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For Chemistry Instructional and IT staff
Useful When IT-related work comes in, it can be useful to distinguish between something breaking (worked yesterday!) and something new needed (consultation/ design/ implementation).
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Instructional staff are encouraged to involve A&S support staff if making Instructional staff want or make structural changes to their DBs. And if Instruction staff make structural changes to any of their DBs, at the very least inform A&S staff as an FYI.
- Debugging a problem is easier if changes to the source DB is known up-front.
- Backups and restores may not work correctly if structural changes are made.
- There are many, many moving parts to this complex and interdependent system!
- An example: Uploads may not work correctly or otherwise need to be tested if structural changes are made.
- Backups and restores may not work correctly if structural changes are made.
A&S's role
- A&S provides the FMPro server hosting services.
- This includes performing and confirming back-ups and restore procedures.
- Special focus is on addressing any infrastructure problem at their end.
- A&S staff can do Consulting/ Design/ Creation work on a case-by-case basis
- This will usually require Frank's approval, with negotiated timelines.
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If students have questions or concerns about the web site, they are to contact Chemistry Instructional staff.
Should Chemistry's web page do a better job of refers students to the Instructional staff if they have a problem with the web site?
N.B. The ChemLab page
https://chemlabs.arts.cornell.edu/grades/
- What is done now for the Waiting List web application? Do same thing?
- Would it not be PatH's office? If so, how communicate on the page?
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