[Contrib: Evaluation System] How do you all feel about the organization of the administration page?

[Crouch, Catherine]

Have you looked at the System Setting page in Confluence?  I found this page to be helpful to understand the Administrator Settings.

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/EVALSYS/System+Settings

Cathy

On Feb 9, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Daphne Ogle wrote:

Hi all,

We are starting to look at requirements for our next iteration of work on eval sys.  We plan to start looking at some of the authoring interfaces.  However, a potentially low hanging fruit that keeps popping up for me is the administration page.  Perhaps it is because I am a newcomer but the content is pretty overwhelming and I believe we could better group options by themes and perhaps do some rewording to both make the options clearer and show relationships with other options (if there are any).  Every time I have to find a new configuration setting someone brings to my attention it is painful.  The reason I say low hanging fruit is because it seems like a simple technology fix.  The challenge will be in creating an information architecture that makes sense to everyone.

I think card sorting would be a productive way to create a new info. architecture and perhaps there's a way to involve some of us from across schools in that activity.

But since it is an interface we don't use often, first, I want to understand where something like this fits on the communities wish list.  The work would benefit us some but would really be more about making things easier for future users.

-Daphne

Daphne Ogle-Glenn
Senior Interaction Designer
University of California, Berkeley
Educational Technology Services
daphne at media.berkeley.edu<mailto:daphne at media.berkeley.edu>
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