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Added by Peter A. Knoop, last edited by Nicolaas Matthijs on Apr 21, 2008  (view change)

MySakai Widgets

Lead(s):

Nicolaas Matthijs, Nick Desmet

Description:

"My Sakai" makes it possible to get your files and announcements, and keep track of what's going on in your Sakai sites, straight from your desktop. For example, a student engrossed in writing an essay, who suddenly realises they need to check something in a document in their course site, can open it straight from their desktop widget, without having to break off and navigate through Sakai to find it.

"My Sakai" widgets show you recent activity on all of the worksites you're a member of. This means that the widget will tell you when a new announcement or a new resource has been added. The widgets also provide synoptic views of Resources and Announcements.

We have created widgets for Mac DashBoard, Vista Sidebar, Facebook, iGoogle, Google Desktop, and RSS.

Status and Plans:

2007-Oct-Nov Initial Development
2007-Dec Deployment on University of Cambridge Sakai instance

System Development Info and Links

Information or Help files

Attachments

  Name Size Creator (Last Modifier) Creation Date Last Mod Date Comment  
File macwidget_screen01.png 484 kB Nick Desmet Jan 07, 2008 Jan 07, 2008 Mac Widget: Announcements
File facebook_recentChanges.png 120 kB Nick Desmet Jan 07, 2008 Jan 07, 2008 FaceBook: Recent Changes
File iGoogle_resources.png 112 kB Nick Desmet Jan 07, 2008 Jan 07, 2008 iGoogle: Resources
JPEG File googleDesktop.JPG 145 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 GoogleDesktop: Feed
JPEG File VistaDesktop.jpg 104 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 Vista Widget: Feed
PDF File MyCamTools_userguide_iGoogle.pdf 336 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 MyCamTools iGoogle user guide View
PDF File MyCamTools_userguide_GoogleDesktop.pdf 191 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 MyCamTools GoogleDesktop user guide View
PDF File MyCamTools_userguide_RSS.pdf 106 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 MyCamTools RSS user guide View
PDF File MyCamTools_userguide_Mac_Widget.pdf 383 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 MyCamTools Mac Widget user guide View
PDF File MyCamTools_userguide_facebook.pdf 467 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 MyCamTools FaceBook user guide View
PDF File MyCamTools_userguide_vistaSideBar.pdf 265 kB Nick Desmet Jan 08, 2008 Jan 08, 2008 MyCamTools Vista Sidebar user guide View
PDF File MyCamTools_userguide.pdf 2.00 MB Nick Desmet Jan 07, 2008 Jan 07, 2008 MyCamTools userguide (*.pdf) View
Microsoft Word MyCamTools_userguide.doc 2.23 MB Nick Desmet Jan 07, 2008 Jan 07, 2008 MyCamTools userguide (*.doc) View

Screenshots
Mac Widget: Announcements
FaceBook: Recent Changes
iGoogle: Resources
GoogleDesktop: Feed
Vista Widget: Feed
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Comments (4)

 

  1. Jan 07, 2008

    Free Tanis says:

    Hi Nick, This looks like a real good opportunity to make sakai easier to be ado...

    Hi Nick,

    This looks like a real good opportunity to make sakai easier to be adopted by people that already participate in existing (social) communities.

    Would it be a good extention to add "Worksite info" to this list. Which would show new/updated sites that are open for membership or sites that the person is already member of. This would prompt people of potential new courses/projects that have become available and take a look.

    Freek Tanis (ftanis@hotmail.com)

    1. Jan 07, 2008

      Nicolaas Matthijs says:

      Hi, All of our widgets already have a page that displays recent activity on the...

      Hi,

      All of our widgets already have a page that displays recent activity on the worksites the user is already a member of (for now it displays new announcements and new resources). If you become a member of a site, your recent activity will also contain the recent activity of that site.

      We feel that prompting users every time a worksite is being created might be a little to much information (this of course depends on the number of sites on your Sakai implementation).

      Nicolaas Matthijs

  2. Feb 13, 2008

    Alan Hoyle says:

    Does there exist a installation guide for the Sakai server side?

    Does there exist a installation guide for the Sakai server side?

    1. Mar 16, 2008

      Nicolaas Matthijs says:

      The MySakai server side is just a Sakai tool. The things you need to do are: ...

      The MySakai server side is just a Sakai tool. The things you need to do are: