Archive for August, 2009

Unfortunately illness struck quite heavily during this sprint and we lost at least a third of our productive time through absense and addition time through lost momentum.
The items below marked in bold are those items successfully completed:

1. [#1071] Complete the coversheet conversion. The elements of the coversheet coversion we didn’t finalise in the last sprint have been deemed as top priority for this sprint
2. [#1914] Summary View of eSubmission Assignments.
3. [#2481] Automate SPE/SETs for eSubmission/blackboard. After investigation it would appear that this is technically feasible. Most of the feedback garnered was further encouragement to do this.
4. [#2483] Investigate the Student view for staff in eSubmission. We need to discover what kinds of issues staff are encountering without the student view so that we can find a solution that will address the problem.
5. [#1920] Staff Portal Unit List. This to reorganise the list of units presented to staff in their portal view. It is not usable as it is.
6. [#1071] School level access to teaching units/sites. We need to provide greater intelligence within the system about who owns the units. This will allow us to provide access on a broader scale and not just to those directly involve in each unit.
7. [#972] Complete Org manager. The org manager is a part of the system understanding the organisational structure. If we have time we will look at the possible usability issues that may still exists here.

Commitment size: 123 points

Of those items we partially completed the Summary View and Staff Portal Unit List.

For the next iteration (5) we have committed to the following:

1. We would like to promote current changes production. This would include: MOTD, SPE automation, new offerings service (includes ‘all’ offerings), Rebuilt Site Profile, Assessment return update, new enrolment script for Sakai (so it behaves the same as BB), Coversheets for Coordinators, Groups in assignments, Override co-ordinators logout, Coversheet download for nonUNE users.
2. [#1914] Summary View of eSubmission Assignments.
3. [#2483] Investigate the Student view for staff in eSubmission. We need to discover what kinds of issues staff are encountering without the student view so that we can find a solution that will address the problem.
4. [#1920] Staff Portal Unit List. This to reorganise the list of units presented to staff in their portal view. It is not usable as it is.
5. [#1071] School level access to teaching units/sites. We need to provide greater intelligence within the system about who owns the units. This will allow us to provide access on a broader scale and not just to those directly involve in each unit.
6. [#972] Complete Org manager. The org manager is a part of the system understanding the organisational structure. If we have time we will look at the possible usability issues that may still exists here.
7. #1675: The submission list needs to be sorted (alphabetical or in order of submission).

Commitment Size: 118 points