[Building Sakai] package the lessons tools

[Matthew Jones]

It's possible it could work if tools (like Lessons) did have one addition
level of submenus. If you look at existing implementations (like gmail)
they have submenus that work out pretty good.

[image: Inline image 1]

The submenus are collapsed by default, but can show the full features of
that submenu. They use that on many other tools (like reader). I agree that
complexity should be reduced but I also think that it's beginning to get
too complex as it is. Adding tool categories and submenus would be a
benefit and kind of fit together. It's possible these could be two
different menus. The standard left nav menu of the full list of tools as
defined by the page order (that we have now). And the new left navmenu that
has tools organized by category, and a special tool menu with submenus (for
only specific tools) and categories.

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:48 PM, baynaa_sk B wrote:
>
> > is it ok to package the lessons tools as shown in image-1? basically
> what i'm trying to do is by clicking on one general "lesson" tool, it will
> display submenu of "lessons". Do you have any opinion on this? thanks.
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> I would prefer not to add a series of submenus to the left navigation.
>  First, it would make it so that the Page Order tool and other ways that
> left navigation is controlled/updated/maintained would have no control over
> these submenu items.
>
> Also if you look at both Blackboard Learn and Moodle, they both have
> slowly added complexity to their left navigation to the point where their
> left navigation is pretty intimidating.  I would prefer not to slide down
> that slippery slope.
>
> Of course - you can patch your own Sakai in any way you like.
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> /Chuck
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