QUESTIONS FROM THE IT TEAM OF ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE
1) What are the reasons for selecting SAKAI as your favorite learning management system?
2) What is your SAKAI infrastructure?
#3) Which database version did you choose to use for SAKAI Installation?
#4) Which operating system version are you using for SAKAI?
#5) How frequently do you apply SAKAI patches?
#6) Who provides you SAKAI maintenance and support?
#7) How do you resolve SAKAI issues?
#8) What are the resources that you use for resolving SAKAI issues?
#9) How is SAKAI integrated into Banner?
#10) Did you develop the integration tool or acquired it from a third party?
#11) What are the programming languages used to develop such an integration tool?
#12) Can you share with us the integration tool?
#13) Do you offer strictly online or hybrid courses?
#14) What are the SAKAI best practices that you adopt?
#15) How frequently do you purge the SAKAI data for previous semesters?
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HARDWARE AND INFRASTUCTURE QUESTONS
#16) What are the server specifications? (manufacturer, hardware and software specs, VMWare)
# 17) What type of storage do you use for the servers?
# 18) What type of backup system do you use?
# 19) Where are the servers hosted? (any cloud computing)
# 20) How do you load balance access to the system?
# 21) What is your Internet connectivity? (T1, DS3, DSL )
# 22) What is your client connectivity speed?
# 23) Any issues with client software when accessing the system? (eg. Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, toolbars)
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OTHER ISSUES:
#24) We know that some data from Banner tables such as: Roster, Course, Course Section, etc needs to be exported into Sakai in a CSV format. Does that data need to be parsed?
#25) Which Sakai tables need to be populated from external data source?
#26) Can you explain to us how you achieve mapping of fields from Banner to Sakai Course Management API
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