[Using Sakai] Home Page Components

[Zhen Qian]

Marshall:

If Home tool is selected during site creation in Worksite Setup tool,  
or added through Site Info tool, following procedure will be executed  
in order to determine its tool set:

1. If the site is of MyWorkspace type,
	a. Sakai would first try to find template with id = !user.USER_TYPE  
(e.g. if current user is of type guest, the template id would be "! 
user.guest"). If found, use the Home tool set defined there;
	b. Otherwise, the template id defaults back to "!user". If found,  
use the Home tool set defined there

2. If the site is not a MyWorkspace type,
	a. Looking for template based on the site type (e.g. ! 
worksite.project for project site), if found, use the Home tool set  
defined there;
	b. Otherwise, the template id defaults back to !worksite. If found,  
use the Home tool set defined there

3. If none of the above template site could be found, try to read the  
settings of "wsetup.home.toolids" from sakai.properties file, like:

	wsetup.home.toolids.count = 2
	wsetup.home.toolids.1 = sakai.iframe.site
	wsetup.home.toolids.2 = sakai.summary.calendar

4. If none of the above works, the use the system default setting,  
Home page would then contain "sakai.iframe.site",  
"sakai.summary.calendar", "sakai.synoptic.announcement",  
"sakai.synoptic.chat", "sakai.synoptic.messagecenter"
and those synoptic tools would only be active when their "parent"  
tools are also active inside the site.

So following this sequence, I guess you can modify your template  
setting first...

Hope this helps,

- Zhen


On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Marshall Feldman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My university is switching from WebCT to Sakai next fall.  
> Currently, I have been unable to get an answer about customizing  
> the home page of a course. I want my course to have various tools  
> -- announcements, chat, a calendar, forums, email -- but I don't  
> want these things taking up real estate on the course's home page.  
> How can I include the tools in the course and still have a clean  
> home page displaying the course content I want?
>
> Also, the course content I need is on a "fluid" html page. Ideally,  
> I'd like to include some of these components on the pages  
> (particularly announcements and a list of upcoming deadlines, as  
> well as an icon to indicate messages await the user). Is there some  
> way to incorporate such things in web pages designed and uploaded  
> to Sakai?
>
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Dr. Marshall Feldman, PhD
> Director of Research and Academic Affairs
>
> Center for Urban Studies and Research
> The University of Rhode Island
> email: marsh @ uri .edu (remove spaces)
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>
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>
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