2. Agenda
» Community News
» Sustaining Engineering
» Release 2018.2
» Community Spotlight
» Upcoming Events
» Open Forum / Q&A
3. Presenters
» Unicon openEQUELLA
Tech Lead
» Software Developer @
Unicon
» cbeach@unicon.net
Chris Beach
» Information Analytics
Manager
» Equella Administrator
» Mary.Glynn@quinnipiac.edu
Mary Glynn
4. Community News
Meetings
» openEQUELLA Community Developer meeting
○ Discussed key features of 2019.1 - master list in github
■ Security Manager from Admin Console to Web UI
■ Search from Admin Console to Web UI
■ Selection Session from Admin Console to Web UI
■ Blackboard LTI / REST integration
○ Frequency of meetings → monthly
» openEQUELLA Advisory Board meeting
5. Community News
Highlights
» Community repo provisioned
○ Global community repository
■ Content is Public Domain
○ Share ideas and best practices with fellow adopters
○ https://community.edalexcloud.com/
» Release of 2018.2
○ New release naming ( YYYY.N )
■ 6.5 → 6.6 → 2018.2 → 2019.1
○ Release guide
○ Demo installer / upgrade on github releases
6. Sustaining Engineering in Q4 2018
Completed Efforts
» Solidify Docker work
» Open source an example of modernizing the 6.5 theme
» Documentation
» Path forward on Blackboard integration
○ Sunset Building Block / Web Service
○ Build out straight LTI / REST abilities
○ Well positioned to implement LTI / REST Pull-to-LMS
and Push-to-LMS in 2019.1
7. Release of 2018.2
openEQUELLA 2018.2 Released!
» Summary and Attachment View Counts
» Streamlined openEQUELLA Resource Attachments
» New UI Theme Editor ( plus Logo Editor)
» Scripting API Enhancements
» Course Selector
» Log HTTP Referrers
» Docker
» * Note - search facets were removed in 2018.2, hopefully
will return in 2019.1
Full guide and image locations: 2018.2 Features Guide
11. Release of 2018.2
Scripting API Enhancements
» Enhanced traversal with XMLScriptType
○ XmlScriptType getParent()
○ List getChildren()
○ String getName()
» Enhanced navigation of the ControlScriptObject
○ ControlScriptObject getParent()
○ int getIndex(ControlScriptObject child)
» Build your own Scripting Javadoc!
○ sbt writeScriptingJavadoc
12. Release of 2018.2
Course Selector
» Course Selector widget is now searchable and scrollable
» Example use: Activating item attachments
Log HTTP Referrers
» meta column in audit_log_entry now tracks HTTP referrer
» Especially useful for LMS integrations
Docker
» Build Production-worthy installers / upgraders
» Runtime environment ***
13. Looking Ahead to Q1 2019
» Rebuild Blackboard integration (LTI / REST)
» Open Source EQUELLA Sync
» Priority backlog - OSS clients help drive this - let us
know!
» Continue to sunset Admin Console
○ REST API build out
○ Google Material Design UI
15. Agenda
• Introduce “Our Team”
• Discuss Equella Use Case
• Review Equella Collections
• Review Process and Roles in Defining the Collections
• Next Steps
16. Where is your Institutional
data stored?
More specifically, faculty data.
• Demographics
• Degrees
• Course Information
• Academic and Professional Experience
• Professional Designation
• Areas of Expertise and Social Media
• Biography and CV
• Intellectual Contributions
• Professional Development
• Service
• Grants, Awards, Honors
17. Collect Once, Reuse Often
• Accreditation
• Faculty Review
• Profile on Web
• Faculty Development Work Plan
• Faculty Collaboration
18. Collect Faculty Data in Equella
Demographics
Academic and Professional Experience
Professional Designation
Areas of Expertise
Social Media
Biography & CV
Annual Activities
Intellectual Contributions
(Publications)
Professional Development
Grants, Awards, Honors
Service
19. Faculty Demographics
• Existing data in ERP system
• Name
• Title
• Department
• Degrees
• Courses Taught
• Collect
• Academic and Professional
Experience
• Professional Designations
• Areas of Expertise
• Social Media
• Biography and CV
20. Faculty Activities
• Collect annually
• Intellectual
Contributions
(Publications)
• Professional
Development
• Grants, Awards,
Honors
• Service
21. Resource Summary Display
Freemarker
and HTML
Multiple Years List
utils.searchAdvanced
(Search for username)
<#list
searchresults.getResults()
as resultItem> (List results)
Tabs
CSS and HTML
22. Collection Definition
• School of Business was the first to adopt and
their goal was to eliminate paper binders and
generate accreditation reports.
• Collaborated with Dean and Associate Dean
• Defined fields, repeaters, dropdowns,
conditional fields
• Customized display data in Equella to view in
a more condensed format
• Defined and created reports for
Administrators and Faculty
• Accreditation reports
• Faculty CV type reports
• Faculty Review Reports
• Initial data entry was by students and it was
reviewed and updated by administrators This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC
BY-NC-ND
23. Roles and Support
• Dean, Administrative Support and Faculty
• Dean handles faculty communications and provides
direction
• Administrative staff support faculty and backfill data
• Faculty enter data going forward on an annual basis
• Equella Administrators and Academic Technology
Support
• Work closely with Deans, Administrative support and
Faculty
• Provide documentation and faculty support
24. Collect Once, Reuse Often
• Generate Reports
• Accreditation Summary Reports
• Faculty Review Report for multiple years
• Faculty Development Work Plan
• Excel exports
• Move data
• Faculty Profile to Public Website
• Collaborate
• Search and share data
25. Next Steps
• Roll out collections to additional schools
• Streamline Equella data collection
• Automate data exports
• Improve on sharing data and collaboration
26. Upcoming Events
» Unicon OSS Briefing Q1 2019
○ Web call - April 11
» Open Apereo 2019
○ Los Angeles, CA - June 2-6
» EDUCAUSE 2019
○ Chicago, IL - October 14-17
