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Office of Institutional Research

Month: August 2016

Cycle 41

Aug 1 – Aug 12, 2016

Work Complete

Appreview

  • Can now add users that don't have a person record in the system.

Courses

  • Fixes in Uwnetid scrubber
  • Form defaults for course releases to speed data entry.

Student (STEP)

  • Report that lists edTPA scores for all students in a TEP cohort.

Student 2

  • Requirements gathering, meetings with SMEs including ECFS, TEP, OSS. Work out plan for Credit Counts, Milestones, and Placements.

Tech Support

  • Add departments to ticket system to allow Haring Center support requests to be tracked in same system.
  • Update email ingestion to allow email to eeutech@uw.edu to go to ticket system and to automatically be assigned Haring Center department.

Infrastructure

  • Build new web servers for Institutional Research. Install infrastructure software, applications and databases.
  • Move EDUC project to default application. Configure new server for UW authenticated portal and anonymous portal.
  • Redirect application that will display "Down" message during migration and then redirect to new server after.
  • Refine Shibboleth configuration and install notes. Shibboleth was having trouble redirecting back to the server after login in some cases.
  • Deploy scripts that sync bigweb to the new IRPROD server to make migration day fast and accurate.

 

Cycle 40

7/18/2016 – 7/29/2016

Work Complete

We were able to dig into our UW institiutional Amazon Web Services (AWS) account this cycle. AWS offers basic machine virtualization (EC2), but its more exciting features are the specialized services: object storage (S3), container hosting, specialized database services, etc. To make good use of AWS application should be architected to use services that support its components.

Our immediate need is development and staging environments for our production web server. Staging especially needs to be a close functional replacement for production. Getting AWS to closely emulate our UW production server means additional time and expense.

AWS is competitively priced, but it is not cheap cheap. Our largely idle EC2 instance used for early testing was ringing up about $1.25 a day. Comparing that to UW-IT lowered rate on Hosted Virtual Machines and we are not saving much with AWS.

So seeing extra administrative effort, poor replication of production environment, and comparable costs we have decided to put our staging environment on a UW-IT Hosted VM. This process will also move internal facing Institutional Research information systems to a separate server from the public facing college websites.

Appreview

  • Validate that rubric scope is unique and provide helpful form error. Rubric scope maps specific rubrics to applicants to specific programs and years.

Student 2

  • Settings tools to configure faculty.