07_31_2008 EvalSys Team Meeting (Adobe Connect)
- Former user (Deleted)
- Former user (Deleted)
Owned by Former user (Deleted)
Objective: Provide a communication opportunity for members of the Sakai community who are interested in the Course Evaluation tool
Agenda items:
0. Dinking around with audio, etc. til everyone can hear (5 minutes)
1. Update on previous action items (10 minutes)
- Update on Aaron's conference presentation
- Aaron not on call; don't see slides on site yet
- Presentation is available online: rtsp://video.cpm.jussieu.fr/Archive/visio/sakai/st080703_4.rm
- Contrib instance for testing?
- rSmart has discontinued that hosting service; won't be able to have a shared experience of testing the core software; Sean will check with QC group and the larger Sakai community
- Feedback to SWIFT documentation?
- Harriet's document - Cambridge's instance is branded SWIFT; has not been posted to confluence site, but is in email
- What's new page (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/moB9AQ)
2. Progress update on development (20 minutes)
- U-M: performance profiling and email generation; functional testing status
- Some new development on the tool
- Planning roll out university-wide
- Ability to present multiple instructors in a single evaluation
- Consolidated email approach - changed some of the logic in the core tool to handle email the way U-M would like
- Functional testing starting this week; in general things are going okay
- Still dealing with issues of exchanging data between PeopleSoft and Sakai
- Decision to participate will be put on the departments; some departments will mandate that all faculty will be evaluated
- Multiple evaluation windows - Pharmacy School evaluates classes every week (bad news is it is coming up in a few weeks, good news is use is low so they can find bugs before university-wide rollout); Engineering mid-term evaluations; full-campus roll-out at end of semester; Process needs to begin in October timeframe
- Question about how data is used for faculty review: Depends on department and how they use the data; sensitive issue
- Michigan's branch is CT-623
- Open issues:
- MyEvaluations screen performance (see prior meeting notes)
- Aaron and Rick have looked at Maryland's solution and issue is resolved with Maryland's solution
- Student login and response submissions
- Aaron and Rick have looked at Maryland's solution and issue is resolved with Maryland's solution
- MyEvaluations screen performance (see prior meeting notes)
3. Plans for the Fall (20 minutes)
- U-M: Full campus rollout out
- Maryland: Continued full university-wide deployment adding more colleges with college level items; possibly adding department level items with a few departments
4. Next Steps/Action Items (5 minutes)
- process for handling new requirements (e.g. option to separate responses from responder immediately)?
- Discussing new requirements on email; if more in depth discussions required, probably should include mock-ups on the confluence site
- Separating responses from responder came up in email
- Adding TA role for defining items in the evaluation
- UI for managing levels of the hierarchy (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/EVALSYS/Hierarchy+User+Interface+Design)
- Understanding all the new system settings and what they do
- Harriet has recently added some notes on the new settings in the Administrator's Guide
- Regional meeting opportunity (Virginia Tech)?
- November 11 and 12, 2008
- Next Sakai Evaluation Tool group meeting in October