Form and Functional Specification
Course Homepage serves as a new landing page to Home for Sakai course sites. Like Home, Course Homepage will be a compound "page" (as it is known in Sites/Realms) that includes synoptic views of tools like Announcements. However, instead of only being populated by the Course Description (from Site Info), Course Homepage will include additional SIS information from Section Info as well as custom, structured information entered by the instructor.
The form and functional specification is attached to this page here:
| Name | Size | Creator (Last Modifier) | Creation Date | Last Mod Date | Comment | ||
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 homeTool.pdf |
108 kB | Marc Brierley | Nov 27, 2006 | Nov 27, 2006 | v.2 of spec, posted 11/20/06 | |
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CourseHomepage.pdf |
128 kB | Marc Brierley | Sep 28, 2007 | Sep 28, 2007 | Newest spec |
Comments (2)
Dec 22, 2006
Peter A. Knoop says:
I see in the mockup that the synoptic views have been pushed to the bottom of th...I see in the mock-up that the synoptic views have been pushed to the bottom of the page, underneath the wealth of course information being displayed. I think most of the student visits to such a "home" page over the course of the semester will be more about what's going on in the class (e.g., Recent Announcements, Recent Discussions, Recent Chats, Calendar Summary), rather than information about the class.
Are there some use cases you identified to consider when thinking about this tool? It seems like the detailed course information being displayed might be more appropriate as a place to land when deciding what courses to take and looking for course descriptions or evaluating what classes fit in your schedule, or perhaps one might use it early on in the semester before one remembers which room to go to, is used to when and where office hours are, or wants to check-out a different discussion section. It seems like this sort of information isn't something a teacher or student necessarily wants or needs to have in their face each time they go to a class site. Maybe it would work better as a separate "Course Information" page, rather than as a tool on the "home" page for a class site?
Feb 06, 2007
Marc Brierley says:
The main reason for this change is that with a lot of content in Homepage (which...The main reason for this change is that with a lot of content in Homepage (which is the expected usage, at least at SU), it gets too squished to have the synoptic views. Any institution is free to build their Homepage "tool" pages however they choose.
If there was a way for instructors to dynamically swap portlets around that would definitely accommodate the beginning vs. underway scenario you are talking about. Is this possible?