Subject: [LON-CAPA-dev] 2.1 and beyond

From: Guy Albertelli II <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 10:10:40 -0400 (EDT)

Hi All,

Results of 2.1 and beyond meeting.

-1 - Guy - BT less appendixy (grading queue, slots (multiple open/due))
0   - Guy - presentation layer separation work
1   - Stuart - Groups
             - 'course' groups
             - sectionsesque
3   - Guy - practice problems
4   - searching portfolio metadata (stu/intsr)
6   - Rick - portfolio access controls
8   - Rick - instructor grade attachment
10  - Stuart - What's NEW! expansion to other users / speedups
               - configurable
               - version information
20 - Guy - better things than Exam Upload perhaps new chunk to GRDS
           for displaying external grading info 
22  - Guy - QTI
100 - Gerd - clicker support (pending grant -> 0.5)

------ Bugfixes
- .rights in source avail
- Menu mode default for first time logins
- Lon-capa time in menu mode somehow...
- simple problem plagerism
- instr -> student messages -> to activity record
- condtionals - stop punishing the student
- Grades.pm needs to set a CODE for grading
- track instructor
- cleaner cloning
- more param interface cleaning

------ not for 2.1 ------
   - Education style - cohorts
   - lonindexer too long
   - UTF support in printing
   - plagrisms check on more than pure text
possibly  - Stuart - random ordered sequences
   - students see SUBM
   - /OR - <nr> <fr> <sr> --- <o/r/m/rb/r> --- xml style on this
possibly - Guy Ash.? - multiclick image reponse
   - 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

Categories

1. strengthen our strengths
   - clickers (grant)
   - more problem types 
   - improving existing types

2. attract new users with new features
  A. softer sciences
      - portfolio
      - discussion
      - groups
      - more moodle 
  B. mathematics support
  C. BT & QTI (money)
  
3. usabilty enhancements
   A. better seperation between presentation/application layers
   B. - streamlining existing interfaces
      - easier learning curve
      - grant for CC analysis

4. systemwide growth enhancements
   - domain browse/search
   - domain grouping
   - domain trust settings
   - domain configuration info
   - ease of installation

5. Standards support
   A. supporting authoring use of external standards
        - SCORM RTE
        - QTI
   B. supporting exporting of existing resource / data into standards
        - OSPI
        - OKI/Sakai

Decided ordering of importance.
 3A > 2 > 3B > 5A > 4 > 1 > 5B

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