[Building Sakai] Handle multiple colleges in single sakai.

[Adam Marshall]

We have a hierarchy of sites. You can see it in operation by going to weblearn.ox.ac.uk - there's plenty of public material so you will get the idea of what we have done.

adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Kevin P. Foote
> Sent: 09 November 2011 13:29
> To: Steve Swinsburg
> Cc: chandrasekhar k; sakai-dev at collab. org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Handle multiple colleges in single sakai.
> 
> 
> Didn't Oxford do this type of thing with the "Sub sites" model?
> 
> ------
> thanks
>   kevin.foote
> 
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 
> -> Hi,
> ->
> -> (Posting this to the dev list)
> ->
> -> You could make a minor modification to the worksite setup tool so you
> specify a site property, which would be the college. Then list that property in
> the table of data in the site list.
> ->
> -> Another way to do this is to make more site types and then you could filter
> that way but some tools look explicitly for the 'course' type so that probably
> won't work.
> ->
> -> Extending the worksite setup tool would be the best option
> ->
> -> Cheers
> -> Steve
> ->
> -> Sent from my iPhone
> ->
> -> On 09/11/2011, at 17:47, chandrasekhar k <sekharchandra07 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> ->
> -> > Hi Steve Swinsburg,
> -> >
> -> > We have set up a SAKAI (Sakai 2.7.1) on Tomcat and are creating course
> sites for the Engineering College using the "Worksite Setup" menu in the
> -> > "My Workspace." Currently we have a couple of course sites up and
> running; However, if we keep on creating course sites for other Engineering
> Colleges
> -> > i.e., School of Engineering and School of Business, the Worksite Setup
> screen will end up having hundreds of course sites, which would not be
> manageable.
> -> > How to differentiate the courses in single sakai based on the College.
> -> >
> -> >
> -> > Please help me and suggest an approach to handle multiple colleges in
> single sakai.
> -> >
> -> > --
> -> > Regards,
> -> > Chandrasekhar
> -> >
> ->
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