Transcript Classes.Yale.edu

Classes.Yale.edu
Classes.Yale.edu Essentials
• Syllabus, web page, materials distribution, class email list, homework
upload, chat, threaded discussion, etc.
– Easy and direct access from Classes web space to other web resources
• Simplicity, ease of use, low threshold to get started
– Student self-registration
– Automatic creation of account based on class schedule
– Standard Yale NetID authentication
• High reliability/availability
• Secure web-based course evaluation
– Future secure faculty access to course evaluations
• Mid-term “course feedback”
Classes.Yale.edu Snapshot
• Usage:
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450+ non-seminar classes per semester
478 syllabi posted (fall) of which approx 400 do something more
330 syllabi as of this morning
Materials posted range from a few 100K to multiple GBs
• Staff requirements
– Designed and written in approx 1.5 FTE years
– Ongoing support 1/3 FTE
– Ongoing development ¼ FTE
• Support
– Support workshops: initial page in 90 minutes
– Standard “faculty support program”
Advantages’
• Unique Issues
– Shopping period
• Fast response to requests
– Class photo pilot
– Course evaluation pilot
– Course feedback
• Research.yale.edu
• Committees.yale.edu
Application Components of Stellar
Registration
Content Presentation
Collaboration
(authentication, user profile, class signup, list
management)
(syllabus, calendar, table of contents, course
portal)
(discussion board, email, chat)
Administration
Content Management
Assessment
(grade book, calendar)
(text, graphics, audio, video, animations,
simulations)
(quizzes, exams, course evaluations)
Setup
Content Creation
Renewal
(create course, course templates)
(digitization and consumption)
(re-use material, archive, create portfolio)
Stellar Modules
UI
Portal
Course Pages
Accessibility Tools
Palm Pilot/PCS
Other
Content
Outline
Assignment
Mgmt
Assessment
Tool
Comm. and
Collab.
Other
Backbone
UIs
Aggregate
Course
Content and
Pedagogical
Elements
Turn-in,
Collect,
Return,
Pick up
Create,
Take,
Grade,
Online
Quizzes and
Tests
Chat,
Email,
Shared
White
Boards, etc.
GradeBook,
Calendar,
Survey, etc.
User
interfaces
for
backbone
components
should be
modular
Backbone Architecture
Course Instance Mgmt (Associates Basic Elements with Course)
Authentication (Modular Plug-ins)
Authorization (ACL/Roles)
User Profile
Management
Digital Content
Mgmt (Arcs)
Group
Management
Other…
Data Abstraction and Interface Layers
Warehouse Data
Stellar Local Data
Filespace/URLs
Other Sources/Repositories
Other Systems
• Harvard’s instructional tool kit with course web system
• MIT and Stanford’s Mellon funded Stellor project
• Commercial systems provide a “package of tools” which
may conflict with institutional systems
– Email, calendaring, list processing, etc.
Our needs
• A set of well know tools
– Serge: 80% of faculty will never use more than 20% of the features
• The ability to integrate them into a simple, low threshold system
– That can be easily attached to our registration and related systems
– And fit within nebulous portal potentials
• Scalability
– Q: what is the experience
• Ownership, storage and archival of course material
• Course web support is core to institution’s instructional mission
– The ability for us to quickly and easily make local adjustments
Futures
• More sophisticated tools
– Particularly media tools: digitization and mounting
– But completely easy to use, no advance training required!
• Eventual market maturation
– Like the Library catalog market?
• Hard to make money with R1 schools?
• A clear opportunity – what to do?
– Do it ourselves, ala Stellar?
– Partner with a vendor, ala Prometheus?