[Using Sakai] Problem course (module) menu

[Marshall Feldman]

Adam,

It sounds as if this has to be done by whoever builds the portal. Maybe 
I'm misunderstanding, but this seems to be a particularly bad way to 
implement this feature. I'm not blaming you, especially since you're not 
even using 2.7 yet. I'm just commenting on what seems to be the design 
of the architecture implicit in your comment.

So perhaps someone can enlighten me by answering a few questions.

How would individual instructors set default options for their own sites?

Why should something like setting the option as to what students see 
when they open a page be centralized?

What if the instructor wants a different default start page each week, 
as the semester progresses. Wouldn't this create an awful amount of 
extra work for a centralized staff?

Cheers,
	Marsh Feldman

On 9/21/11 3:00 PM, Adam Marshall<adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:37:04 +0100
> From: Adam Marshall<adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Problem course (module) menu
> To: Steve Prud'Homme<sprudhom at gmail.com>,
> 	"sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org"
> 	<sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
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> I'm pretty sure that in 2.7 there is an opportunity to add some HTML / Javascript code to a site (via the sites tool). This code could presumably say "close the LHS menu" so that when the site loads, the menu is set to be not visible. Hopefully somebody else can expand as we're not yet running 2.7.
>
> This obviously has to be done on a site-by-site basis. If you wanted the same effect across every site then perhaps you can add code to the portal before you build Sakai?
>
> adam