01_10_2008 EvalSys Team Meeting (Adobe Connect)
Evaluation Tool Sakai Meeting 1_10_08
I. Institution updates:
- Maryland: code freeze end of March followed by testing
- Michigan: pilot II in early Feb, full rollout in Sept
- Virginia Tech: hiring starting up; may be in place by summer
- Cambridge: small scale pilot early March
- Virginia Tech: continuing with Cold Fusion system
- Page in contrib with Institutional requirements listed on page: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/EVALSYS/Home
II. Maryland update: Performance problems observed (45 seconds for dashboard to display)
- logfiles were growing out of control
- serial reads of course lists; algorithm redone
- Some discussion of performance issues; need to address issues with provider lookups
- Maryland and Cambridge to discuss details offline
III. Single email discussion (Dick Ellis)
- Merging code back into trunk after U-M pilot
- Will use the UMICH branch for pilot
- Dick reviewed simplified reminders flow and outlined potential issue with overlapping evaluation windows; consensus was that an evaluation tagging mechanism could be added to address eval groupings
IV. Hierarchy meeting to be held tomorrow
Action Items:
- Ellen to work on Tagging Evaluations Jira item (will better support multiple evaluation windows)
- Maryland and Cambridge to discuss details of performance issues and potential solutions