The site users first see when they visit Sakai, before they login is referred to as the "Gateway." While Sakai ships with a default Gateway layout containing information about the project and product, Sakai also allows you to customize the Gateway site to meet the needs of your institution.
Changing the Message of the Day (MOTD)
The !gateway-110 page contains the Message of the Day content. An administrative tool is provided in the Administration Workspace.
Customizing the Gateway site.
Since the "Gateway" site is a standard Sakai site, you have great freedom to customize and modify what gets displayed and how it's organized. Common customizations include: service information, contact info, promotional material, help content (especially about account creation and password recovery) or other content.
- Log in as an administrative user.
- Go to Administration Workspace
- Access the Sites tool.
- Search for the !gateway site (enter !gateway in the "Site ID" search field in the top search menu).
- Select the !gateway site
- Scroll down the page and click the "Pages" button. (The pages contain the tools that appear on the Gateway page, and appear in the left-nav).
- Select the !gateway-100 page to change the Welcome! tool content (see GatewayTools1 attached image).
- Click the Tools button (see GatewayTools2 attached image).
- Select the !gateway-120 Page ID (see GatewayTools3 attached image) as this contains the Page ID to the Welcome! tool default.
- Note: You should see two Page IDs now: the !gateway-110 and !gateway -120 (see GatewayTools4 attached image).
- !gateway-110 is the MOTD but this can be changes using the MOTD administrative tool.
- Once you have selected the !gateway-120 Page ID, a list of tools appears. Select the radio button next to the Web Content (sakai.iframe) tool (see GatewayTools5 attached image).
- Scroll down that same screen and you will see the Source text field (see GatewayTools6 attached image).
- Paste the HTML URL in the source text input box and select the Save button.
- Log out to see the static content changed to the newly created
content.