[Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

[Steve Swinsburg]

Very nice.

What are the plans for others tools to participate in the dashboard? For example if an instructor adds a forum post to a site or a connection request is approved?

I'd also love to have a discussion around how a dashboard such as this could replace the My Workspace site altogether, so rather than being a collection of tools that you need to navigate to individually, it could all be accessible on the one screen.

cheers,
Steve




On 12/04/2012, at 6:02 AM, Chris Kretler wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Sakai Dashboard.  The 
> Dashboard is a Contrib tool that provides a user-centric synoptic view 
> of "Assignments and Events" -- showing upcoming Assignments and Calendar 
> Events -- and "Recent Activity" -- showing updates about  Resources, 
> Drop Box files, Assignments and Announcements.  The Dashboard provides 
> the end user a concise landing spot with links to their most pertinent 
> content.  It also gives the user the ability to customize the interface 
> by starring important items and hiding less critical ones.
> 
> An overview video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/39203463
> 
> The 1.0.0 tag of the Dashboard shows activity related to resources, 
> assignments, announcements and calendar events.  With a modest 
> development effort, activity related to other types of Sakai entities 
> could be shown in the Dashboard.  We will provide up-to-date information 
> about that process in confluence.
> 
> The Dashboard has been through several rounds of functional testing.  
> Most known issues have been fixed.  There has been no attempt at load 
> testing and we would welcome any input from a group with the resources 
> to perform load testing.
> 
> The 1.0.0 tag can be downloaded from subversion at this URL: 
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/dashboard/tags/1.0.0/
> 
> The 1.0.0 version of the Dashboard will build and deploy with an 
> unpatched version of sakai trunk or with a patched version of sakai 
> 2.9.x.  Revisions are needed in sakai core and kernel to build with 
> 2.9.x.  Information about patching the 2.9.x branch of sakai or any tag 
> made from that branch can be found in this confluence page: 
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zYHSB
> 
> Details of the Dashboard project are described in this confluence page:  
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zIWCB
> 
> Bugs and other issues related to the Dashboard are tracked in this JIRA 
> project: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH
> 
> Unresolved issues related to the Dashboard can be found here:  
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/xYHSB
> 
> We plan to release a 1.0.1 tag of the Dashboard very soon.  We expect to 
> include fixes for some or all of the following tickets in the 1.0.1 tag:
> 
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-216 - Need to expire and 
> purge dashboard items
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-225 - "View in Site" link 
> for announcements does not open in site
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-228 - Dropbox items shown 
> too widely with confusing info
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-220 - Hidden announcements 
> shown in dashboard under some circumstances
>    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-227 - Entity creator does 
> not see some items in dashboard if entity access is restricted by group 
> and creator is not in group
> 
> Additional work has been outlined for inclusion in a 1.1 version of the 
> Dashboard, but the scope of that work remains undecided and no timetable 
> has been set.
> 
> We invite contributions of effort to complete further versions of the 
> Dashboard, including the 1.0.2 release (if needed) and the 1.1 version.
> 
> - The Dashboard Project Team
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