[WG: Sakai QA] [DG: User Experience] why a separate step to join sites?

[Sean Keesler]

Moodle has pretty intuitive behavior. When you go to a public "course" that
you haven't yet joined you are prompted with a screen that says:

*You are about to enrol yourself as a member of this course.*
*Are you sure you wish to do this?*

*            Yes   No*

You get to make your decision right there.

Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, NY 13104
315-663-7756



On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:39 AM, <harriet at caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> We had a couple of senior people complain extremely strongly that they
thought
> it was inappropriate to be joined to a site without agreeing it. They had
been
> invited to look at a piece of content, and to do so, needed to be a member
of
> the site, which was freely joinable. They said that since joining a site
has
> effects other than being able to see a one-off piece of material -
e.g.having
> your name appear on a list of members, receiving mails from the site - it
> should be a choice step to join a site. Hence the way it works now!
>
> Harriet
>
> Quoting David Haines <dlhaines at umich.edu>:
>
>> Currently if you try to access a site that you can join but have not
>> yet joined you'll get a "site unavailable" message.  Among other
>> things this makes inviting people to a site awkward.  If you create a
>> site and email a URL to people who can have access they'll need to
>> manually join before they get access.  At Michigan we're running a
>> modified version of code that Ian Boston created that will
>> automatically join people to sites they are eligible to join but this
>> requires distributing a special URL.
>>
>> But if you are trying to access a site that you have permission to
>> join what is the use of having an explicit join step?  I do see the
>> use of a tool that lists separately sites you have joined and sites
>> you can join.  I see the value of being able to unjoin sites you no
>> longer need to a member of.  I just don't see the use of requiring
>> someone to explicitly join a site.
>>
>> Is there some reason that the default behavior of Sakai (2.x) should
>> not be changed to automatically join people to sites they are trying
>> to visit as long as they are eligible to join the site?
>>
>> This question comes from looking at
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15832
>> .
>>
>> Any comments are welcome.
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>> David Haines
>> CTools Developer
>> Digital Media Commons
>> University of Michigan
>> dlhaines at umich.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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