[Building Sakai] Proposed changes to Site Info Tool Selection Page (SAK-16600)

[Adam Marshall]

I have three thoughts, which is two more than usual.

1/ It would be good to have a system-wide property that forced the accordion to be displayed fully opened up. I like the idea of headings but I'm not sure our staff would know which section a tool is situated within. They'd get annoyed opening each one up to search.

2/ Comment in Aug 2012 " Only one instance of one type of BasicLTI tool is supported in one site. " is this still true? Unless I'm misunderstanding this seems like a very annoying restriction

3/ we use a different classification to categorise our tools, we have 5 areas and have already mapped our tools to these area in a lovely diagram: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/images/pentagon_new1.jpg  We would want to redefine the categories that you have listed. Is this possible? (We will also change the colours of the headings, do they each have their own class/id?)

ASdam

-----Original Message-----
From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Beth Kirschner
Sent: 16 October 2012 19:22
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org sakai
Subject: [Building Sakai] Proposed changes to Site Info Tool Selection Page (SAK-16600)

Michigan is proposing changes to the Site Info (aka Worksite Setup) Tool Selection page, to group tools to address several concerns:

* The tool list for courses/projects is already long and growing
* The addition of Basic LTI tools to this list will make this list even longer and more unmanageable for users (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22108)

We feel that adding configurable "groups" will help users visually select the correct tools for their site. We'd also like to provide optional screenshots of the the tools ("more") to help users with tool selection.

See the following screenshot for the new proposed layout:
        https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/attachment/34127/Screen%20Shot%202012-10-08%20at%204.28.04%20PM.png

In order to implement this, we're proposing optional additions to the toolOrder.xml file to define these new groupings. These groupings only impact the Site Info Tool Selection page. 

Please let us know your thoughts!

Thanks,
- Beth

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