8-18-23 - Campus Meeting Notes

Round robin progress updates (4min each)

• RBAC (Bryan)

  • Updated the ticket on the roadmap yesterday

  • Tech specs are up for review and feedback, would like to close by Wednesday.

  • Have added one additional engineer.

  • Also working on permissions grid mapping all available permissions to roles, that is also posted in the ticket, want feedback by September 1 on the grid.

• File Management (Bryan)

  • ***Note: This project has been de-scoped

  • It has been built out and is being tested internally. They are focused on bug resolution for now. However, still hopeful to get this into beta testing probably in September.

• Aspects Data Platform, formerly Stats panels (Jenna)

  • [DRAFT] Aspects V1: Product Requirements

  • eduNEXT team is working hard on this for the Spanish Consortium and are planning to role this out for their instances. Expect a lot of progress in the next couple week.

    • Go live date hasn’t been established yet, but eduNEXT are pushing for a working version as quickly as possible.

• Graded Discussions (Cassie/Jenna/Elizabeth/Aamir)

  • Jenna will kick of the spec work and UX/UI is contingent on product specs.

  • Cassie Zamparini could potentially take over product definition for this feature.

  • We’ll discuss when Jenna Makowski is back next week.

• Studio Home (Jenna)

  • MVP Spec: MVP: Studio Home Enhancements

  • Have been working with Jon Faye on producing mocks

  • Have survey stakeholders to create a prioritized list of sorting and filtering options on the home landing page.

  • Mocks – early versions – were review this week.

  • eduNEXT is also interested in this work and are happy to collaborate when the specifications come together.

    • Does eduNEXT feel they are sufficiently in-the-loop?

    • Currently, yes.

    • Community will be looped in more fully after mocks are past a draft state

• ORA rubric (Ed)

  • Plan for coordination of ORA efforts

    • Edward Zarecor to schedule a coordination meeting with eduNEXT.

  • Are there specific deadlines for ORA rubric needs?

    • eduNEXT has a couple of priorities around extensions, files updates, and UX

    • For files, currently the course team needs to delete a submission to unblock resubmission.

    • Allow peer review / course staff review to happen simultaneously – need at ticket for this.

    • Allow for some team participation – very early discovery for this currently.

    • Want to explore the options of integrating open responses with anti-plagiarism with turn-it-in. eduNEXT is having a conversation with engineers at TurnItIn.

• Central LTI config management (Fox/Jenna)

  • Product Spec: LTI MVP and future phases

  • PRs are currently under review and will be completed by Tuesday morning.

• 3rd party plagiarism tools (Felipe)

  • Same update as above regarding TurnItIn

  • Daniel at 2U was speaking with TurnItIn about AI enabled grading capabilities. This doesn’t look like an are where they plan to focus AI autograding, only AI plagarism detection.

• Flexible grading (Jenna)

  • No update

• Credentials (Ed)

  • V1 one of this work is complete and back-ported to palm.

• SF Integration (Elizabeth/Fox)

  • On the hook to write this up after ASU’s big September launch. Don’t expect progress until after the launch.

• Blueprint/children courses (Jenna)

  • No update

• Completion API (Felipe)

  • Similar state to graded discussions, would need an API for summarizing “seat time,” “time on task” as an element of the students final grade.

  • Not looking to precisely measure time, but rather have a notion of what completion means for a particular block and summarize that as part of grading.

• More flexible grouping options (Felipe)

  • The did a proof of concept to bridge between cohorts and teams.

  • Started with cohorts because they are already linked to content groups in Studio.

  • Discussed with edu WG and reviewed Matthew Harrington’s review of competitors features.

  • Adopted their approach and are considering extending teams so they have more significance

    • Private discussions – current feature

    • Content group integration

  • This can’t live on a fork, so which teams should we ping for review to make sure we get feedback.

    • 2U and Axim should review

    • Don’t plan to implement all of Matthew’s recommendations, probably around 1/4.

    • Two must haves from Spanish perspective

      • Managed and free grouping of students – maybe managed to create, free to join

        • Includes connection to content groups

      • Assignment of instructor/TA at the group level

    • We should make sure that the RBAC doc captures this requirement for TA level permissions

    • Where can we get data about the relative use of teams, cohorts, group to help inform direction decision.

  • MIT prefers groups

    • Used for splitting exams and tests

    • Used for A/B tests especially for incoming freshman looking to test out of requirements.

• Individual Student Emails (Felipe)

  • No update at this time.

  • Changing to focus student grouping may influence the design of this feature.

Projects without owners

• Grading period