24 posts tagged with "computer science"
DREAM Series: Deployment and Reflections
24 June, 2019
The conclusive chapter on the DREAM series which followed many of the design and implementation choices that I encountered and made during its long development. Finally, deployment was at-hand and the system would undergo the full load of interactions which would expose any blind spots that were sure to exist from such a large project developed by only one developer. Despite this, the deployment went incredibly well.
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DREAM Series: The Miscellaneous Reports
20 June, 2019
Rounding out the reports functionality of the DREAM series are the reports that can be best categorized as the miscellaneous reports. This includes the Admission Documents Tracking report, the Enrollment Evaluation report, and the Placements Information report.
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DREAM Series: The Integrity Reports
17 June, 2019
Other reports commonly found within the assessment system are those responsible for generating information about missing data that should be collected through the assessment system such as assessment instrument submissions, background checks, and insurance checks.
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DREAM Series: The Statistics Reports
13 June, 2019
Many of the reports that needed to be carried over to the new assessment system could be described as the Statistical Reports. These reports are responsible for generating statistical information for many of the entities residing within the assessment system such as Clinical Instructors, Faculty, Enrollments, and even Disposition Infractions.
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DREAM Series: Student Life Cycle Reports
06 June, 2019
One important functionality of the assessment system is the ability to generate statistical reports for students in each phase of their academic careers such as Admission, Enrollment, and Graduation.
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DREAM Series: The Standards-Based Aggregate Reports
30 May, 2019
As I turn my attention back to the reports functionality of the assessment system, I develop what is called the Standards-Based Aggregate Reports, a close cousin of the Standard Instrument Aggregate Reports. However, this report can span multiple indicators across multiple instruments as long as they adhere to the chosen standards when generating the report.
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What It Takes To Have a Successful Website?
28 May, 2019
I survey five extremely popular websites to determine many of the different commonalities that may have contributed to their success and how you can apply these same properties to your own blog website if you're starting out.
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DREAM Series: The Disposition Infraction Process
23 May, 2019
The design requirements call for the ability to facilitate the formal disposition infraction process within the new system. However, each program follows a different process so I need to generalize it enough so that a user can build their program-specific process within the system.
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DREAM Series: Data Migration of Assessment Data, User Accounts, and More
17 May, 2019
The last steps in the migration process involve migrating the greatest amount of information, the assessment information. Once that information has been migrated over. It is time to finally migrate over the actual registered user accounts to this new system.
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DREAM Series: Data Migration of Enrollment and Admission Data
10 May, 2019
The next step included migrating over the admission tracking system information, enrollment information, user roles and permissions, and lastly the enrollment application settings. All in preparation for the migration of the assessment data itself.
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DREAM Series: Data Migration of Organization and Content Data
06 May, 2019
As development continued on the new system, I needed to migrate the information from the older system to the new system for both testing and the eventual deployment.
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DREAM Series: Automated Testing with Python and Selenium
03 May, 2019
As the new assessment system grew in both scope and functionality, I began to explore different avenues to automate repeated tests through the browser's interaction with the user interface.
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DREAM Series: The Standard Instrument Aggregate Reports
29 April, 2019
Once we have the assessment information present within the system from the multitude of Standard assessment instruments; we are ready to generate reports on this information. One type of these reports is the Standard Instrument Aggregate Reports.
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DREAM Series: The Standard Instrument Wizard and Multi-Level Permissions
26 April, 2019
Given the varied structure and behavior of the standard assessment instruments. There would need to be a creative and involved way to create new standard instruments within the new assessment system.
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DREAM Series: Representing the Standard Instrument structure in the database.
18 April, 2019
Generalizing the structure of the workhorse assessment instrument in the new system, the Standard Instrument.
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DREAM Series: Access Permissions for Instruments
15 April, 2019
Accommodating the multitude of access properties for instrument access and submission in the form of a collection of individual rules that must be satisfied.
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DREAM Series: Assessment data gathering through assorted instruments.
12 April, 2019
The most important functionality of an assessment system is the gathering of data for the purpose of assessment, this is the responsibility of the assessment instruments.
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DREAM Series: User roles, system design, and access control management.
04 April, 2019
One of the key features of the system is the ability to grant and limit the interaction between users and different functionalities of the system. This required revisiting the overall design of the system and how user roles were handled.
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DREAM Series: Generalizing the enrollment application process.
01 April, 2019
Student users submit an application for approval to generate their enrollments but each program has their own specific structure for this application? I determine the ideal way to generalize this process, allowing each program to create and change their enrollment application with the constant shifting requirements.
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DREAM Series: Restructuring and managing enrollment information.
29 March, 2019
One important functionality of the assessment system is to capture assessment data attached to distinct enrollments or courses. Unfortunately, different programs treat the process of creating and managing these enrollments differently.
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DREAM Series: Managing user accounts from within and content management.
25 March, 2019
Allowing administrative ability to govern user accounts and restructuring the content managed by the new system.
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DREAM Series: Organization from a hard-coded solution to a data-driven customizable solution.
22 March, 2019
Separating the structure and content of the system from the code itself to allow for complete customization.
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Nothing excites you about technology?
01 January, 2019
Overwhelmed with the breadth of the field of technology, how to find your specialization in a multitude of competing fields? How to generate excitement again, or for the first time.
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DREAM Series: The beginning of the design and development of a complete new system.
01 January, 2019
The beginning of a complete re-design and refactoring of a legacy LAMP system from the ground up.
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