Upgrade to Sakai 11 - initial stages
VeriCite Pilot: VeriCite is a cloud based service that helps to verify the originality of student work. It also can help to facilitate proper citation techniques and paraphrasing skills when used as a tool to enhance instruction through student reflection. The LMS Team has received multiple requests from faculty for this type of service. We have decided to pilot VeriCite because it was designed to easily integrate into Sakai. If faculty choose to participate in this pilot, students submit their paper through the assignment tool within their Sakai course. VeriCite automatically generates an “originality report” to the student and faculty.
Upgrade to Sakai 10.xx Sakai 10 features two new tool contributions to Sakai core, better support for audio and video using HTML 5, infrastructure improvements, about 50 security fixes, performance improvements, and a number of new features. Extensive documentation is maintained and continuously updated. The community went to great lengths to guarantee the quality of the software through rigorous testing and the application of close to 2,000 fixes.
@2794202 Virtual Computing Lab. Pilot the use of virtualized software by students in an academic environment. The pilot will involve two academic departments (Physics and Psychology) and limited to two applications (Maple and SPSS).
@2798051- CRQ26101: Sakai Upgrade 2014. Upgrade Sakai to version 2.9.3. Sakai CLE 2.9 contains significant performance improvements, updated technical infrastructure, hundreds of bug fixes (over 600 bug fixes and over 20 security improvements), and it sports a new, updated look and feel, including smoother navigation, with a new neo-portal skin. Significant features have been added to the Resources, Gradebook, and Section Info tools in core Sakai. Major additions and improvements have been made to Lessons, which is now turned on by default, Samigo Test & Quizzes, Profile 2, Forums and Messages.
CRQ 21500: Backup Tools for College Faculty Project Charter: Summary and Project Description: Providing a safe, stable and reliable computing environment for the WFU community is an on-going objective for the University. This project seeks to protect the laptop data of Wake Forest College faculty and related administrative staff by providing an automatic backup solution through a vendor, SpiderOak. SpiderOak will provide secure and reliable data backups, via the Internet, using the SpiderOak Blue Enterprise product line. SpiderOak will also provide access to backed-up data via the Internet. College faculty and related administrative staff will be able to login to backup and\or retrieve data using their WFU credentials. This project will have a pilot phase which will include a small group of faculty and related administrative staff. The second phase will be a campus roll-out to all the faculty and related administrative staff of the College.
CRQ19682 Sakai Upgrade 2012, @task #2791303 : Summary and Project Description: Sakai is the University’s Learning Management System. It is primarily used by faculty to communicate with students and replicate some of a classroom experience online. It is important to keep it upgraded so it will be supported by Unicon, the vendor with which the university has a support contract. This project address all the components included in assuring a stable LMS environment. Problem, Need or Opportunity: When the University made the decision to transition from Blackboard to Sakai, a commitment was made to keep current (but not cutting edge) with software releases. We are currently using Version 2.7.1. Version 2.8 has been available since April, 2011 and Verision 2.8.1 has been available since October, 2011. Sakai Release 2.9 will be out very soon. When that occurs, our current version (2.7.1) will no longer be a supported version. In order to ensure we have full Unicon support, we need to be on a more current version. Some of the software (User Membership) is already on version 2.8.2 and in order to ensure consistent operation all of the software should be on the same version
SpiderOak Pilot - Math Dept. The Mathematics department ran a pilot of an automatic backup system called SpiderOak. SpiderOak is a online backup tool to back up, share, sync, access and store data using an off-site server. SpiderOak is accessible through an app for Windows, Mac and Linux computer platforms, and Android, N900 Maemo and iOS mobile platforms. SpiderOak allows the user to back up any given folder of his/her computer. SpiderOak uses encrypted cloud storage and client-side encryption key creation, so even employees of SpiderOak cannot access users' information.