Messages & Forums 2.7, Not What You Were Expecting

Messages & Forums 2.7 Not What You Were Expecting

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

June 15, 2010

Introduction

11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

• Forums Facelift• Overview of additional Forums changes• Messages Overview• Participating in an Indie tool release• Future Plans • Wrap up and Questions?

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

UI Makeover

A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)

Forum view

UI Makeover

Topic view

UI Makeover

Full thread view

UI Makeover

Single message view

UI Makeover

Message reply

UI Makeover

Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Forums view

UI Makeover

Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Topic view

UI Makeover

Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Thread view

UI Makeover

Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– Thread view

UI Makeover

• Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– full thread view

UI Makeover

Clarifying powerful permissions

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)

Forums: What’s new in 2.7.0

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

* 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*

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

Synoptic Tool

Synoptic Tool Performance

• Site 1: Represents an extreme use caseoUsers: 34oForums: 205oTopics: 205

• Site 2: Represents an average use caseoUsers: 15oForums: 4oTopics: 7

*Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics

My Workspace Synoptic View

Home Tool Synoptic View

Forums - Add Thread

Messages - Send to All Users

Forum - Update Forum Settings

Overall Total

Performance Improvements

• Site 1: Represents an average use caseoUsers: 39oForums: 6oTopics: 11

• Site 2: Represents an extreme use caseoUsers: 24oForums: 15oTopics: 351

*Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics

Forum - Load Statistics

Forum - Load Statistics for one user

Forum - Create Topic

Forum - Load Page

Direct Linking to Forum Posts

Mark all as ‘read’

Notification of New Messages

Read By Feature

View an individual’s postings

Display and sort by last and recent activity

Pre-populated default forum/topic

Messages

Messages: Personal Space

Messages: Settings

Messages: Compose

Messages: Received

Messages: Individual Message View

Messages: Sample Email

Indie Tool Release

Indi Tool Release

• Technically speaking• Independently Released from Sakai • Using Maven Release Plugin

• Community Interaction• Consensus building on proposed

changes• JIRA project• Release documentation

In the Future…

What the future will hold

• Bug fixes

• UCB Usability changes for Messages

• Other community contributions?

Wrap up & Questions

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