[Building Sakai] Automating the site creation process AND Sakai 3 Groups

[John Norman]

The Oxford document makes an interesting read as an example of a 'group' structure that doesn't really need a site.

John

On 20 Nov 2009, at 10:43, dktr adam marshall wrote:

> We allow staff members to create sites - they basically use the same
> workflow pages as when (us) administrators create sites. All this is managed
> by a new type of site (of type 'admin'). In a nutshell, if a user is a
> participant within one of these sites then they are able to create their
> own.
> 
> We are in the process of committing back a patch (or patches) built against
> trunk.
> 
> A good place to start is to look at our documentation, this will give an
> idea of what can be done. If you're interested then get back in touch.
> 
> https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/adminsites1.pdf
> 
> and to a lesser extent
> 
> https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/hierarchy7.pdf
> 
> Feel free to browse our help site at: 
> 
> https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/info 
> 
> adam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Robert
> Armstrong
> Sent: 19 November 2009 19:57
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Building Sakai] Automating the site creation process
> 
> We are looking to have an automated way that faculty can fill out a form
> that will (a) Create a new course site or (b) copy content from an existing
> course site into a new course site.
> 
> Has anyone developed this and would you be willing to share?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Armstrong
> Training and Delivery Specialist
> Johns Hopkins University - Whiting School of Engineering
> 6810 Deerpath Road, Suite 200, Elkridge, MD 21075
> Phone:410-516-2280
> barmstrong at jhu.edu
> 
> 
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