[Using Sakai] Home Page Components [and Templates]

[Michael Korcuska]

The Sakai book has a chapter which briefly describes how to make a  
custom home page. The content is available on the Packt website at http://www.packtpub.com/article/putting-sakai-to-work 
.  Fred Hofstetter from Delaware also did a presentation at the VT  
Sakai conference that showed some nice work on a custom home page. I  
couldn't find his presentation online, but if you're listening Fred....

The big limitation in Sakai 3 is that these custom home pages can't  
contain the synoptic tools. This, as Peter said, is a big part of what  
Sakai 3 will make easy.

Michael


On Jun 24, 2009, at 20:49, Jeff Ziegler wrote:

>
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Marshall Feldman wrote:
>
>> No I can't because I don't have admin user privileges. (Aside: This  
>> list is called "sakai-user," but just about every piece of advice  
>> I've received since I posted several questions a few days ago has  
>> assumed I'm either an administrator or a software developer. Aren't  
>> there any instructors or students on this list?) I'm just a lowly  
>> professor trying to set up his courses for the fall.
>
>
>
> Hi Marshall,
>
> I've been supporting users of our Sakai instance for about five  
> years.  I saw your posts earlier but it seemed like you were getting  
> plenty of answers so I moved on.  Sakaiworld CAN be rather techno- 
> centric - unfortunately, it's kind of the nature of the beast.
>
> The bad news is that it is not possible at this time for end-users  
> to customize the layout of their site's Home page.  The good news is  
> that it is fairly simple for a Sakai admin to remove the synoptic  
> tools (Recent Announcements, Recent Chat Messages, etc.) through the  
> Sites admin tool.  This is something I routinely do for our  
> faculty.  Do you have any people who support your Sakai, instance?   
> I would contact them and ask if they would re-arrange the layout of  
> your Home page.  They should know how to do this.  If not, I will be  
> glad to send them quick instructions.
>
> BTW, in regard to another question you posted - WebDAV has been  
> notoriously problematic since the inception of Sakai but, to be  
> fair, the Sakai app is not always the culprit.  I've pretty much  
> given up trying to get it to work for my users.  Instead, we have  
> them downoad a 3rd-party WebDAV client to use with Sakai.  To the  
> best of my knowledge we've never had a user report of these failing  
> to work (although less technical people sometimes need a tip or two  
> to understand exactly how to connect).
>
> For Windows, try AnyClient - (http://www.anyclient.com/).
>
> For Mac OSX, try CyberDuck - (http://cyberduck.ch/).
>
> Feel free to email off-list if you have additional questions and  
> I'll help if I can.
>
> Jeff
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