Supporting Sakai at the University of Michigan Sean DeMonner, Diana Perpich, Hannah Reeves,
June 8, Sakai at U-M CTools is local instance of Sakai (1.5 currently; 2.0 in Fall 05) Supported by USE Lab (Usability, Support, Evaluation) –Co-located w/Development Currently in 3rd year of production Recently completed migration from legacy system-all course, project sites using Sakai Support considerations
June 8, Staffing Information 3 FTE Professional Staff Support: 90 hours/week part time, temp QC: 30 hours/week part time, temp Affiliates (varies by unit)
June 8, Training Ongoing, but usually at beginning of term Pre-emptive support Focusing on instructor Group presentations preferred Low-stakes student introduction
June 8, Quality Control Internal staff testing local instance Critical to test local installation and integration points with campus systems Cross-testing w/Sakai QA Focusing on feature and integration testing, starting load testing Some automated testing w/Empirix Browser breakdown (reflects campus computing sites and other usage)
June 8, Sakai Adoption at Michigan Fall Winter 2005
June 8, Support Avenues: contact –Footprints queuing tool –Business, evening and weekend hours Phone Calls –Business hours –Relatively small number (3-6/day) Walk-ins (very rare)
June 8, Migration Experience CourseTools to CTools WorkTools to CTools Project Overview Number of Sites (approx. 1600) Progress report
June 8, Currently 9500 sites total, 4000 project sites
June 8, Customer Descriptive Data
June 8, Support Requests - W05
June 8, Issue Tracking - Footprints Electronic queuing mechanism Metrics gathering and reporting (4363 requests) Issue classification:
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June 8, Quality Indicators & Metrics Number of contacts Total ticket age (phasing out) Number of touches (in progress) Response time (in progress) Satisfaction data Daily and weekly status reports
June 8, Touches Per Ticket - W05
June 8, Support Survey - Instructors 475 respondents total; 34.1% survey respondents have contacted CTools support through or phone For instructors, contacting Support via is #1 on the list of “most effective way” they get help (27.2%) Instructors are very satisfied with Support Services (4.13 out of 5 quality rating)
June 8, Support Survey - Students 1887 respondents total; 8.7% survey respondents have contacted CTools support through or phone For students, contacting Support is 7th on the list of “most effective way” they get help (.7%), with "Keep trying on my own" at the top (39.1%) Students are moderately satisfied with Support Services (3.67 out of 5 quality rating)
June 8, Additional Thoughts Support & migration sites (importance of using our own tools) Multiple Tiers of Support staff Hiring and development of Tier 1 staff Distributed support ideal (Affiliates in units) Usage data tracking vs. service delivery Escalation / Communication Flow Advisory committee(s)
June 8, Questions?