[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] A handful of improvements to Forums to improve notification, readability, organization, and creation

[Lydia Li]

Steve,

      There are no kernel 1.3 dependencies.  Most of these were 
implemented against msgcntr 2.7.2 (with some patches) running inside 
Sakai 2.6.x with kernel 1.0.x since that's what we are running in 
production.

thanks,
Lydia

On 12/7/11 3:29 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> Hi Keli,
>
> Are you able to comment on whether MSGCNTR 3.0 has any kernel 1.3 specific requirements (ie meaning it will only work in 2.9 and up)? We want to take advantage of some of these fixes in our 2.8 install (kernel 1.2).
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On 08/12/2011, at 8:54 AM, Keli Sato Amann wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>    Although MSGCNTR 3.0 is not out, I thought it might be worthwhile to mention some local work we are doing in Forums that we hope will make it to 3.1. The following is a list of improvements we've  made locally or are seriously considering taking on that we'd love to contribute. If people are interested in seeing these in a future release, can you vote  or comment on them in JIRA, as interest will affect whether they are developed and included in a future release?
>>
>> IMPROVE NOTIFICATION OF NEW ACTIVITY (on home page and by email)
>>
>> -Improve way users are alerted to unread messages on log in (short term--fix appearance of synoptic tool) (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-614)
>>
>> -Subject line to display subject of post instead of generic message (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-619)
>>
>> -Provide a link in the email notification message that goes directly to the thread instead of the top level of Forums (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-618)
>>
>> STREAMLINE READABILITY OF HOMEPAGE
>> -Consolidate new message indicators for a topic within a forum (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-616)
>>
>> -Hide actions for Forum topics until hover over it (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-617)
>>
>> -Collapsed or condensed view of Forums homepage that hides topics (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-586)
>>
>> STREAMLINE CREATION OF NEW FORUMS OR TOPICS
>> - Allow user to easily create New Forum and Topic and associate a gradebook item without scrolling (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-615)
>>
>> ABILITY TO MOVE A THREAD TO A DIFFERENT TOPIC
>> -Allow user to move off-topic discussion(s) into a more appropriate topic or a discussion(s) created under the wrong topic into the correct one (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-241)
>>
>> RANKS
>> -Allow instructional staff to identify site members by special rank  (e.g., by role) or by post count (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/MSGCNTR-620)
>>
>> Best,
>> Keli Amann (on behalf of the team here that worked on these: Jackie, Jing, Karen, and Lydia)
>> User Experience Specialist
>> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
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