[Using Sakai] Site Delete Policy Question

[Jeff Ziegler]

Hi Dave,

At UMich, we allow faculty, staff and students to create and delete  
sites.  The ability to do this for a given site is restricted to the  
Owner (maintain) role.  Because the Owner role can delete sites we  
recommend that sites have only one Owner (or a select few).

If a site is inadvertently deleted we will attempt to "reconstitute"  
the site for them, which is a trivial matter if we can find the site  
ID (easy to find if it's a Course site because we track their  
creation).  It's harder to find an ID for a Project site, so we  
generally ask the user to look through their email and attempt to  
find a site notification or other correspondence that will contain  
the site ID.  If they (or we) are unable to come up with the ID  
there's little we can do.  I've created a local feature request that  
will track Project site creation so, hopefully, it will be easier in  
the future to find those particular site IDs.

We refer to our process as site "constitution" rather than "recovery"  
or "restoration" because the user's configuration of the site is lost  
when the site is deleted - the site's selected toolset, participants,  
Web Content links, etc. are lost but the content of the most of the  
other tools is preserved.  That's rarely a problem because the main  
concern is usually the lost Resources files that were on the site (we  
have a separate process for recovering accidental deletion of  
Resources files).


Jeff





On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:36 PM, David McPherson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recently here at VT we have allowed our faculty to create and delete
> sites.  This has cause a few problems with sites that have multiple
> organizers in the sites.  We were wondering what sort of policies
> others may have in place to deal with site deletion, e.g. do you allow
> it?, what you do if a site is accidently deleted?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Dave
> Manager, OCS
> Virginia Tech
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