[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

Mon Apr 16 04:18:49 PDT 2012

We are just about to implement a drag and drop interface (using HTML5) to My Workspace Resources - we want people to use Resources as an on-line file drop gizmo.

I do think Dashboard could be the landing page although we do like to display a MOTD so, in our case, we'd have to think about that. We'd also need a heap more tools in My Workspace, for example, we have Trusted Applications tool for managing oAuth access to sakai.

adam

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Jim Eng
Sent: 12 April 2012 14:20
To: Steve Swinsburg
Cc: Sakai Server; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org Developers
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

I'd also love to have a discussion around how a dashboard such as this could replace the My Workspace site altogether, so rather than being a collection of tools that you need to navigate to individually, it could all be accessible on the one screen.

Good point, Steve.  And good questions.

I would like to see the dashboard as the default landing page in MyWorkspace sites, project sites and course sites.  When it is displayed in project sites and course sites, it shows items from the current site only, and only items available to the current user are shown.  When used in MyWorkspace, it shows items from all of a user's sites.

I seem to recall hearing that people don't make much use of MyWorkspace despite the fact that it's the default landing place for all users.  Most users land on the MyWorkspace "home" page and navigate away to other sites.  The Dashboard, as well as the 2.9.x portal improvements, streamline that navigation.  But in my opinion, people will still find useful tools in MyWorkspace.

  *   Resources: it would be interesting to know the extent to which people actually save resources in their own resources folders in sakai.  For people who do, you need the resources tool in MyWorkspace to manage that.
  *   Profile: I think there's a link to the profile tool from the 2.9.x portal, but it still might be useful to maintain the link in MyWorkspace.
  *   Membership: Where else would we put the tool that lets people discover and join (or quit) public sites.  Not sure how much this actually gets used when sakai is deployed purely as a CMS and memberships come from an external provider, but in some use cases for sakai, this is critical.
  *   Worksite Setup: Questions similar to the Membership tool.
  *   Preferences: Questions similar to Profile tool
  *   Account: Is this functionality in Profile now?

It might make sense in the long run if some of that functionality was made available in other ways, but CLE may not have a very long run in its future, so it makes sense to me that in the near future (sakai 2.10, provided load testing and/or production experience show it to perform well??), we make dashboard the default landing page in MyWorkspace.  And changes to other tools in MyWorkspace could come whenever someone has cycles to make them happen.

Jim

On Apr 11, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

Very nice.

What are the plans for others tools to participate in the dashboard? For example if an instructor adds a forum post to a site or a connection request is approved?

I'd also love to have a discussion around how a dashboard such as this could replace the My Workspace site altogether, so rather than being a collection of tools that you need to navigate to individually, it could all be accessible on the one screen.

cheers,
Steve

On 12/04/2012, at 6:02 AM, Chris Kretler wrote:

Hello all,

We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Sakai Dashboard.  The
Dashboard is a Contrib tool that provides a user-centric synoptic view
of "Assignments and Events" -- showing upcoming Assignments and Calendar
Events -- and "Recent Activity" -- showing updates about  Resources,
Drop Box files, Assignments and Announcements.  The Dashboard provides
the end user a concise landing spot with links to their most pertinent
content.  It also gives the user the ability to customize the interface
by starring important items and hiding less critical ones.

An overview video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/39203463

The 1.0.0 tag of the Dashboard shows activity related to resources,
assignments, announcements and calendar events.  With a modest
development effort, activity related to other types of Sakai entities
could be shown in the Dashboard.  We will provide up-to-date information
about that process in confluence.

The Dashboard has been through several rounds of functional testing.
Most known issues have been fixed.  There has been no attempt at load
testing and we would welcome any input from a group with the resources
to perform load testing.

The 1.0.0 tag can be downloaded from subversion at this URL:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/dashboard/tags/1.0.0/

The 1.0.0 version of the Dashboard will build and deploy with an
unpatched version of sakai trunk or with a patched version of sakai
2.9.x.  Revisions are needed in sakai core and kernel to build with
2.9.x.  Information about patching the 2.9.x branch of sakai or any tag
made from that branch can be found in this confluence page:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zYHSB

Details of the Dashboard project are described in this confluence page:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zIWCB

Bugs and other issues related to the Dashboard are tracked in this JIRA
project: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH

Unresolved issues related to the Dashboard can be found here:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/xYHSB

We plan to release a 1.0.1 tag of the Dashboard very soon.  We expect to
include fixes for some or all of the following tickets in the 1.0.1 tag:

  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-216 - Need to expire and
purge dashboard items
  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-225 - "View in Site" link
for announcements does not open in site
  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-228 - Dropbox items shown
too widely with confusing info
  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-220 - Hidden announcements
shown in dashboard under some circumstances
  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-227 - Entity creator does
not see some items in dashboard if entity access is restricted by group
and creator is not in group

Additional work has been outlined for inclusion in a 1.1 version of the
Dashboard, but the scope of that work remains undecided and no timetable
has been set.

We invite contributions of effort to complete further versions of the
Dashboard, including the 1.0.2 release (if needed) and the 1.1 version.

- The Dashboard Project Team
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