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  1. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - August 12, 2022

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Michael showed updates to the iCAP Portal:

    • It's safe to delete Collections; tested on dev to confirm it doesn't break anything.
    • Project Collection page: fixed bug where project hierarchy showed all Collections for each project rather than only current Collection.
    • Create project page: fixed bug where input fields were overflowing their containers in Firefox.
    • The Projects by Project Status listing now allows you to select how many projects to view at a time, including All. There is also a “Download list of projects as CSV file” link below the listing, which includes the URL as its own column, since CSV files can’t include clickable links.

    TODOs:

    • Theme pages (e.g. Dev site Energy theme page)
      • Padding between Project Hierarchy & Other Projects
      • Make description collapsible
      • Move to live site once other changes completed
    • Project Header Layout (e.g. LEED Certification project)
      • Add padding below header image
    • Project Creation/Update page
      • Add checkboxes for "Make ____ field collapsible" for each textarea (Description, Background, Conclusion)

  2. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - July 15, 2022

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Michael showed updates to the iCAP Portal:

    • Added instructions below each map on live site
    • Added image gallery for each theme, e.g. Dev site Energy Theme page (currently on dev2, not yet moved to live site)
    • Metrics: removed "(Tracked by ...)" from titles
    • New Project nodes default to "Sticky at top of lists" so they show up at top of search results
    • Collections: changed Project Updates to look like other 3 sections; show only 1 update
    • Collections: migrated Collections page updates to live site
    • Image Gallery: made bg behind images white instead of blue, so transparent images don't have blue background

    TODOs:

    • Confirm it's safe to delete Collections on a dev site before deleting Collections on live site
    • Project Collection page bug: project hierarchy shows all Collections for each project rather than only current Collection
    • Create project page bug: input fields are overflowing their containers in Firefox
    • Show listing of public/private projects

  3. iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - June 24, 2022

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal
    • Michael will look into automation options for filling in the Menu Settings Parent Item (for breadcrumbs) automatically from the Project Parent field
    • Michael will also look at possibilities for expanding the menu length, beyond the built in limit that drupal includes by default
    • The menu settings
    • Is there a way to make sure every project has "sticky at top of lists" automatically? Michael will check - Drupal treats them all as a node, so he can see if Projects can start with "sticky" by default
    • He fixed the image rotation issue
    • On the header layout, he added a view gallery link and moved the project name to align with it. The view gallery link on header layouts shows up even if there are not images associated - so what should we do?  We can add help text for the layout options, to note how it works (related to images, and possibly other things) - we added this in this meeting.
    • Add a third layout called "Fancy Project Layout" - mirror the Header Project Layout and keep the Gallery in the Fancy Project layout, but remove it from the Header layout
    • We also looked

  4. Request to Use Learning Materials in Land & Water Theme

    Associated Project(s): 
    Water Conservation
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Below is sustainability intern, Alec McKay's permission request to use Jonathan Tomkin's lecture materials for the Land & Water theme. Professor Tomkin gave permission for his materials to be published on the theme page.

    Hi Jonathan!

    My name is Alec McKay, the guy who messed up scheduling the ENSU 310 final last semester, and I’m an intern working for Morgan White, the Associate Director for Sustainability. We’re working on updating the primary projects on the iCAP Portal. Here is an example of what the primary project page for the Land & Water theme looks like: https://icap.sustainability.illinois.edu/project/responsible-stewardship-campus-land-and-water

    Our target audience is incoming freshmen and current students who are interested in sustainability at UIUC but have little to no knowledge about it. One of the things we want a primary project page to do is provide some motivation and background information for the theme. In the context of Land & Water, we’d like to answer the question, “Why conserve water?”

    I think some of the videos from your Introduction to Sustainability Coursera course would be great for this! May I have your permission to put some of the videos from your course on the iCAP Portal? I don’t know how the copyright and intellectual property laws work, so is there any specific way you would want or need to be credited?

    If you want more information regarding what we’re changing on the iCAP portal, feel free to let me know!

    Thanks!

    Alec

     

  6. Engagement iCAP Team Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal
    Sustainability Engagement and Outreach
    Engagement iCAP Team
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    The Engagement iCAP Team met on Friday, March 25 with Morgan White and Michael McKelvey to discuss the strengths and opportunities for updating the iCAP Portal. Potential recommendations will be clarified at their next meeting, including a How-To page, aesthetic changes, and utilizing analytics. Meeting minutes are attached.

    Attached Files: 

  7. Engagement iCAP Team Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal
    Sustainability Engagement and Outreach
    Engagement iCAP Team
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    The Engagement iCAP Team met on Friday, March 25 with Morgan White and Michael McKelvey to discuss the strengths and opportunities for updating the iCAP Portal. Potential recommendations will be clarified at their next meeting, including a How-To page, aesthetic changes, and utilizing analytics. Meeting minutes are attached.

    Attached Files: 

  8. Engagement iCAP Team Meeting

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability Engagement and Outreach
    Engagement iCAP Team
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    The Engagement iCAP Team met on Friday, February 18 to discuss current ongoing recommendations, including: Sustainability TikTok challenge, College of Engineering Sustainability Leaders Learning Session, and a Sustainability Partnership with the ADV498 Advertising Capstone Course. Meeting minutes are attached.

    Attached Files: 

  10. iCAP Portal project entries

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal
    Student Sustainability Committee (SSC)

    We would prefer to keep the ability to add new projects to a very limited few people.  Instead of giving Liz access to add a project, let’s get a quick process to add them upon her request. 

    1)      Please email me, Meredith, and Sarthak with a short project description, and the proposed new iCAP Project location in the hierarchy. 

    2)      Meredith and/or I will confirm the placement in the hierarchy.

    3)      Sarthak will add a blank private project as a placeholder and email you.

    4)      Liz or anyone in the SSC with access will fill in the project information and change it to public.

      ~Morgan

  11. Adding Projects

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Upon Sarthak Prasad's request to give project addition privileges to Liz Mendoza-Hernandez, Morgan White laid out a process to add projects upon Liz's request.

    1. Email Morgan, Meredith, and Sarthak with a strong project description, and the proposed new iCAP Project location in the hierarchy 

    2. Meredith and/or Morgan will confirm the placement in the hierarchy. 

    3. Sarthak will add a blank private project as a placeholder and email Liz. 

    4. Liz or anyone in the SSC with access with fill in the project information and change it to public. 

  12. Real-time energy dashboards now available

    Associated Project(s): 
    ECE Net-Zero Energy Building
    Energy Dashboard Project
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    After discussions with Michael McKelvey at MSTE and Aaron Mason and Ian Bonadeo at Hawkeye Energy Solutions, since Morgan White put them in contact back in April, the ECE building’s energy dashboards are now available without requiring a login and via domain name rather than IP address! Here are the dashboards:

    ECE Building – Energy Dashboard

    ECE Building – Net Zero Energy Dashboard

    You can view the listing of dashboards currently available at the U of I Building Energy Dashboard Home Page.

     

  14. iCAP Portal Website Organization - Project Hierarchy Organization

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    On July 6, 2021, Morgan White, Meredith Moore, Sarthak Prasad, and Avery Maloto met to discuss the organization of the iCAP Portal. Topics discussed include: (1) Language, (2) Hierarchy of the Project Lists, and (3) General Organization.

    The minutes from this meeting, as well as a log of tracked changes, are included in the attached file.

     

    Attached Files: 

  15. Sustainability Council Meeting 4-28-21

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability Council
    Sustainability Gen-Ed Requirement
    Sustainability iCAP Portal
    Engagement iCAP Team
    Sustainable Land Management Committee
    Energy Performance Contracting / ESCO
    Energy iCAP Team

    The Sustainability Council met on April 28, 2021 and discussed the following: 

    • iCAP Dashboard
    • Post-pandemic Implications for iCAP 
    • Student Sustainability Leadership Council
    • Engagement001: General Education Board Sustainability Task Committee
    • Land Management
    • Overview of F&S Energy Management Plan 
    • Energy004: ACES Energy Performance Contract 

    See PowerPoint attached.

    Attached Files: 

  17. archived info - metric topics

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    Hello iCAPpers,

     

    Here is the new help text for the Metric Topic (when editing a Metric) which we changed in today’s meeting:

     

    Metric Topic should be a terse noun indicating the metric being measured <em>(CO2, Bicycles, etc.)</em>.

    <br />It will be used as the title of the y-axis in the metric's graph. Please capitalize the first letter.

    <br />If you start typing, autocomplete will try to find a matching term used by other metrics.  If no matches are found, your term will be added.

     

    For posterity, here is the previous Metric Topic help text:

     

    Metric Topic should be a terse noun indicating the metric being measured <em>(CO2, # bike paths, etc.)</em> as it would be used mid-sentence.

    <br />If you start typing, autocomplete will try to find a matching term used by other metrics.  If no matches are found, your term will be added to the Metric Topics vocabulary.

    <br />The following is a sample of how a Metric Topic could be used:

    <br /><em>"Increase/Decrease/Maintain ________ by x% by 2015 from 2008 baseline.</em>

     

         --Michael--

  18. Executed Agreement between iSEE and MSTE to Continue Support for iCAP Portal

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal

    On July 1, 2020, iSEE and MSTE made a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU.) This mutual written agreement declared that MSTE will continue to provide technical support and implementation of proposed innovations to further assist iCAP Portal team members.

    The individuals who signed this agreement were Dr. George Reese (Director of MSTE), Dr. Evan DeLucia (Director of iSEE), and Dr. Mohamed Attalla (Executive Director of F&S.)

     

    See the attached files to view the signed MOUs.

    Attached Files: 

  19. Funding Approval for iCAP Portal Maintenance and Improvements

    Associated Project(s): 
    Sustainability iCAP Portal
    Utilize Carbon Credits
    Carbon Credit Purchasing Program (C2P2) with Second Nature

    Evan De Lucia and Mohamed Attalla approved $50,000 of funding from the Carbon Credit Sales Fund for iCAP Portal maintenance and improvements for FY20 to FY23. 

    "This will allow us to continue improvements to the iCAP Portal and continue to enhance the usability
    and impact of this well-used resource." -Morgan White (06/01/2020)

    The email of funding approval is attached below.

    The Memorandum of Understanding between iSEE, F&S, and MSTE is attached below.

    Attached Files: 

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