Spring 2010 Management Symposium

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Session: Innovation: Options, Implementations, and Technical Solutions

Speakers:
Alex Radermacher, North Dakota State University
Adam Helsene, North Dakota State University
Dean Knudson, North Dakota State University

Title: Implementing Content Management Systems and Virtualization for Computer Science Capstone Courses

This paper covers the issues involved with implementing content management systems and virtual servers for university senior capstone projects. These projects are real-world projects conducted by student teams for local and regional companies. Student teams follow a process whereby they create documentation (E.g. project plan, requirements, software design, testing plan, etc.) and write code based on the specifications of the documents created. This creates a need for content management systems and project management tools which store the work products produced by the teams and allow team members to easily collaborate on the project. Because a major objective of the capstone course is to prepare students for a job in the software industry, many of the tools and processes used in our capstone course should be similar to those used by industry companies. During the last two years, we have worked to migrate from using existing solutions (Blackboard E-portfolios, Twiki sites, and others.) to using Subversion, Trac, and VMware. This paper mainly focuses on our experiences implementing these applications for a capstone course, but we also discuss future work to further improve these services and to extent them to the entire computer science department for other classes and projects.