Roadmap

The Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) works on features targeting near-term project requirements. We use Mediathread in Columbia classes, and targets are generally for the beginning of a semester: Summer (late June), Fall (September), or Spring (January).

Spring 2017

Fall 2017

• Continued LTI integration and testing
• Development process underway for personal sandbox feature

Spring 2014

• Composition export / OAC compliance
• Search box
• Modular bookmarklet
• Research version of Mediathread

Fall 2013

• Prioritized tags support
• Improved bookmarklet flow (stay on site / go to Mediathread option)
• Addressable views
• Admin improvements
• Django 1.4.5 upgrade
• Scalar compatibility R&D

Summer 2013

• Improved sorting on home page
• Assignment due date field added to Save feature
• Columbia University Academic Commons bookmarklet support
• Google Art Project bookmarklet support
• mp3 audio bookmarklet support

Spring 2013

• Home page redesign, site tour
• Course migration feature
• Consolidation of Instruction Dashboard features into Settings nav bar
• flake8 compliance, Django code validation, further selenium test support

Fall 2012

• Annotation visibility toggle for instructors
• In-place annotation in composition space
• Improved UI for collections and item annotation interface

Summer 2012

• Major UI overhaul: sliding panels

Spring 2012

• Integration with Wardenclyffe video uploading at CU
• Bookmarklet compatibility with Vimeo and Kaltura
• Help standardization
• Multi-course navigation
• Instructor management of “Source Media”
• Instructor management of “Publish to the World”

Fall 2011

• home page redesign
• AJAX annotation

Summer 2011

• nomenclature user survey, standardization of terms

Spring 2011

• assignments feature – response tracking
• instructor’s dashboard
• multiple annotations view on individual item – images and video

Fall 2010

• improve class-from-scratch experience
• ?possible Geo support
• import/export of projects

Summer 2010

• Discussions (DONE)
• Mediathread rebranding (DONE)
• Quicktime debugging (DONE)
• Real Player support (DONE)
• transcript support
• Support http://openvault.wgbh.org/ video (DONE)
• refine discussions interface (DONE)

Extra

• ArtStor support (DONE)
• Gallery-view for assets in project essays
• Iterate on UI for asset adding/viewing/navigation
• <video> tag support
• private discussions (for professor feedback) (DONE)
• static demo (with saving in browser with HTML5)

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Long Term
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Projects

• user-level publishing to world (DONE)
• annotations directly embeddable in project text (waiting on firefox bug)

Asset/Annotation List

• filter by user/tag (DONE)
• show (image) annotations on thumb so people see ‘where’ the annotations are
• ability to create annotation/asset ordered ‘collections’

Full Asset View

• navigating/viewing multiple annotations on a single view (DONE)
• ajaxify annotating (DONE)
• color annotations by user (DONE)

Discussions

• protected discussions (DONE)
• students/regular users can start discussions on assets/annotations/projects

Outside World

• publishing embeddable annotations to arbitrary places on the web (with <iframe>)
• bookmarklets
  • get more metadata from current sources (gdata, OpenUrl/COinS, oEmbed=DONE, unAPI=DONE)

Easy Course Starting

• better collection admin (IN PROGRESS SPRING 2012)