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Stellar discussion board
The current installation of the Stellar discussion board needs to be replaced. It is slow, and seems to be taking a significant performance hit as more and more Stellar courses come on line.
What we have now is an old version of Jive Forums. We identified 3 contenders to replace it, based on their technical compatibility with Stellar.
- The newer version of Jive
- JForums, which is being adapted to Sakai by Foothills College
- A custom Sakai discussion board being developed at Indiana
By comparing the published feature list and screenshots of each product with the feature list for forums that came out of the LPAG meetings and other input, I created a grid to show how each product lined up with our needs
I wound up recommending the tool Indiana is developing. That tool is still under development, with an expected release in December. Indiana is pretty good about being on time, though, so it will probably work for us as a new forum tool for Fall 2006.
By the way of you are JForums or Jive developer or user, and you want to contradict my conclusions, please do! This was a quick study, and there a lot of 'maybes' in my diagram.
Tags: stellar forums jive jforums sakai
Building 9¾
When we came into work this morning, we were amused to find that all of our room numbers had been changed to read building 9¾ instead of the usual plain old 9, and our offices had been reassigned, so that my room is now Professor Flitwick's office. Also the old Men's and Women's bathrooms are now marked for "Witches" and "Wizards." I guess some MIT students are pretty enthused about the new Harry Potter movie opening tonight.
Tags: MIT hack harrypotter flitwick