[Building Sakai] alerts not sent on Topic or Forum creation

[Jim Mezzanotte]

Hi Fatima,

I agree--it would be good to have an additional setting for a topic, to
notify others that it's open, and a setting that lets you add open/close
dates for a topic to the site calendar. For now, Noah's suggestion might be
the best (only) approach. I suppose you could make that first posted
message serve as an announcement, to let users know the topic has opened,
et cetera.

Jim Mezzanotte
Asahi Net International


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:

> This may be a workaround or just good practice (I won't judge which), but
> I'd suggest posting an invitation message in the new topic. I suspect that
> a message with a specific call to action for the topic will drive learner
> engagement better than an automated "topic is open" message. I've found
> students sometimes reluctant to speak first and set the tone for a new
> conversation.
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
> On Nov 21, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Fatima Rahiman wrote:
>
> Thanks Jim…but surely at the very least an alert on  Topic creation should
> be sent to site members ??? How else do we ensure student  engagement  then
> if they’re not alerted that  a new Topic has been posted?
>
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> *From:* Jim Mezzanotte [mailto:jmezzanotte at anisakai.com]
> *Sent:* 21 November 2013 04:33 PM
> *To:* Fatima Rahiman
> *Cc:* sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org; James Smurthwaite; Antoinette
> Malgas; Sakai Developers (sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org); David
> Wafula Wanyonyi
> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] alerts not sent on Topic or Forum creation
>
>
> Hi Fatima,
>
> My understanding is, that's by design--Forums watch notification is only
> for messages posted.
> Jim Mezzanotte
> Asahi Net International
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Fatima Rahiman <Fatima.Rahiman at wits.ac.za>
> wrote:
> H  There
> We’ve noticed in our courses that  when Forums or Topics are created no
> alerts are sent to  members of the site despite enabling all the requisite
> settings e.g. WATCH conversation etc . They only seem to receive an alert
> when a *conversation* is started. Is this the way the Forum tool works or
> have we set something incorrectly?
>
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