Public RSS Feeds of dotProject Tasks

IDS staff can now subscribe to RSS feed(s) of their dotProject tasks.

Simply login to our dotProject server and click "RSS Feed of Your Tasks" near the top right.

You can choose to add this RSS feed to your iGoogle homepage, or your favorite RSS reader.

I've only just finished coding this RSS generator, so if you have any problems or suggestions re. the feeds, let me know!

Using Logs in dotProject

As you work on or complete tasks listed in our IDS dotProject pilot, be sure to use the Log feature to update progress and make notes about your work. Here's how it's done in 3 easy steps:

1. Choose the task in your Tasks list


2. Click New Log in the bottom right
   
   


3. Enter in at least a Description and a Progress %. Also consider adding the Date and Hours Worked. You can Email Log to Task Assignees or Project Contacts if you wish.
   
   

IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: John, Jared, Marc, Travis, Janel, Ken, Dorothy



Discussed moving to Advancement Building by Spring 2009

Ken

• CSSE - Talked to Marsha; she will begin testing. There are some bugs, but nothing major

Travis

• Videos made for IPod didn't work. Will find out problem and report. (Maybe download from flash?)
• This week will shoot video for Art Department, Parry Stewart instructor. This is proof of concept: Tangible demonstration that we can do a quality job. If successful, will translate to other departments; instead of only using local people, we can video masters in their field and archive videos for use in courses
• Travis to arrange for Crowther to meet with Jared

Janel

• CLSS 2100 ITR - Marsha and Rick do not have it yet. Jared will check so they can be paid. Will be at least Level 2, possibly Level 3.
• Rick is interested in Portfolio in Vista (He wants students to have record of all their papers, etc.) Is there an Open Source portfolio? John said to use Google Docs. He will demonstrate how index of certain Google Docs can be made available to the public.
• TECH 3950 - We have enough content to do course for fall. Janel will check with instructor to see if he has enough load for fall course

Marc

• Art 1400 - Contacted instructor. Connie has sent only PowerPoints and some quizzes, minimal content. No developer has been assigned
  

IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: John, Jared, Marc, Janel, Ken, Dorothy

New projects

• Two part-time employees added to list of Clark's old projects
  
• Ken: TTIX, Dist Ed Website, Drivers Ed
• RJ: Online Course Proposal form, assessing, updating courses, Webpage templates
• Tyrell: CTC course management, ITR tool
• Ken -- make sure task list has name by assigned course

Discussed time frame for receiving content from negligent instructors (sometimes no content from instructor, enrollment set at zero, but students are enrolled anyway)

Ideas discussed for getting content in on time:

• Setting June 1 for fall content deadline, July 1 absolutely last time for content
  
• Possibly docking compensation or offer course the following semester (Development Compensation Form says we can penalize by withholding compensation, but we have never done this)
• Give date for receiving full content, then say we will do courses that meet deadline first, and others may be pushed back to another semester
• If instructional designer does not have confidence in course, pull course (not sure we can recommend to do this or tell them we will do this)
• Could we tie instructional compensation with quality of teaching? No, we cannot
• We do not have ability to ensure quality of online courses
• Our only leverage is that we do development. Many instructors rely on Dist Ed only to service courses
  

Accepted ideas for getting content in on time:

• What matters most is students (not our ease, not instructor)
• Instead of penalty, lower base compensation and give bonus for getting content in on time
• In initial meeting, explain base compensation (reduced by half) -- if content in by April 1, get full bonus; if content in by June 1, get partial bonus
• Send Jared wording about compensation and bonus (emphasize bonus)

ESMG 3100 -- Shawn Peppers needs to talk to Vickie about compensations, ITR level (without much detail about compensation)

CA 1150 -- Packer has some content, not complete. Have e-mailed advisor and others, still no content. Course was set at zero until we received content; department enrolled 19 students anyway. Still have to provide course

TECH 3850

• Have full content for spring delivery
• Janel, if comfortable for fall delivery, talk to Lynn Pavia and department head - if it can be ready for fall, go ahead

CSSE -- Ken to demo next week

• Minimal or no maintenance
• If random people filling up form becomes problem, may do some sort of Captcjha to prevent spambots (See TTIX site)

Japanese

• Ken working on Game garden with RJ -- view flash game tomorrow
  
• Has made UVU-themed flashcards
• Get XML format from John to upload respondus quiz file
• RJ to redesign Webpage
• Language changing to Arabic -- Default on flashcards changes, doesn't let characters flow together -- need to be able to change to fonts that work
• May not be feasible in everyone's browser -- canvas not stretchable (will work with size of Chinami's image
• Need to visit how stored -- if we can save out jpeg, jpeg can be saved to Moodle; if not jpeg, cannot be used outside of database. Save as jpeg, do not maintain database for course

MGMT 2350 (Business Statistics) -- Need to assign instructional designer. Not sure if spring or summer; waiting for proposal to assign

Marc has not heard from Karen Mizel