Application Demo and Reporting

Since the last sprint, the first iteration of the actual application was developed using ASP.NET MVC 5 and SQL Server backend database. This application is being used for the upcoming remote usability testing sessions. ...

December 19, 2013 · 1 min · 62 words · icarnaghan

Data Elements Review and Reporting

Today a short meeting was held to discuss the overall progress of the prototype to date and demonstrate the key functionality to the EL representative for the school. Comments were made on how further improvements could be made to the data collection part of the system. The group is going to review the prototype over the next week further and share feedback at our next meeting. ...

November 6, 2013 · 1 min · 83 words · icarnaghan

Non-Expedition Subject Areas

This sprint continued discussion of non-expeditions. This week we focused primarily on restructuring the prototype to correctly integrate subject areas that do not fall under the typical expedition. The home page was refined further and several changes were made to the math non-expedition subject area created for prototype 4. ...

October 30, 2013 · 1 min · 183 words · icarnaghan

FSW and Winter Terms

The purpose of this meeting was to finalize the data-entry sections of the system by further describing functionality specifically on non-expedition semesters. Non-expeditions were discussed both as FSW / Winter term as well as other subject areas or strands of the curriculum delivered in parallel to expeditions. The majority of this meeting focused on refining prototype 3 further by improving the placement of FSW and winter semesters. ...

October 17, 2013 · 2 min · 236 words · icarnaghan

Defining Expeditions

This meeting focused on prototype 3 and refining the structural breakdown of expeditions and their sub-components. New terminology was introduced to describe the various elements of semester based expeditions and non-expeditions and certain elements were re-positioned within the data-entry screens. ...

October 10, 2013 · 1 min · 181 words · icarnaghan

High-Level Requirements

This was the first requirements meeting since the initial kickoff back in April. Prototype 2 served as the main discussion for this meeting as we dove deeper into the expected functionality and nuances of an EL curriculum map. ...

September 3, 2013 · 2 min · 222 words · icarnaghan