Workshops
- Sprints implementing the reorderer component is several locations. Designers could spend some time groups creating lo-fi mock-ups. Then designers and developers come to together to implement. Perhaps there's some overlap for questions, etc.
o Potential Reorderer Integration Points in Sakai
Thinking about some quick tasks that people can do in the time they've got, how about some of these:
- Quick task - improve the bloody wiki Info page. UI folks to agree what info it should have on it, Dev folks to make it happen. Could be a quick hit if it's a case of reordering the information currently on the page
- Quick task - improve the Wiki Watch page, taking into account the possibility of sub-spaces.
- Medium task - think again about the concepts of sub-spaces in the wiki. Are there some quick hits to be made?
- Quick task - change (not remove!) the location / display of the Wiki breadcrumbs?
- Announcements / Resources - they duplicate some functionality but display and terminology is different - could these be resolved? Are there points where this should also be the case for Schedule?
- Schedule - there must be lots that could be done on this! How about inventing "all day events" with a neat way for them to be displayed?
- Tools menu - a user of another similar system said that on his small-screen laptop, he really appreciated being able to 'fold up' the tools menu, so that (from his description) the tool names hid but the tool icons remained. How about something similar for Sakai?
- Site Info - is the arrangement of the links in the actions bar of the Site Info tool logical? e.g. some are frequently used, others rarely (perhaps?) Should people consider re-arranging the tools in the actions bar?
- Site Info - consider whether the information shown to students in Site Info is as logical as it should be - for example, don't they see the info from the home page displayed again under Site Info?
- Permissions - could some minor changes be made to the permissions helper so that it was clearer how to use it? For example, could something as minor as (in some cases) changing the order in which permissions display be useful? Would it be clearer if the rows and columns were swapped? Could some visual indicators be given of the increasing 'power' of the permissions (e.g. shading going from dark to light to indicate how powerful a particular permission is)? Could a 'return to default settings' button be implemented? Could permission recipes be implemented? (e.g. click a button to set typical teaching site permissions)? These may be beyond the scope of the project, though!
- Dull but useful - checking for consistency of styling in the HTML, especially in the actions bar, where some links have "|" between them and others don't, some have <span> around the current link and others don't, especially.
- Schedule - I don't suppose it would be possible to make it so that you can double-click an empty space in the schedule and the "add event" will be triggered? But perhaps a minor improvement might be that if you look at a day, and then click the 'add' button, it should assume that you want to add the event to that day.
- Admin Sites tool - could some improvements be made to this to make life easier for administrators? e.g. displaying the tools in some sort of order when you add a new tool to a site using the Sites tool (or if they are in an order, making it clear which that order is!).
- Profile tool - I can imagine there being some scope for improvements to the Profile tool if a UI team looked at it... Perhaps they could make some suggestions that the people at Lancaster might like to follow up, as they suggested that they might work on a way of uploading photos straight into it.
- Admin Realms tool - okay, its a niche tool, but there is definitely scope for making our lives easier by improving the Realms tool - perhaps by allowing you a way of searching by site name, not just site id? Or simply displaying the site name & group / section names when you get into the view of the individual realms and sub-realms.
- My Workspace - Message of the Dday view - should users really be allowed to click on 'options' and not see MoTD? should users really be allowed to choose to see the subject heading only, given that you can't then click through and see the body of the text?
- MyWorkspace - how about a feature which allows people to set their own funky picture at the Site Logo for their MyWorkspace? Or it could show their Profile Picture as their MyWorkspace Site Logo (like Facebook)...