[Building Sakai] Resources Access via Database

[Steve Swinsburg]

You might be interested in this feature:
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18397

It makes resources available to all logged in users (at present it is site only, or public only). 

It may resolve some of the issues. I haven't had a chance to finish it off yet though.

cheers,
Steve



On 25/01/2012, at 2:39 AM, David C. Minugh wrote:

> Example 1 is what I'd like to see, but the "Show other 
> sites" twizzel has a reaction time of 1-3 minutes when 
> I use our version of Sakai, and is consistently like 
> eating molasses in an Alaskan winter. I use it only 
> because I am too lazy to learn to use webdav and reload 
> everything into each site individually (as you will 
> have gathered, I'm a user, not a programmer). Get that 
> twizzel loading tme down to under 5 seconds, and I'd 
> probably find it satisfactory.
> 
> Example 2 sounds much more interesting in the present 
> scenario, especially variant 2, where students are 
> simply told that there's another site; the down side is 
> that they may not bother to switch to yet another 
> tab/site, particularly as they might be in the middle 
> of working in the site (e.g. working on a Wiki). Again, 
> not a fatal flaw.
> 
> But I'd be interested to hear other solutions.
> 
> On 2012-01-24 15:34, Jim Eng wrote:
>> It depends on the use-case you have in mind.  Below 
>> are two examples and a short description of how you 
>> can accomplish them in sakai 2.
>> 
>> Example 1: Faculty in a department have a large 
>> repository of shared resources they want to have easy 
>> access to in all course sites within the department 
>> so they can share individual resources on an 
>> as-needed basis with students in the course.
>> 
>> How to accomplish example 1: Create a special 
>> repository site to which all departmental faculty 
>> belong.  Upload all the resources to the resources 
>> tool in that site.  Since about Sakai 2.1 (if I 
>> recall correctly), the resources tool has a "Show 
>> other sites" twizzle that appears in the resources 
>> tool in every site.  The faculty members of this 
>> department can find the repository site's resources 
>> in the "Show other sites" twizzle under the list of 
>> resources for each course sites.  Students will not 
>> see the repository site unless they are added to it. 
>> When a faculty member wants to share a resource from 
>> the repository with students in a particular site, 
>> they just select the "copy" command for that resource 
>> and then paste it into a folder in the course site. 
>> At that point, the students can see the resource 
>> within the course site's resources.  This mechanism 
>> makes a copy of the resource for members of the site 
>> it has been copied into.
>> 
>> Example 2:  Faculty in a department want all students 
>> in all sites to have read-only access to a large set 
>> of resources. This is similar to example 1 except 
>> that we want the students to have direct access to 
>> the whole collection of resources in the repository.
>> 
>> How to accomplish example 2: Create the repository 
>> site and upload the resources as in example 1, but 
>> give all students in the department read-only access 
>> to the repository site.  This will cause the site to 
>> appear in the "Show other sites" twizzle within the 
>> resources tool.  It will also allow students to get 
>> to those resources by navigating directly to the site 
>> using the tabs at the top of the page.  And students 
>> would also have access to those resources through 
>> webdav.  BTW, students could be added individually or 
>> by including them by adding their provider-id to the 
>> realm (as is done for course sites at most university).
> 
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