Latest Updates
11/8/22 Status: Additional Platinum Services
- Platinum accounts now have additional tools available:
- Excel sheet download of all data (teams, dilemma scoring, etc.)
- Modified Participant UserID / Passweord list (suitable for printing / handout distribution)
- Beta access: Participant userID / Passcode download to Excel
2/7/22 Status: New Pricing Sheet
- Updated pricing: Pricing page has been updated to reflect annual license updates
- New discount pricing for annual payments (versus monthly subscriptions)
- Enhanced capabilities for Platinum members
- PayPal and/or credit card payments are now accepted
- Interface changes
- Changes the order of dilemmas, most recently added will now be listed first
- Revised code to show dilemmas that are not available due to license limits
- Clarified wording, changed "Account" references to "Membership"
(This avoids the conflict between Drupal Accdounts and GTT-PDS Accounts)
6/11/21 Status
- Updated functionality: Dilemma counts (limits to active dilemmas) are now enforced but easier to manage
- Instructors can active/de-activate a dilemma, only active dilemmas count against your license total
- Instructors can active/de-activate a dilemma, only active dilemmas count against your license total
- New Instructor capability: Copy Dilemma
- Instructors can now copy an existing, active dilemma
- The new Dilemma will be named as "(Copy) Old Dilemma name" followed by a random number to ensure a unique title.
(The title may be changed in the EDIT function) - By default, the new dilemma will be marked INACTIVE to avoid bumping active dilemmas
- The new dilemma will have the same institution, course, description, point values, team count, round count, and dilemma phrases
- Team logins will be updated to reflect new dilemma and passwords will be automatically generated.
- Note: Dilemma copy from one account to another is not currently available. Feedback welcome if this is something you currently need.
- Changes / Improvements to the instructor's interface
- View Your Dilemmas option has changed:
- New look and feel to improve readability: better layout, color scheme, font work.
Color scheme reflects current state of dilemma: green = Active, yellow = Inactive, Grey = Pending Deletion - The order of dilemmas is now broken into three groups: Active dilemmas are listed first (green background), Inactive second (yellow background), and everything else (e.g., pending deletion) is listed last (grey background)
- New commands are available from the "View Your Dilemmas" screen for each of the dilemmas
- Copy - Allows you to duplicate the existing dilemma (as noted above)
- Activate / De-activate: New function, this allows you to toggle whether a dilemma is marked Active (available for use) or inactive (unavailable / archived)
(Note: One option would be to remove the login box from the main page - or replace with a link versus a login box. Feedback welcome). - Edit, show Scoreboard, Reset / Clear transactions are now available from the View Your Dilemma screen
- New look and feel to improve readability: better layout, color scheme, font work.
- Dilemma Name entry boxes have been increased from 20 characters to 50
(Change is based on average name of current dilemmas in use)
- View Your Dilemmas option has changed:
- Participant Screen Updates (minor)
- Removed "Overall Results" entry for current rounds (previously was showing current point total even though the round was not finished).
No functional change was made, just removing the impression of showing "total points" before the round was over. Readability improvement.
- Removed "Overall Results" entry for current rounds (previously was showing current point total even though the round was not finished).
- Work in Progress / Under Consideration
- "Delete your Dilemma" is an option under consideration. It would be irreversible and incur data loss, so we are reluctant to add that functionality from a data preservation / research perspective.
On the other hand, the dilemma lists are getting long and cumbersome. The recent formatting and ordering changes are intended to help with that but we recognize that may be a stopgap measure at best.
As always, feedback welcome!
- "Delete your Dilemma" is an option under consideration. It would be irreversible and incur data loss, so we are reluctant to add that functionality from a data preservation / research perspective.
9/3/20 Status:
- Changes to the user interface (minor)
- Participant's results screens now automatically refresh every 60 seconds. (Per feedback, UK)
Bottom of participant's results screen now shows latest page refresh time and update frequency. - Front screen login box now marked as "Administrator Login" (To help reduce participant login confusion, per feedback, UK)
(Note: One option would be to remove the login box from the main page - or replace with a link versus a login box. Feedback welcome).
- Participant's results screens now automatically refresh every 60 seconds. (Per feedback, UK)
Archived Information begins here.
Due to a sustained storage integrity issue, the Game Theory Tools (GTT) website and supporting functionality has been was lost and cannot be fully restored from backups. This page tracks the actions currently underway to bring systems back online.
5/15/20 Status: Newest updates first
- Site restoration / recovery complete.
- Temporary website (http://teamaroni.com) is shifted to DEV, GameTheoryTools.com (GTT) now primary
- Theming issues resolved, https certificate renewed. System is now in beta testing again.
5/12/20 Status: Newest updates first
- Help pages are now being populated
- Some links from previous version may have bad links, it is a work in progress.
- On the plus side, a much faster and more thorough database backup solution is now in place. Because... #irony.
- Pre-alpha testing has completed.
- Corrected error in mysqli insert ID causing new dilemma creation to fail.
- Modified instructor scoreboard screen to allow individual team tracking - (improved UX)
- Corrected order of displays (transaction logs were out of sequence due to rebuilt database being somewhat...scattered)
- Enhanced database check screen to check for 0-count entries in transaction and point databases, per caper
- Corrected issue on dilemma edit screen where erroneous "selected" texts would appear
- Improved transaction reset screen function, added large red reminder for instructor to submit/commit changes.
- Restored help pages from final ashes of previous site. New help content will be generated after backups have been tested. Again.
- User database reloaded
- UserIDs have changed as a result of the move, should be transparent to instructors.
- The dilemma database has been modified to retain all previous caper/dilemma info.
- Dilemma support restored
- Found/fixed bug preventing database updates for course names
- Corrected php7-driven error impacting updates to transaction databases
- Excel download is now working
- Modified support for multiple themes launched - too soon to tell if it is useful or not.
- Participant's Page Restore
- Encryption routines are no longer supported under php7 - moved to openssl with variable IV
- Participant postings have passed testing - encryption routines secure, database updating correctly
- Database check routines are back, no issues reported.
- Drupal account maps needed updating - complete.
- Dilemmas now showing up in temporary instructor page
- Scoring systems are working for participants
- Dilemma edits are now posting correctly
- Account settings page online (lost ability to change GTT account type in Drupal)
- Core database rebuilt, backed up, confirmed
- Core pages mapped out, re-creation underway
5/11/20 Status: Newest updates last
- Server lost between 7:30 - 10 AM. Rootcause: Hard drive failure
- Research indicates bad sectors have corrupted three filesystems on drive over several months
- Backups infected with bad data. Integrity checks failed since they showed backups matched on-drive versions of files (all corrupt)
- Attempted to restore using original code, failed due to PHP and Drupal version incompatibilities
- Attempts to reload older versions of Drupal and PHP abandoned after 5 hours (exec decision)
- Opted to upgrade DCRE code to support php7
- Switched from mysql to mysqli
- Eliminated requirement for session.hander to be user
- Removed reliance on profile module (account types will now be set within DCRE code, not Drupal. Drupal 8 lost that capability)
- Core code upgrade complete, will require extensive testing once core pages (23) are re-created