[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Differentiating Message of the Day (MOTD)

[Sean DeMonner]

Sam Ottenhoff sent this back in June in response to a similar question:

On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Sam Ottenhoff wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> On 6/2/2011 11:33 AM, Leah.Bergman at notes.udayton.edu wrote:
>> Good morning,
>> 
>> Has anyone configured the MOTD (in their instance of Sakai) to be
>> 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
>> to the system.  If anyone could offer any assistance for how to
>> configure this or how they've customized the MOTD on their instance of
>> Sakai, that would be most helpful.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Leah
>> 
>> 


SMD.





On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:

> 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.
>  
> 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)
>  
> HI there
>  
> 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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