vancouver island university's transition to continuous delivery
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Vancouver Island University's Transition to
Continuous Delivery
Presented by Melissa Robertson and Stephanie BoychukCentre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
Meet Your Presenters!
Melissa RobertsonLearning Technologies Support [email protected]
Stephanie BoychukLearning Technologies Support [email protected]
Presentation Outline
• Our Background• Change History• Why Continuous Delivery (10.4)?• Change Management• Testing 10.4 and D2L Support• Documentation, Communications and Resource
Development• Changes to Testing Workflow for Service Packages• Conclusions – Where To Next• Questions? Feedback?
Our Background
550 Permanent Faculty200 Sessional Faculty
17, 000 students
Our Background
D2L 10.0March 2012
Moodle 1.92012
Change History
D2L 10.2May 2013 D2L 10.4
Summer 2014
Why Continuous Delivery (10.4)?• Less Downtime• Fewer issues to report • Testing cycle less cumbersome• Some functional improvements• Opportunity to be first in the world!
Change Management
• Evergreen videos and handouts
• Communication for major change only
• Follow up on resolved PRBs
• Institutional Hardware / Software
• Known Issues• Resolved PRBs
D2L Documentation
ReviewTesting
Developing Documentation
Selective Communicatio
n
Testing Continuous Delivery (10.4) and D2L Support
Fully tested all tools3 people testing for 1 month prior to transition
Issues/Concerns reported directly to development team at D2L
Documentation, Communications and Resource Development
Changes to Testing Workflow for Service Packages• Old testing workflow (1-3 Days)
• New testing workflow (<1 Day)
Check SP Documentation
Full Testing
All Tools
Full Testing All Environments
Compile Notes /
ConcernsDecision
Check D2L Community for
Release Notes and Known Issues List
Testing Specific to
DocumentationDecision
Conclusions & Where To Next
• Continue to keep pace with LSOne / 10.4 upgrades• Seeing more functional improvements to Brightspace• Less basic support for Brightspace needed – our staff
can focus on higher-level projects• Platform is allowing more courses to move to
blended and fully-online formats• Developing better accessibility standards
Questions? Feedback?
• We will be at the poster presentations at 3:25 today, come chat with us!
• We always welcome feedback, and you can find a feedback form for this session “Vancouver Island University's Transition to Continuous Delivery” in your MyFUSION Account and on the Mobile App.
Melissa Robertson – [email protected] Boychuk – [email protected]
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