Modernizing Curriculum Review Workflow

Weekly Assignments

Week 1

• Install SharePoint and Visual Studio.
• Complete the course "SharePoint 2010 Getting Started" on Lynda.com.
• Think about the design for a document hosting site for the first stage of the project.

Submission (Due: Tuesday 10/2)

• A screen shot of Lynda.com like this one. Of course yours should show that the "SharePoint 2010 Getting Started" course is 100% completed.
• A screen shot of the Visual Studio New Project page like this one.

Please upload these files to CSNS under CS496A Homework 1.

Week 2

• Complete Chapter 5-9 of the course "SharePoint 2010 Essential Training" on Lynda.com.
• Create a SharePoint site called "Curriculum Review".
  • The site should have at least one document library called "Course Proposals".
  • Create two users cysun and rpamula.
  • Create two groups: Faculty and Computer Science Department Chair. cysun should be in the first group and rpamula should be in both groups.
  • Give permissions to the Faculty group to edit documents; give permissions to approve documents to the Computer Science Department Chair group.
  • Set up an approval workflow so that each document uploaded by a member of the Faculty group needs to be approved by a member of the Computer Science Department Chair group.

Submission (Due: Tuesday 10/9)

• Screenshots showing course progress on Lynda.com and the SharePoint site you created.

Week 3

• Install SharePoint Designer 2010 if you haven't done so.
• Complete Chapter 1-7 of the course "SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows" on Lynda.com.
• Use some diagramming tool like Visio, PowerPoint (or even Sticky Notes as the workflow course suggested) to diagram the course proposal review workflow as we discussed in the first group meeting. In your diagram, clearly identify the users (e.g. faculty, department chair, ...), units (e.g. department, college, undergraduate study office, Educational Policy Committee, ...), actions (e.g. upload, approve, email, give feedback), and constraints (e.g. feedback must be received within 7 days) that are involved in the process.

Submission (Due: Monday 10/15)

• Screenshots of installed SharePoint Designer and Lynda course progress.
• The course proposal review workflow diagram.

We will meet on Tuesday 10/16 to discuss your diagram and how to implement it using SharePoint workflow.