[samigo-team] Samigo settings changing, development help needed this month to make it great

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hi,
Thanks to work done by USUHS (and others?? apologies if I'm not crediting someone), Samigo settings are getting a much needed overhaul. You can see that on the current 10 QA servers. This consolidates 14 categories into just 4 big groupings. Clicking one accordion section closes the other. The groupings help users to see at a glance settings that relate to each other and hides others that are not commonly changed.

The original design asked also to reduce the amount of vertical space that the category took up by converting some radio button options to either pulldowns or checkboxes, as well as moving some selectors to the right, rather than stacking everything. This was to avoid forcing users to constantly scroll down to click the next accordion section and to keep "Save" in sight. This was not completed and depending on when we get cut off, we may not get to fix all four categories of settings.

There are 5 bugs that need fixing--the last four condense the vertical space in settings and make equivalent changes to Assignment Type. I have assigned Karen SAM-2304 (the hardest) and SAM-2307. If anyone can lend a hand in fixing, we might get them all done by April when the cut off for 10. They are in order of priority.
SAM-2307: "Availability and Submissions" should be open by default (rather than About)--probably easy and I would personally call this a BLOCKER
SAM-2304: availability and submissions (hardest, Karen at Stanford)
SAM-2299: About (very easy)
SAM-2300: layout (next easiest)
SAM-2244: grading and feedback (slightly harder)

Last priority are one of the following
SAM-2141: convert accordion to tabs--this would help free up real estate and mean not as much work on the first 4 above, but means SAM-2306 is impossible
OR
SAM-2306: Open all/close all option--has been requested during design reviews, though personally, I don't think it's that important. If we are not doing this, we might as well SAM-2141

It's not the same exactly as what was originally proposed but it would make it pretty darn close.

Please respond to me or Karen directly or on list if you are able to help.

Thanks,
Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University