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

[Bryan Holladay]

Thanks everyone.  I've put this into trunk.

Megan, here is some accessibility info about this jquery widget:
http://hanshillen.github.com/jqtest/#goto_accordion

-Bryan


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM, May, Megan Marie <mmmay at indiana.edu> wrote:

>  I don’t think there needs to be a vote on it.    If you haven’t already,
> might want to tap the accessibility group for a review. ****
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> *From:* sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Bryan Holladay
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:49 AM
> *To:* Neal Caidin
> *Cc:* Sakai 2 Technical Coordination Committee; Sakai Development (
> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org)
> *Subject:* Re: [sakai2-tcc] [Building Sakai] New Feature Request:
> Syllabus Table of Contents View****
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> Thanks Neal for starting the conversations on the other list.  I've only
> seen good comments about this feature.****
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> Does this need a vote since there have been no objections?  If not, I can
> put this in trunk and begin testing.****
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> Thanks,****
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> Bryan****
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> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Neal Caidin <
> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:****
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> 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. ****
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> -- Neal****
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> On Mar 12, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>
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> >How about the print option? What's that do with this new stuff?****
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> I didn't touch the print page.  It looks the same (one long page)****
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> >Why not ask some of our other lists?****
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> 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****
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> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Gordon, Patricia (psg3a) <
> psg3a at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:****
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> Neal,****
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> 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. ****
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> My $.02.****
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> Trisha Gordon****
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> *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****
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>  We are a property-crazy community. ****
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> 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. ****
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> Why not ask some of our other lists?****
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> pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org ****
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> openforum at collab.sakaiproject.org****
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> end-user-support at collab.sakaiproject.org****
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> 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.****
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> Cheers,****
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> Neal****
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> On Mar 12, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com>
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> 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. ****
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> 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)
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> 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.****
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> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>
> wrote:****
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> 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?
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> 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)
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> -AZ****
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> 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).
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> > Here is a screen cast of the feature: http://screencast.com/t/kK7UGzXu
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> > Jira is https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23342
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> > I can put this into trunk if we are interested and want to test it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
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