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Messages & Forums 2.7 Not What You Were Expecting
Bryan Holladay (IU)Megan May – (IU) Gonzalo Silverio (UMich)
June 15, 2010
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Introduction
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Today
• Forums Facelift• Overview of additional Forums changes• Messages Overview• Participating in an Indie tool release• Future Plans • Wrap up and Questions?
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UI Makeover
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UI Makeover
• Complex tool: complex and unique needsodeep hierarchical structureoneed for context and detail
what is the shape of the discussionwhat are the properties of individual messageswhat is new, needs attention
• But no Sakai UI idioms to deal with this
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Forum view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Topic view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Full thread view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Single message view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Message reply
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Forums view
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Topic view
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Thread view
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– Thread view
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UI Makeover
• Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– full thread view
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UI Makeover
Clarifying powerful permissions
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UI Makeover
• Complete accessibility review (WCAG2)
• Other small thingsoWord counts (convenience)oStyled print previews and printing (includes
URLs of any links)oMoved actions to more convenient places
(delete forum or topic from forum view)
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Forums: What’s new in 2.7.0
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New Forum Enhancements
1. New Synoptic Tool2. Performance Improvements3. Direct Linking to Forum Posts4. Mark all as ‘read’ when displaying all
messages*5. Site Participant Notification
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* Optional / Enabled by Property
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New Forum Enhancements
6. Display number of users who read post7. View all postings by an individual8. Option to display and sort by last and
recent activity*9. Option to pre-populated default forum
and topic*
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* Optional / Enabled by Property
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Synoptic Tool
• Flexible configuration options• Features
• Faster• Direct linking to Sites and Messages &
Forums tool• Sort by user preferences and sort by
column• Users can hide sites
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool Performance
• Site 1: Represents an extreme use caseoUsers: 34oForums: 205oTopics: 205
• Site 2: Represents an average use caseoUsers: 15oForums: 4oTopics: 7
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*Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics
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Synoptic Tool Performance
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My Workspace Synoptic View
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Synoptic Tool Performance
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Home Tool Synoptic View
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Synoptic Tool Performance
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Forums - Add Thread
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Synoptic Tool Performance
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Messages - Send to All Users
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Synoptic Tool Performance
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Forum - Update Forum Settings
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Synoptic Tool Performance
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Overall Total
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Performance Improvements
• Site 1: Represents an average use caseoUsers: 39oForums: 6oTopics: 11
• Site 2: Represents an extreme use caseoUsers: 24oForums: 15oTopics: 351
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*Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics
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Performance Improvements
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Forum - Load Statistics
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Performance Improvements
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Forum - Load Statistics for one user
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Performance Improvements
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Forum - Create Topic
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Performance Improvements
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Forum - Load Page
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Direct Linking to Forum Posts
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Mark all as ‘read’
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Notification of New Messages
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Read By Feature
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View an individual’s postings
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Display and sort by last and recent activity
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Pre-populated default forum/topic
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* Optional / Enabled by Property
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Messages
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Messages: Personal Space
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Messages: Settings
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Messages: Compose
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Messages: Received
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Messages: Individual Message View
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Messages: Sample Email
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Indie Tool Release
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Indi Tool Release
• Technically speaking• Independently Released from Sakai • Using Maven Release Plugin
• Community Interaction• Consensus building on proposed
changes• JIRA project• Release documentation
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In the Future…
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What the future will hold
• Bug fixes
• UCB Usability changes for Messages
• Other community contributions?
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Wrap up & Questions
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