[Using Sakai] Drop Box in Sakai - how to add instructions

[Fawei Geng]

Hi Jimmy and Steve,

Thanks very much for your advice.

Maybe it's as far as we can go at this stage.  In fact, this was a 
question raised by one of the academics at Oxford.

I've no preference for which tool we should use in Sakai.  I am more 
concern about the different ways of how Sakai can best support 
activities of teaching, learning or research.  Here are two possible 
scenarios:
* "Assignments" allows a teacher to create, distribute, collect, and 
grade online assignments.  Students normally see it as some sort of 
"assessment". 
* "Drop Box" is normally a one-to-one sharing area for a teacher and a 
student. For example, it may be used as a shared area to support a 
student with his/her reflective online journal or problem-based learning 
project.  Although each individual student may need personalised 
support, the instructions or requests of the journal or PBL project may 
be same for all students.  In this case, having a field where general 
instructions for "Drop Box" might be needed. It'd be even better if 
notifications can be sent to all students via email when instructions 
are added.

If more people are interested in this feature, hopefully the developers 
in the Sakai community will consider to add a function as such, which is 
the beauty of OS like Sakai.

Anyway, thanks very much again for offering advice.

Best wishes

Fawei

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Fawei Geng
Learning Technology Support Officer

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Rico, Jimmy wrote:
> Fawei
>
> There is no way to do what you are describing to my knowledge in the 
> Dropbox.
> My understanding is that the dropbox is a mechanism for the instructor 
> and student to share/exchange files privately to one another.
>
> The closest thing I can propose is to create the assignment in either 
> Resources (as an HTML page) or as an Announcement and tell the student 
> to submit the assignment in the Dropbox.
> You could get fancy and copy and paste the URL of the Dropbox as a 
> hyperlink in either Resources or the Announcement using the FCK 
> Editor, that way they are taken straight to the dropbox upon clicking 
> the link.
>
> In my opinion it's best to use the Assignments tool unless you have 
> some strong reason against using it.
>
> Good Luck!
> Jimmy
>
>
> On 4/27/09 11:39 AM, "Fawei Geng" <fawei.geng at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>     Hi Steve,
>
>     Thanks for your reply.
>
>     For the Assignment tool, teacher can put instructions in the
>     "Assignment
>     Instructions" box. When a student undertakes an assignment, s/he
>     will be
>     able to read the instructions before starting the assignment. I  was
>     thinking how to allow a student to be able to see the instructions put
>     by an instructor (or teacher) when using the Drop Box.   As a
>     teacher, I
>     put instructions using the "Description" box which I hope will be seen
>     by a student. However, when I logged in as a student, I could not see
>     the instructions I put in.
>
>     Thanks again.
>
>     Fawei
>
>     Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > You can get help regarding usage of the Drop Box tool (and most
>     tools)
>     > by clicking on Help, and navigating within Help to the Drop Box
>     > section. This allows you to view the Help in one window whilst using
>     > the tools in the main window. Is that what you were after?
>     >
>     > cheers,
>     > Steve
>     >
>     > ---
>     > Steve Swinsburg
>     > Portal Systems Developer
>     > Centre for e-Science
>     > Lancaster University
>     > Lancaster
>     > LA1 4YT
>     >
>     > email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
>     > phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On 27 Apr 2009, at 17:02, Fawei Geng wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hi there,
>     >>
>     >> Not sure if this question has been answered.
>     >>
>     >> Is it possible to add instructions on how to use the Drop Box so
>     that
>     >> students can see the instructions when clicking on "Drop Box"? I
>     know
>     >> that a teacher can add description to the top-level folder in
>     the Drop
>     >> Box area. However when logging in as a student, I could not see the
>     >> description added by the teacher but my own folder.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks very much in advance.
>     >>
>     >> Fawei
>     >>
>     >> --
>     >> Fawei Geng
>     >> Learning Technology Support Officer
>     >>
>     >> Learning Technologies Group
>     >> Oxford University Computing Services
>     >> 7-19 Banbury Road
>     >> Oxford
>     >> OX2 6NN
>     >>
>     >> Telephone: +44 (0)1865 273219 / 73219(internal)
>     >>
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