Project Coordination Update Peter A. Knoop Sakai Project Coordinator

Project Coordination Update

Peter A. Knoop

Sakai Project Coordinator

Role of Project Coordinatorhttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/Xz

• Project Coordinator – face-in to community designers and developers– Report to the Sakai Community on the activities of the Community

• Maintain the Sakai Project Coordination Summary Tables• Update the Sakai Community at Conferences on community activities

– Help bring parties with common interests together• Project Coordination Meetings• 10 June 2007 Amsterdam

• Community Liaison (Anthony Whyte) – face-out to organizational representatives

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/Xz

Sakai Community

• Activities– Project Teams – 155 Committers– Working Groups– Discussion Groups

• Community resources for the Community– collab.sakaiproject.org – Virginia Tech / UHI– Jira/Confluence – University of Arizona– Subversion (SVN) – Indiana– www.sakaiproject.org – University of Michigan– QA Servers – Indiana, Columbia, Amsterdam,

Cambridge, Boston, Cape Town, rSmart• Always room for more…

Sakai Implementations

• Self-Report via Jira “Production/Pilot Deployments” Project - http://jira.sakaiproject.org– PROD-Production Deployments– PROD-Pilot Deployments– PROD-QA servers– PROD-JAVA_OPTS

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/

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Sakai in Productionhttp://sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=588

149 Production

115 Pilot

8 QA

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Running Sakai

• Sakai 2.4 released 21 May 2007• September 2007 Implementation Plans

~50% Sakai 2.3

~50% Sakai 2.4

• Sakai 2.5 coming November 2007

Sakai 2.4 Overall Enhancements

• Portal– Pluto 1.1.1 integration– Support for JSR-168 portlets using Pluto 1.1

• Default Skin (CSS)– Improve use of white-space and padding– Show column borders on sortable lists– Add underlines to default links– Replace black-and-white folder icons with manila-

colored ones


• JSF– Support for generic spreadsheet formatting (Mostly

not JSF-specific.) – The Pager can be fully internationalized– The Pager and other JSF components can now

follow standard Sakai locale support– Customizable toolbar separators

• WYSIWYG Editor– Upgraded FCK Editor (e.g., IE7 compatibility)


• Internationalization– Complete localization of all core tools – Updates to existing translations (Catalan, French,

Japanese, Spanish, Swedish) – Added Arabic (requires RTL skin) – Internationalized Tool Titles and Descriptions – Internationalized date/time widget

• Component– Full spring lifecycle support – Demo optional components


• Content Review– Generic content-review service API– Integrated with Assignments– (TurnItIn implementation in Contrib)

• Course Management API– Default group provider now uses– Performance improvements


• Database– Better transaction support – Enhanced cross-vendor feature support

• Authz– Some ease-of-use enhancements for developers– New ability for enterprise-defined roles which cannot

be overridden in Site Info - the enterprise provider alone has this authority

– Improved transaction handling

Sakai 2.4 Project/Tool Changes

• Project/Tool Status: Contrib Provisional Core (Supported)• Promoted to Core (Supported)

– Messages– Forums– Post’em

• Promoted to Provisional– Mailtool – PageOrderHelper – Polls – User Membership

• Retired– Chat (Velocity)

Sakai 2.4 Tool Enhancements

• Announcements– Scheduled release (i.e., a future posting date) and retract

dates for announcements– Show/Hide implemented as a replacement to “draft”; aligns

with Resource’s approach

• Calendar Summary– Add week/month view option– Use color-coding for event types– Show more event info (e.g., attachments, link to schedule

event) – Way to add it to existing sites


• Chat – Thorough overhaul– Re-factored to address stability and performance issues– Support multiple concurrent chat rooms– Normalize Chat's schema into relational tables (conversion

from XML storage) – UI re-written in JSF (formerly Velocity)– Re-factored to ease plug-in integration of other messaging

platforms (e.g., XMPP)– Improved import functionality (e.g., all rooms, synoptic view

options)


• Gradebook– A per-installation configurable spreadsheet download– Section/Group specific spreadsheet downloads– Support for course grades independent of calculation scheme – Simplification/clean up of student view– Participation in Sakai migration/archiving service– Participation in Sakai Event tracking– Allow comments for each assigned grade– Expanded services for client tool integration (e.g.,

Assignments)– Fix to critical grade data contention issue


• Message Center split into Messages and Forums– Message Notification synoptic view – Support for importing Forums & topics from other sites– Group awareness– Enforce enhanced privacy management settings– "Quote" feature (i.e., insert original text in forum messages) – Display statistics for user's postings and read messages in

Discussion Forums – Ability to expand-all in Forums– Ability to moderate topics


• Help– Update help content– Ability to redirect to an external help

• News– Import News feed settings– News events (e.g., read, edit) will be logged

• Page Order Helper– Now compatible with toolOrder.xml


• Resources:– Content Handlers to mount external resources and

navigate into packaged resources– Improved memory handling during file upload– New Resource Registry for identifying content types

• Separation of “form items” from Resources• Support for Citations and/or Citation Lists

– Updates to action links in UI– Support for private application collections via root level

folder


• Roster:– Add group/section support to tool. (SAK-6231) – Add new print friendly view. (SAK-7340) – Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.

• Search:– The ability to set a single app server for search indexing,

while other nodes connect to it via webservices. For performance concerns in larger installations. See sakai.properties settings above. (SAK-7494)

– Multi-site search. (SAK-8717)


• Section Info:– The automatic creation and representation of SIS-

provisioned course structures, metadata and memberships (aka Sections).

– Support for multiple meeting places and times per Section. – UI refinements for filtering view. – Configurability to ensure that the application functionality

and UI match local institutional needs and SIS data.

• Syllabus:– Print-friendly view. (SAK-8548)


• Tests & Quizzes:– Added email functionality to allow instructors to email individual students from 'Scores' screens,

(SAK-7094) – Allow instructors to give individual students permission to re-take the assessment. (SAK-7093) – A disable/enable toggle of all FCK Editors in Authoring screen. (SAK-5904) – Random questions and multiple attempts: added flavor of randomization selection for random

parts. (SAK-7696) – Allow Samigo contents to be imported from other Sakai Sites using the Site Info tool's 'Import

From Site' link. (SAK-7378) – Allow instructors to change feedback settings for after assessments are published. (SAK-3943) – Change the 'copy' function in question pool to be a deep copy, rather than a link. (SAK-3526) – Implemented IMS content packaging to allow import/export of assessments with attachments

(SAK-5419) – Allow importing of Samigo assessments to Question Pool. (SAK-6993) – Importing simple text formatted assessments to Samigo using Word-2-QTI converter. (SAK-

8642) – i18n Internationalization/localization support implemented. (SAK-8643)


• Web Content:– Now imports with title and URL intact. (SAK-5919)

• Wiki:– auto-save feature – includes now supported – various UI improvements (SAK-4679)

• Worksite Setup/Site Info:– Updated course creation process. – Integration with new CourseManagementService. – Ability to search for a course.

More Details on Sakai 2.4…

• Release Notes– http://source.sakaiproject.org/release

• Jira (http://jira.sakaiproject.org)– Sakai 2.4.0 Enhancements (364)– Sakai 2.4.0 Fixes (981)– Sakai 2.4.0 Known Issues (370)– Sakai 2.4.x Maintenance Branch Fixes (60)

http://source.sakaiproject.org/release




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Sakai 2.5

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Sakai 2.5 Planning

• Post-2.4 Releases• Contrib Projects• Project Coordination Meeting

– Information sharing – 2.5 plans– Topics of cross-project concern

Post-2.4/Pre-2.5 Functionality

• 2.5 functionality that is 2.4-compatible• “In-production” QA; not formally QA’ed• Projects currently planning to tag

– Roster– Gradebook– Assignments– Resources

Contrib Projects

• Most are compatible with 2.3 and 2.4

• Some to check out…– Agora– Breeze Link– Checklist– Config Viewer– Evaluation System– Gallery– Goal Management (OSP)– Home Page Tool

– IMS Tool Interoperability– ImageQuiz– Jforum– Melete– Mneme– OCW– Reset Password– Sakai Maps– Skin Manager – SCORM– SiteStats– TransformAble

Sakai Maps

• Integrates Google Maps into Sakai

• Create points of interest (POIs)

• Filter on POI type• “Bookmark” views

Skin Manager

• Manage Sakai skins• Uploaded skins as a

zip file• Archive with versioning

and roll-back

Breeze Link

• Schedule integration: update in any, reflected in all

Evaluation System

• Formative and Summative Course Evaluations

• Conference

Mneme

• Assessment System• Early focus on delivery; later focus on

authoring and grading• Mneme 0.5 available; Mature 1.0 June 2008

Config Viewer

• Helps for configuring and troubleshooting

• 319 configuration properties for 2.4

• Current value• Description and hints• Searchable

Sakai 2.5

• Project Summary Tables

• Important Dates– “Code” Freeze mid-

September 2007 – Release early-

November 2007

Project Coordination Meeting

• 11 June 2007 in Amsterdam• Report out by Project Teams on 2.5 and beyond plans• Group discussion on cross-project topics:

– Initiation of discussion on “technical governance”– Upgrade plans for 3rd-party software– Proposal for new Entity model– Best-practices discussions on supporting unit testing,

internationalization– Authz (permissions) in the context of hierarchy support and

scalability

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Assignments– Allow instructors to enter a grade for students who

haven't posted a submission– Assignment type which has no submission– Email confirmation for students on submission– Upload a zip file containing submissions– Increased granularity for time; 5 minute

increments– Added an event for viewing assignments

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Samigo/Tests & Quizzes– Performance improvements– Retaking assessments without republishing– Email students from scores screen– QTI converter– Editable without high stakes testing

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Gradebook– Categories and weighting– Percentages– Enhance Assignments-Gradebook integration– Migration of legacy system – binding sites, but

parts need refinement (GB)

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Resources – Improve UI based on large-scale user survey– JSR-170– JCR and Jack Rabbit– Integrate Sakai and dSpace– Registry

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Schedule – iCal import/export

• Help– in maintenance mode– Internationalization– Dynamic FAQ tool

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Poll tool– Make group aware

• Worksite Setup– Improving worksite set-up

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Melete– Conditional release of modules for Melete– Next major item on grading/peer review

• IMS tools– Tool Interoperability guidelines– Second generation Tool Interoperability getting

under way

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• RSF– Working on what features need to support apps

in Sakai– More formal releases for cross-project use

• Webservices– Lock things down and review for security

Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Portal– Align OSP Portal with Sakai Portal

• Hierarchy service• Gradebook service

Cross-Project Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Gradebook service• Hierarchy• QA

– Automation– Load testing (Performance WG)– Improve Development cycle

Working Groups: Sakai 2.5 Plans

• Internationalization WG– Evolve best-practices: separate data

into .property and .config files– Standardized Date-Time widget; implement for

Velocity, JSF, RSF, etc.

• Migration WG– IMS common cartridge


• Performance WG– Stress testing of Samigo and Mneme– Expand large-scale testing expertise (UCB)

• Documentation WG– Sysadmin Guide– Clean-up and consolidate


• User Experience (UX) WG– U-Camp– Build community around addressing UX Jira’s– One gigantic user report synthesis

• SCORM WG– Improved Content Hosting - SCORM integration– Experimenting with Wicket

Sakai 2.5 Related Projects

• Fluid (Kuali Student, Moodle, uPortal)– Vibrant community around user experience

cutting across community– Range of studies – prioritize– Fix new UI issues with design work and

technology– FLUID community to do heuristic on Sakai:

usability, Heuristic, workflows

Getting Started…

• Reading about Sakai– http://sakaiproject.org

• Hearing about Sakai– Announcements– Newsletter

• Following Sakai– Sakai-dev– Sakai-user

http://sakaiproject.org/

Where to go from here…

• Many interesting sessions…– Introduction to Sakai

• Overview– Project Summary Table

• Management / Project Coordination • (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/)

• Details– Confluence – Project Teams– Jira Roadmap

• Roadmap: Sakai 2.5 • (http://jira.sakaiproject.org)

• Get involved and volunteer!

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/CONF07/Introduction+to+Sakai

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