[Using Sakai] Home Page Components [and Templates]

[Adam Marshall]

We would also like to be able to let lecturers change the layout of the home
page!

 

We've had a bit of odd behaviour with webDAV but nothing that we've really
been able to reproduce. Once in a while a file seems to get delete (which is
actually quite bad). This has happened under both XP and Debian - there's
been log messages about 'locking'.

 

Jeff - what 3rd party webDAV client do you use? We had a look at 'anyclient'
(free) but this only gave an ftp-type interface, what we really wanted was
for people to be able to edit documents in place without all the nonsensical
hoops that Microsoft force you to jump through.

 

Adam (developer not teacher!)

 

From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
[mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Ziegler
Sent: 24 June 2009 19:50
To: Marshall Feldman
Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Home Page Components [and Templates]

 

 

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 - (!/).

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

---------------------------------------------------------------

Jeff Ziegler - CTools Help Desk Supervisor

CTools Implementation Group

Digital Media Commons, Duderstadt Center

---------------------------------------------------------------

 






 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-user/attachments/20090625/ea39d9d1/attachment-0001.html