[sakai2-tcc] Summary of Tools Survey comments

[Mark J. Norton]

Some comments:

 1. Give the document a better name than "Comments Summary".
 2. What is the "Calculation" column?
 3. Find a way to add your Legend descriptions to the document.

- Mark

On 8/20/2013 3:17 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
> Hi TCC,
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> I found summarizing the Survey comments challenging. I hope it proves 
> valuable.
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> Here's what I've got so far:
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> http://bit.ly/12mzgMn
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> Here are my questions about it:
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> 1) Is it "good enough"?  I think it is, though not sure about that 
> arbitrary column I added called "Calculation". More about that in a minute
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> 2) This probably needs a Legend added. You'll notice I have a Positive 
> - Kudos column, but no Negative column. This is because anything that 
> could be perceived as negative, I tried to categorize more 
> specifically what the feedback is.
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> Legend:
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> Development resources - we did not ask for volunteers, but one 
> institution said that if other institutions were interested in putting 
> effort behind Gradebook (Gradebook 1), they might throw in development 
> resources too. I thought that was worthy of it's own column.
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> Performance concerns - broadly speaking. This includes not only 
> performance under load, but also if the tool does not seem to be 
> meeting institutional requirements.
> Alternative Tool preference - for example, using Gradebook2 instead of 
> Gradebook. Or using an external Syllabus tool instead of Sakai 
> Syllabus, or even just posting Word/PDF docs instead of using tool at all.
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> Request for Feature or Bug fix- sometimes specific requests, sometimes 
> expressed as a general desire to see the features enhanced.
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> Information Only- not positive, not negative, just informational. A 
> large percentage of these turned out to be mentioning plans to try 
> out/pilot a tool. Made me wonder if it warrants a separate column for 
> "Planning to Pilot"?  I would have to go through the data again, but 
> might be worth it.
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> High Use - comment specifically said that the tool was highly used
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> Low Use - comment specifically said that the tool is used sparsely
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> calculation - I made up this formula to see if it might indicate the 
> relative interest level in the tool. = Total comments for a tool - Low 
> use - Alternative tools - Performance concerns = interest level in 
> keeping the tool/ further development? See what you think. Not sure if 
> we should keep this column. Was done as an intellectual exercise. For 
> the most dramatic example of how this might normalize the data, see 
> the Chat tool. Lots of comments, but mostly negative vs Lessons which 
> has lots of comments but mostly positive.
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> I know this a busy time, but if you have about 10 minutes to spare to 
> look at the data and think about it, that would be cool (I know that 
> is asking a lot right now.)
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
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> Neal Caidin
> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
> neal.caidin at apereo.org <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> Skype: nealkdin
> Twitter: ncaidin
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