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Mon Mar 4 05:31:09 2002 UTC (22 years, 1 month ago) by harris41
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CVS tags: stable_2002_april, HEAD
 a more sensible pointer

    1: TODO list
    2:  
    3: + add functionality
    4: & change functionality
    5: * bug
    6: ! Priority
    7: ? Questionable/unverified
    8: c Continual and currently in an okay status
    9: C Continual and in need of a lot of work right now
   10: 
   11: G=Gerd
   12: A=Alex
   13: S=Scott
   14: Y=Guy
   15: N=Hon-Kie
   16: I=Isaac
   17: M=Matthew
   18: ?=not yet assigned
   19: 
   20: XMLPARSE
   21:     + add <options> tag (A)
   22:     + counters and output formats for counters (A/Y)   
   23: 
   24: EDIT INTERFACE (Y)
   25:     + have inserts at bottom of page (Y)
   26:     c add more tags (Y)
   27:     + have textfield style entries protect against bad data (</parserlib> in 
   28: 	the parserlib textfiled (Y)
   29:     + make default setup prettier
   30:     + <imageresponse>
   31:     * hints need to be coupled to tag 2 levels up
   32: 
   33: HOMEWORK (Y)
   34:     + <imageresponse> needs to be able to support multiple images and multiple
   35:         clicks on an image, need a Java applet most likely
   36:     * <essayresponse> needs to protect input / output
   37:     * if there are <*response> in a <problem> and there are also 
   38: 	<part>s defined the handling of the <*response> outside of the 
   39: 	<part> will be done poorly.
   40:     * input areas need to hide after correct
   41:     & run student parser over instructor specified physical units
   42:     + student should be able to see previous submissions
   43:     + <verbatim>
   44:     + support giving hints even when there are 0 tries (only <*hint> hint show)
   45:     + <optionresponse> reports # options correct through a <responseparam>
   46:          (Make editing of this pretty)
   47:     & allow functions in response to be case insensitive
   48:     +  added ability to ignore ws in string answers
   49: 
   50: /ADM/GRADES
   51:     + handle extra fields (Y)
   52:     + interface needs to be driven more by the type field (Y)
   53:     + show only a subset of students (Y)
   54:     + set all to something (Y)
   55:     + set grades aren't correctly rendered in student view (Y)
   56:     + have $r->flush so that user sees it is working
   57:     + CSV upload, XML upload
   58: 
   59: NUMERICALRESPONSE(HINT)
   60:    !* doesn't throw error when #response > #answer (Y)
   61:    !* bad message when #response < #answer (Y)
   62:     + show tol range and sigfig in answer mode
   63: 
   64: RANDOMLABEL
   65:     + template
   66:     + <label> needs to use descriiption args
   67:     * web render of image labels is broken
   68: 
   69: GOODIES
   70:     & indexer needs to show location - bring back flip-open/close (N)
   71:     + chatroom, etc
   72:     + annotations can be localized and published
   73:     + PURLs
   74:     + chart allows sorting/filtering by section
   75:     & chart handles multipart problems
   76:     & statistics handles multipart problems
   77:     + statistics link to problem
   78:     + "You've got mail!"
   79:     + LectureOnline converter handles optionresponse correctly
   80: 
   81: TEX/TTH/TTM
   82:    !* Address bugs in tth/ttm (A,Y,G) - get new versions
   83: 
   84: SYSTEM MONITORING
   85:     http://bugzilla.lon-capa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70
   86: 
   87: USER NEEDS
   88:     & have great installation, upgrading, configuring documents (S)
   89:     & have great installation, upgrading, configuring process (S)
   90:     & have great interface, how-to-use educational system
   91:       documentation (John Williamson)
   92: 
   93: BUILD
   94:     c test code... up to date with latest CPAN modules (S)
   95:     + allow for debian and redhat 7.1 installation... redhat 7.1
   96:       installation well pioneered (S)
   97:     c add in new perl modules and update old ones (S)
   98:     c build and distribute CD-ROMs, upgrades, and installation/upgrade docs (S)
   99:     c document and reasonably automate aspects of source-to-build procedure (S)
  100:     & loncapafiles.lpml has too many lines (pod2man.sh or pod2html.sh) which
  101:       are over 80 characters (S)
  102: 
  103: CODE QUALITY
  104:     C code lines less than 80 characters (somewhat done, but now put
  105:       on back-burner till 2002) (S)
  106:     C xhtml-ize output from perl modules (S)
  107:     c add in CPAN and POD conventions into modules and scripts (S)
  108:     c get rid of void context map blocks and replace with foreach blocks
  109: 
  110: JAVASCRIPT
  111: #   see CVS:doc/window_handling.txt for initial plans at organizing this -Scott
  112:     C work on javascript library and modularizing code (?)
  113:    !& fix handling of web browser windows (?)
  114: 
  115: SQL DATABASE
  116:    Located now at
  117:    http://bugzilla.lon-capa.org/buglist.cgi?component=Searching
  118: 
  119: RANDOM BUGS
  120: 
  121: PLOTTING 
  122:     http://zaphod.lite.msu.edu/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=Randomized+Plots
  123: 
  124: GERD STUFF
  125:     + londropadd does XML
  126:     +?TAs can open and close assignments
  127:     +?Students can force-open assignments with instructor notification
  128:    !c tests interaction between parmset, problem handler and spreadsheet (G)
  129:     + replication hinting/prediction 
  130:     + replication, search local access servers if library is uncontactable
  131:     + intelligent update of hosts.tab (don't forget firewalls)
  132:    !* Looks like no window status in IE 5.5 on Mac, Remote logs out
  133:     + change passwords (domain coordinator/users)
  134:     * straighten out co-author, author, coordinator junk 
  135:     + implement initial questionaire
  136:     + summary on top of spreadsheet
  137:     + adjusts output in spreadsheet to type
  138:     + sort courses with same role in lonroles, color scheme
  139:     + fix Applet codebase on .page
  140:     & pages should not register with remote if not on map
  141:     * navmaps displays answerdates correctly (not due date instead)
  142:     + points for feedback, counts on feedback/discussion
  143:     + "do you want to be a tutor"?
  144:     +!interface for checking logs
  145:     + button to show deleted email and to "compact"
  146:    !* discussion for users in sections
  147:     & more informative message for "maybe part of a course"
  148:     * hung lond child - produce status info
  149:     & share spreadsheets among courses
  150: 
  151: RAT
  152:     *?RAT error line 1413 "insert resource into link" for recon link (G) 
  153:       (could not reproduce)
  154:     + need to be able to evaluate conditions in lonuserstate
  155:     + need to be able to set conditions in RAT client (G)
  156:     + simple RAT server-side interface
  157:     * undefined "guff" - maps full of objects value="undefined"
  158:     * bombs if inf-window closed by hand (needs browser restart) 
  159:     * errors, lines 1118, 1119, 2153, 2310 after cutting link in table mode
  160:     + "insert resource in link" shows that it is busy working on it
  161:     & use 'unknown.gif' for icon of unknown file types instead of broken img.
  162: 
  163: PUBLISHER
  164:     * needs to devalidate spreadsheets in problem publishing (G)
  165:     * need to clear metacache of old versions of metadata when publishing
  166:     + deals with Micros*** files
  167:     *?entering construction space or a directory throws up a 
  168:       spurious error message (G)
  169:     c TEST: deal with absolute links
  170:     c TEST: deal with <allow>
  171:     + incorporate thesaurus/vocabulary
  172:     + handle big text documents (?)
  173:     & do not change everything to absolute URLs, but clean up URL garbage
  174: 
  175: 
  176: Large Chunks of funtionality that need work:
  177: ============================================
  178: 
  179: - Statistics
  180: 	- Simple
  181: 		- resource analysis class/system wide
  182: 		- resource correlation course wide
  183: 		- other stats from CAPA
  184: 	- Complex
  185: 		- foil level analysis/correlation measures
  186: 		- derandomized foils analysis
  187: 		- have/view reason student selected a foil
  188: 	- resource quality, how good is a resource
  189: 
  190: - Messaging
  191: 	- email gateways into/out of the system
  192: 	- handle more types of communication
  193: 	       - messages seeded with data from spreadsheet
  194: 	       - chat / whiteboard
  195: 	       - "round robin" feedback handling
  196:                - "mailing lists"
  197: 
  198: - Grading
  199: 	- simple grading needs cleaning up (see Guy's TODO list)
  200: 	- survey data extraction ( stat complex could handle most of
  201: 	  this)
  202: 	- essay / shortanswer
  203: 		- instructor / autoget all/none
  204: 		- team based submission
  205: 		- peer graded
  206: 		- peer suggest grade
  207: 
  208: - homework engine
  209: 	- math stuff
  210: 	- CAPA problems 
  211: 	- <imageresponse> need Java applet
  212: 
  213: - Exams
  214: 
  215: - RAT
  216: 	- choose parts
  217: 	- set conditions
  218: 	- language for conditions
  219: 	- some kind of non-anti-save
  220: 
  221: - Publish
  222: 	- review step
  223: 	- co-author locking
  224: 	- auto thumbnail / convert images
  225:         - stricter control mechainsms
  226:              - copyrighted stuff
  227:              - Private stuff
  228:            - ACL? (by author or resource?)
  229:         - update metadata without full publish
  230: 
  231: - printing
  232: 	- tex target (CGI / daemon?)
  233: 

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