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Leaving feedback and grading dropbox submissions
The Evaluate Submission page enables you to evaluate and leave feedback for user submissions, but you can also download submissions from the Folder Submissions page to work on files offline.
The Evaluate Submission page contains two main sections: the Submissions List panel and the Evaluation panel. From the Submissions List panel you can download submissions to work with offline or view them inline with the document viewer. The Submissions List panel also displays a user's or a group's file submissions. Use the Evaluation panel to grade and provide comments.
The following file formats are compatible with Dropbox's document viewer:
- MS Word (DOC, DOCX)
- MS PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX, PPS)
- Adobe Acrobat (PDF, PDFS)
- Web (HTM, HTML)
- Plain text (TXT)
- Images (BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG)
If you grade directly on the Evaluate Submission page, you can choose to publish feedback immediately or save your feedback as a draft and release it at a later time. This enables you to revise and review evaluations, and publish your feedback to multiple users at the same time. You also have the option to retract published feedback if you want to provide an update to past evaluations but only want students to access your most recent feedback. You can also annotate users' web and plain text file submissions with the HTML Editor and attach those annotations as part of feedback.
If you use rubrics to assess Dropbox submissions, you can append the overall rubric feedback to the submission Feedback field. If the rubric uses points, you can also scale and transfer the overall rubric score to the submission Score field. Both of these fields transfer to Grades if the dropbox folder is associated with a grade item.
View a file submission in the document viewer
In the submission list on the Evaluate Submission page, click View Document from a file submission's context menu.
Evaluating and grading submissions
Transfer feedback from an associated rubric
You can assess a user submission with a rubric associated with the dropbox folder. For each associated rubric, you can grade a user based on set criteria, and you can also provide additional feedback in the HTML Editor.
- Click on the associated rubric in the Evaluation panel.
- In the rubric, click on a criterion's Edit feedback icon and enter feedback in the text field. Click Save.
Select Transfer rubric feedback to general feedback for the assignment.
Note If you transfer rubric feedback to general feedback, it will appear beneath your manually entered feedback. You can edit transferred rubric feedback in the general feedback HTML Editor, but the rubric will not reflect changes you save here.
Click Save & Record to push your rubric assessment score and feedback into the submission's overall score and feedback area. Otherwise, click Save if you want to keep the rubric score separate from the overall score and prevent the transfer of rubric feedback into general feedback.
Note You can attach multiple rubrics to a dropbox folder, but you can only push one rubric's assessment score to the submission's overall score.
Evaluate a dropbox submission
If you created a grade item for the dropbox folder, enter a value in the Score field. See Creating dropbox folders to learn about associating grade items to dropbox folders.
Note Information about grade items tied to the dropbox folder appears beside the score value.
- Provide comments and suggestions in the Feedback field.
- You can Add a File, Record Audio, or Record Video as feedback. Feedback given as an annotated file also appears in your list of added files. See Provide feedback as an annotated file attachment to learn about leaving feedback directly on a copy of a user submission.
Click Save Draft to save feedback and continue grading submissions. Click Publish to release your feedback to user.
- As you grade each submission, you can click Next Student until you reach the final submission where you can click Finish to return to the Folder Submissions page.
- If you want to publish feedback simultaneously for multiple users, you can bulk publish from the folder's Folder Submissions page. See Bulk publishing dropbox feedback evaluations for more information.
Provide feedback as an annotated file attachment
You can edit .html, .htm, and .txt files directly from the Evaluate Submission page. Your feedback will include the annotated file as an attachment.
- In the submission list on the Evaluate Submission page, click Edit a Copy from the context menu of the file you want to annotate.
- A copy of the user submission appears in the HTML Editor. You can add feedback and highlight text directly on the copy submission.
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Friday, April 2, 2010
NEW Lost and Found Range
Monday, November 30, 2009
New Range! Coming spring 2010
It will see the launch of my new range 'Lost and Found'
I've commissioned some lace to be made, i've got shells ready to be polished up and made into beautiful necklaces and bracelets.
The collection will evoke memories of holidays and times gone by.
Pics to tempt, coming soon!!
Busy Christmas Fairs
Both events saw lots of positive feedback and interest in my pieces (as well as some sales, thanksfully) so I'm hoping 2010 will bring more craft fairs and fingers crossed some shops will be interested in my work.
Come see me at the Chelsea We Make London Craft Fair this Saturday 5th December to pick up Christmas pressies and treats for yourself!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
internet let down
Thursday, September 17, 2009
competition deadline extended
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Call out to all you creatives: Competition time!
PROBLEM: I am no Picasso or Dali and I need some illustrations of Poppies for some promotional material/stationary. I could go to istock, but I'd rather have something more unique...
SOLUTION: I'm launching a competition!
To design a series of between 6 and 9 images of Poppies to be used in promotional material and stationary.
Monday 21st September
The winner will get a Poppies and Pearls sterling silver bangle or pair of Pearl Earrings, for the boys among you I can have a think or you can take a bangle or earrings for mothers/girlfriends/sisters - would make a fab Christmas gift!
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Monday, August 31, 2009
and in the beginning
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Handcross Park School in West Sussex enjoyed their most successful cricket season to date, and owe much of their success this season to regular visits from Sussex players Luke Wells and Matt Machan in a coaching capacity.
The school's first team won the Great Walsted Cricket tournament and reached the final of both the Sussex County Cricket Cup and Ashdown House 6s tournament. Wells and Machan have both run numerous sessions at the school ensuring the pupils at Handcross Park are imitating what the professionals do on a day to day basis. With the success of the cricket academy at the school they have decided to extend the age range now to accommodate years 3-4 (Junior Academy) 5-6 (Emerging Players) and 7-8 (Senior Academy).
The academy will cover all aspects of the game from technique, fitness and mental aspects, and the success of last year's academy is clear to see with 7 of the 11 first team boys being involved in Sussex Youth Cricket.
Matt Green, Head of Cricket at Handcross Park School, said "Having players and coaches of Luke and Matt's calibre come into the school and coach our boys is amazing. Both Luke and Matt have both played international cricket with Luke recently being selected to represent England Lions, and this sends a great message to all the boys and really inspires them to kick onto the next level."
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on the road again
. Well. Actually he's on the rails again, and compared to his latest travels he's not going very far. Just across Norway from west, destination Oslo, a city of minor importance in the eastern part of the country. But it's there that Dream Theater has chosen to perform on friday, and since pibbur has chosen to attend this particular performance, he has also chosen to go to Oslo.
For some reason, nothing happened to Roman emperors on this particular day. Nobody rose to power, nobody died of natural (assasination) or unnatural (disease, old age…) causes. If we are to trust Wikipedia. Who actually claims that nothing at all worth mentioning took place until …
1339 when the Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries united in battle against each other at
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Details of the event is somewhat chaotic, so it's not entirely clear to me who pwnd who.
Other events:
1472: Denmark and Norway gave away Orkney and Shetland toghether with Spouse-wannabe Margaret to King of Scotland. Apparently her father (King of Denmark/Norway) agreed to pay a hefty amount of money (dowry) to get rid of her. But being a bit short of cash, he offered said isles in stead. This year our constitution is 200 years old, and I suggest we celebrate by inviting back these and all the other territories we've lost throughout history: Bohuslen, Jemtland, Herjedalen, Greenland, Iceland, parts of the UK, parts of continental Europe and parts of the Americas.
1685: France claims Texas, in the long term quite unsuccessfully which I'm sure a lot texans appreciate - no room for freedom fries if they succeeded.
1816: A barber goes into action in Sevilla.
1877: Swans go into acction in Moscow.
1913: The australian king, O'Malley, starts work on Canberra.-
1933: The end of the american drought.
1952: What's an umpire?
1962: John Glenn sets an american around the earth speed record: 1.38.20
1998: Tara Lipinski(15) becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano.
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1961: Imogen
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Have a Sabra Liqueur on Us, Big Boy
Last week Barclays was fined $93 million, the largest fine ever levied on a British bank, for "deceitful manipulation" of financial rates. If it's happening in London, you can be sure it's happening in Tel Aviv too.
What is the interest rate today? How about the dollar-shekel exchange rate? What's Teva trading at? How about Check Point?
The answers to these questions are as precise and absolute as the temperature in this room. Right?
Think again.
When Yossi Average borrows money, makes a deposit or signs a contract, he assumes the figures are clearly defined and accepted by all parties to the deal. Yossi assumes that there is an underlying system that has some form of oversight and that the interest rate and the official dollar exchange rate are the true market values.
Yossi assumes that the numbers that were provided to him by the bank or a government body, like the Bank of Israel, are the correct ones. He doesn't doubt the veracity of these figures for a second.
But Yossi could be wrong, as we learned last week in the City of London, that center of global finance.
An investigation of market events dating from 2006 has revealed that at least one bank, Barclays, regularly provided the markets with false interest-rate quotes. These inaccurate rates were rigged by bank employees to suit market positions held by its trading operations and major clients.
Here is what happened.
The London Inter Bank Offered Rate of Interest is the most important interest rate used in the world's financial markets. LIBOR is written into almost every financial or commercial contract, and is set every day by calculating the average interest rate quotes offered by London's largest banks.
This is the interest rate banks use when they lend each other money, and for all intents and purposes it is the price of money, or roughly speaking, "the zero-risk rate of return," that is familiar to all economics and finance students.
The basic assumption underlying the widespread use of the LIBOR in commercial contracts was that British banks maintained a Chinese wall between the bank departments that supply "real" interest rate figures to the market and the banks' trading desk operations that make speculative gambles in the markets. This assumes great trust in the British banks.
Have a free one. On us
But it turns out that an email request and a promise of free drinks is sufficient to breach the Chinese wall. That is what was revealed in an investigation by British and American financial regulators who examined Barclays' employee email correspondence.
After sifting through the hundreds of emails that passed back and forth between major bank clients and Barclays employees, investigators found one in which the banker setting the LIBOR rate verified that the rate complied with the request of one of the bank's clients. "Done... for you, big boy," the email reads.
And what was the quid pro quo? It sounds like something taken out of a Wall Street movie. A half a year after the previously mentioned email and in the middle of another deal, the same client wrote to a Barclays banker who sets the dollar exchange rate that "If it comes in unchanged, I'm a dead man."
The banker responded by promising "to have a chat" with the necessary people and the subsequently published exchange rate was in fact lower than the previous day's rate. The client wrote back in response, "Dude. I owe you big time! Come over one day after work and I'm opening a bottle of Bollinger."
Following the findings, the British Financial Services Authority decided to levy a $93 million fine on Barclays, and that was 30 percent lower than the original fine because the bank had cooperated with the investigators. This was the largest fine ever paid in the United Kingdom.
Barclay stock, it bears noting, actually rose after the fine was announced: investors rejoiced that the cloud shadowing the bank had finally dissipated, and that the fine wasn't large enough to cause a serious dent in the bank's business.
Still, at the time this specific investigation concluded, the British public's rage had still only begun to boil.
The head of the opposition Labor Party, Ed Miliband, said at the end of last week that the banks are being led by a "corrupt elite" and suffer from "institutional corruption." He added that a real change in the culture of the City was necessary, including the passage of new legislation and prison sentences for illegal behavior.
"What has happened at Barclays is the unacceptable face of capitalism," said Miliband. He proceeded to demand the establishment of a committee to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into the culture and accepted practices in the British banking establishment.
These weren't just the fiery words of an opposition leader seeking to garner headlines. The criticism of Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King was just as scathing.
Barclays' behavior was nothing but "deceitful manipulation" that demands real "change in the culture" in the banking industry, said King.
The real deal: The bonus
Meanwhile, a technical but interesting discussion has begun to determine how best to set the global interest rate. One suggestion is to shift from a rate based on bank interest rate quotes to one based on the bank interest rates actually used in completed transactions so that there will be some kind of "market oversight" with respect to the rates offered by the banks.
There at least two lessons the Israeli public can learn from the Barclays banking scandal. The first is that asset prices and market rates aren't set in stone. They are numbers set by people with their own personal interests at stake. These bankers aren't thinking about justice or fairness when they set the published rates, just their own profits, bonuses and promotions.
This applies well beyond British bankers.
Israel's official dollar-shekel exchange rate, for example, is set in a manner very similar to the LIBOR. Although it is published by the Bank of Israel, a public body - the official exchange rate is actually calculated based on an average of the dollar-shekel exchange rate quotes offered by Israel's major banks.
On any given day each of these banks holds market positions that rise or fall as a result of the exchange rate published by the Bank of Israel.
Be not proud, Israel
In Israel, too, there have already been more than a few trading days when the rate quotes the banks forward to the Bank of Israel didn't accurately reflect the dollar's value in the foreign exchange market (the rates at which actual foreign exchange transactions were concluded between the banks and their clients).
Manipulation also happens in international interest rates, currency exchange rates in Israel and abroad, and certainly in equities. There isn't a day that asset prices aren't being manipulated toward the closing on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
On the TASE, you don't even need to buy anyone a bottle of champagne. Stock buy orders worth tens of thousands of shekels, and sometimes even smaller amounts, issued during the last moments of trading cause a spike in a stock or corporate bond. The upshot is a share price with the most tenuous of links to its true value.
The upshot is that plenty of price quotes are routinely distorted because someone benefits from it greatly.
If we were to adopt the choice phrasing of the British Labor Party leader, the price of various financial assets is often deliberately chosen because it suits the needs of a "corrupt elite."
The second conclusion is that if conservative Great Britain is raising the alarm, calling for an in-depth examination of the culture, ethos, interests and salaries of its own banking establishment, one can only assume that such an investigation is necessary in Israel as well.
Why? Because the Israeli financial system always gazes longingly both in admiration and in envy of its sister banking establishments in London and New York and almost always attempts to adopt their business practices and culture.
Blessed incompetence
However, the Israeli financial system doesn't always succeed in its efforts to emulate more veteran establishments.
On one hand, Israeli banks did not rush headlong into adopting the creative and aggressive trading practices employed at major world financial centers, which spared the local banks the massive losses and writeoffs that hit the world's big banks.
On the flip side, Israel's banks never adopted the flexible employment practices or operational efficiency that characterizes their peers abroad. Now the banks are bloated with staff, costing a fortune to maintain.
What they did emulate are the sky-high high salaries and more or less the fundamental assumption that banks belong to their owners and a handful of senior bank executives – and, therefore, almost anything goes for the sake of profit.
This is a false premise. For in addition to their controlling shareholders and senior executives, banks have a fiduciary duty towards their depositors and clientele, service providers, the state, the surrounding business ecosystem and towards the markets and the wider public. For today it is clear that negligence on the part of one bank can bring the entire financial and economic system to the brink of collapse.
These are the questions that needed to be asked in Israel. This should be the focus of a local inquiry, needed not only because of Israeli domestic concerns, but also in response to the scandals and crashes that have engulfed Wall Street, the City of London and Europe's financial centers that we so long to emulate.
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This document details the functionality required for the new Curricular Information System (CIS).
Although this document is intended as a set of Requirements, not a design, some technical information has been included with the requirements description.
Priority for all functionality is 'One' except where noted.
The primary audience is Academic Services, especially the Office of Curriculum and Faculty Support, and the Student Services Information Technology staff. Ultimately, all members of the CIS Project Team (Ref 3) are the intended audience.
The Curricular Information System is intended initially to replace existing Clipper and Web proposal systems with a new, integrated, web-based system having the features detailed in this document. It provides a foundation that facilitates orderly growth of future enhancements.
Certain enhancements have been included in this document as Priority 1 features. Other enhancements are listed as Priority 2 – not essential for the initial release.
(Note: documents available on the web are so indicated. Others are available upon request.)
1) Curricular Information System Vision and Scope
2) HTML/Print Generator and Document Management Sub-Project Vision and Scope
3) CIS Project Participants
4) Catalog Production Schedule Timeline
5) CSB and Registration Timeline
6) Old Catalog Data description (Clipper system, web proposal system, MITSIS)
7) Scheduling system Class Schedule Book (CSB) File layout and description
8) Old Catalog Functions (spread sheet)
9) CSB and Registration Program documentation
10) Formal Department and Academic Services Interview Documents (detailed list available)
11) Final Exam Recommendation Draft Document
1) CISData.doc
2) CISMigrationRefresh.doc
3) CISWorkflow.doc
4) CIS Process Model Diagrams (These require the SilverRun BPM viewer)
5) Scheduling system Class Schedule Book (CSB) File layout and description
The CIS provides:
A department coordinator 'portal' for Academic Services including:
· Complete proposal development functionality (similar to IAP proposals, but more extensive)
· A home for broadcast and individual communications between Academic Services and departments
· Links to related Academic Services web applications.
Centralized Academic Services administrative control functions
Centralized Programmer control functions
1. Provide facilities to enhance the exchange of information among faculty and staff during curriculum development. Do so by enabling distribution of official information with ancillary discussion among authorized faculty members, staff, and faculty committees during all phases of subject proposal development and review, including prior to proposal submission to the COC/CGSP.
2. Preserve a record of these decisions and their context.
3. Support versioning and workflow management of the information that it maintains.
4. Replace the current catalog production system, in which departments submit subject listing changes both electronically and on paper and curricular changes on paper, with a fully electronic system. (However, printed listings will still be obtainable upon request.)
5. Enable updating of catalog data throughout the year. Do so for more than one term/year simultaneously.
6. Provide up-to-date information about subjects, schedules, and instructors to the MIT community (faculty, academic staff, students, alumni, and prospective students).
7. Provide easy-to-use, on-demand print and on-line publishing. Non-subject data now printed in the MIT bulletin will be integrated via the web with subject data for integrated publishing.
8. Enable links from the basic on-line subject postings to auxiliary information such as teaching tools and instructional material, syllabi, class schedules, official subject evaluations, instructor information, supplemental material like that provided in the HASS Guide, and comments from students and alumni who have previously taken the subject. Through the web this information will be available to students at MIT partner universities and to prospective students.
9. Provide web search capabilities of on-line bulletins and auxiliary information.
10. Provide an infrastructure for future enhancements (as described below).
11. Eventually, offer students and advisors a graphic tool for planning the student's course work over several years, considering Institute requirements, department requirements, and information about what subjects are offered when and with what prerequisites. Students could consider 'what if' situations, e.g. the impact of changing majors. (A paper version of this tool existed in the 1980's).
12. Eventually provide these future enhancements: student portals, advisor access to broader advisee information, software to suggest courses to students based upon their academic record and outstanding degree requirements, and direct submission of grades to the Registrar's office by departments.
13. Eventually, pending faculty approval, allow on-line registration.
14. Eventually support the development of a dynamic personal scheduling system for students, faculty, and staff (to replace the current student scheduling component), and options for users to select with whom to share their schedule.
In the long range, the new system must have an infrastructure that empowers students with a decision-making network for planning their academic careers, including:
· Ability to communicate with faculty and advisors over course selection, assignments, etc.
· On-line scheduling facilities
· These need to be permanent, not temporary as in the current on-line catalog
· Students need to be able to add/delete activities from their schedule
· Students need to be able to schedule meetings with faculty or advisors
· Personal portals with secure access to information about subjects they are enrolled in:
· Access to syllabi and other course materials
· Facilities to track course assignments
· Access to chat rooms, bulletin boards for subjects
· Access to tutorials for courses
· Facilities to communicate directly with faculty and advisers
A configurable toolkit of functions including:
· Ability to define new fields to capture for certain types of data (extensibility)
· Ability to configure fields, their sequencing, and formatting (i.e. style tags) for downloads so that any type of publication (print or web) can be downloaded without specialized programming.
· Flexible form generation including user-configurable field layout, text descriptors.
Reusable components for most functionality.
Use of Java and the new SSIT Internet platform, and when appropriate, XML
Academic Services personnel
Responsible for the overall tracking and publishing of the MIT catalog.
Support the development of new and changed subject proposals.
Support COC and CGSP review of new and changed proposals.
Pre-register and register students. Manage Add and Drop requests.
Schedule classrooms, students, and finals.
Manage and report on pre-requisites, co-requisites.
Audit student degrees (GIR)
Responsible for helping faculty develop MIT catalog and related information for their department.
Monitor departmental roadmaps
Help develop room schedules for subjects and exams
Audit department degrees
Review subject proposals
The HASS Office, PSB, Communications Office review and support the development of the MIT catalog and supplemental bulletins.
Run student lotteries.
Submit grades.
Plan and teach curricula
Use many reports provided by Academic Services: class lists, etc.
Use catalog and related information to plan course work.
Use the on-line planning worksheet, lottery submittal, and pre-registration functions.
CIS is developed for use on the Unix system: student
Under the Netscape web server: entprise using SSL and personal certificates
Accessing the Oracle database (currently on system sisjajp, but soon to be on a new database server)
New code will be developed in Java.
The existing General Table Maintenance (GTM) facility may be used for certain features.
Privacy and Security of data is assured by the authorization of system users. Proposal authorizations depend upon department, certain attributes of the proposal (e.g. HASS), and status of the proposal (in-work, in-review, approved).
The authorization scheme must manage, among others, the following situations:
Department Administrators (plus faculty and other Administrative offices) need to view and modify their own departments' listing. They need to view listings for equivalent subjects and joint subjects in other departments. They need to view changes to subjects in other departments that they list as pre-requisites to their own subjects and/or as degree path requirements.
THE HOC (HASS Overview Committee) needs view and comment authority for any new/changed subject flagged as HASS-D. HOC approval is required for HASS-D subjects that change – this needs to be included in the workflow scheme. (These subjects are reviewed every three years even when they don't change, but the system won't manage such periodic reviews.)
THE HOC (HASS Overview Committee) needs view and comment authority for any new/changed subject flagged as a HASS Elective. Only HE subjects outside of the School of HASS need approval by the HOC. This needs to be included in the workflow scheme. HASS Electives inside of the School of HASS are not reviewed by HOC even when new, so they are NOT included in the workflow scheme.
Department coordinators (at least the primary coordinator) should be able to add/delete authorizations for her department.
System users need to be able to change their passwords. This is an Athena function, outside of this system.
Some more specific authorization rules:
Anyone can see (after approval or during development?)
Seeing proposals during development can help departments collaborate on joint subjects – reducing need for departmental systems.
Only the master subject department can modify or change status.
Entered and seen by master and joint departments only.
Seen by COC, Academic
Services, and relevant departments only.
Note: maybe COC comments should be of two types – those that are restricted to other COC members only and those that are viewable to the departments as well.
Add/change/delete user authorizations: Use the General Table Maintenance (GTM) facility.
(This function is used mainly by Academic Services.)
Add/change/delete authorization function codes used for CIS. (Use GTM).
Validate a user's authorization to perform a specified function given the proposal's department, status code, and attributes. (Expansion of existing functionality).
Answer: Is user 'X' allowed to perform operation 'Y' on object 'Z'?
Produce list of allowable functions against a given proposal given the user's authorizations and the proposal's department, status code, and attributes.
The existing stv_roles_auth and stv_roles_desc tables are used for user authorizations.
New tables hold:
· Authorization names allowed for system (used to validate updates to stv_role_auth)
· System functions the authorization is used for
· Proposal attributes referenced by authorization check
A major feature of the catalog system is the ability to download selected subject data from the database to html or print. A generic facility is planned that will satisfy most or all reporting capabilities for catalog and other downloads.
The emerging XML and XSL technologies are the desired mechanism for producing downloaded data so that the new system is compatible with state-of-the-art technologies.
In brief, XML enables data to be downloaded into a hierarchical tree of elements and attributes with each data element tagged with its name. Relational data in the database should map easily to XML. (If necessary, the elements can be defined using DTD for transfer to another program, but this should not initially be necessary for CIS.) The XML standard will eventually include an XML Query feature that may eventually apply to the Search functionality, but probably not to QBF.
XSL is a language that enables transformations and formatting of XML data. Among other things, XSL is capable of filtering out unwanted data (both rows and columns, in database terms) and of sorting (reordering) data. By using XML and XSL, one simple data download from the database into XML format can feed numerous report formats written in XSL. Practically speaking, several varieties of XML downloads are more efficient with selection and sorting is done as part of the XML download instead of the XSL style sheet. The selection and sorting functionality is also usable for QBF.
The XSL documents can be written using an XSL Editor (that needs to be selected.) A well-chosen XSL editor should be usable by non-technical users.
Only IE5 and Netscape 5 browsers can format XML documents, so an XML to HTML converter is needed to convert XML documents on the server, producing HTML files that can be served over the Internet. XML documents can be converted dynamically on the server to deliver over the Internet, but for catalog downloads, a converter that produces html documents to store on the server is more useful. The likely program is 'XT' by James Clark. More research is needed.
Reports initially proposed for the XML technology are:
· Bulletin download (web and print) – see 'Catalog Download'
· Miscellaneous downloads (Faculty report, UROP, Thesis subjects, HASS, etc.) – see 'Catalog Download'
· Department coordinator lists (web and print) – see 'Contact List Maintenance'
· Master schedules and sub-schedules (web and print) – see 'Unified Calendar Maintenance'
· QBF reports (this function needs dynamic formatting from XML to HTML)
Degree Path downloads – see 'Track and Display
Departmental Degree Path Information'
(print – chapter 7 of Bulletin and web) (Priority 2)
· Subject Evaluation Forms – see 'Process Subject Evaluation Forms' (Priority 2)
Miscellaneous text for memos, descriptive information
in various bulletins – see
'Define auxiliary fields for subject/department/other use' (Priority 2)
More detail is available on the above reports.
The basic proposed publishing architecture is as follows using Bulletin downloads as example:
Select data from database, sort, and format as XML. This could be a generic program if selection criteria are simple enough. This functionality is also used for the QBF functionality. Oracle also has products for downloading database data to XML.
Apply an XSL style sheet to an XML file and produce an HTML file. This is a probably a product such as 'XT'.
Templates are used to control
· Menu contents and layout (sequence and position on page)
· Form field contents and layout
By using templates instead of hard-coding content details into programs, changes are easier to make.
For efficiency, it is not desirable to interpret templates each time a menu or form is produced. Consequently, a 'compiler' is used to produce the form or menu from the template specification.
Add/change/delete menu, form, download templates (using GTM).
'Compile' the menu or form into HTML from the template specification.
An XML product such as 'XT' may be used for this purpose.
Database tables hold
· Form/Menu ID's and descriptions
· Field descriptions
· Links between the form and field descriptors including position on page.
In the old web and Clipper systems, at a particular point in the year, Academic Services sets the academic year for which proposals apply. Only one year's proposals can be worked on at any given time.
The new system allows proposal updates for any year and term that is current or future (within limits.) One proposal can be in work for the current year and term; current year, future term; next year, any term.
One proposal can be in work for more than one such year and term simultaneously. For example: One subject may have different titles or topics each term it is taught and it is taught both fall and spring.
Set minimum and maximum term for which CIS updates allowed.
Set term code in MITSIS (this will still be done.) Will the timing change?
The CIS configuration file holds this information.
Numerous code tables must be maintained for the Curricular Information System.
Examples: Status codes, Status code transitions
Examples mentioned under other functional components: Menu Text, Form Text, and Authorizations
Authorizations needed to update these tables vary. Roles with differing authorizations:
Programmer, CIS administrator, Department Administrator
Note that many current MITSIS tables are used as a source of valid data.
Existing MITSIS update methods will continue to be used to maintain such data.
Add/Modify/Delete items in code tables (Using GTM)
Check user's authorizations for updating code tables.
Departments (Valid departments are maintained elsewhere in MITSIS)
Audit codes (Valid audit codes are maintained elsewhere in MITSIS)
*CIS Status codes (s/b a programmer function only)
*CIS Revision codes (s/b a programmer function only)
Term codes (Maintained elsewhere in MITSIS)
Instructor (not used – new MITSIS WTW system has replaced this)
Department Contact categories (each department may have different categories)
Department Contacts – see Contact List Maintenance
Other tables as detailed design warrants
See 'CISWorkflow.doc' for more information.
The new system will provide for the downloading to either print or web of MIT subject listings, now produced from the Clipper system and Ventura. Downloads may include all data for the Bulletin (Chapter 8) or some subset of data – for example: all subjects for just one department, group, or just one subject. Print downloads can be used for 'tear sheet', 'galley', and 'final page proof' versions.
Many aspects of the Bulletin downloads are controlled by data within the subjects themselves (e.g. suppress-listing flag, group-within-department key, etc.). The selection of subjects and fields to display, the order of presentation, the type and style of the download can be controlled separately from the data. See the 'Web / Print Publishing' functionality.
Select catalog data and format as XML. (Although filtering and sorting are provided by XSL, it is more practical to offer these functions in the selection program.)
Produce style sheets (as XSL) for the display of data as HTML or one of several print publishing formats. Style sheets can be prepared using a visual editor (to be selected.)
Multiple terms of a subject available for students on web:
Need ability to view catalog
from prior years and/or terms. (How many in all?)
Students may wish to see "prior course, current and projected versions".
See the CISData.doc document for a detailed list of catalog data fields and validity checking. See 'CISMigrationRefresh.doc ' for migration/refresh information.
Department data including:
· Department URL
· Department Administrators
· Department subject evaluations link. For example: http://tute.mit.edu:8001/acadinfo/sse/courses/course8.html
Subject data including:
· Schedule data for each subject being taught that semester.
· URL to additional subject info, if available
· Catalog link to any 'meets with' courses, pre/co-requisite courses
Link to campus map where classroom scheduled
Issue: which map version should be used?
Old, friendly, fast, but out-of-date:
Newer, horribly slow and insulting, but IS 'approved':
Special Auxiliary Information in the on-line catalog
Access from on-line catalog listing to auxiliary
information about subjects.
Several types of information are possible – HASS-D supplements, etc.
· Section information available in catalog, where applicable (where sections differ in content.)
· Final Exam/Paper/Oral Exam
· If a schedule has changed for a subject from what was previously published, a note should be added to subject listing. (Similar to IAP?)
Listing titles currently show that subject has changed
since previous year (?)
E.g. "Revised Content and Units"
· If subject can be registered for, a button is used to link to the 'add-to-schedule' function (which allows student to pre-register for subject)
· Currently, HASS-D lottery subjects have stmt: "You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject." The new system uses a flag to track this information.
· Similarly, Sloan has special icon linked to sloanbid.mit.edu. It is shown with stmt: "You must pre-register and participate in Sloan's Prioritization process to take this subject." A flag is needed to support this.
· Subdivisions of courses: by degree paths? (This should provide small enough files.)
Technical user documentation for the system is needed, but with good user interface design, only minimal explanations are necessary for system features. Help types planned:
· Pop-up 'What-is-this?' definitions and 'How-to' explanations available on menus and forms.
· Glossary of terms (including the definitions also in the Pop-up's)
· Index of brief articles that can be selected from appropriate web pages
· The brief articles themselves include:
o Overviews for new users
o Concepts explained and
o 'How-to' explanations (including the explanations also in the Pop-up's).
· A new user tutorial would be nice but probably there are no resources for this.
Support pop-up help texts, index-to-article links.
A collection of html files covering the articles described.
Academic Services keeps a list of department catalog coordinators that is updated at least once a year. They also keep lists of other department contacts. These lists include name, phone, email, office location, and perhaps other information (e.g. number of copies of CSB and addenda to send to department). Other information needed: 'flags' to indicate that person is catalog coordinator, IAP coordinator, department undergrad administrator, and/or department graduate administrator, schedule coordinator, transfer credit examiner, etc. The roles are often sub-divided by program, not merely by department. Note: each department may have own method of breaking down roles so they need a way to specify categories as well as roles.
Add/modify/delete contact categories (name and description) by department. (Using GTM).
Add/modify/delete contact names by category for a department. (Using GTM).
Download catalog coordinator ID's by department to the authorization table (stv_roles_auth).
See the 'Person Locator Feature'.
New Program (for use by Department coordinator or Academic Services):
Select list of people by any table attributes and/or functional role(s). Specify which fields of information are selected and in which order. Feature can be used to produce:
· Email lists
· Contact lists for print or html
Alternately download all contacts to XML format and use various XSL style sheets to format.
Data tables for contact categories and contact names.
The Unified Calendar holds all scheduled activities (the academic calendar, catalog production calendar, dates and times/sequences of activities around registration, etc.)
Modification of the table for a new year can be done quickly using the General Table Maintenance subsystem. A more sophisticated method (Priority 2) involves computing the new table data from a generic date table where dates are expressed as computable (e.g. 'REG day + 1'). When the computable method is used, the exact date table can be generated. Other database date tables now in use can be generated from this one.
From the master schedule table, printed (e.g. rtf) or html schedules for all purposes can be downloaded. For example, the catalog production schedule can be generated. Download contents are controlled by selecting date ranges, activity categories, and participant groups. Download formats can vary – controlled separately from data and from download program.
Add/change/delete date entries from the calendar table. (Using GTM).
New Program (for Department Coordinator or Academic
Select a subset of calendar dates by any table attributes. Specify which fields of information are selected and in what order. (Feature can be used to produce calendars for print or html publication.) Alternately, select everything (to XML format) and let the XSL style sheet determine which items to select, which fields to display, and in what order.
New program (Priority 2):
Compute actual dates from computable date specifications (like a spreadsheet) – e.g. 'REG day + 1'. When this method used, the date entries are entered as computable fields and the computation is done afterwards. Once the computations are set up, only a few dates need to be specified each year to generate a complete new schedule.
New Program (for Academic Services) (Priority 2):
Update various MITSIS calendar tables from the master calendar table.
Files now done manually that can be produced automatically:
File: L:\public\catalogue\coordmeet\catalogaddprogs.doc
and individual school versions of this.
Web: registrar/www/calendar.html (academic calendar for current term)
Data for the unified calendar master schedule database table includes: (Diagram this in RDM.)
· Academic year
· Activity unique key
· Activity name (short description)
· Description of activity (long description)
Category of activity - several flags:
department or program code
other grouping – e.g. school
schedule category – catalog production, pre-registration
· Date (computable: e.g REGday + 1)
· Date (exact) – computed from the above date
· Time (optional)
· Sequence number within date (optional)
(Additional possibilities):
1) names of programs to run to satisfy this activity
2) check-off fields that indicate the scheduled item is complete.
Users are authorized to work on subject proposals for their departments. They may also view in-work proposals from other departments that are joint/swe/meets with proposals or proposals with certain criteria (for instance, the HASS Office may view all HASS-D and HASS Elective subjects). System users can also always view approved subject proposals from any department.
Within that large set of proposals, users may wish to restrict the set of proposals shown in the proposal menu by specifying attributes of proposals. A search-like selection can be set up and saved for future use. This facility satisfies the Clipper system's 'QBF' facility.
Note that many queries can be set up and saved for various users so that not everyone will need to learn how to set up preferences.
Queries need to be able to plug in user id, user's department, and other data without this being hard-coded into the query itself.
Some suggested attributes:
· All proposals in user's department(s) – this is the default for department coordinators
· All proposals in a specified department (the default Academic Services administrator option)
· All proposals this user has worked on.
· Program/degree path sub-category (this information is new to proposal system)
· Undergraduate, Graduate (G), High graduate (H)
· Particular status code (in-work, in-review, etc.)
· Master subjects which are: Joint/swe/'meets with' subjects
· 'Slave' subjects which are: Joint/swe/'meets with' subjects
· Subjects with a particular attribute (HASS, GIR, ROTC, Thesis etc.)
· Subjects with pre-requisites or co-requisites
· Units arranged subjects
· Subjects that specify a particular subject ID as a pre-requisite or co-requisite
Subjects with specified field names containing
specified values or ranges of values
(This the main QBF functionality – it effectively sets up a database query but looks like QBF.)
A set of proposals can also be established by using a search word or phrase that applies to the titles or descriptions for any proposal. Other fields too? (Priority 2)
Select a set of proposals by specifying attributes. Any field in proposal listing can be queried.
Need to be able to query fields with no data (null or blank).
Need to be able to set up compound queries 'this and that', 'this or that', etc.
Add or delete items from the set. (Priority 2?)
Save the set of records into the database (i.e. their
keys, not their data and not the selection criteria.)
Attach a set name, query name, user id, and date.
Set name by default is same as query name plus user id and date.
Alternately, download the set of records – both keys and data - into XML format for publishing.
See the 'Web / Print Publishing' discussion.
Save the preferences (the selection criteria that produced the set) in the database.
(This is especially useful for future use when using compound selection criteria.)
Attach a query name, query description, user id, and date.
A user selection criteria table, including:
· Query Name
· Query Description: Free-form text to hold the selection criteria (where clause)
· User id
· Date
A user set table, including:
· Set name
· Query Name
· User id
· Date
Display a list of subject numbers (and titles) that the user can work on. An icon representing the proposal's status may be included. Within the set of all proposals the user may work on a subset may be established using the 'selection preferences' function discussed under 'Set User Selection Preference (QBF)'.
Retrieve the selection criteria and execute it to
produce a set of proposals to display.
See 'Set User Selection Preference (QBF)'.
Request 'edit' mode or 'print preview' mode for the subsequent detail display.
Edit mode shows all the control information (as described under 'Display the detail for one proposal.')
Print preview mode leaves off the control information, simulating the way the description looks when printed in the bulletin.
Control the order of the display (Priority 2):
Some suggested orders:
· Subject ID (default)
· Cluster number
· Equivalent number
The default order is subject code, subject number.
Display the set of subject propsoals retrieved as a menu of subject ID's with status icons. Each item in the list can be clicked on to view its detail.
Users need several methods for selecting a proposal to work on. When a proposal is selected, the most recent version of the subject proposal is displayed. If more than one version is available, the alternate possible versions are listed in a dropdown list at the top of the detail subject proposal display. The user can see the detail for an alternate version by clicking on one of the alternate versions in the list.
Select a proposal to work on by clicking on one proposal listed in the menu of subject proposals in the user's current set as produced from the current selection criteria.
Type in a subject number (for an existing proposal – not a new proposal).
'Select Next' / 'Select Prior' from one subject proposal detail page.
The 'Next' or 'Prior' proposal is the next or prior one in sequence in the set of proposals in the subject proposal menu. This feature is not available when the subject ID was typed in.
Select an alternate version of the current proposal. Alternate versions are displayed with: Term Code, Status Code, User ID, Date, and identifying brief description (which the user entered when saving).
Once a particular proposal and version is selected, the detail for this proposal is displayed on the screen for user viewing and editing or for printing. The user selects edit or print mode on the preferences page, but can toggle between the two modes from the detail page.
For edit mode:
· The listing itself is shown in the middle of the display in approximately the same format as it will be published in the Bulletin.
· Control information and any error messages are shown on the left.
· Edit/status change options are shown on the right.
· Auxiliary information about the proposal that is not printed in the Bulletin but which may be used in other publications (e.g. HASS supplemental descriptions) can be displayed below the main proposal listing (in a different color) so that it is not confused with the Bulletin information. Distinctions need to be made between data reviewed by COC vs. not.
For print mode:
Only the proposal listing is shown, not the control
information or edit options.
Is auxiliary information shown in print mode?
Do we need a print mode at all? Why not just use the download feature?
Check user's authorizations.
Retrieve all proposal and auxiliary data from the proposal database (or from persistent store) for the current version of the proposal (Key: Subject code, subject number, effective term, and version).
Format individual fields (according to the template, if possible).
Based upon error codes for the version, highlight fields in error and prepare error messages to display.
Determine editing and status change options according to the user's authorizations.
Prepare the display of subject proposal data, auxiliary data, control information, and editing and status change options.
By default the most recent version of a proposal is compared to the most recently approved version, if any. Allow the user to select different versions to compare from a dropdown list. Highlight differences using different colors or symbols. (THE SYMBOLS TO USE? – OPEN QUESTION.)
See the function 'Side-by-side Comparison of Text Fields' for more information.
Optionally, format data only when it changes (when form data is submitted) and save the formatted listing for later display instead of reformatting each time. This can speed the process.
Delete means the proposal was started in error and has never been approved. When a proposal is deleted, eventually (though not immediately) its data is removed.
Cancelled subjects are those that were once taught but are being permanently retired. They can later be reinstated. Their data never goes away.
Temporarily Removed subjects are those that will not be taught for at least a year but which will eventually be taught again. (Is the category needed? The system tracks when subjects are not being offered for a year or more so that they are not be printed Bulletin. Also, there needs to be a format mechanism to bring these back from their temporarily removed status.)
Verify a user's authorizations to perform the function.
Verify that the subject's / proposal's status is such that the operation is allowed.
Change the proposal's status to the new one.
The proposal's status code, activity date, and user id are changed.
When a subject is cancelled, it must first be reinstated before any work can be done on it. Only cancelled subjects can be reinstated. When reinstated, subjects are assigned the status of 'in-work proposal'.
Verify a user's authorizations to perform the function.
Verify that the proposal's status is such that the operation is allowed.
Change the proposal's status to the new one.
The proposal's status code, activity date, and user id are changed.
Why are subjects renumbered?
Is renumbering subjects still necessary?
When renumbered, subjects are assigned the status of 'in-work proposal'.
Change subject number in database.
Track former subject number in database.
Find all references to this number (joint subjects, equivalents) and modify them.
Some details need to be worked out about exactly what needs to be done to references.
Proposal field 'old number'.
Add new subject proposal (new number and code).
Type in the id (code and number) for a new subject proposal and verify that the subject id is available (has not been used for at least 5 years.) See also the 'Grid of Subject Numbers'.
Subject ID (code and number) cannot have been used in last five years.
All data is the same as for a modified subject proposal.
Default grading types, units, suppress flags, etc. can be assigned to new subject proposals based upon criteria to be decided. Examples:
HASS-D subjects: enrollment is limited to 25 (18 for CI
final exam required vs. not required vs. optional (and so specified later.)
· Freshman seminars: 6 units of credit, P/D/F grading, etc.
When the user submits proposal form input, a new version of the proposal is saved into the database.
Check user's authorizations to submit proposal changes.
Retrieve form input.
Validate the form input data, preparing a set of error codes to save for the version. Note that some validation will be possible in the client. (See 'Proposal Form Input Validation' for more information.)
Retrieve all proposal and auxiliary data from the proposal database (or from persistent store) for the current version of the proposal (Key: Subject code, subject number, effective term, and version).
Compare the new version to the latest approved version
to set revision codes.
(See 'Automatic Setting of Proposal Revision Codes'.)
Store the new proposal version into the database.
Redisplay the proposal as described in 'Display the detail for one proposal'.
Display error messages (to left of detail display). Highlight fields in error.
All proposal data is involved.
Revision codes are set for each proposal field that may change.
Currently, only fields that appear in the bulletin are compared. In the future, all fields can be compared. The exact set of fields to track with revision codes is maintained in the proposal control data table.
The default two versions to compare are:
Left: the most recently approved version (from MITSIS catwwwdat) and
Right: the most recent proposal version
The current system compares the versions described above.
The new system allows users to select which two versions to compare.
Each version is identified more explicitly, e.g. 'MITSIS approved version effective 1998FA' (the approved version of subject now in catalog), 'Working copy saved 11-21-2000 by ssmith for: Prof Jones revisions' (an in-work version of a proposal), 'Proposal submitted on 12-05-2000' (for a proposal that has been submitted electronically to the COC). The explanatory titles come from information that users enter upon saving the proposal.
The short fields can be compared in order to set revision codes. The description field cannot be set up automatically – some description changes are minor and some major. The system can flag that a change to content has occurred and Academic Services sets the flag for major vs. minor. (See the 'Side-by-side Comparison of Text Fields' feature.)
Although revision codes can be calculated when needed, they are stored in the database for efficiency and so that proposals can easily be queried by revision code. The revision codes to store are those calculated by comparing the latest version to the latest approved version. If the proposal is new (has never been approved) no revision codes are stored.
Compare values for all fields requiring revision codes.
For the description field, use the 'Side-by-side Comparison of Text Fields' facility.
Proposal data field control table (indicating which proposal fields are subject to revision codes.)
This table has a one-character flag for each field compared indicating if data different or not: Values: 'Y' / 'N'. (See the document: CISData.doc for more detail on revision codes.)
Two text fields can be displayed side-by-side with additions/deletions/changes indicated by using different colors.
When comparing descriptions or other multi-word texts, the text should be compared word-by-word since comparison of whole paragraphs is not useful.
The selection of the two text fields to compare is done outside of this function.
Word-by-word comparisons of text areas can be done as a special algorithm:
1) Separate a description into individual words
2) Do the comparison (Unix 'diff')
3) Put the description back together for display.
The comparison needs to track:
· Field being compared
Difference type (used to display differences with
present on left, not right; present on right not left
identical values; different values
Whenever a proposal changes, the data entered for each field is validated. The CIS Data Dictionary contains the detailed data checking for each field plus the 'cross-field' data checks. Refer to the Clipper documentation where questions remain.
Generic validation functions: compare a field value to the specification of its valid values:
· Numeric / Alphanumeric / Alpha / etc.
· An enumerated list indicated as a code table reference
· A range of values
A one-byte flag is kept for each field in the proposal that may have errors.
Each flag may have these values: 'Required field missing'. 'Value not in allowed range.'
Other values are unique to the field but are defined in a table of error codes and messages.
Proposals go through several status codes from 'New In-work' to 'Submitted' to 'Approved'.
The status code of 'Submitted' functions in the new system the way printing and getting a signature for hardcopy submission functioned in the old.
With the new system, Academic Services no longer needs:
· Printed forms with hardcopy signatures
· Manual checking of signed hardcopy proposals and/or galley proofs against Web proposal database data
· Logs of signed hardcopy proposals and returned galley proofs
· Logs of marked up galley proofs (Is a 'page proof reviewed' status code needed?)
Once approved, a proposal is kept permanently, but new versions can be undertaken that, when approved, supplant the currently approved version. The exact set of status codes and allowed transitions is detailed in CISWorkflow.doc. Status changes are effected by explicit request of the user and are subject to authorization checks. The system displays only allowed status changes to the user.
The old catalog systems combined 'true' status changes such as new, reinstated, cancelled, deleted, and temporarily removed with editorial change flags such as title change, renumbered, editorial change, etc. The CIS tracks editorial changes not as status code changes but as revision code changes (most of which are automatically determined by comparing the current version with the prior approved version) – see 'Automatic Setting of Proposal Revision Codes'.
Determine users authority to perform requested proposal status change.
If allowed, change the status code in the proposal database.
If not a valid status change, display an error message and do not change the status.
After changing a status code, the user's authorizations, menus, etc. must be recalculated to take into consideration the new proposal status.
Retain the ID of the user who changed the status code. Also retain comments made at the time of status code change.
This feature enables departments to specify auxiliary information about subjects.
Auxiliary information is NOT reviewed by COC. It can be entered at any time for the subject (when approved or still a proposal).
The information may be from a standard system table and used for all departments and subjects.
Alternately, information may be for user-defined data. (Setting up user-defined data definitions is a Priority 2 function – see ' Define auxiliary fields for subject/department/other use'.)
Some of the information is specific to a department, others to department programs, others to specific subjects or subjects by term.
URL's for departments.
These are displayed on the web page:
http://web.mit.edu/academics.html. These URL's don't often change.
· Some subjects' final exam/paper/oral status is optional – When it is optional, the department coordinator can specify which type of final is going to be held for a particular term (this information is displayed in the catalog and aids the final exam scheduling process.)
Auxiliary subject descriptive content (especially used
for HASS subjects).
Note that the facility to define new data fields for auxiliary input is a Priority 2 function (see 'Define auxiliary fields for subject/department/other use'), so the ability to enter data for such fields is also Priority 2.
URL's for additional information about a subject.
The current method of obtaining this data is for departments to email the information to email@example.com where someone then enters it onto web page: http://web.mit.edu/acs/acaduses2.html.
The current web catalog download parses this html file for the data to publish.
In the future, CIS obtains the information directly. The Academic Computing folks can download their URL's from the new CIS system.
· Lottery information – which subjects have a lottery of what type in what term.
· In which term(s) the subject will be taught.
Generic programs to:
· Generate form input for auxiliary data
· Validate auxiliary data from form input
· Store data in auxiliary tables
· Download to XML format
· Specify in XSL editors
Tables to hold auxiliary department-level data. Examples:
· URL to department
· Number of copies of class lists to produce (if needed – department can print their own)
· Number of final exam lists to produce (if needed – department can print their own)
Tables to hold auxiliary subject-level data by term. Examples:
· Is subject taught this term?
· Lottery status (and lottery type)
· Subject's final exam/oral/paper requirement
· URL for auxiliary subject information
Sometimes department coordinators need to email a proposal to one or more people with attached comments. In the future, faculty can view proposals on the web under access control, so emailing the proposal itself will not be needed as often (the URL can be mailed instead). Comments, however, need to be kept. The sender of the email also needs to keep a copy of the comments.
See the 'Person Locator Feature'.
Process the html form used for the email.
Format the subject proposal to attach to email (can be html or simple text file).
Save the email detail in the database (save comments in the comments table).
Send the email.
The database holds:
· A record that an email was sent by subject code and number, with flags for what was sent and who it was sent to.
· Comments are saved like other comments
The form includes:
· A select list of likely recipients (see 'Person Locator Feature')
· Comments to include in email
· A checkbox (initially checked 'on') that says 'cc sender'
Checkboxes for which parts of proposal to send:
formal proposal only,
auxiliary comments,
control data, etc.
· Optionally, only a URL for the proposal could be emailed so the recipient can view the proposal on-line.
Certain data used in the catalog description, names,
and titles requires foreign language codes
(e.g. umlauts, accent grave) and math or physics symbols. These codes lie outside of the ASCII 7-bit character set. The ASCII 8-bit character set includes most European language special characters and other common symbols, but data entry on web forms is difficult for many of these codes.
How data is going to be stored in the new Oracle 8 database is not yet decided. The current student database expects ASCII 7-bit characters but it is possible to store ASCII 8-bit characters (it is being done for IAP.) Such codes are easy to move in and out of the database and to display in html and most print formats. However, SQL queries and PC downloads do not always maintain the character values accurately. Using special codes for extended ASCII characters (e.g. <¯>) works for HTML downloads but not print downloads.
More information on storing and displaying foreign languages, math, and scientific notation is available at: http://web.mit.edu/acs/WebGuide/technical-foreign.html.
Provide a list of special codes (when asked) for use in the catalog descriptions. Possibilities:
· A palette of special codes to copy and paste into forms (extended ASCII codes)
· Html extended codes (e.g. <¯>) to copy and paste into forms
· Other?
Convert special codes as entered on forms into the
approved database format.
Note: more than one input format may be supported but all will be converted to the approved database format before storage.
Convert special codes as saved in the database into the approved display format for forms. Although multiple formats are supported for input, only one will be used for re-display on forms – ideally, codes as printable (å b Ó) will be displayed instead of their numeric representation.
After a department submits a proposal, it is reviewed by COC or CGSP. Other departments also need to review proposals – the HASS Office, etc. The system needs to keep comments from the review and make them available to the appropriate people. Finally the system needs to 'log' proposals that have been reviewed and the review outcome – approval of the proposal or its return to the department for modifications or for answers to questions.
Put a proposal into review, approve a proposal, or 'reject' a proposal (i.e. send it back to a department with questions): These are status code changes as discussed elsewhere.
Display list of proposals in review for appropriate review group: COC or CGSP, HASS, etc.
Identifying who is authorized to access what is handled by the authorization subsystem. The list and the subsequent detail display are similar to what is described above.
Add review comments to a proposal. Comments can be added at any stage.
Monitor who can view the review comments and make them available as appropriate. This again is an authorization function.
Review comments.
This program feature is adapted from WTW. Currently that implementation uses Java Script.
The CIS project will use Java.
Feature: Provide names of department members on select list (hidden key is Kerberos ID).
If the user wants a name not on the list, find it in the database and add it to the list.
This feature can be used for any MIT person (student, administrative staff, faculty).
Produce drop-down list of 'likely department candidates' from saved data in database.
Find new person at looking in the table sfbre_current_person by last name and optionally first name, MIT ID, or possibly even phone number.
Add the new person to the 'likely department candidates' list.
A table of department 'likely candidates' to use on drop-down list.
The proposal system resides in the same database with MITSIS data and all approved proposals are theoretically available for MITSIS use as soon as approved. In reality, Academic Services may wish to control the availability of new/changed subjects in MITSIS applications. Premature availability may cause problems in the MITSIS banner applications.
A refresh feature controls the timing of MITSIS data integration. ACS (not the departments) can run the refresh whenever desired. MITSIS is updated only with approved subject changes for chosen terms.
The user enters a term code and all approved proposals for that term that have changed since the prior refresh are updated in MITSIS. See the CISData.doc and 'CISMigrationRefresh.doc' for more information.
Included in the refresh:
· The logic for cluster subjects needs to be improved – all cluster subjects should 'march in lockstep' as far as any data changes – i.e. they should all have the same term code ranges.
The MITSIS tables to refresh with proposal data are those currently maintained by form SCASUBJI.
Although SCASUBJI will not be retired, it should not be needed in the future since the refresh program should correctly populate the MITSIS tables. SCASUBJI should not be used because any changes made using it will not be reflected back into the proposal system. MITSIS tables:
Also SCRSU_DESC (for IAP)
The current CSB is an 80-column card image file that is used in various scheduling functions – the Classroom Schedule Pre-planning, the Class List, etc. Without rewriting the scheduling algorithm provided by GASP, many now-manual CSB data maintenance functions could be automated and put onto the web. Doing so benefits not only the Scheduling Office, but also the department coordinators who now need to manually provide scheduling requests to the Scheduling Office.
Various scheduling programs require CSB input:
The Class Schedule Book requires the CSB as MITSIS: GASP$DATA:CSBFILE.DAT
This data is filtered then sorted in preliminary steps of SSPRECSB.COM to select out only desired subjects. (See the program for details.)
Pre-Planning Report requires the CSB as MITSIS: GASP$DATA:CSBFILE.DAT
This data is filtered then sorted in preliminary steps of SSPREPLN.COM to select out only desired subjects. (See the program for details.)
· MITSIS SSPREVNT – Load Classroom schedule from CSB and find errors (eliminate?)
· MITSIS SFPRECLU – Cluster Report (eliminate?)
· GASP SFPRKGSS – Simulated Schedule
· GASP SSPGSFA1 and SSPGSFA2 - Scheduling
Reminders to review and submit classroom-scheduling requests can be put onto the departmental 'portal' via a command sent by the Scheduling Office. (See the 'Electronic Notification' function – a Priority 2 feature.) The reminder stays on portal until department submits classroom schedule requests. (This function obviates the manually prepared memos sent via inter-office mail.)
Add/Update/Delete CSB data in the database -- Used for Classroom Planning:
The web front-end for department administrators and the Scheduling Office offers a list of subjects and sections slated to be taught for the selected term. The list shows the time and room that applied in the prior term when the subject was taught. This is the same information the Department Coordinators now get as hard-copy, however, it will be more complete since it will contain subjects taught this year but not in the prior year (without room, of course). The listings may be subdivided by department program to make them more manageable.
Department Coordinators can change the time and room pattern for the subject and section. If the department 'owns' a room, they can specify it by room number, otherwise they can only specify a room by its pattern. Available patterns and specific rooms, where allowed, are offered as dropdowns. Existing MITSIS tables with MIT and non-MIT rooms will be used, augmented with new tables to supply the valid time and room patterns. The user can also add free-form comments if needed.
When the department administrator is done with planning, the information can be submitted to the Scheduling Office and so is no longer in the hands of the Department. Since all subject-scheduling requests are needed before they can be processed, the plans are not submitted subject by subject, but as a group for the department as a whole.
Display Room Requests by Day/Time/Room Pattern
This feature would be used by the Scheduling Office to examine scheduling requests in order to resolve them. Uses same functionality as the 'Display Room/Subject Schedule Grids'.
Provide CSB data to scheduling programs:
Download the 80-column CSB file for SSPREPLN and SSPRECSB and other uses.
Need to work out details. It might be better to filter and sort the data that these
programs need in the download instead of in the subsequent programs.
(See MITSIS program 'Download Continuing Subjects', sfprespl.pc, executed by SFPRESUB.COM, for an example.)
Some needed parameters: include freshman advising seminars?
One (or more) table to hold the current CSB data:
Unique Key: subject code, subject number, section number (type and sequence)
MIT Room (building and room number) – validated against MITSIS room table
Non-MIT Room – validated against a MITSIS EVENT scheduling table.
Room Pattern (used for
requesting a room) – validated against a room patterns table.
Room patterns include: where on campus, room size, facilities available in the room, etc
Time Pattern – validated and translated by time pattern table
Time Comment – may be used with or instead of time pattern - from 'standard pattern' table?
Data from other CIS data tables:
Final Exam comment
Meets with comment
Maximum enrollment
Linked subject/section data (derived from meets with information)
Various flags for GASP (see CSB layout description)
Comments to the Scheduling office (not part of CSB) from the department administrator about the scheduling request.
The Final Exam Planning procedure is similar to the Class Schedule Book planning.
Once subject registration figures are known, final exam planning can begin. Some subjects are required to have final exams, others are required NOT to have finals. Before Final Exam Planning can begin, Department Administrators must specify which of the remaining subjects will have finals.
(See the function: 'Input Auxiliary Subject Information'.)
Reminders to review and submit final exam scheduling requests can be put onto the departmental 'portal' via a command sent by the Scheduling Office. (See the 'Electronic Notification' function – a priority 2 feature.) Reminder stays on portal until department submits final exam schedule requests. (This function obviates the manually prepared memos sent via inter-office mail.)
Department Administrators view the final exam planning report on the web for their subjects. (This web report replaces the hard copy planning report that they currently receive and return with markups to the Scheduling Office). On the electronic planning report they view and edit final exam scheduling info, make all the corrections that they currently make by hand. When they are satisfied, they submit the info electronically to the Scheduling Office.
System tracks which departments have submitted requests and which have not, also whether all subjects have been submitted or only some.
Note that only subjects that will have a final exam appear on the report. This information is tracked by the system.
Review of final exam requests
Uses same functionality as 'Display Room/Subject Schedule Grids'.
When all (or most) requests are in, the Scheduling Office can display and edit requests by:
· Subjects having exams (similar to final exam document that the Scheduling Office produces manually today from marked up planning copies)
· Time and room requests with subject numbers filled in (similar to manual 'Room Chart' that the Scheduling Office uses today)
Inputs to MSDOS scheduling program can be produced from the database.
Outputs of scheduling can be put into database (does this include room assignments?)
(Room assignments can be produced from the database from department requests.)
When all done, the final exam schedule printout can be produced from the database and the schedule can be loaded into MITSIS using sfpreexm.com as done today.
Produce Final Exam Schedules by date/time and by department/subject:
After the final exam schedule is set, they can be downloaded to the web as:
2000SP_finals_by_subject and 2000SP_finals_by_time
These files are currently manually prepared. The web/print publishing subsystem can be used to produce these downloads.
Subject number and title.
Room(s) and time(s) subject is meeting during the term (by section, perhaps).
Note: Both Academic Services and Departmental rooms must be available in drop-down list for department to select from. Currently, made room number errors are made. (See MITSIS report 'ssprevnt.err' for the many room and building errors.)
Professor(s) teaching.
Enrollment count.
Subject numbers for meets with/Joint/SWE subjects.
Data that department administrators can enter for each subject having an exam:
Requested time slot and alternate time slot(s).
Room features that are needed for the final exam (VCR, slide/overhead projector, Network drop)
Specific room request and alternate room request? (from drop-down list of rooms)
Comments from the Scheduling Office about the final exam scheduling request.
Data from the manual process that is probably no longer needed:
Is this a subject offered last year but not this year or
vice versa?
What room and time was the final exam offered last year?
What was the enrollment last year?
Some departments now develop room and subject scheduling grids manually. The Scheduling Office also produces reports to aid in scheduling for classes and final exams, though not now as grids.
CIS can easily produce such grids automatically. Both departmental coordinators interviewed for the project mentioned this feature as desirable.
Room Grid:
For one room: Day and time grid showing subject or
event (and section) scheduled.
Although this is more an Academic Services need than a department coordinator need, some rooms are scheduled by departments, so having this feature for their own rooms would be helpful to them.
Department/Group/Subject Grid:
By department or individual degree program (i.e.
'discipline group') or just one subject:
day and time grid showing subject, section (and room, if assigned)
Also needed – subjects in other departments that are part of this department's requirements and/or joint subjects.
Process input parameters:
Request type: room report, department report, department program report, subject report.
Select type: classroom requests, final requests, classroom assignments, final exam assignments
Output type: grid or simple list
Produce the requested report.
The following scheduling programs require subject data:
MITSIS SSPRECSB – Class Schedule Book – run several times each term
MITSIS SSPREPLN – Pre-planning report
Prepare the input file of catalog data for the Class Schedule Book (SSPRECSB.LIS)
and the Class Schedules Pre-planning Report (SSPREPLN.LIS).
Currently, the PC version of this file is called 'sisint.dat' and
the MITSIS version is called 'GASP$DATA:CATALOG.DAT'.
Correct the foreign language problem that now exists in the data (or is this in the program?)
Prepare a version of schedules for use in producing the on-line catalog. This information has essentially the same information as 'SSPRECSB.LIS' but without the department and page headers.
It keeps subject id, title, days, times, room, units, etc.
Perhaps the ssprecsb.sqr program on MITSIS could be modified to produce this output directly.
Better, access the schedule data directly from new tables for CIS.
Build and display personal term subject schedule. Link to pre-registration. This is current web catalog functionality.
For each selected subject, block out days and time on a weekly calendar using color-coding.
Provide an alternate text-only version of the calendar.
Keep a legend of subjects (and sections).
Display detail for each subject in the schedule.
Enable deleting items from the schedule.
Provide link to sfprwtrm.sh to prereg subjects
Maintain a student's personal schedule in a database table keyed by Kerberos ID and term code.
This data is wiped out before the end of a term.
Need help particularly on using the scheduling and pre-registration functions.
Search functions may need help though they use standard search methods, unlike the on-line catalog.
Describe any special symbols used in listing.
(Open issue: Special symbols for use in published on-line catalog.)
In addition to the features otherwise discussed in detail:
Department Contact List -Shows who is assigned to the
various roles in a department/program.
One person may have many roles.
Display makes it easy to determine if certain roles are unassigned.
· Pre-requisite - Link to Prerequisite system – now a pilot project
· Who's Teaching What - Link to the WTW system
· Grade Sheet entry
Pre-registration enrollment figures by subject (and
section, eventually).
This is especially useful for HASS and certain core science subjects because it enables departments to determine if they need to add extra sections.
Lotteries are run for: Currently there are HASS-D, Sloan, freshman advising seminars (given in fall only) – including the McCormick Residence Based Advising (for freshmen women living in McCormick), the Mission 2004 program, special freshman advising opportunities (connected to the MAS and ESG programs), undergraduate seminars (MAS, ESG, ISP, Concourse), and graduate seminars. Additionally, some HASS Language subjects, HE, and writing subjects use some informal selection process.
Currently, the HASS lottery uses a
Powerbuilder front-end that accesses a C program.
The Freshman lottery is manual.
Sloan has their own system.
Miscellaneous subject lotteries (?) – Winners are entered manually?
The catalog does not now apparently indicate how a student requests permission to take these subjects. The new catalog needs to be explicit how a student enters the lottery for these subjects.
A generic facility replaces the HASS-D lottery, Freshman Seminar lottery, and many undergraduate lotteries (probably not Sloan). With a generic facility, uploads and downloads for lotteries are no longer needed. Students can enter lotteries at the same 'place' as pre-registration.
A simple lottery feature that anyone can use includes:
A mechanism for setting up the student lottery entry
(Download the list of subjects that can be chosen by students to an html form).
Note that lottery type is a subject-term auxiliary information field.
· The lottery entry form processing program (for students to enter a lottery)
· Download of lottery requests to the appropriate department for processing (if needed)
· A generalized algorithm for selecting lottery winners to be used by the owning department
· A method to adjust the lottery algorithm parameters (a programmer function)
· Manual intervention by authorized persons to adjust lottery results
· Upload of lottery winners to the database (if needed) – directly, if possible
The CIS allows departments and offices to specify which subjects need a lottery and which type of lottery. This data is specified as auxiliary data for a subject outside of the proposal system itself.
HASS subjects (and others) need to maintain supplemental information on subjects – this information is not reviewed by the COC and not printed in the Bulletin or on-line catalog, but is available in supplemental Guides such as the printed and on-line HASS Guide.
Data now collected only for HASS subjects includes:
Supplemental description of subject (syllabus, teaching
style, texts, films used, etc.)
These descriptions need to be able to handle the extended ASCII characters for umlauts, etc.
· Pages read per week
· Writing assignments per term (count, number of pages, intervals(?)) Final paper?
· Number of quizzes, midterm exam (yes/no/length)
· If final held, then is it open/closed book?
Other information pertains not to subjects but to departments, programs, etc.
Examples of such information pertaining to HASS are:
· Phi Beta Kappa info
· Minors in HASS
· Concentration in HASS
Some non-HASS examples:
· Information in Chapter 7 of the printed Bulletin (other than the degree paths, which are discussed under 'Track and Display Departmental Degree Path Information')
· Memos, meeting agendas, instructions used by Academic Services.
A facility will be developed to enable auxiliary fields to be defined for use as form input fields and display fields by specify departments. Programmers, in conjunction with requesting administrative users, use these functions. Details remain to be worked out.
Define new categories of information to capture (e.g. HASS Auxiliary Info) and assign an authorization code.
Identify the 'key' of the information: department, program, subject id, subject-plus-term or other
Define fields of information to capture. Capture category name, field name, field type (text, number), and code table for validating.
Save the definitions as new tables (named for category) containing the fields specified.
Use the generic form input facility to create input forms, validation, and database storage for the new data.
Make the new tables available for the Selection and Reporting facilities so that the data they contain can be used in reports.
Add/Modify/Delete data in defined tables.
To support the new subject process: A grid of unavailable (i.e. currently used)
subject numbers could be prepared for each department upon request. (This is
easier than producing a grid of available subject numbers.) The grid could
include one cell for each distinct subject number from 000 to 999 plus each
alpha ('A' thru 'Z') that are currently used.
(Must define what these letters mean.)
Each row of the grid may contain all the cells used for any
subject number in that department with the same first two digits (i.e.
'90','91',etc.) The row would contain cells for every number currently used
whether active and inactive (but still unavailable) subject – active and
inactive in different colors.
Available subjects would be those not shown in the grid.
This grid could be useful for Academic Services as well as the departments.
Given a subject code, produce the grid of numbers as described above.
Technical Note: There are about 55 invalid subj_codes in scbsu_key (ones not in stvsubj). These codes however are not in scrsu_var. These codes should be cleaned up.
Currently, many requests between departments and Academic Services are done via email, phone calls, or interoffice mail. CIS allows many requests from Academic Services to the departments to be made via notices placed on the department administrator 'portal'. For example, prior year final exam schedules are sent out to departments for them to review and update with requests for the current year's final exam schedule. Instead a notice could be placed on the department 'portal': "It is time to schedule final exams…." And the information needed by the departments could be made available on-line for them to update and submit electronically.
A similar system could be used by Department Coordinators to notify faculty and area assistants (support staff for faculty) that proposals need review.
On a finer-grained level, when a subject changes, any other departments that list this subject as a pre-requisite, co-requisite, joint-swe-meets with subject, or as a degree path requirement need to be notified and need to respond that they have viewed the change.
The system tracks that the user has seen the notice and responded.
Administrator function: post a notice that will be seen by specified people the next time they access their 'CIS portal'.
Monitor receipt of notices. After a specified period of time of no response, automatically send an email to the recipient asking them to check their 'CIS portal'.
A full-blown system could track:
· Notices – Contents, who sent to, and when posted.
· Recipients – when they saw the notice and when responded
· Follow-up email sent
Information needs to be kept that identifies the sequence of subjects for a degree path (including majors, minors, concentrations, etc.) Note that a given subject may be part of more than one degree path, so the degree path flags are not the same as the subject grouping key used for printing the bulletin. The sequencing information needs to be defined more fully.
Degree audit paths are not now consistently represented. (See especially Course 12). Some departments may need to rethink how their degree paths are expressed for this to work uniformly. (How are joint subjects shown in the degree path charts?)
This information eventually will be used both to produce the department degree paths that are printed in the bulletin (chapter 7) and to produce the department roadmaps.
The COC needs roadmap information when reviewing proposals:
· Are required subjects being taught frequently enough?
· Are departments following the rules about degree requirements?
· Can a student complete a degree in three years?
Re: Department roadmaps – the departments in the School of Engineering are asked to set up 'roadmaps' to show how a student can complete the required sequence of courses in four years, taking not more than nine subjects per year and having at least four unrestricted electives during the four years (per faculty rules.) Roadmaps for students selecting majors later than normal are also useful. This is not something that ARC handles – departments do – but the CIS system might eventually provide some tools to facilitate these roadmaps.
The roadmaps are now prepared manually, but not in time to help COC review.
Tracking degree paths is closely related to tracking Prerequisites.
Graphic input of degree path dependencies (similar to prerequisites.)
Validate the input data.
Automatically format department degree paths as charts
(for the Bulletin – Chapter 7)
and graphically for department/student use.
Automatically format roadmaps (for COC review, department and student planning).
Roadmaps need a visual representation. (This should be easy to do with Java.)
Graphic tool to help students 'try out' different possible majors and minors and see how far along in satisfying the requirements they are. This is closely tied to the Prerequisites and Degree Path dependencies functions.
Academic Services needs a facility that looks within all proposals for possible changes to make globally rather than on a subject-by-subject basis. Example: find all equivalent "slave" subjects that currently print master subject description with the "slave" subject. Allow global changes to this status.
How are sections set up now?
It might be nice to let department administrators control this through the CIS portal.
At least have a link to the web software that does this.
Currently, paper forms are used to gather student subject evaluations. Much manual work is needed to prepare these forms and then to process them after students fill them out manually. The library scans the filled-out forms and many errors need to be fixed. Possibilities for automation include producing the forms automatically and letting students enter their evaluations via the web.
Doing so requires more accurate section and instructor information than is currently available.
Produce the evaluation forms from up-to-date section information – including instructor name,etc
Keep the forms on the web instead of producing paper forms.
Let students enter evaluations on
the web under access control for the subjects they are enrolled in
In the future, IAP subject proposals should be handled as part of the normal proposal system.
Currently, subject descriptions, long titles, and pre-requisites are loaded from the Clipper file catwww.dat to sisjajp table: scrsu_desc.
Students need to be able to pre-register for IAP over the web just as they do for the fall and spring semesters. (Credit subjects, continuing subjects, special topics, thesis and UROP subjects)
A one-use program is needed to migrate current approved subject listings to the new CIS system.
The source is either catwww.dat or MITSIS.
Which? Is old data needed? THIS IS AN OPEN QUESTION.
See 'CISMigrationRefresh.doc' for more information.
The Clipper system and web proposal system will be retired.
Certain features of MITSIS may need to be retired to avoid unsynchronized data – these can be decided later.
SFPRECLU batch job – this should be available as a web program from proposal system
SFRREMSG form – all lotteries should be identified through the new system
SSPREHAS (HASS lottery results batch load) and SFAREPRE (misc. lottery results entry form) – these can be replaced when generic lottery facility developed.
SFRREFN form for setting up when grade sheets are due (now used by Bette Bradley) – this should be part of the CIS system
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