05_28_2008 EvalSys Team Meeting (Adobe Connect)

Objective: Continue discussion of Sakai Course Eval project to ensure coordination of effort

Agenda items:

0. Dink around with audio til everyone can hear and talk (5 minutes)

• Don't forget to run through the audio setup wizard

1. Follow-up on U-M performance profiling discussion (15 minutes)

• Aaron provided example; Dick got working but still having problems with build. Working with Aaron to get build working. May have discovered slow areas in emailing.
• Dick and Aaron discussed options for turning on/off aspect in Production

2. Follow-up on Maryland performance issue (15 minutes)

• Admin: MyEvaluations screen takes a long time for admin with a large number of evals
• Related to time to calculate number of people in a course. Will take time to fix: will need to calculate once and cache
• Student: login and duration to load dashboard
• Student: 45 seconds to submit evaluation

3. Discuss 1.2 information sharing: (10 minutes)

• Conference presentation details (if known)
• Best source of info on ad hoc evaluation support?; available instance?
• Testing results

4. Eval Tool road map: (10 minutes)

• managing Confluence space
• new schools using tool?
• Rutgers has expressed an interest
• Columbia will have some requirements in the future
• May have been some localization in South America
• emerging/new requirements?
• Add a Getting Started page on Confluence page; group will contribute to it over time

5. Next Steps/Action items (5 minutes)

• Next meeting in July to report dev, functional testing, and performance testing status?

Action Items:
Sean: Follow up on instance for docs w/John Ellis (in progress)
Sean: Add a Getting Started page on Confluence page (done; now need to add relevant conten)
Sean: Send out meeting request in July for end of month regroup (not 7/15-18) (pending)