[Using Sakai] Problem course (module) menu

Adam Marshall adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fri Sep 23 09:54:40 PDT 2011


Gonzalo is the person who told me about this feature. He may be able to answer questions?

adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Feldman
> Sent: 23 September 2011 17:44
> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Problem course (module) menu
> 
> 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
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