Subject: [LON-CAPA-dev] 2.2+ meeting

From: Guy Albertelli II <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:21:08 -0400 (EDT)

Sorry, I apparently forgot about sending this out post the meeting.

Results from the future directions meeting and Bridge Task needs meeting.

Decided that priority ordering from previous meeting was still good
(http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-dev/2005-October/001526.html)

  1 - Guy - BT even more less appendixy (grading queue, slots (multiple open/due))
  2 - Guy - presentation layer separation work
  3 - Stuart - Discussion groups (similar to Angel) where a Group
               really is a course with everything just renamed.
                                  (renaming of Course -> Group
                                  Course Coordinator -> Group Coordinator etc.)
             - sectionesque (user can belong to multiple groups, normal PARM etc
                             limitations that apply to sections also apply to all
                             groups user belongs too, basically it's
                             like a user has multiple sections)
             - 'sub course' grouping ( a group has a mini internal
                            course associated with it, a sepearete
                            discussion area, portfolio area,  chat area, etc.)
  4 - Guy  - in PGRD (grade an entire sequence) ability to specify the
              CODE that user had seen.
  5 - Stuart - fine grained cloning choices
  6 - Guy  - searching portfolio metadata (stu/intsr)
           - portfolio access controls
  7 - Guy  - students can see their previous submissions
  8 - Rick - instructors can return a file as part of the grading process
  9 - Stuart - track instructor for (PARM change log particularly)
 10 - Stuart - student - roles screen enhancement 
                   (possibly show future? and hide expired?)
 11 - Guy  - better things than Exam Upload perhaps new chunk to GRDS
             for displaying external grading info 
 12 - Guy  - making it easier to change usernames
 13 - Guy  - multiclick image response
 14 - Stuart - student initiated eamil based password changing
 15 - Stuart - Camtasia training session help files for things that people want
               help for
 ?? - Gerd - clicker grant
 16 - Guy  - QTI
 17 - Gerd - sequences with 'random order' to resources
 18 - everyone - better 'snapshot' of what a student has done in a course 
    (problems done.. posts made.. mails sent... login times...)

Awaiting the Usability study ----
-  Usability suggestion enhancments from student -> might result in a need for:
   more info to the student about what affects them and what they can do....
   possibly outside of courses...

------ Bugfixes
- Lon-capa time in menu mode somehow...
- simple problem plagerism
- conditionals - stop punishing the student
Gerd - implement accessibility changes

------ Bridge Task needs:
For immeadiate need:
- install condition changes on s*
- change text Done -> 'Next Item', Stop -> 'Quit Grading', Cancel -> add to regrade
- support the needed JS & CSS

- add 'section specific slots'

- PGRD needs to support display of BT grading history

- TA's need to be prioritized to grade users not in any of their sections

For 2.2:
 - don't allow grade of users without a checkout of a BT
 - separation of PGRD from 'queue grading'
 - CSV upload of parameters
 - estimate difficulty of reformulating the <task> xml...
 - queue grading should be able to do any queue entry at all
 - FDBK
      - add ability to change the text associated with the general fdbk locations
      - switch to radio button (so they can only send to a single location)
      - keep the user specified title

------ not for 2.2 ------
   - easier assigned seating for exam mode
   - DC -> choose any author
   - Education style - cohorts --
   - /OR - <nr> <fr> <sr> --- <o/r/m/rb/r> --- xml style on this
   - lonindexer too long
   - UTF support in printing
   - plagrisms check on more than pure text
   - instructor specified units
   - <drawimage> print support
   - exam image -> radomlabel
   - tag to formalize and simplify the process of getting information from
     the user that is later used in the HW
   - .rights in source avail

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