[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Differentiating Message of the Day (MOTD)
Bryan Holladay
holladay at longsight.com
Wed Feb 15 07:19:29 PST 2012
There's interest :) ... any documentation and screenshots on how it works
to go along w/the code? It sounds like you can specify who see's each
message. Can a user get messages from multiple groups (for example
instructors will see both instructor messages and generic messages)?
Thanks,
Bryan
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Feliz Gouveia <fribeiro at ufp.edu.pt> wrote:
>
> sorry, but your reply made me remind we developped at UFP a modified MOTD
> tool, MOTD2, which allows to specify if messages are shown to
> authenticated/anonymous users, instructors, the type of message (adds a
> small icon and different skin for different types), time period to
> display,.....
>
> We use it for internal-only messages, and for public maintenance/upgrade
> messages. It works with 2.7 (we have it in production) but we do not have
> the resources anymore to work on it.
>
> We don't have it on the contrib tools list right now, but I can send it if
> there is interest.
>
> regards,
> Feliz
>
>
>
> On 15 February 2012 11:15, Raad Al-Rawi <Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> A bit late to this thread, but…****
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>> I’ve had a quick play and it might be possible to achieve a more
>> integrated solution (compared to using html files) by adding extra
>> announcement tools into the admin workspace.****
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>> You can give them separate channels (e.g.
>> “/announcement/channel/!site/student”,
>> “/announcement/channel/!site/faculty”), create a realm entry for the
>> channel, then add the (synoptic) announcement tool into the templates with
>> an appropriate value for the channel.****
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>> Permissions might need adjusting for the new realm entries.****
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>> Like I said, I’ve had a very quick and dirty try, consisting of:****
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>> **- **Created a new realm of
>> “/announcement/channel/!site/student”****
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>> **- **Added the “.auth” role to the new realm and set
>> “annc.read”****
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>> **- **Added a new announcement tool to the admin workspace, and
>> set the channel to “/announcement/channel/!site/student”****
>>
>> **- **Amend a user’s “My workspace” site, adding in an
>> announcements tool with the channel set to
>> “/announcement/channel/!site/student”****
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>> ** **
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>> I didn’t test to destruction; but it seems to work, although for some
>> reason the channel-specific announcement tool displays announcements from
>> all the user’s sites and is not restricted to just the channel in question.
>> Still, it may prove useful.****
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>> Cheers****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Raad****
>>
>> ** **
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>> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
>> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Sean DeMonner
>> *Sent:* 19 January 2012 14:53
>> *To:* Adam Marshall
>> *Cc:* Fatima Rahiman; sakai-user; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Differentiating Message of the Day (MOTD)
>> ****
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>> ** **
>>
>> Sam Ottenhoff sent this back in June in response to a similar question:**
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>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Sam Ottenhoff wrote:****
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>> ****
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>> I recommend creating static HTML files for the multiple roles. Create
>> them in a public folder (Administration Workspace -> Resources -> public).
>>
>> Then customize the My Workspace template for the multiple roles
>> (!user.template.student, !user.template.staff, !user.template.faculty).
>>
>> If you want the tips on the home page of the My Workspace, edit the Home
>> Page (Administration Workspace -> Sites -> !user.template.student ->
>> Pages -> Home -> Tools) and add a new Web Content tool to the Home page.
>>
>> Note that existing My Workspaces need to be deleted before receiving the
>> new template.
>>
>> --Sam
>>
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>> On 6/2/2011 11:33 AM, Leah.Bergman at notes.udayton.edu wrote:
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>> Good morning,****
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>> Has anyone configured the MOTD (in their instance of Sakai) to be****
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>> specific to the user's role? For example, we would like to display****
>>
>> faculty tips to instructors and student tips to students when they login*
>> ***
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>> to the system. If anyone could offer any assistance for how to****
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>> configure this or how they've customized the MOTD on their instance of***
>> *
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>> Sakai, that would be most helpful.****
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>> Thanks,****
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>> Leah****
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>> SMD.****
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>> On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:****
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>> ****
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>> I am positive that somebody posted a note about how to do this to the DEV
>> list about 6-8 months ago. I thought I’d kept the message but can’t find it
>> now.****
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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 *Fatima
>> Rahiman
>> *Sent:* 18 January 2012 07:35
>> *To:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] Differentiating Message of the Day (MOTD)****
>>
>> ****
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>> HI there****
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>> ****
>>
>> Would like to know if there is a way for the Message Of The Day tool
>> to differentiate between messages meant for faculty and that for
>> students? I’d like to send out new tool releases and training updates to
>> show on the My workplace page and meant just for instructors. Has someone
>> wrote a script which we could use which addresses this issue please?****
>>
>> Thanks in advance.****
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