[Using Sakai] Allowing Instructors to edit/change course site title

[Keli Sato Amann]

Oops you are right! Gotta clean out my inbox before I respond!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lydia Li" <lydial at stanford.edu>
To: "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>
Cc: "Laura Gekeler" <lgekeler at nd.edu>, sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 3:28:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Allowing Instructors to edit/change course site title

I mentioned it on a separate email today to sakai-user.  
The feature is https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23895   and there is a patch attached.  I hope this will get merged to the trunk for 2.10. 

thanks,
Lydia


----- Original Message -----
| From: "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>
| To: "Laura Gekeler" <lgekeler at nd.edu>
| Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org, "Lydia Li" <lydial at stanford.edu>
| Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 3:18:56 PM
| Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Allowing Instructors to edit/change course site title
| 
| Laura and Francesca,
| We just developed a fix in Preferences that will allow students to either use
| their course code or course description for the same reason--by default, the
| first is selected. It was released last Thursday, primarily to satisfy our
| Law school.
| 
| Show tabs as:
|  Course code (e.g. F13-ACCT-134C-01)
|  Course name/description (e.g. First Year Accounting)
| 
| The intent is to contribute it back (ccing our developer). Not sure if this
| article about the feature is behind a firewall, but here's a URL (it
| includes other notes).
| https://coursework.stanford.edu/access/content/group/UX%20Managed%20Content/gateway/spotlights/optimizeTabs.html
| 
| Keli Amann
| User Experience Specialist
| Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
| P.S.
| A few notes, just fyi, if you see the 4 other tips in that article
| - We are using old style Customize tabs because we had issues with the new
| drag and drop (mainly because people missed the term categorization, but
| also because when one list or the other was longer than the other, it was
| hard to drag it back and forth).
| -We changed My Active Sites overflow tab to "More Sites" and "Membership" to
| "My Sites"
| -Am working with developer this week to change pulldown menu to say "Sites
| displayed as tabs" instead of "Tabs displayed" because I find the math
| confusing--pulldown says 4, number of sites is 3, but it looks like there
| are 5 tabs displayed (both My Workspace and My Active sites appear as and
| are described as tabs--but one is not?). I would like to contribute this
| back but haven't filed a JIRA.
| -We automatically hide old course sites for users every quarter, though not
| project sites.
| 
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Laura Gekeler" <lgekeler at nd.edu>
| To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 12:37:42 PM
| Subject: [Using Sakai] Allowing Instructors to edit/change course site title
| 
| 
| 
| Francesca,
| 
| 
| 
| Hello! We met at the conference in June in an ad hoc session about changes to
| Sakai leadership structure needed as we move forward in the Apereo
| Foundation….
| 
| 
| 
| To your question, yes we allow Instructors to change the course site title.
| Students love it. Instructors love it. Support people not so much. But we’ve
| learned to adapt. Our biggest friend is the “Super User” feature. Because of
| it, we can login as the Instructor and look around to see which site they’re
| talking about when they have a problem. If we need to know how that site was
| originally constructed (via SIS integration or manually) we need to use the
| Sites tool to find the externalSiteID, and that is kind of a pain, but
| fortunately it doesn’t happen too often.
| 
| 
| 
| Grad Students were advocating for changing the title as our naming convention
| for course sites is like this: FA13-MGMT-750456-01. They told us all those
| codes all look alike, sometimes only varying by a couple of digits.
| Instructors can therefore change them to Macroeconomics Fall 2013 or
| whatever they wish…
| 
| 
| 
| Hope this is helpful,
| 
| Laura
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| Laura Gekeler
| 
| Sakai Learning Platform
| 
| Student / Faculty Information Services
| 
| Information Technologies Centre
| 
| University of Notre Dame
| 
| P: 574-631-2402
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
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