Thanks, Nicolaas.

I am looking forward to the investigation results.

Harry

On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:36 AM, Nicolaas Matthijs wrote:

> The remaining project team is currently investigating and testing various 
> options. We've set ourselves a September 30 deadline for this investigation, 
> and will be communicating results, plans and directions right after that.
> 
> The team is taking this investigation very seriously and all of the available 
> time is taken up by it, so we appreciate your patience and understanding for 
> the lack of public communication so far.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Nicolaas
> 
> 
> 
> On 24 Sep 2012, at 11:07, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 
>> Does the OAE rewrite into node.js affect the widget SDK? Is that just a 
>> proof of concept or the next actual version?
>> 
>> https://github.com/sakaiproject/Hilary
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 24/09/2012, at 19:27, "Berg, Alan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am curious to see if pushed hard how many useful widgets can be built 
>>> quickly using the Widget SDK. The University of Amsterdam had one student 
>>> write 4 widgets in quick order including a Spreadsheet widget and an 
>>> Exhibits widget. Widget building could be a nucleation point for contrib 
>>> effort outside the core team. If you want to build a wider community this 
>>> is an effective place to quench an initial thirst. Good also for Proof Of 
>>> Concepts.
>>> 
>>> http://oae-widgets.sakaiproject.org/
>>> http://oae-widgets.sakaiproject.org/widget/handsontable-spreadsheet-tool
>>> http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/
>>> 
>>> Alan
>>> 
>>> Alan Berg
>>> 
>>> Group Education and Research Services
>>> Central Computer Services
>>> University of Amsterdam
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: [email protected] 
>>> [[email protected]] on behalf of Clay Fenlason 
>>> [[email protected]]
>>> Sent: 24 September 2012 00:44
>>> To: oae-dev
>>> Subject: Re: [oae-dev] Assignment and Gradebook for OAE
>>> 
>>> I think one has to separate the project vision from how it is trying
>>> to respond to a dramatic loss of contributing partners. When you go
>>> from 6 contributing organizations to 2 in a matter of weeks, you have
>>> to make decisions that cut to the bone.
>>> 
>>> The loss has been severe, but the silver lining is the hope that
>>> better success might be found with a tighter, narrower focus. The
>>> pivotal question remaining: is there enough value in what's already
>>> been produced that it's worth continuing to invest resources to build
>>> from that core, even if it's not going to displace our LMS any time
>>> soon? Put in other terms, is there a smaller product that is both
>>> viable (assuming much less contributed resource) and yet still
>>> valuable for learning? This is what the team is working hard on now.
>>> 
>>> Speaking just for myself, and Georgia Tech's perspective, it's still
>>> our aim that the OAE support assigned work and the ability to provide
>>> feedback (including that specialized kind of feedback that comes in
>>> the form of grades). We still see a path for seeing those realized,
>>> and haven't given up on them.
>>> 
>>> But I think it's no longer on anyone's radar that the OAE will replace
>>> the CLE. Whatever collaboration rallies around it, I think it will not
>>> be on those terms.
>>> 
>>> ~Clay
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Harry Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Clay,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your reply. In my opinion, Assignment and Gradebook are two 
>>>> most important features for LMS. OAE's no native support for those two 
>>>> features in the near future sort of confuses me about the vision of this 
>>>> product. Will OAE eventually replace Sakai 2.x? Or OAE is designed for 
>>>> something else?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Harry
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 21, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Clay Fenlason wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I think it's fair to say that there hasn't been significant progress
>>>>> in this area, while the project has lost many of its contributing
>>>>> partners in the last couple months, and the focus of the work of the
>>>>> remaining small team will not bring new assignment and grading
>>>>> features in the months ahead. We're pressing ahead with making the
>>>>> most of the novel capabilities around content in support of learning,
>>>>> but the introduction of LMS-like features for course management are
>>>>> now at least greatly postponed, and the future is uncertain.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't want to be discouraging, but I do want to caution you away
>>>>> from any expectation that these features are just around the corner.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ~Clay
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Harry Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I asked about the native support for assignment and gradebook in OAE in 
>>>>>> May
>>>>>> and want to know whether there has been any major progresses in this 
>>>>>> area.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I saw a session by Sam and Nicolaas on this topic in this year's Sakai
>>>>>> conference
>>>>>> https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/2012-06-11+Sakai+OAE+-+Tasks,+Assignments,+Grading+and+Unstructured+Feedback
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sam and Nicolaas: any update on this?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any information about this is greatly appreciated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Harry
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 14, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Harry Wang wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Nate and Clay,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for your replies. I think I will try the hybrid setup for the 
>>>>>> pilot.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Harry
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Clay Fenlason
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The OAE can't be used as a standalone course management system, and
>>>>>>> you won't see a native gradebook tool or support for assignment
>>>>>>> submission workflows by September (although features to support
>>>>>>> assignment activities are on the nearer side of the roadmap [1]).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Schools in pilot are supporting these functions with a CLE integration
>>>>>>> (using Basic LTI) that embeds CLE tools within OAE pages [2]. Some of
>>>>>>> these tools are being reskinned for the 1.3 release, so they look like
>>>>>>> a more natural fit, though there are still barriers to sharing content
>>>>>>> and grades, e.g.: assignment attachments cannot be submitted from the
>>>>>>> OAE library to the CLE assignment tool (widget)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So you essentially need to support these functions, in the interim,
>>>>>>> with siloed 3rd-party tools.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ~Clay
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [1] https://oae-community.sakaiproject.org/content#p=ker9TYL5aa/Sakai
>>>>>>> OAE Roadmap
>>>>>>> [2] https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/jKSCB
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Harry Wang <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> We are planning to do a small pilot of Sakai OAE at the University of
>>>>>>>> Delaware in this fall semester. In my opinion, the two most important
>>>>>>>> missing features are assignment and gradebook if OAE is used as a 
>>>>>>>> course
>>>>>>>> management system. I wonder whether someone can give me an update on 
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> development plan for those two components. Will they be available 
>>>>>>>> before
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> fall semester (September) starts? Any information is greatly
>>>>>>>> appreciated.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Harry
>>>>>>>> 
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