[Building Sakai] any plans for syllabus?

[Stephen Marquard]

>On 8/29/2009 at  3:39 PM, Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu> wrote: 

> I don't see signs in Confluence that Syllabus is being worked on. It's sort 
> of problematical for us. A large proportion of our faculty want to post a 
> Word document. it's confusing to them that there is no option for uploading a 
> document. The idea of creating an entry and then cutting and pasting from 
> Word is not obvious to many of them, and even when they figure it out they 
> wonder why we make them do that. I actually like the fact that faculty are 
> pushed to convert from Word to a real web format. However most of the world 
> considers Word a perfectly reasonable way to distribute information, and just 
> gets annoyed with IT people who don't support that approach.

You can attach a file to an item in Syllabus, which is what lots of our users do when they have the course outline in a PDF or Doc file.

Cheers
Stephen