Thursday, March 20, 2008

Status Report: 3/17-3/20

What I said/did:

- Assess and start training the new guy

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- Meet w/ ASUH representative to get student-oriented feedback.

Had the meeting and wrote it up on the blog: http://uhmis-ecafe.blogspot.com/2008/03/asuh.html.
The short version is that they pretty much approved the system, liked what they saw, and are very happy we talked to them. They also said that it appeared that privacy concerns were addressed and they had no issues there. We spent the majority of the meeting talking about possible methods of increasing response rates.

- Implementing staff features.

Writing code? What's that?

- Reading: MySQL and ?

The ? turned out to be Ruby. My eyes are tired. Florescent lights suck. Let's declare the Manoa Starbucks a "Remote Office," they have windows.


In other news:

- I mentioned how there needs to be a small barrier for requesting features. I'm trying out this. We'll see how it goes.

- The BSAR specs were posted to the blog and I sent an email to D on Wednesday.

- Some advisory board members were saying that they like the blog, but want notification of when posts are made. So, I started a Google Group which users can join and opt for email notification. When a post is made, the blog automatically sends notice to the group, the notice is then disseminated by email to all members of the group.

Next week:
- Reading (will it EVER end?)
- Working on eCAFE Staff features
- Going to that "User Centered Design Tests" lecture
- Looking into how we can "hide" grades when students don't do their surveys.

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