Course/Instructor Evaluation Application
Date:
May 26, 2009 - 11:00am - 11:50am
Location:
TBA
Presenter/Moderator:
Brian Sutherland
Presenter/Moderator:
Mari Motrich At the University of Toronto Scarborough instructors have an option to choose between electronic and paper course evaluations. Data from both sources is fed into UTSC’s course evaluation application for analysis and the production of standardized instructor/course evaluation reports. Academic Chairs, departmental administrators and instructors receive various types of reports in different file formats, which enable them to conduct an assortment of independent analyses. Scarborough Campus Student Union (SCSU) representatives receive reports required for the production of SCSU’s Anti-Calendar.
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A blast from the past
Unless I am mistaken, this is what had started it all for me and Mikey. Sitting in the "dungeon" (our temp office) dreaming up ways to improve the world around us... :) I even remember our extension (we shared a phone line), it was 416-287-5611! This project started out of our existing course evaluation system's horrendous inflexibility. Later on it matured into a fairly powerful system that combined paper-based and electronic course review submissions.
Re: A blast from the past
Yup, the dungeon was awesome, it was also known as the closet to many people (you can see where certain jokes could come about due to its name) we were surrounded by lots of cool things. It was the place where computers from all around the campus were sent to die, both gracefully (and horribly for that matter). You're right though the system we created certainly has grown into a pretty neat (and might I mention "clean") looking system. I was very impressed by it after seeing it in action at TechKnowFile - good job everyone!
P.S. Sorry about leaving you some less than perfectly commented (highly abstract) sections of code...it was my renaissance period - security through obscurity ;) .
Abstract... NOT!
P.S. Sorry about leaving you some less than perfectly commented (highly abstract) sections of code...it was my renaissance period - security through obscurity ;) .
Hey, I'm sure you don't have any while loops in there that only execute once... :) If you want to see obscure code, check out the ResNet modem inventory stuff that I wrote in my spare time while eating lunch and answering phone calls from rez students and HPC users. Ahh, those were the days.
I guess code like that happens when the spec changes on the fly, while you're on the phone/coding.
Yarg?!
Sorry James (Scarborough Campus Res Dude), you are the proud owner of Rouben's infamous three lines code to 55 lines of commenting coding practices. Rouben, you did remove the Yarggg and Nargg success and failure messages from those scripts right?! ;)
What does yargg mean? I would try to explain it to everyone, but I believe it speaks for itself...
Thanks, guys
Rouben: I remember wondering why you showed up in some of the log files. Should have known you were standing beside Michael at the beginning of this app. Your bar code reading application we use at the help desk writ large will be the next big push to save paper, if it's up to me.
Michael: thanks for coming to the presentation; the UTM BMC folks are all iPhone users...count us in to test any UT apps you want to build.
Why no video?
Why no video? I even doesn't know the details of this project in my box :-).
:)
Michael, thank you for coming and support.
Regarding code, it is easy to manage and change ;)
Wesley, there is no video, because we was not recorded :) what I think is good :)
If you need more information regarding this project I can send you a presentation files ;)
You're Welcome
You're welcome...it was really neat to see what you guys have done with the system. Glad to be of assistance :)