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We want to offer our interactive resume lesson, Week 2B in the assignments list, as an assignment from the Canvas LMS. This can be accomplished by making it an LTI extension. Here are some resources on LTI extensions:

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.tools_intro.html
https://www.edu-apps.org/code.html
http://www.imsglobal.org/lti/

Make sure that all exceptions are handled properly. The guide mentions sub classing Exception. You should really be subclassing StandardError: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10048173/why-is-it-bad-style-to-rescue-exception-e-in-ruby

In a development environment from initial set-up, we could not get the server running because the environment variables weren't set for config/secrets.yml.

We're setting up local environment variables in bashrc.

The error in the Rails server log:
ERROR RuntimeError: Missing secret_key_base for 'development' environment, set this value in config/secrets.yml
/Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/application.rb:440:in validate_secret_key_config!' /Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/application.rb:195:inenv_config'
/Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/engine.rb:510:in call' /Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/railties-4.1.0/lib/rails/application.rb:144:incall'
/Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/lock.rb:17:in call' /Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/content_length.rb:14:incall'
/Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rack-1.5.2/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:60:in service' /Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/webrick/httpserver.rb:138:inservice'
/Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/webrick/httpserver.rb:94:in run' /Users/charlyebrown/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/webrick/server.rb:295:inblock in start_thread'

This is a step toward creating a WYSIWYG editor for assignment content.

Maybe just a button in the top-right.

Go to Week 2a Cover Letter and click Upload Assignment. Enter [email protected] as the email and leave the URL blank. Hit submit. This should give a nice error message about not leaving the URL blank. The same goes for invalid email addresses or duplicate submissions.

For example, this Todo list should actually be checkable instead of a static image:

Please email [email protected] if you want to work on this and need some credentials for a Salesforce account in order to test it.

When you login as [email protected] there is an option to export the users as a .csv: http://www.beyondz.org/admin/users.csv We would like a way to export the user database as a .xlsx or perhaps as a Google Spreadsheet. This way, we can add formatting and make it a better experience for our recruitment team.

When you view http://beyondz.org on a smartphone, the formatting is pretty messed up.

From user that reported this: "Last night I was viewing your site from home on IE, which is running v9 (at my office I have v10 and I am usually on Chrome or FF these days so hadn't run into this a week ago when I first found your site).

The point is that beyondz.org doesn't render properly on IE9 (at least for me). I did a bit of digging and believe that all of the css that is in your one very large css file is being cut off or ignored by the browser. The Developer Tools could not allow me to view the "modal" class that should have a display:none on it, thus it was taking up the space on top and pushing your content down. Plus with a lot of other stuff missing in css, if you viewed on IE9, you will see it is not pretty. (Again it is possible that I have something quirky going on here but I don't have another machine available to test against).

I ran into a similar situation on our site a year or so ago on an IE browser (we were probably still supporting as far back as IE7 then) and found that one very large css file that we had in play was being cut off. By breaking it into a couple of logical units, and calling both onto the page, we corrected for it.

This is not necessarily simple depending on how you package up your css and make them available to your pages. But it is certainly a solvable problem if this is indeed a problem."

When you go to http://www.beyondz.org/signup/new and click submit, the email you get to confirm your email address is plaintext. We'll need to handle devices that only handle plaintext, but for devices that support HTML it would be nice to have the email be visually appealing. For example, PInterest's welcome email:

When you login as the various [email protected] users (in the seeds.rb file), we want to show a button somewhere that allows us to reset the database for those users.

When a user signs up, in production we want an email notification sent to [email protected]. On http://staging.beyondz.org or your local dev machine we want the email to go to [email protected]. This code isn't working:

    if Rails.env.production?
      to = '[email protected]'
    else
      to = '[email protected]'
    end

because the staging server is setup to run in production mode (we want it to mimic production). We need to figure out a way to switch on something other than Rails.env.production to determine when we're in staging.

We need to enable Universal Analytics instead of Classic Analytics. This article describes what needs to be done. Basically, we need to replace the embedding tracking JS with a new one:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2444872?hl=en&utm_id=ad

In a nutshell, find the file with the tracker code by greping for "google-analytics" and then add this snippet ga('require', 'displayfeatures'); so that it looks like below:

ga('create', 'UA-48011005-1', 'beyondz.org');
ga('require', 'displayfeatures');
ga('send', 'pageview');

We would like to be able to alter the language, images, etc of the website and split test one version with one set of users and another with a different set of users, tracking the usage patterns of each group.