February 4th, 2010 by Alex Chapin
To help us understand the functional requirement of platforms and applications that will be needed in the future including those that will replace Segue, we have started to do some curricular technology usage analyzes.
The first usage analysis we have done is an overview of Segue usage. Over 5000 sites have been created in Segue since it was introduced in 2003 at Middlebury. Over 12,000 individuals have created Segue user accounts. About a third of the sites created in Segue have been for courses, another 30-40% have been for personal sites and the remaining have been for “custom” sites which could include department and area sites or curricular resource sites.
For more details, see: Segue Usage Analysis
February 1st, 2010 by Alex Chapin
The Library and Information Services (LIS) Curricular Technology (CT) team will be leading the project to phase out Segue and find one or more replacements for it. The team will definitively use the Middlebury Web Makeover project as a model for how to engage the college community in this critical transition (for more information on why we are doing this, see: Segue Decommissioning). Indeed many of the team members are actively involved in managing different aspect of the transition to the new college site.
Currently the team is reviewing the many course sites and curricular resources that have been developed over the years at Middlebury in Segue and other platforms. From this review we hope to get a sense of how faculty and students are using technology in their teaching, learning and research.
Based in these findings the team will help coordinate the formation of curricular technology focus groups to define the functional requirements for platforms replacing Segue. We also hope that these focus groups will help draft a set of survey questions that we can send out to the entire college community. Our goal is to engage as much of the college community as possible.
Project Timeline
The CT team is committed to making recommendations for Segue replacements by the end of the Spring semester (May 2010). We will be publishing a more detailed timeline in the next week or so.
October 21st, 2009 by Alex Chapin
Segue v1 will soon be shut down. Currently, editing and new site creation has been disabled in Segue v1 since August. Sometime this spring (specific date to be set soon…), existing Segue v1 sites will not be viewable as well.
(Segue v2 will continue to be available at least through summer 2010.)
If you have created a site in Segue v1 that is still being used, please migrate it to Segue v2 ASAP. To migrate a Segue v1 site to v2, do the following:
- Go to https://segue.middlebury.edu/
- Log in with your Middlebury username and password
- Click on the “Migrate Sites” link
- Locate the site(s) you want to migrate
- Click on the “Import into” button
If you have any problems migrating your Segue v1 site, please contact me immediately (achapin@middlebury.edu). Also contact me if you know of Segue v1 sites that are being used regularly. Segue v1 sites are all sites whose web address starts with the following:
https://segue1.middlebury.edu/….
https://segue1community.middlebury.edu/…
We are currently researching alternatives to Segue in general. Check back here for updates on this.
