Report for January 2019

NONE

N/A

DTI020 - Notifications Service - Rollout, Integrations and Subscribers

Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status :

GREEN

Report by Karen Stirling for January 2019

Achievements in last period

• WP0 Apereo Open Source

  • Notifications Backbone project renamed as 'Fiosan' for purposes of Apereo incubation process, this name was agreed on by the community https://www.apereo.org/projects/fiosan

  • Presentation at uPortal Developers Summit (30th January 2019) creating interest in Notifications from Sarbonne Universite, Paris

• WP2 Library & Cards –  further session held with Library contacts to review triggers, investigation further into alma webhooks and agreed to development if possible 2 triggers

• WP3 Exam Scheduler – Feedback received and reviewed with business team, next exams to be scheduled for April diet, exploring pilot groups to target with full roll out for December diet

• Project activity with Library and Helpdesk contacts

• Service team engagement with Student Surveys and Finance (outstanding student fees)

Issues

• Review and revise remaining milestones and assess any impact / dependencies form DTI044
• Main developer resource conflicts with DTI044 and annual leave planned from mid March to mid April therefore WP2 developments may not be able to commence until mid April
• Key helpdesk contact for library is leaving university at beginning of April

Next steps

• WP0 Apereo Open Source - MyEd and Notifications information being presented at ESUP:Portail Days/Apereo by Anne Marie Scott on 5th February 2019

• WP2 Library – estimate effort for 2 triggers for Library

• On-going engagement Library and Helpdesk team

• On-going engagement by Service team with Student Surveys to test notifications and perform load testing

• On-going engagement by Service team with Finance to test notifications

The project status is currently GREEN

DTI044 - UCP uPortal5, Content Migration and UI Redesign

Discretionary

Milestones

RAG Status: AMBER

Report by Ranald Swanson for January 2019

Achievements in Last Period

• Infrastructure and Framework

  • Configurations changes as required

  • EdGEL applied to uPortal 5 skin

  • React front-end updated in line with EdGEL application to uPortal

  • Navigation applied (still to be styled)

• UI and Student Validation

  • Tree test analysed and validated navigation decisions

• Content Migration – Channel Owner Engagement

  • Migration plan updated for Release 1.x (student opt-in) and Release 2.x (all user opt-in)

  • Additional migrated portlets ready for UAT

    • Careers Service resources,

    • MyCareerHub,

    • Print Credit,

    • Student Admin channel,

    • TopHat,

    • Courses,

    • EMail,

    • LEARN

    • Calendar

  • Online Distance Learning and Portal Support portlets signed off for deployment to Preview environment

• Project being managed with 2-week Agile sprints.

• Communications plan on schedule

Next Steps (to end-February) 

• Infrastructure and Framework

  • LIVE/Preview deployment (including “signed-off” portlets)
  • IDM integration
  • Impersonation
  • Favourites
• UI and Student Validation
  • Individual portlets and landing page
• Content Migration – Channel Owner Engagement
  • Card Photo, Card PIN, Notifications, Timetable on My Phone, Library, MyFinance, Online Voting, Student Finance by Staff, Study Tools, Announcements, Course Questionnaire, EUCLID launcher, Personal Tutor and Surveys portlets all to migrate for UAT

Risks and Issues

• https://secure.projects.ed.ac.uk/unpublished/project/dti044/risks/6 - At AMBER. Timescale for migration remain tight but risk lowered from RED due to progress on web proxy portlets.

• https://secure.projects.ed.ac.uk/unpublished/project/dti044/risks/5 - At RED. Risk of Technical Lead raised as key resources leaving UoE and resource plan still be agreed. Raises risks of delay to Releases 2 and 3. As this was a general resource risk, a specific risk has also been raised with more detail in https://secure.projects.ed.ac.uk/unpublished/project/dti044/risks/8