Different periods for recitations?

[civiliangame]

This shows the recitations to be way longer than what is advertised on the CWRU schedules.

As you can see here, the Jolly Advisor says that recitations are 1:15 minutes each while the CWRU homepage claims that they are 50 minutes each.
Thanks!
Phillip

[JKobyP]

I've successfully reproduced the bug. @ajm188 sounds like a SIS syncing problem?

[ajm188]

@thehunter9709 thanks for reporting!

@JKobyP, indeed. The SIS syncing is currently additive only. So, if a course changes it's time length, we wouldn't pick that up automatically, since in a way we would "delete" the old time and add the new time.

I am also wondering: is it possible this is data from the wrong semester/year?

[JKobyP]

@ajm188 If your question is toward whether this is human error, I'll tell you I paid particular attention to that, because that was my first assumption when the bug was posted.

We can close this as duplicate then, I suppose. But we need to figure out how to fix our additivity issue. It's not a feature that's working for us.

[StephHippo]

Weighing in, but this was a design issue that was discussed at length in the beginning. We ended up going with additive (which everyone agreed wasn't a fantastic long-term solution) because of the difficulties in uniquely identifying recitations when they changed. That being said, we know a little more about SIS data now, so it's probably overdue to revisit it.

Looks like the model could be extended to include a recitation ID. Does anyone know how often those change when the time of the recitation changes?