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

[Noah Botimer]

It can't hurt to open a JIRA issue. It might turn out that it is not
implemented, but at least it will be recorded there and tracked.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Nov 28, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Fatima Rahiman <Fatima.Rahiman at wits.ac.za>
wrote:

  Thanks Jim and Noah for  your feedback. Do I  open a Jira on this or will
this be picked up automatically by the development community?



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*From:* Jim Mezzanotte
[mailto:jmezzanotte at anisakai.com<jmezzanotte at anisakai.com>]

*Sent:* 21 November 2013 11:07 PM
*To:* Noah Botimer
*Cc:* Fatima Rahiman; 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,

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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