[Building Sakai] New Feature for Sakai 2.10: Joinable Groups

[Paul Lukasewych]

Hi Stephen,

We initially looked at the Section Info tool for this functionality, but we 
found that it had some limitations. The most serious issue for us was that we 
could not use Section Info in conjuction with automatic roster provisioning, 
which was a dealbreaker for us. The second issue we had was that the tool was 
not as flexible as we would like, as there is a limitation on the number of 
different categories you could have in a single site, and the joinable option 
is all or nothing, so you can't end joinability on one set of sections while 
maintaining joinability on others.

The primary use case for this tool on our campus is for the creation of 
arbitrary sets of groups that students can choose to join. We already get 
lecture, tutorial, and lab sections as rosters from our SIS integration, but 
our instructors repeatedly asked for more flexibility to create their own sets 
of joinable groups.

Paul Lukasewych
Applications Development Team
Western University
plukasew at uwo.ca


On November 1, 2012 09:07:30 PM Stephen Marquard wrote:
> I may be missing something, but how is this different from what Section
> Info already does?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Stephen
> 
> Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
> Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
> http://www.cet.uct.ac.za
> Email/IM/XMPP: stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za
> Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290
> 
> >>> Bryan Holladay  11/01/12 5:22 PM >>>
> 
> Western University has sponsored a new feature for Sakai 2.10:
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22858 and I would like to get
> this
> committed to Sakai trunk.  Here is the basic info:
> 
> 
> Joinable Groups in Sakai
> 
> Joinable groups consist of automatically created groups that users can
> elect to join. An individual can join one group per set.
> 
> Screen Cast of working feature in trunk:
> http://screencast.com/t/a9ZcqjcZYr
> 
> Jira: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22858
> 
> Screen shots and design specs are in the jira as well.
> 
> If no one objects or has any modification that should be made, I can put
> this into trunk anytime.
> 
> If you want/like/etc this feature please at least respond with a +1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
> 
> 
> 
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