Month |
Activity |
Completed
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- The data model has been created to support three major sections:
departments, subjects (courses) and classes.
- The project has been scoped and we have decided to use the following
modules
- Chat (Chat Module)
- Calendar (Calendar and Event Module)
- News (News Module for message of the day for each group)
- Email (Spam Module)
- Download (Download Module)
- Portals (Portal Module including weather and stock information)
- File Storage
- Bulletin Board
- Home Page Module (for future use)
- Wimpy Point (for future use)
- The class pages have been tied in to the above modules at a high
level. More work is still needed to fully use all of the modules to
their potential.
- Assignments and Handouts can be distributed online.
- Student answers to assignemnts can be turned in online.
- Grades can be entered into the system and autocalculation can be done.
- Points for major improvement have been identified.
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Month One |
- Usability enhancements
- Flush out the Department Pages
- Add Roles to the department (e.g. professor, administrator, secretary, advisor)
- Give each of the above roles the ability to perform appropriate actions (e.g. an advisor should be able to see every grade/comment for one of his students)
- Auto-registration for office hours (students can automatically sign up and this even will display itself on the Calendar)
- Provide necessary links so that each recitation/team can easily access their respective file storage folder
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Month Two |
- Develop a mechanism for the calendar to easily download into a Palm Pilot
- Allow users to set an "away message" (like AOL IM Away messages)
- Allow users to subscribe to a document/folder (so they receive an alert any time a new folder/version is uploaded)
- BBoards for teams and sections
- Continue developing the Department pages
- Development of the subject pages
- View subjects by department or title
- search for subjects
- Auto registration for the subject
- links to all past classes for a given subject
- Converting the pages to the templating system so that each professor can give their home page their own look and feel
- Integration with Wimpy Point to allow
- The ability for students to privately annotate course material
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Month Three
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- Integration with the Home Page module so that users can create their own home pages on the system and so that professors can upload custom HTML pages to supplement the canned home page stuff for the course.
- The ability for a student to easily show off their portfolio of class work.
- Integration of the new bboard which (should) contain the following
- Dimentional tables for seeing all new messages on one page, sorting by date submitted, contributing user, or subject
- ranking of messages on the bboard and then a neural net type program to email users new messages that closely match highly ranked old messages
- Ability to administer exams online (timed and untimed)
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