ESCI Beta Preview

Long time since a last post. I have been working non-stop for about 1 month and a bit on the UCSB ESCI Website. ESCI is UCSB's campus-wide course survey and evaluation tool which has been in production for the last 30 years here at UCSB. My parent department runs the ESCI Survey System which has historically been scantron based and processed, tabulated once at the end of every quarter. To be more Green, sustainable and adaptive in the future we are moving this service to a web based service for students and faculty alike here at UCSB. I have been working on a Drupal based replacement for the scantrons students previously were submitting. This service is now in a Beta test with approximately 500 students. The next big rollout approaching campus wide usage is planned for March.

Given some free time in the near future I will try to discuss some of its current underlying implementation involving Drupal and a brief look at its integration and consumption of campus and departmental data and webservices it currently uses.