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kchung-07-08

May 24, 2012 By Kathy Chung

April 29th

1. efossil

April 1st

1. Asian American

April 1st

1. Asian American

March 25th

1. Humanities
2. African American

March 11th

1. African American
2. Rhetoric

March 4th

1. Middle East Scans: Corrections
2. Rhetoric

Feburary 26th

1. Middle East Scans: Corrections?
2. African American Splash

Feburary 19th

1. Berlin Combined Images Done
2. Replace Images

Feburary 12th

1. Berlin Combined Images – couple more to go!
2. Will be working with Nicole on subtitling

Feburary 4th

1. Berlin Slides DONE!! Found the missing slide!
2. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials (Buffalo)
3. Berlin Combined Images

January 29th

1. Color Correction

December 3rd

1. Vietnamese Project
2. Hake Project

November 26th

1. Hake Project

November 19th

1. Vietnamese Powerpoint
2. Hake Project – color correction

November 12th

Hake Project – color correction

November 5th

Hake Project – color correction

October 29th

Hake Project – color correction

October 22nd

1. Hake Project – color correction
2. Finished 3 slides for Vietnamese Powerpoint

October 15th

1. Hake Project – almost done scanning
2. Met with Carrie Wells on color correction for slides
3. Finished OCR for Anthropology
4. Start on another round of slides for Vietnamese Powerpoint

October 8th

1. Scanned Slides for Hake Project (173 slides to go!)
2. Anthropology documents scanned
3. Finish Lesson 3 from Vietnamese Project

October 1st

1. Got slide scanner!! Work on those!

September 25th, 26th

1. Scan photos for Berlin Project

September 24th

1. Work on 412k Lesson 3 pics
2. Awaiting people to add to 412k Lesson 3

September 21th

1. Complete set up 412k Lesson_2

September 20th

1. 412k deadline moved up
2. Completed Lesson_2_pic_1

September 14th

1. Finished 604 Lesson_5_pic_1

September 11th

1. Meeting with Julio
2. Worked on 604 Lesson_5_pic_1

September 10th

1. Talked to Jamie about Vietnamese Powerpoint Project
2. Finished 412k Lesson_1_pic_3

September 7th

1. Worked on Wiki and tile

Filed Under: 2007 - 2008

dchoi-07-08

May 24, 2012 By David Choi

Flash Aids Open Source Projects
Future of Flash against competing technologies

Video tutorials on Flash

Adobe video tutorials

Accessibility for Flash: Best Practices for Flash Player Detection

Combination of text and video tutorials on Flash

livedocs for Flash CS3 (Same as the Help documentation in Flash CS3)

Adobe Developer Connection

Papervision 3D Wiki – Flash 3D Engine

Example of Papervision 3D

2D Flash Physics Engine

Open Source 3D Creation Suite, like Maya, and 3DStudioMax

email: choi.david.e@gmail.com Flash Preloaders are a waste of time, if you need to entertain people why it loads, just create a simple animation. Preloaders add size and require unnecessary computations to the overall swf, as well as spending unnecessary time on developing the project

July 8th

  • laBelle

July 1st

  • Zoomv1 Modified: July 6th

May 15th

  • Working on zoom functionality.
    • Ran sent me a zoom type. Zoom1
    • Working on a slightly different zoom functionality type. leavesZoom derived from this Zoom2
  • Will meet up with Scott sometime in July.
    • He seems to be starting it from scratch on the restructuring of the code, using Flex 3 I think.
  • Trying to draw a gear and place multiple gears into flash to make audio function?
  • Theme- cross breed of this: Image 1 and a sketch: Image 2 or Image 3

April 28th

  • AWESOME: Cheap Touch pads maybe? Hurray for open-source communities!!

April 24th

  • leaves12v4 html
  • Krutie shows me an amazing flash book. (Its amazing because it seems to be made for flash player 6)
    • Medicine Book

April 18th

  • I now know why Flash exports html in an awkward way, at least in my case.

April 17th

  • leaves12v4
  • leaves12v3

April 1st

  • leaves12v2

March 26th

  • testing
    • leaves12m

March 24th 2008

  • I have been working on the next page button and prev page button but it is now rendering slower than before, so I e-mailed Olin about changing back to a previous layout of leaves.
  • Also it shows the bottom text so everything looks scattered.
    • leaves12v1
    • leaves11v7

March 18th 2008

  • Sketched out an idea for button.

March 4th 2008

  • Working on leaves of grass in general. (all unfinished)
    • Cleaning up the code.
    • Trying to find a way to speed up animations.
    • Re-working on button placements and different approach
      • Progress: leaves12
      • Previously on: leaves11v9alt

February 19th 2008

  • Have been working on page flip, text flip.

February 2nd 2008

  • Modified title animation(changed the speed at which fading occurs).
    • Decision?
  • Found out about the magic of runtime bitmap caching. Makes my animation run much smoother.
    • * do not go back in leaves

January 30th 2008

  • Changed all text within leaves to Times New Roman
  • Edited title button animation(changed rates of alpha tweens)

January 28th 2008

  • finished animating leaves of grass title
  • finished line number buttons
  • started re-working on page flip
  • filled out timing array for audio testing and start on audio testing.
  • removed facsimiles (reduced file size by about 86.7%) * do not go back in leaves
  • Olin sent me an link of a page animation without the text moving with the page.
    • main3

December 3rd 2007

  • finished tracing leaves of grass title
  • exported another video in flash (.swf) for hmiller project Jesus in American Culture

November 21st 2007

  • Talked with Olin over line buttons and arrays
  • Things to do
    • Create a line button function.
    • Place all the buttons on the electronic side only.
    • Finish animating the leaves of grass title.
    • Replace the facsimiles with the full page (not cut-offs) and straighten facsimiles pages.

November 16th 2007

  • Finished working on importing facsimiles
  • Added in play, stop, pause buttons and others
  • Fixed a few things on the hmiller flash videos
    • Still need to fix skin player problem

November 15th 2007

  • Begin working on importing facsimiles
  • Met with Tim and Daniel
    • Worked on importing hmiller videos into flash player

November 12th 2007

  • Begin animating the L,e, and v of title.
 Click Here to See: titleTopButton-> roll over Animation
  • Previously created button
 Click Here to See: modeButton-> mouse-click Animation
  • Design of leaves of grass (aka song of myself)
 Click Here to See: leaves_v2_redesign1.swf

November 10th 2007

  • Finished tracing L,e,v of title.

November 5th 2007

  • Finished leaf tracing #1
  • Begin tracing Leaves of Grass title.

November 1st 2007

  • Close to finishing leaf tracing
  • Animated leaf in flash

October 26th 2007

  • Created a simple motion tween for bookmark drop down.
  • Continued practice tracing lines in illustrator cs3.

October 24th 2007

  • Discussed with Gregg over how to implement words flipping with page using xml alongside actionscript
  • Practiced with illustrator cs3 on a drawing

October 20th 2007

  • Reworked several frames on page flip.
  • Begin working on a way to make text flip with page. (Finding a way to reapply code(actionscript) in a different way(page animation is frame by frame so I changed text box into frame by frame))
    • I went and cut the text out of the main timeline and placed it within the movie clip timeline and skewed the text box on each frame so as to look like the text is on the page flipping.
      • How to make it so the text will not change frame by frame, how to upload text into dynamic text box, and how to make it go to next set of text after it reaches the frame where it goes to next page on the animation).

October 19th 2007

  • Slightly re-adjusted page_flip animation to fit new page look

on book

  • Trying to figure how to integrate text with page flip animation
  • Got front cover of book
  • Flash group meeting
    • Advance Button Practicing (Creating buttons as a movie clip)
      • Worked on applying more actionscript on different objects: movie clips & buttons. Got more aquainted with library.
      • Timeline for main scene (realm 1) vs. movie clip timeline (realm 2).
      • Went over generally where to apply or put actionscript (on layer vs. on objects vs. layer on a different timeline within an object)

October 12th 2007

  • Flash group meeting
    • Practice Button making in flash with basic actionscript.

October 10th 2007

  • Created a general idea of bookmark

October 7th 2007

  • Trying out different page animations with after effects with Corinna’s help
  • Looking at several other page animations

October 5th 2007

  • Flash Group meeting

October 3rd 2007

  • Got help with actionscript from Greg and made button animate.
  • Still working on page flip animation.

October 1st 2007

  • Decided on 5th book design with some touch-ups

September 28th 2007

  • Worked on page animation
  • Scanned bookmark material that Suloni gave me
    • Begin working on bookmark
  • Scanned bookmark material
  • Practiced Flash with Greg

September 27th 2007

  • Several redesigns of book image for Leaves of Grass:

September 24th 2007

  • Changed paper texture of the book for leaves

September 21st 2007

  • Begin redesigning Leaves of Grass (Song of Myself) button
  • Begin redesign Leaves of Grass Intro
  • Flash Group meeting
    • Discussed each person’s experience and level of ability in flash
    • Briefly discussed different aspects of flash such as motion tweens and actionscripting

September 19th 2007

  • Worked on text animation flash for Song of Myself
  • Meeting at 1:00 PM (Overviewhttp://wikis.la.utexas.edu/sta/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.DavidChoi

View)

  • Discussed over
    • design direction -> (realism)
    • the roles of each person who partake in building this project
    • which text to use (comparison text vs. electronic text / or both)-(testing)
    • location of working files
    • what types of images to use
    • animation style and text style
  • Tested parts of https://dev.laits.utexas.edu/di/engine (Daily Intelligencer) site.

September 17th 2007

  • Recieved prototype of Paradise Lost
  • Restart on background image.
  • Simplified wiki page.

September 14th 2007

  • Begin to work on background images and animations

September 12th 2007

  • Begin to work on Song of Myself flash

September 10th 2007

  • Updated Wiki

September 5th 2007

  • Created Tiles -> ->

Filed Under: 2007 - 2008

mchen-07-08

May 24, 2012 By Michael Chen

      

Summer Work

Quick Quick collage for Classics!

Comparative Literature for now!

My somewhat misguided and silly representation of western civ.

Week of April 20, 2008

This week I put the rest of the countries on their individual pages, and have started work on the Western Civilization banner.

Week of April 13, 2008

I have definitively solved the mystery of the backwards Arabic text. I used text edit on the Arabic Editing Station (STA 8), and it displayed the text connected and in the right order. Some of the pages are done. I need to retrace some of the smaller countries before I can finish some of the individual pages.

Week of April 6, 2008

This week we are preparing our wikis and practicing for the presentation.

Week of March 31, 2008

I came up with another banner for Asian American. It has it’s moments, but I think it could be worked on some more.

Also it seems like the Arabic Dialects project is coming back.

This top example is backwards while the bottom is correct. However, according to Dart the Arabic grad student the text isn’t connected and he believes Professor Brustad will have a problem with that.

I am working on filling in gaps and trying out my options on the main map page.

Week of March 24, 2008

First things first I edited the humanities page.

I tried a few different ideas for the Asian American banner but I’m not sure if I have any coherent ideas.

Week of March 17, 2008

I checked out a book from the library called The Sun: Symbol of Power and Life, and took images that I felt conveyed the purposes of the humanities which is the bridging of the disciplines between the arts and sciences. This week’s design is a little bit different because I thought that the image could transcend the navigation bar and envelope the whole page. My design is pretty heavy handed and it is tough to know if it could adequately represent something as broad as the Humanities Program. The images are all copied from the book and would need to be altered before it can be used.

Week of March 3, 2008

I finished up the navigation page for the African and African American studies.

This week I worked on the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. I wanted to change things up and tried to give the department a more contemporary look. I was influenced by typography and the use of font as design. It still doesn’t quite look cohesive yet and could be more thought out.

Week of February 25,2008
I continued my colorful interpretation of Yoruban art and I may have taken the colors too far…it is hard to know when to stop. I will move on to the English project next and I will try to have something to show my Thursday.

Week of February 18,2008
On the cover icon I finished my work on the background and I changed the color to better match the rest of the Med-Term site. Now it just needs to be approved.

I also tried my hand at the Africa website. And I was thinking about bright bold colors. Unfortunately, my tile at the left is totally plagiarized from an Yoruban artist, but that could easily be changed if we like the design.

Week of February 11, 2008
I went back and reworded some textures in the skin.

Due to some slow downs I still have a little more work to do on the cover design.

Week of February 4, 2008

This is the first time that I feel like I’m really on a roll with this project, and I’m almost done. I’m almost sad, but then again I still need to hurry up and finish it.

 

Week of January 28, 2007

I color-corrected a few slides, and it looks like we zapped them all for now.

Illustrator and I have decided to settle our differences, and I was able to make some progress with the med-terms cover. I will try to finish it by next week.

Week of January 21,2007
We are back and doing color correction.

Before

After

Before

After

Week of December 10, 2007
We are another step closer to having a cover page. It still has a ways to go.

Week of December 3, 2007
I have finished the urinary slide.


I made the composition of my cover page stronger, and I think it looks better.

Week of November 26, 2007
I have been working on the urinary slide, and I have a little more ways to go.

This is a rough draft of the cover design for the med-terms. Nothing is set in stone and there could be many changes. In fact I’m sure there will be many changes.

Week of November 19, 2007
In between spending time with my family and eating turkey I was able to do some color correction.

Before

After

I started working on the urinary slide.

This is how much I’ve done:

Week of November 12,2007
The slides keep coming! I corrected a few more.

Before

After

I am continuing my work on my med-term slide:skin. It is closer to getting done. I need to fill in some skin cells and patterns.

Week of November 5, 2007
I am continuing color correction I think we are almost done.
I took a little time to clean up some of the gaps in my map.
I have also started on my med-term: skin.



There is a lot more work to do!

Week of October 29,2007
I am color correcting photos now. Here is a sample of what they look before and after.

Ok they don’t really have that much glare. It actually looks more like this.

I have also been able to put in the text onto the map. There is dark text for the default map and light text for the dark map. I also created a sample of what the map could look like with water.

Week of October 22, 2007
I am finishing up moving everthing from photoshop to illustrator and I am going back and adding in new countries.
Let us welcome: Tunisia, Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Kuwait.
I am trying to clean up the lines so that they it matches up with the countries.
The smaller countries are somewhat difficult to see, when the map is far away, and Bahrain is practically invisble. So we’ll probably have to enlarge it somehow.
The map on top is the default map. The map on the bottom shows the color change that occurs when clicking on the individual countries.


Week of October 15, 2007
I’m moving all the countries from photoshop to illustrator, and have put light and dark washes over them.
Meetings
In flashgroup we worked on making buttons and getting acquainted with scripting.

Week of October 8, 2007
I have broken down all the countries on the map and I am coloring each one. In between I am scanning slides and it looks like were almost done!


Meetings
I met with Carrie Wells to learn about color correction.
I met with Daniel Garza to discuss fixing the powerpoint presentations.
I attended the tail end of the ASL meeting.
In flash group we discussed how to make buttons and links.

Week of October 1, 2007
I have finished tracing and naming the rest of Africa and Europe on the map. Since this is an Arabic map I have referenced Arabic calligraphy, maps, and paintings to develop a sample color palette. I have also created a sample of the colors, shapes, and textures of what the map could possibly look like when it is finished.

Map of Europe and Africa

Sample Map
This is just the style I propose for the map. It is a close-up of the Arabian Penninsula and the Texturize Ocean.

Sample Color Palette
(Look carefully! Do you see the grey dots?)

Week of September 24, 2007
The map of Africa was good practice in illustrator and will serve as the beginning of the Arabic dialect project.

Week of September 17, 2007
I’ve already told the guys that we’re going to put the project on hold. We tried out various styles, but it hasn’t really come together yet. They said it was no big deal and they’ll just be hanging out for a while.

Week of September 10, 2007
Ok now my tile is ready to go.

                                 

Filed Under: 2007 - 2008

cortiz-07-08

May 24, 2012 By Corinna Cortiz

Corinna Ortiz email: gemininin@yahoo.com

April 29

  • is in finals hell!
  • not much to do, just played around in illustrator and flash, nothing to show

April 8

  • Going to make links and before after pics for presentation
    • possibly edit together a video as well
  • Berlin Slides
    • Learned the basics of color correcting
  • Kelm videos
    • became more familiar with final cut
    • more familiar with shooting in a studio
    • more familiar with digitizing
  • Icons and web page designs
    • learned the purpose of using illustrator
    • learned how to use illustrator
    • learned how to combine illustrator with photoshop
  • Vietnamese Powerpoints
    • Learned how to match styles
    • Sharpened photoshop skills
  • I’ll add more as I remember more

April 1

  • Final Humanities Pages
  • March 25
    • Humanities banner bare bones structure
    • Still need to change colors of website and choose font.
    • Have 3 different layouts now I need to fill in circles with pictures.

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3

Reference

  • March 16
    • Started learning about HTML from this website
    • http://www.how-to-build-websites.com
  • Spring Break
    • finished icons, waiting on feedback
  • Final layout

March 4

  • Drawing paper that is believable is hard!!
  • Glasses variations

February 26

  • Another icon done

February 19

  • helping Daniel with Take 5 shoot
    • make up
    • set up
    • striking
    • filming
  • Orlando Kelm’s Spanish and Portuguese classes
    • filming
    • set up
    • digitizing
    • editing
  • Spanish Icons
    • almost done tracing flag details

February 6

  • finished tracing flags

February 1-5

  • started flag icon

January 31

  • started flags icon
  • color corrected

before

after

January 30

  • Filmed for Orlando Kelm’s spanish and portuguese classes
  • digitized videos
  • color corrected

January 29

  • working on closed lips but you have to click the link because it won’t upload as a jpeg

Attach:lips_closed2.bmp

January 27

  • Just realized I corrected a slide that was already done
  • I’m completely confused about all the slide business

January 25

  • Color Correction
    • before
  • after

January 23

  • Finished ear portion of listening icon
  • started putting together mock up of icons on page layout

January 17

  • shadowed mark and laura at Roe V. Wade speech

January 15

  • met with gary and suloni about future projects

December 16-18

  • started tracing and coloring listening icon

?-December 15

  • finished open mouth icon
    • without tongue
  • with tongue

December 3

  • finished both
  • The few book sketches that my wiki still won’t let me upload

Novermeber 27

  • Another book sketch

November 26

  • Assigned to Spanish TA website
    • Started researching Icon Design
    • quick book icon sketch
  • Taken off of Berlin

November 17

  • final lesson 15 slides

November 6-12

  • Law and Democracy
    • Turned all countries into movie clips and buttons
    • Made all countries white
    • Fixed Chile and Dominican Republic
  • Vietnamese Power Point
    • started lesson 15 for 604
  • Berlin Slides
    • finished 2 more

October 31-November 5

  • Berlin Slides
  • Lesson 11 604 PP
  • Meet with Greg after meeting

October30

  • Sent audio to Kevin to be fixed

October 29

  • I have better grammar now
  • More Berlin slides…fun!
  • Meeting with Kevin about audio tomorrow during Lab Hours

October 26

  • A sleep deprived Corinna does a brief flash meeting, and more work on the Berlin slides and had a brief meeting with Orlando. All we do now is send out our footage to Mike for sound work. 🙂 more filming next week.

October 22-24

  • berlin slides
  • met with carrie about color correction

October 22

  • finished lesson 6 pic 1
  • finished lesson 6 pic 2

October 19

  • flash meeting
  • made more buttons

October 18

  • met with orlando and kevin
  • decided which takes to use

October 15

  • done video editing, cleaning up sound
  • make sure to finish PP slide by the 22nd!
  • remember to bring jump drive to put button on server!

October 12

  • edited more portuguese
  • david taught flash group and my button was the best!

October 11

  • edited portuguese

October 9

  • finished lesson 6 dialogue 6
  • scanned berlin slides

October 5

  • portuguese shoot

October 4

  • worked on slide
  • flash group
  • scanned slides

October 3

  • another slide done!

October 2

  • finished lesson 2 dialogue 3

October 1

  • adding people to vietnamese slide lesson 6 pic 3 not done
  • Berlin slide system in effect today!

September 28

  • failed miserably at organizing berlin slides
  • shot dog scene for Portuguese project
  • started action scripting at flash meeting

September 27

  • re-scanned Berlin book photos

September 25

  • scanned Berlin book photos

September 21

  • shot breakfast scene for portuguese project
  • finished lesson 3 pic 3

September 19

  • meeting with kevin
  • finished lesson 6 dialogue 6

September 18

  • fixed timesheet
  • finished lesson 6 dialogue 4
  • finished Lesson 6 Dialogue 3

September 14

  • Started Lesson 6 Dialogue 3
  • remember meetings with Kevin

September 13

  • Finished Lesson 5 Dialogue 5

September 11

  • 3 more tiles
  • started lesson 5 dialogue 5 for Vietnamese Power Point

September 10

  • Tile work finished
  • added email address
  • talked to Jaime about Vietnamese project
  • emailed Nicole about Portuguese project
  • email Julio about Vietnamese project
  • SEE JAMIE TOMORROW DURING SHIFT!

September 7

  • Meeting about video
  • More Wiki Work

September 4

  • Assigned work
  • Finished photoshop
  • Started Tile

August 28

  • Site Created
  • Work on tile
  • Work on photoshopping self…photoshoping…photo shopping?

Filed Under: 2007 - 2008

gchoi-07-08

May 24, 2012 By Gilok Choi

                                         

Feb 19, Tuesday Finished the first set of quiz files.

  1. All Kanji section
  2. Grammar section
    1. Yookoso Vol. 2 (JPN 412L)
      1. Chpter 4 Review Quiz – particles
      2. Chapter 4 Review Quiz – sentences
      3. Chapter 5 Review Quiz – particles
      4. Chapter 5 Review Quiz – sentences
      5. Chapter 6 Review Quz – particles
      6. Chapter 6 Review Quiz – sentences
      7. Chapter 4, 5, 6 Review Quiz – particles
      8. Chapter 4, 5, 6 Review Quiz – sentences
      9. Chapter 4, 5, 6 Review Quiz – sentence structures (forms)
    2. An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese (JPN 320K – Advanced Reading)
      1. Chapter 1 Particles — Review Quiz
      2. Chapter 1 Grammar — Review Quiz
      3. Chapter 2 Particels — Review Quiz
      4. Chapter 2 Grammar — Review Quiz
      5. Chapter 3 Particles — Reveiw Quiz
      6. Chapter 3 Grammar — Review Quiz
      7. Chapter 4 Particles — Review Quiz
      8. Chapter 4 Grammar — Review Quiz
      9. Chapter 5 Particles — Review Quiz
      10. Chapter 5 Grammar — Review Quiz
      11. Chapter 6 Particles — Review Quiz
      12. Chapter 6 Grammar — Review Quiz

Feb 05, Tuesday

  1. finish the first set of files
    1. login

Jan 29, Tuesday

  1. copying quizzes to Kanji files
    1. login

Nov 18,Monday

  1. started working on actual files
    1. kanji
    2. supposed to meet the professor, Suito today but she did not show up.

Nov 4,11 Monday

  1. Finish admin pages for the Japanse website
    1. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/gilok/p_login.html
    2. will email the professor, Suito to talk about the site
    3. started working on the quiz files: kanji
  2. php Quiz site
    1. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/gilok/test/quiz_b1/quiz.php
    2. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/gilok/test/quiz_b2/quiz.php

Oct 29 Monday

  1. met professor, Naoko and found I was working on the wrong project”
    1. She does not want to use the quiz creator.
    2. She wants to add a submit button for sending students’ scores.
    3. She also wants a display page which shows students’ scores.
  2. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/kanji/ijc/ijccompreadquiz/325k/325k_ijcrq_ch1_read.htm
  3. found the directory Kyle was working on for the display of student scores.

Oct 22 Monday

  1. created “professor insertion page”
         http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/quiz/add_pro.php
  1. created “professor edit page”
         http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/quiz/edit_pro.php
  1. created a database table for professor insertion and edit pages.

Oct 8, 15 Monday

  1. finished “make a quiz procedure”
  2. almost finished “display quizzes procedure” except displayQuiz.php
  3. created a CSS file (quiz_style.css) and applied it to the whole quiz files
  4. moved the database tables from persian site to the Japanese site, and changed db info in the access file
  5. added a navigatin to the original quiz page
  6. moved whole files to the live server
         http://www.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/quiz/index.html

Oct 1 Monday

  1. Start working on quiz wizard.

link http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/japanese/joshu/persian_test/makeQuiz.php

Sep 27 Thursday Here is a summary of Kyle’s email.


MySQL tables——————

1. proflogin: This contains the username, password, and actual name of each professor

2. quiz: This contains all the information about a quiz (ID#, subject, class, textbook name, english name, the actual questions and answers, etc.)

Notes:

  1. questions, choices, and answers are serialized PHP arrays, so to retrieve them, you must run unserialize(questions) and unserialize(choices) and unserialize(answers) to get the actual PHP variables after pulling the text from the DB.
  2. Due to an error on my part, you must pull out questions, choices, answers, and instructions without issuing the MySQL query “SET names ‘utf8′”.
  3. The rest of the fields you should pull out via a SELECT query /after/ issuing the query “SET names ‘utf8′”.
  4. I think you can fix this problems by doing pulling out the question/choice/answer/instructions, then issuing SET names ‘utf8’ and then updating with the question/choice/answer/instructions again.
  5. I’d make a backup of the DB before trying this or else all data will be messed up.

3. ID# should automatically fill itself in.

4. type is not fully fleshed out right now.

 1) 0=fill-in-the-blank,  2) 1=a drop-down or something, etc.

Check my code and compare it with the original JOSHU site to see what these are supposed to be in order to verify.

5. subject will eventually be “grammar” “conjugation” or whatever it should be, as taken from the tabs at the top of the JOSHU site.

6. Class only applies in certain situations, such as 412K chapter review quizzes and such (in which case, the class field would be set to “412K”.


quizresults

This contains the results of each student’s quiz results after submitting them to the prof.

1. name is the student’s name.

2. quizID is equal to the id field in the quiz table.

3. profname should ideally be populated only by values that are usernames in the “proflogin” table.

4. score is the score (a float, I think)

5. answers is the list of student answers

6. class is the class of the student.

  1. Hopefully this can become a drop-down as well, but you might want to ask Suito if she even needs this field to be used at all.
  2. I intended it to be populated by values such as “330” “320K” “412L” etc. These are the 3-number or 3-number-and-one-letter codes for the classes (such as JPN 330) in the course catalog.
  3. To retrieve this data, you must first issue the MySQL query “SET names ‘utf8′”. This allows us to use unicode properly. Also make sure when you insert data, you preface the INSERT or UPDATE with this query as well!

TODO list

1. Create a method for the professor to create quizzes and have it automatically store the quiz stuff in the database.

2. Create a way for Suito (as the “administrator professor”) to add other professors and allow them to use the database technology

3. Create a way for, at the end of the semester, each professor to,say,generate a PDF of records of their students’ scores or whatever and then remove the records from the database

4. Create a way for a professor to change their username and password.

5. Change the quiz.php code at the bottom, so instead of the student having to type in the prof’s name, have them choose from a drop-down list. This way, typos won’t create problems for our code. This can easily be done by querying the “proflogin” table and getting the names/usernames from there.

6. Right now, when a student submits a quiz via quiz.php, the password is “suito”. Perhaps add a way for the admin prof (Suito here) to change this via a form or something.

You can see what I’ve done so far with this in studentSubmit.php, which submits the data given to it from quiz.php and stores it in the MySQL table “quizresults”.

7. Finish going through all the quizzes on JOSHU and adding them to the “quiz” MySQL table.

I’ve done a lot of them, and I’ve included a PHP file in my testing folder within JOSHU so you can see what quizzes have been completed.

8. Along with #7, there needs to be methods written to display the quiz types other than fill-in-the-blank types (such as drop-down selection type quizzes). You can view the HTML source code for this type of quiz on JOSHU and just use the HTML/CSS from those pages. I did that for other types.


Minimum TODO

  1. Make the professor-Logout.php do something better than just sending the prof to the JOSHU main page. Perhaps have a page that says “you are now logged out.” or something.
  2. Make a better way for professors to access their admin pages (e.g.,professor-Login.php, professor-GradeView.php, etc.).
  3. Talk to Suito about professor-GradeView.php (can only be accessed after logging in via professor-Login) and see if she needs any other statistical data. Perhaps some sort of way to list quizzes only taken after a certain month, so even if suito doesn’t want to remove the data from previous semesters for data purposes, she can still avoid having them obstruct her view of current students’ performance.
  4. Make professor-Login.html not so ugly?

quiz.php, which generates any quiz for a student to take

list.php, which will hopefully eventually be cleaned up and made to look like a spruced-up regular JOSHU select-your-quiz page that fits in with the rest of the site.

insert.php Don’t mess with this. I’m not sure if it’s still on the JOSHU site or if I deleted it.

fix.php:Just delete it.

displayQuiz.php Just a quick and dirty way of making sure the quiz questions and answers were stored properly.

add.php Same as fix.php and insert.php

Sep 21 Friday

  1. The javascript function was almost working but…..
  2. Emily changed her mind about the menu and brought a new staff
  3. He (new staff) just wanted me to change the css and I did.
  4. At this point, I do not have something to work on.
  5. persian_online website

Sep 13 Thursday

  1. met with Emily
  2. started working on javascript main menu

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