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

[Bryan Holladay]

Thanks Neal for starting the conversations on the other list.  I've only
seen good comments about this feature.

Does this need a vote since there have been no objections?  If not, I can
put this in trunk and begin testing.

Thanks,
Bryan


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
> wrote:

> Okay, I understand your concern about design by committee, but I'll go
> ahead and see what the other lists think and be happy to take
> responsibility for expectation setting.
>
> -- Neal
>
> On Mar 12, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>
> wrote:
>
> >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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>>>
>>> --
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