1) I think Longsight did some investigation after the meeting day and in their follow-up report they recommended Assignment 2 because they found IU is already running it in production.



2) I wasn't in the migration/training breakout so I am not sure what the comment exactly was from Longsight. But I have checked with people from Georgia Tech and was told they had no problem with Gradebook 2 at all (actually they recommended it). Anyway this should be either a false story or a misunderstanding. According to Longsight's report, their major concern for Gradebook 2 is just the current low adoption rate in the community.



-Tom



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From: IT Services Sakai Team [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bruce D'Arcus

Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:44 AM

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Subject: does longsight know what they're doing?



I'm going to be blunt here, because I'm busy, and I want to get to the

point quickly.



Am I correct that Longsight recently told people here that:



1) IU is NOT running Assignment 2 in production (and therefore that we

shouldn't use it)?



2) that Georgia Tech had some major problems with Gradebook 2 (and

therefore we shouldn't use it)?



If this is true, both of these "facts" are wrong.



Well, to be specific, I confirmed that #1 is wrong (I talked to the

programmers and managers responsible for this directly at IU), and

have it on good authority #2 is wrong (we know the people there).



If this is true, then it suggests we need to be much more diligent

with fact checking what these consultants are telling us.



And it also means we need to call them on this and ask why they're

feeding us false information. The cynic in me wonders if they just

happen to have written their migration tools to work with A1 and GB1

and don't want to be bothered supporting other tools.



Bruce

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Bruce D'Arcus

Associate Professor, Graduate Director

Department of Geography

Miami University

234 Shideler Hall

Oxford, Ohio 45056