FIRST

12/03/2008

11:13 AM Bug #3519: Proof of concept: Demographic data incorporation

student_id is now sharing the same encryption method used for importing assessment data. ben leinfelder

12/02/2008

05:29 PM Bug #3519: Proof of concept: Demographic data incorporation

after soliciting advice from our FIRST group, this is a proposal for the structure of the demographic data:
student_... ben leinfelder

12/01/2008

08:39 PM Bug #3519: Proof of concept: Demographic data incorporation

added a menu option to select a csv and add it as another data file in the edml package.
we need to determine exactly... ben leinfelder

11/26/2008

04:50 PM Bug #3692: Create QueryPlugin specific to FIRST version of Morpho

Based the "new" UI on the existing Morpho QueryPlugin. Removed the extra tabs that do not make sense in the FIRST con... ben leinfelder

03:01 PM Bug #3692 (Resolved): Create QueryPlugin specific to FIRST version of Morpho

The search dialog currently includes tabs that are only relevant to EML searches. ben leinfelder

02:44 PM Bug #3345: searching produces wrong and inconsistent results

changed the EDML schema to use elements rather than attributes. Now the search will work as expected ben leinfelder

11/25/2008

03:08 PM Bug #3345: searching produces wrong and inconsistent results

turns out we aren't searching element attributes.
the Assessment Title is currently stored in assessment/@title (i.e.... ben leinfelder

11/20/2008

03:48 PM Bug #3512: Expand keyword tagging beyond NBII lookup

-built Generic Vocabulary term selection page into Morpho (simple lists of terms as given in a VDEX XML document)
-ad... ben leinfelder

11/18/2008

06:06 PM Bug #3512: Expand keyword tagging beyond NBII lookup

re-worked this area of the UI. it still uses a new window for selecting terms from the vocabulary - but hopefully its... ben leinfelder

11/17/2008

05:03 PM Bug #3676: NBII Thesaurus lookup: "remember" last search results

repopulates the fields with one caveat: the initial "concept" drop down will return to the first item in the dropdown ben leinfelder

04:49 PM Bug #3676 (Resolved): NBII Thesaurus lookup: "remember" last search results

To reduce the webservice overhead, we don't want to force a new search every time we open the NBI lookup screen - oft... ben leinfelder

02:23 PM Bug #3625: Initial page on New Data Package Wizard has display issues

Ryan sayeth it looketh "good now" ben leinfelder

11:32 AM Bug #3513: Save assessment files with metadata and data

now saving the external files if they exist.
NOTE: we loose the file name when we do this since we transform it into ... ben leinfelder

11:12 AM Bug #3674: External Response file not saved in data table

used the unecrypted ID to look up the file mapping ben leinfelder

10:41 AM Bug #3674: External Response file not saved in data table

It appears that the assignment of the file happens with the student's real (unencrypted) ID, but then when the extern... ben leinfelder

10:30 AM Bug #3674 (Resolved): External Response file not saved in data table

I selected and mapped an external file for the responses, but it did not end up in the data table after the wizard fi... ben leinfelder

11/16/2008

08:07 AM Bug #3520: Provide a "generic" structured search field

added a drop down list with:
Assessment Title
Assessment Type
Assessment Duration
Course Term
we can add or remove f... ben leinfelder

11/14/2008

05:20 PM Bug #3653: Editing questions after parsing: need to handle ecogrid referenced images

now handles local ecogrid references in addition to local file paths for images ben leinfelder

11/13/2008

05:19 PM Bug #3625: Initial page on New Data Package Wizard has display issues

this is a windows problem - it looks great on the mac ben leinfelder

02:02 PM Bug #3512: Expand keyword tagging beyond NBII lookup

Need to rework the UI. In addition to thinking about it critically and in the light of "a bigger picture", some speci... ben leinfelder

09:05 AM Bug #3657: Interface to launch parser still confuses users

moved the menu item ben leinfelder

08:42 AM Bug #3657: Interface to launch parser still confuses users

I was thinking about moving it into the "Documentation" Menu as the first line (replacing the "Add/Edit Documentation... ben leinfelder

04:09 AM Bug #3665 (Resolved): Need to indicate where instructions for multi-part question go

When a student was trying to edit a multi-part question, it was unclear to her where the instructions common to the q... Ryan McFall

04:06 AM Bug #3664 (New): Allow exception pages for header/footer selections

When the user deletes a selection of type header/footer, we should ask them whether they want to delete it on all pag... Ryan McFall

04:01 AM Bug #3571: Add hourglass when switching pages on PDF

There is evidence from the student testing that switching pages can take a long time outside the vector rasterization... Ryan McFall

03:59 AM Bug #3663 (Resolved): Need better indication of how to remove images

Dragging images from the questions back onto the image pane doesn't seem like the most intuitive means of removing im... Ryan McFall

03:56 AM Bug #3662 (Resolved): Modify PDF pane navigation controls on vector rasterization page

Should next page and previous page navigate through the pages containing vector images rather than sequentially throu... Ryan McFall

03:54 AM Bug #3661 (New): Add ability to show bounding boxes around vector images

At this stage we won't attempt to auto-combine them, but we should at least be able to show where the vector images a... Ryan McFall

03:51 AM Bug #3660 (Resolved): Auto-scroll window when performing a selection

When an image is being selected and we need to scroll to see the whole image, we should try to figure out how to make... Ryan McFall

03:47 AM Bug #3659 (Resolved): Warn users if assessment has no question numbers

During the student testing, we encountered an exam that did not have any question numbers, and an exam that was a sca... Ryan McFall

11/12/2008

07:14 PM Bug #3658 (Resolved): Need to be able to save during parsing process

Right now you have to complete the entire process of parsing the exam; otherwise work you have done is lost. This sh... Ryan McFall

07:12 PM Bug #3657 (Resolved): Interface to launch parser still confuses users

Multiple times the testing students were still confused as to how to launch the parser if they didn't do it from the ... Ryan McFall

05:23 PM Bug #3653 (Resolved): Editing questions after parsing: need to handle ecogrid referenced images

When we save the Assessment Items as QTI documents, we also transform the URIs for those images into the ecogrid refe... ben leinfelder

04:54 PM Bug #3651: Invalid QTI serialization for hotspot image questions

needed a missing <render_hotspot/> tag to surround the <material/> element ben leinfelder

04:39 PM Bug #3651 (Resolved): Invalid QTI serialization for hotspot image questions

Error from metacat:
cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content starting with element 'material'. One of '{"":render_cho... ben leinfelder

04:15 PM Bug #3643: Invalid QTI serialization for image material

incorrect attribute spelling was used (i think QTI dropped the ball here):
"imagetype" was used but it should have be... ben leinfelder

12:08 PM Bug #3643 (Resolved): Invalid QTI serialization for image material

For parsed exams that include images, the QTI XML generated does not conform to the QTI specification. The error (in ... ben leinfelder

03:55 AM Bug #3629 (Resolved): Make it clearer where images can be dropped

If we are dragging and dropping an image, possible targets are highlighted when the mouse cursor is over them. Howev... Ryan McFall

03:53 AM Bug #3628 (Resolved): Question number (and choice number) included in prompt

Even when we successfully recognize the question number for a question, we are still including the number in the prom... Ryan McFall

03:45 AM Bug #3627 (New): May need way to select image from original document while editing questions

Consider page 3 of Exam3BS110s08dem.pdf, which has a food chain above question 6a. This food chain, unfortunately, s... Ryan McFall

03:39 AM Bug #3626 (Resolved): Too hard to find edit button on multi-part questions

If you scroll down to a subsequent part of a multi-part question, it is easy to lose where the edit button is, since ... Ryan McFall

03:29 AM Bug #3625 (Resolved): Initial page on New Data Package Wizard has display issues

When the initial page is displayed, there are two areas where the text is truncated. After the hyperlink "An Introdu... Ryan McFall

03:18 AM Bug #3622: Moving to next wizard page loses status of pages being ignored

Fixed by setting the status of the checkbox and telling the newly created pdfPane which pages to ignore in the constr... Ryan McFall

11/11/2008

02:35 PM Bug #3610: MorphoFIRST does not work with Morpho 1.6.2 jar

turns out the problem was just an old EDML schema on the server ben leinfelder

02:33 PM Bug #3603: Clean up data on fred.msi.ucsb.edu

deployed dedicated Metacat for FIRST:
http://bespin.nceas.ucsb.edu/first/
This will be the "clean room" ben leinfelder

10:29 AM Bug #3620: Dataquery across Assessments in the cart returns only one assessment

found the problem in the javascript that generates the dataquery request - just a little variable reference vs. value... ben leinfelder

07:08 AM Bug #3584: Switching wizard pages breaks previously existing selections

Modified milestone since I'm not going to be able to fix this by alpha2 Ryan McFall

06:59 AM Bug #3536: Allow PDF view to "pop out" of GUI parser

Another thing that would be very helpful for the PDF pane would be to have button shortcuts to "maximize" and "minimi... Ryan McFall

06:55 AM Bug #3624 (New): Show details about active selection in SelectIndividualText

Right now the notion of the current selection tool and information about the active selection are combined.
I thin... Ryan McFall

06:48 AM Bug #3623 (Resolved): Remove Selector from PDFPane in MainWindow unless selecting from text

Right now the Selector is active when not selecting from text. While this doesn't cause problems, any bugs in the Se... Ryan McFall

06:47 AM Bug #3622 (Resolved): Moving to next wizard page loses status of pages being ignored

To replicate - ignore a page of an assessment, click Next to go to the next wizard page (not the next page of the PDF... Ryan McFall

06:43 AM Bug #3621 (Resolved): Choose text from source needs attention

Since we moved to the new Selector code, I haven't paid any attention as to whether the selecting of question text fr... Ryan McFall

04:10 AM Bug #3447: NullPointerException on previous from ReviewColumnAssignments

Looks like submit was clicked twice on this one, it's a duplicate
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug... Ryan McFall

04:10 AM Bug #3446: NullPointerException on previous from ReviewColumnAssignments

*** Bug 3447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Ryan McFall

04:08 AM Bug #3538: Move to first non-ignored page when MainWindow first opens

Added code to the end of the wizardCompleted method in chooseAndImportPDF so that it does this. Ryan McFall

11/10/2008

04:59 PM Bug #3620 (Resolved): Dataquery across Assessments in the cart returns only one assessment

Something has happened with the dataquery form submission - my hunch is that it is a nesting form field problem with ... ben leinfelder

07:01 AM Bug #3615 (Resolved): Should check to ensure modifications actually occurred before moving to confirm edit state

If we don't actually move/resize the selection, then we shouldn't go into confirm edit state, we should just go back ... Ryan McFall

06:46 AM Bug #3614: Cannot delete selection after switching pages

This was due to not deleting old selections from the page that were headers and footers; only single selections on th... Ryan McFall

06:26 AM Bug #3614 (Resolved): Cannot delete selection after switching pages

To replicate, draw a header/footer selection, switch to the next page, and then switch back to the original page. Cl... Ryan McFall

11/09/2008

04:16 PM Bug #3584: Switching wizard pages breaks previously existing selections

Investigation of this shows that the method getFramePoint in Selectangle is returning a different point before the ve... Ryan McFall

11:10 AM Bug #3581: Vector rasterization page shows phantom move for old selection

Seems to have been fixed by most recent changes to Selector Ryan McFall

11:06 AM Bug #3583: Allow new selection to be made when rectangle is selected

This is completed in the most recent version of Selector Ryan McFall

11:05 AM Bug #3579: Ignored page painter doesn't work correctly with scroll panes

Fixed by using SwingUtilities.convertPoint to find the coorect point to draw the X Ryan McFall

11/07/2008

05:04 PM Bug #3610 (Resolved): MorphoFIRST does not work with Morpho 1.6.2 jar

After upgrading to the changes made for 1.6.2 in Morpho, I cannot save documents to the remote server.
Awesome! I'll... ben leinfelder

04:45 PM Bug #3604: Deploy FIRST-enabled Metacat on dev machine

now available:
http://bespin.nceas.ucsb.edu/first/
with no data ben leinfelder

11:18 AM Bug #3602: Edit wording in header graphic

The header graphic was changed to read as follows:
FIRST
Assessment Database
Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science... debi staggs