[Using Sakai] Subject: Largest Site Membership / Potential Tool

[Smart, Whitten J]

The largest site we have (or at least I know about) here at Texas State has +1,300 people in it.  We've had no issues with announcements, forums, resources, polls.  The site does have issues loading site info (it takes a couple of minutes to load) and assessments.  The test and quizzes tool is functional for the student side, but if you have to look at any scores, submissions, or any data related to the test the tool quits responding and locks-up your browser.

Regards, 
Whitten Smart, M.A.
User Services Consultant II
TRACS and GATO Support
Texas State University - San Marcos
Alkek Library 133.3
512.245.5566
"Infinite goodness has wide arms." - Dante


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Today's Topics:

   1. Random drawn quiz (Gregory Doyle)
   2. Largest Site Membership / Potential Tool Issues? (Jacob Reinelt)
   3. Re: Largest Site Membership / Potential Tool	 Issues?
      (Stephen Marquard)


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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:01:43 +0200
From: "Gregory Doyle" <Gregory.Doyle at uct.ac.za>
Subject: [Using Sakai] Random drawn quiz
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Hi
We've set up a quiz with questions randomly drawn from a question pool (25 from 38). The instructor did not realise there would be no item analysis - is there anyway to determine which questions each student got?
 
Thanks
greg
 
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:42:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacob Reinelt <jjreinel at vmail.svsu.edu>
Subject: [Using Sakai] Largest Site Membership / Potential Tool
	Issues?
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Hello all, 

I've recently been engaged in a discussion regarding if there are any limits on what the maximum number of members in one site is with tools still functioning properly. Since I don't have much experience with sites that have 1000+ members, and would prefer to get more information than just informing them that the sky is the theoretical limit, I am curious as to what the largest site membership is at institutions and if they have encountered issues with any tools due to member size. 

Currently our largest non-academic course has 2887 members. The only tool that we've flagged to this point with that level of membership is the roster tool. We haven't had any issues with the chat tool but generally our larger non-academic courses don't have the chat tool active or don't have a membership that actively utilizes the chat tool in mass. Are there any tools that people have discovered which become impacted, potentially severely, at 5000, 10000, 15000 etc users? 

I understand that different institution set-ups can skewer when / if issues occur but it would be nice to have an idea of any issues we may encounter as we see larger site memberships, 

Jacob Reinelt 

Open Source Programmer/Analyst 
Saginaw Valley State University 
Zahnow 202-A 
jjreinel at svsu.edu 
(989) 964-2151 
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:51:55 +0200
From: "Stephen Marquard" <stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za>
Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Largest Site Membership / Potential Tool
	Issues?
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At UCT we have a site with close to 30K members.

Tools that are fine: Announcements, Resources, Chat, Polls, Forums, Evaluation System (contrib), Site Info (though slow). Haven't tried Roster. 

Tools that may be problematic: Tests & Quizzes (viewing / exporting results).

Regards
Stephen
 
>>> Jacob Reinelt <jjreinel at vmail.svsu.edu> 3/8/2010 6:42 PM >>> 
Hello all, 

I've recently been engaged in a discussion regarding if there are any limits on what the maximum number of members in one site is with tools still functioning properly. Since I don't have much experience with sites that have 1000+ members, and would prefer to get more information than just informing them that the sky is the theoretical limit, I am curious as to what the largest site membership is at institutions and if they have encountered issues with any tools due to member size. 

Currently our largest non-academic course has 2887 members. The only tool that we've flagged to this point with that level of membership is the roster tool. We haven't had any issues with the chat tool but generally our larger non-academic courses don't have the chat tool active or don't have a membership that actively utilizes the chat tool in mass. Are there any tools that people have discovered which become impacted, potentially severely, at 5000, 10000, 15000 etc users? 

I understand that different institution set-ups can skewer when / if issues occur but it would be nice to have an idea of any issues we may encounter as we see larger site memberships, 

Jacob Reinelt 

Open Source Programmer/Analyst 
Saginaw Valley State University 
Zahnow 202-A 
jjreinel at svsu.edu 
(989) 964-2151 




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