[Using Sakai] Does anyone allow instructors to edit/change their course site title

[Neal Caidin]

Yeah, that seems really nice. I have a feeling this could be a popular feature. 

Thanks for the patch Lydia!

-- Neal



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On Sep 13, 2013, at 1:42 PM, "Ward, Lynn E." <leward at iu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Lydia.  I like the fact that the end user gets to choose what they want to see in the tabs.
> 
> Lynn
> ==========================
> Lynn Ward, Principal Systems Analyst
> Instructional Technology Systems and Services
> University Information Technology Services
> Indiana University
> Information Technology and Communications Complex (IT 342K)
> 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
> Phone: 317-278-5713  E-mail: leward at iu.edu
> 
> From: 'Lydia Li' <lydial at stanford.edu>
> Date: Friday, September 13, 2013 1:27 PM
> To: Lynn Ward <leward at iu.edu>
> Cc: "sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org" <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Does anyone allow instructors to edit/change their course site title
> 
> Lynn,
>     At Stanford we got similar complaints so we added this feature :  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23895  to allow instructors to display whatever they entered in short description as the tab name.   I've attached a patch.  You can see the screen shot. There is a new option in the Preference page.  This will be customizable per user.  We are running this in production here. 
> 
> thanks,
> Lydia
> 
>> From: "Lynn E. Ward" <leward at iu.edu>
>> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:25:02 AM
>> Subject: [Using Sakai] Does anyone allow instructors to edit/change their        course site title
>> 
>> HI everyone,
>> 
>> At Indiana University, we allow site owners to edit their site titles for portfolio sites and projects sites, but not for course sites.  All of our course sites use the same naming convention: semester campus department course_number section_number (e.g.,  FA13-IN-CHEM-C106-21206) and this is what shows up in the tabbed navigation.  Over the years we've received complaints from faculty and students that it's hard to distinguish between courses offered in the same program because the course titles are not descriptive.  More recently we've had a request from one of our schools to turn on the ability to edit course site titles under Site  Info > Edit Site Information. 
>> 
>> Does anyone else allow their faculty to change alter the title of the site in official course sites?  And if so, has this created any significant support issues?  IF this has proven to be a Pandora's Box at other schools, we probably don't want to open it.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Lynn
>> 
>> ==========================
>> Lynn Ward, Principal Systems Analyst
>> Instructional Technology Systems and Services
>> University Information Technology Services
>> Indiana University
>> Information Technology and Communications Complex (IT 342K)
>> 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
>> Phone: 317-278-5713  E-mail: leward at iu.edu
>> 
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