Assignments 2 Incubating

Assignments 2 has entered incubation.

As many of you know, assignments 2 has been baking for some time at IU. Although it's another unavoidable case of a project not entering incubation until it's rather far along in its development - and so our Sakai 2 precedents may mislead the casual observer about the process - I'm still happy to have it incubated so far in advance of any release decisions. More room to breathe and do the right thing.

So far I see a feature-driven development process which is then polished with usability testing. I think the Product Council could use the occasion to flesh out our review criteria, eg. those for accessibility with the help of the WG already making big strides.

I'd also like to point out the fronts along which assignments 2 has been compelled to engage - with gradebook and a variety of helpers, with OSP, TurnItIn, and maybe others. This may be a challenge for UX coherence in Sakai 2 contexts, but I think it helps confirm that the underlying capability is pivotal, and should inform the Sakai 3 UX at an early stage, provided we can trace it back to its essentials well enough. As with many things in Sakai 3, it won't be enough to first develop a tool and then look for horizontal integration points after the fact.