Community Review - Initial Designs

At the Sakai Partners Summer Conference, May 2006, the Course Management Work Group (CMWG) reached a major milestone. We have completed an initial draft of the designs for the course management. These designs include both functional and technical elements that deserve careful review by the community.
Before we move forward we request your assistance. Our initial work will shape the furture of Course Management in Sakai. It is critical that we take the time to make correct and useful designs. Our job is not complete if we have not considered the ways that the community views and uses course information at their institutions. We are seeking project managers, designers and developers to take the time to investigate whether our designs meet your needs. Your feedback will be essential in finalizing the designs or will indicate whether there is work still to be done.

Audience

For this process we would like to engage staff from both educational partner and commercial partner institutions. You are the professionals that will be called upon to implement Sakai. You are the only ones who can tell us if our model for course data meets your needs. We are particularly interested in feedback from institutions outside the United States. We are aware that there are significant difference between the school systems the CMWG members represent and the school systems around the world.
Regardless of your institution we are interested in your involvement in the following areas. Please consider your expertise and position when selececting the review area to which you are most able to contribute. We encourage you to forward this information to others at your institution who can comment on areas that fall outside of your experience.

Functional Review

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We need the input from interaction/UI designers, project managers, customer support staff or anyone involved with determining functional requirements for Sakai at their institutions. Your input will help us determine if we are accounting for the course management-related use cases/usage scenarios present at your institution.

Technical Review

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We are seeking technical people involved in data integration for their local Sakai projects. The audience we are seeking for this review is the set of developers, database administrators (DBA) and systems engineers. The "right people" for this review task are those folks who will be working to integrate local data into Sakai. This task essentially asks you to compare the data structure of your local course information with the data structures we are proposing for course management.