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Supporting Sakai at the University of Michigan
Sean DeMonner, demonner@umich.eduDiana Perpich, dperpich@umich.eduHannah Reeves, hannabel@umich.edu
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Sakai at U-M• CTools is local instance of Sakai (1.5 currently;
2.0 in Fall 05) • Supported by USE Lab (Usability, Support,
Evaluation) – Co-located w/Development
• Currently in 3rd year of production• Recently completed migration from legacy
system-all course, project sites using Sakai• Support considerations
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Staffing Information
• 3 FTE Professional Staff
• Support: 90 hours/week part time, temp
• QC: 30 hours/week part time, temp
• Affiliates (varies by unit)
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Training
• Ongoing, but usually at beginning of term
• Pre-emptive support
• Focusing on instructor
• Group presentations preferred
• Low-stakes student introduction
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Quality Control• Internal staff testing local instance• Critical to test local installation and integration
points with campus systems• Cross-testing w/Sakai QA• Focusing on feature and integration testing,
starting load testing• Some automated testing w/Empirix• Browser breakdown (reflects campus computing
sites and other usage)
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Sites
users 200 3500 8,000 10,800 23,818 25,000
Sites 8 55 212 260 900 1,645
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Sakai Adoption at MichiganFall 2002- Winter 2005
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Support Avenues:
• Email contact– Footprints queuing tool– Business, evening and weekend hours
• Phone Calls– Business hours– Relatively small number (3-6/day)
• Walk-ins (very rare)
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Migration Experience
• CourseTools to CTools
• WorkTools to CTools
• Project Overview
• Number of Sites (approx. 1600)
• Progress report
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QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor
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• Currently 9500 sites total, 4000 project sites
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QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor
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Customer Descriptive Data
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Support Requests - W05
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Issue Tracking - Footprints• Electronic queuing mechanism• Metrics gathering and reporting (4363 requests)• Issue classification:
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
June 8, 2005 14
QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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Quality Indicators & Metrics
• Number of contacts
• Total ticket age (phasing out)
• Number of touches (in progress)
• Response time (in progress)
• Satisfaction data
• Daily and weekly status reports
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Touches Per Ticket - W05
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Support Survey - Instructors
• 475 respondents total; 34.1% survey respondents have contacted CTools support through email or phone
• For instructors, contacting Support via email is #1 on the list of “most effective way” they get help (27.2%)
• Instructors are very satisfied with Support Services (4.13 out of 5 quality rating)
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Support Survey - Students
• 1887 respondents total; 8.7% survey respondents have contacted CTools support through email or phone
• For students, contacting Support is 7th on the list of “most effective way” they get help (.7%), with "Keep trying on my own" at the top (39.1%)
• Students are moderately satisfied with Support Services (3.67 out of 5 quality rating)
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Additional Thoughts
• Support & migration sites (importance of using our own tools)
• Multiple Tiers of Support staff• Hiring and development of Tier 1 staff• Distributed support ideal (Affiliates in units)• Usage data tracking vs. service delivery• Escalation / Communication Flow• Advisory committee(s)
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