CANHEIT Presentation 2009-10 v7

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Innovation from

Within:DevelopingLearning

ManagementS stemsPrepared forOUCC 2009 & CANHEIT Montreal 2009

Christopher Bennell Andrew McAllister

Faculty IT Support Technician

416.977.6000 [email protected]

Manager, Academic Computing

416.977.6000 [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Why do we need to be

We fightfires

Were astrategic

asset

Yourehere

Where

youwant to

be

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Institutional Culture

Cost

Savings

Learning

Opportunit

ies Requirements

Driven

vs.

Feature Driven

IT Needs User Needs

SimpleElegant

User

Interface

DIYSpirit

What is innovativeabout our LMS?


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End-User Profiles 2003


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End-User Profiles 2004


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End-User Profiles

Laptop Program Faculty of

Design 2008


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Students

Bleeding

EdgeTechnological

Laggards

Averag

e

User Profiles

Early

Adopte

rs

Faculty Average

Early

Adopte

rs


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Timeline

2003 Horrible co-opstudent invention Coldfusion

2004 My CoursesVersion 1.0

Coldfusion+ MS SQL

1 designer/developer+ 1 partial IT resource (Info Sys)

2005 Version 1.1 Coldfusion

+ MS SQL

1 designer/developer

+ 1 partial IT resource (Info Sys)

2006 Version 2.0 Coldfusion+ MS SQL

1 designer/developer+ 1 partial IT resource (Info Sys)

2007 Version 2.5 Coldfusion+ MS SQL

1 designer + 1 developer+ 1 partial IT resource (Info Sys)

2008 Version 3.0 PHP Zend Framework /MySQL + Legacy CF+MS SQL


2009 Version 3.1 PHP Zend Framework /MySQL



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Competitive Analysis

WebCT Hideous interface.Costly.Many poorly implemented or unused features.

Blackboard Better interface, but complicated.Costly.

Too many features that would be unused

Sakai Interface complexities when reviewed.Java = scary for IT

Moodle Better interface, but still some issuesOnly 1.0 in July 2003 with little to no adoption

Attractive in 2008


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Critical Success

Automate Course Setup Import all course descriptions, codes and setup everyclass automagically. Eliminate manual processes.

Clear, simple,

standardized UI

If it is ugly, they will not trust or use it.

Focus on easy features

that serve everyone

Post a file, image

Email my students

Grow the tool with the

needs of your audience

Develop additional features as faculty use the LMS- Gradebook- Image Library integration


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Consult with Faculty

Associate Deans

Chairs

Students

Observe Classes

Competitive Analysis

User Profiles

Use Cases

Requirements Doc

Rough Project Plan

Design Process

Define

Wireframes

Rough Prototypes

Review with

Stakeholders

Database Schema

Working HTML

Test Functionality

Design

Work like a crazy to

get it done

Develop

Test QA / Test Plan

Beta Users

Announce

Measure

Deploy


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TechnologyTechnology Pros Cons

Coldfusion Easy to learn, easy to code, easy todebug, database abstraction, good

performance

Easy, but limited. Fewdevelopers. Cost.

MS SQL Centrally supported. Good performance. Enterprise Manager.

Zend/PHP MVC, Database abstraction, Great

support community

Learning curve (Zend), PHP

weaknesses, Performancetuning (initially)

MySQL Nice. Easy to run in test. Lack of nice management tools.

Acquisition by Oracle (?)


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PHP FrameworksFramework Documentation MVC DB Abstraction /

ORMFlexible?

CodeIgniter Good Poor Some Yes

CakePHP Poor Yes Yes No

Symfony Poor Yes Yes (Propel) No

Zend Great Yes Yes Yes


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Zend Framework

PHP 5 Framework

Architectural Framework / Component Library

Simple, Object oriented, based on best practices andpatterns

Open Source, New BSD License

Allows for modular, flexible, MVC applications

Loosely coupled, but cohesive


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Model - View -

Controlle

rhandles

request,

sends data

to view

Modeldata and

business logic

Viewtemplates

Bootstrap /

Front

Controller


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Bootstrap

Bootstrap /

Front

Controller{Check for SSL

Environment settings

Load configuration files

Authentication (SSO)

Application constants

CacheDatabase connections

Access control list

Load front controller

Load controller plugins / helpers

Load URL router

Session namespace manager

Load view manager

Dispatch loop: Send request to Module controller

Execute view script

E i


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Environment

M i (G d b k)


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Metrics (Gradebook)

Courses Graded

98.2%

93.5%

Fall 2008 Winter 2008

Faculty Uptake

98.9%

93.9%

Grades Imported Successfully

100.0%

99.8%

M i G l


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Metrics - Google

Whichbrowsers?

Which

Features?

Traffic

Flow

Future

Development?

Which

Users?

Measure

uptake

SWOT A l i


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SWOT AnalysisStrengths Weaknesses

Opportunities Threats

Lack ofspecificfeatures

Adoption ofZend by other

OCADdevelopers

Switch toPHP/Zend

challenging

Great

platform

SimpleUI

Huge Acceptanceby Faculty and

Students

NewFeatures

App coderests withone or two

people.

Performancetuning +

scalability

QA

StaffDevelopm

ent

Low

Cost

ZendPlatform

Wh i ?


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Quizzes

Where are we going?

iPhone/iPod

TouchClickerApp

iPhoneOptimizedInterface

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Whoknows?

RebuiltImageLibrary

RebuildImage

Library DB

andApplication

RebuildInterface

ReviseInterface

Bug FixBug Fix

Startwork onDigitalLibrary

R lt f IT


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Results for IT

LearningOpportunities

GoodManagement

Happy Facultyand Students

Happy IT Staff


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THANKS!Christopher Bennell Andrew McAllister Faculty IT Support Technician416.977.6000 x2525

[email protected]

Manager, Academic Computing416.977.6000 x304

[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]

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