[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

Mon Apr 16 05:30:17 PDT 2012

We have the drag and drop interface as a google summer of code project (idea 5 on the list)
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/MGT/Google+Summer+of+Code+2012+ideas+list

Can you jump on the sakai-gsoc mailing list and we can discuss?
http://groups.google.com/group/sakai-gsoc

cheers,
Steve

On 16/04/2012, at 9:18 PM, Adam Marshall wrote:

> 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.
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> adam
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> 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.
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> Jim
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>  
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> 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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