[Using Sakai] Sakai 2.9.2 and later Web Content Tool

[Regan, Alan]

Thanks, Dr. Chuck.  The improvements to Web Content are really helpful.  So great to have web links open in an unframed, new window.

If anyone wants to see how this revised tool works, I created the following quick screencast to highlight the features as well as considerations for our professors regarding Firefox 23 and mixed content handling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpGcjQHPpTc 

The only element I didn't include in the screencast is the option to "Launch Maximum Width."  If a professor opts to keep the web link framed within the course or project site, then this option will maximize screen real estate by "collapsing" the left menu.  It's a nice little option to place focus on the embedded web page.

All the best!

Sincerely,

Alan Regan
Director, Technology and Learning
Information Technology
Pepperdine University
(310) 506-6756
http://community.pepperdine.edu/techlearn 
http://community.pepperdine.edu/it 

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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:40:25 -0400
From: Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu>
Subject: [Using Sakai] Sakai 2.9.2 and later Web Content Tool
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Hi all, 

If you are running Sakai 2.9.2 or later you have a wonderfully new and improved Web Content, Home, and Site Information Tool.  It does many things very nicely like never having an iframe within an iframe and having popups that are real popups with only the web site (the pre-2.9.2 web content tool even put popups in an iframe!).

The configuration of this new tool moved from a big "OPTIONS" button to a little pencil icon in the upper left of the title bar - near the help (?) icon.

University of Michigan made this cool graphic to explain it and I thought I would share.

When you start seeing the little pencil icon - it means you have the newest and most awesome Sakai Web Content tool ever.

/Chuck



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