[sakai2-tcc] [Building Sakai] New Feature Request: Syllabus Table of Contents View

[Bryan Holladay]

>How about the print option? What's that do with this new stuff?

I didn't touch the print page.  It looks the same (one long page)

>Why not ask some of our other lists?

Feel free to include those lists (I don't think I'm a subscriber to all of
them).  I would be worried about the "design by committee" aspect.  This is
why I started this conversation with the TCC list



On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Gordon, Patricia (psg3a) <
psg3a at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:

>   Neal,
>
>  I agree with your assessment – it's intended to be a Table of Contents,
> so it should be collapsed in order to see the TOC at a glance. Perhaps the
> only property should be whether to enable this feature or not.
>
>  My $.02.
>  ---
> Trisha Gordon
> UVaCollab User Support Manager
> University of Virginia
>   http://collab.virginia.edu/
>
>   From: Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:22 PM
> To: Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>
> Cc: Sakai 2 Technical Coordination Committee <
> sakai2-tcc at collab.sakaiproject.org>, sakai-dev <
> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] [sakai2-tcc] New Feature Request: Syllabus
> Table of Contents View
>
>   We are a property-crazy community.
>
>  I agree with Bryan that in this context it probably makes sense to see
> it all collapsed, nothing expanded by default, because it is a table of
> contents, so in that sense you do see what you need to see without
> clicking.
>
>  Why not ask some of our other lists?
>
>  pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
> openforum at collab.sakaiproject.org
> end-user-support at collab.sakaiproject.org
> sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
>
>  I appreciate the properties options, but I think they are a little out
> of control. If anyone has ideas for making properties a more sane
> proposition, I, for one, would be interested in hearing it.
>
>  Cheers,
> Neal
>
>   On Mar 12, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>
> wrote:
>
>  By default I've set it to all collapsed, but there is a simple option in
> the jquery accordion initialization where you can set which item is open by
> default.
>
>  So short answer, yes, it would be easy to add that.  I personally think
> that having them all collapsed makes more sense (especially if you think
> about later in the semester).  Instead of having to click 1 extra time,
> they'd have to scroll a bunch to get to the other items (which seems worse)
>
>  But sakai love's their options, so I can have it collapsed by default
> with a property to allow the first one to be open.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>wrote:
>
>> Is there an option to have the first one open or all open by default?
>> I used to hear many complaints from users when they had to do a single
>> extra click and this UI seems to mean that the user might have to do
>> many clicks to get at the info in the syllabus.
>>
>> How about the print option? What's that do with this new stuff?
>>
>> Has anyone asked anyone on the Sakai users list (like some teachers)
>> if they would prefer this change? How about some students?
>> (Outside Columbia I mean)
>>
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I have completed the work on a new feature in the Syllabus tool and
>> wanted
>> > to see if the community is interested in it (sponsored by Columbia).
>> >
>> > It essentially re-designs the landing page to have more of a Table of
>> > Contents feel rather than having a long 90's HTML page.  I used the
>> jquery
>> > accordion widget with the same UI as Samigo's accordion setting's page,
>> so
>> > this keeps with existing UI look and feel.
>> >
>> > I also have it so it automatically scrolls to the opened item (both in
>> > portal or tool view).
>> >
>> > Here is a screen cast of the feature: http://screencast.com/t/kK7UGzXu
>> >
>> > Jira is https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23342
>> >
>> > I can put this into trunk if we are interested and want to test it.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bryan
>> >
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