[Using Sakai] Search By Common Interest

Mon Jan 16 01:46:34 PST 2012

In the profile tool there is an option to  search for  other users  by
common interest. I assume that it is this tool, amongst others, which
lends to  SAKAI being sold as an important research and collaboration
tool since it allows for faculty and students to  connect with others
based on similar interests( ideally  research interests) However we
can't seem to  see to which field this connects or maps to as there
aren't any fields in the  profile section which captures  research
interests .The fields available for  users to input data are for
favourite books, TV shows, Movies or Quotes but  nada for  research
interests ...which  would seem to be an obvious  field in an LMS
purporting to  support research and collaboration...or maybe we just
haven't installed the correct Profile tool??Please advise ..any
assistance on this will  be hugely appreciated.

Thanks 

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