation review with Amon
12. 2.2 UI workplan revisions made, based on new tasks

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.