Assignment ID and standards

[Clay Fenlason]

The weaselly answer to your scope question, Wytze, is that it's within
scope but the timing is unclear.  If someone is interested in helping
the development of this piece (SAK-7938), the timing might become a
little more clear.

Laid out a little more explicitly, the initial scope (i.e. first
quarter 2008) is to do an RSF conversion, provide better integration
with the gradebook, simplify the interface, and provide better test
coverage and performance testing.  IU is taking the lead, Georgia Tech
is following closely, and there will be a production-ready deliverable
by April (with a couple milestones in between).  That first
deliverable will have a greater focus on code quality and performance
than new features and behavior, however.

Beyond that point the scope has not yet been set, but I'd predict at
least two more milestones:  a July-ish release that IU and Georgia
Tech might run in late August, and then a full release for the next
version of Sakai, which sounds as though it may not be until Spring of
2009.  A lot can happen between now and then, and I know we have some
ambitious ideas being batted around.

Keep an eye on (and contribute toward)
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/2oGI if you're
interested.  The problem space is also still being clarified on the
Fluid wiki (http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/KhQa), and Daphne's been
helping out with early design questions.

We will very soon, I think (somewhere late January), need the active
support of the pedagogy group, once we get past the mere transplant
stage (i.e. the RSF conversion).  We're getting some help from UX
folks on design questions, but we're going to need more help fleshing
out task flows and performing usability research around such things.
I'd be delighted if the pedagogy group did more than just submit
requirements, and had some of its members actively advise the
assignments team (or better yet, become part of the assignments team)
throughout this whole process.  We're going to need more than just a
list of feature requests - we're going to need teachers working
alongside us - though I recognize that calls for a greater investment
of time.

~Clay

On Dec 13, 2007 11:16 AM, Wytze Koopal <wytzekoopal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to be sure:
>
> This is a requirement that we have registered a long time ago:
> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-7938
> (It should be possible to hand in group assignments)
>
> Is this something within scope?
>
> --
> Drs. Wytze Koopal
> University of Twente
>



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Clay Fenlason
Director, Educational Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
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