Messages & Forums 2.7 Not What You Were Expecting Bryan Holladay (IU) Megan May – (IU) Gonzalo...

Messages & Forums 2.7 Not What You Were Expecting

Bryan Holladay (IU)Megan May – (IU) Gonzalo Silverio (UMich)

June 15, 2010

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

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

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

Synoptic Tool Performance

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My Workspace Synoptic View

Synoptic Tool Performance

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Home Tool Synoptic View

Synoptic Tool Performance

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Forums - Add Thread

Synoptic Tool Performance

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Messages - Send to All Users

Synoptic Tool Performance

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Forum - Update Forum Settings

Synoptic Tool Performance

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Overall Total

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

Performance Improvements

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Forum - Load Statistics

Performance Improvements

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Forum - Load Statistics for one user

Performance Improvements

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Forum - Create Topic

Performance Improvements

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Forum - Load Page

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

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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