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

Today Forums Facelift Overview of additional Forums changes Messages Overview Participating in an Indie tool release Future Plans Wrap up and Questions? 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Complex tool: complex and unique needs o deep hierarchical structure o need for context and detail  what is the shape of the discussion  what are the properties of individual messages  what is new, needs attention But no Sakai UI idioms to deal with this 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation) Forum view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation) Topic view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation) Full thread view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation) Single message view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation) Message reply 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Forums view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Topic view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Thread view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– Thread view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– full thread view 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Clarifying powerful permissions 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

UI Makeover Complete accessibility review (WCAG2) Other small things o Word counts (convenience) o Styled print previews and printing (includes URLs of any links) o Moved actions to more convenient places (delete forum or topic from forum view) 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Forums: What’s new in th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

New Forum Enhancements 1.New Synoptic Tool 2.Performance Improvements 3.Direct Linking to Forum Posts 4.Mark all as ‘read’ when displaying all messages* 5.Site Participant Notification 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 * Optional / Enabled by Property

New Forum Enhancements 6.Display number of users who read post 7.View all postings by an individual 8.Option to display and sort by last and recent activity* 9.Option to pre-populated default forum and topic* 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 * 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 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Synoptic Tool 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Synoptic Tool 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Synoptic Tool 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Synoptic Tool 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Synoptic Tool 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Synoptic Tool Performance Site 1: Represents an extreme use case o Users: 34 o Forums: 205 o Topics: 205 Site 2: Represents an average use case o Users: 15 o Forums: 4 o Topics: 7 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 *Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics

Synoptic Tool Performance 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 My Workspace Synoptic View

Synoptic Tool Performance 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Home Tool Synoptic View

Synoptic Tool Performance 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Forums - Add Thread

Synoptic Tool Performance 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Messages - Send to All Users

Synoptic Tool Performance 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Forum - Update Forum Settings

Synoptic Tool Performance 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Overall Total

Performance Improvements Site 1: Represents an average use case o Users: 39 o Forums: 6 o Topics: 11 Site 2: Represents an extreme use case o Users: 24 o Forums: 15 o Topics: th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 *Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics

Performance Improvements 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Forum - Load Statistics

Performance Improvements 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Forum - Load Statistics for one user

Performance Improvements 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Forum - Create Topic

Performance Improvements 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Forum - Load Page

Direct Linking to Forum Posts 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Mark all as ‘read’ 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Notification of New Messages 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Read By Feature 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

View an individual’s postings 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Display and sort by last and recent activity 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Pre-populated default forum/topic 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 * Optional / Enabled by Property

Messages 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Messages: Personal Space 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Messages: Settings 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Messages: Compose 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Messages: Received 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Messages: Individual Message View 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Messages: Sample 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Indie Tool Release 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Indi Tool Release Technically speaking Independently Released from Sakai Using Maven Release Plugin Community Interaction Consensus building on proposed changes JIRA project Release documentation 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

In the Future… 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

What the future will hold Bug fixes UCB Usability changes for Messages Other community contributions? 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

Wrap up & Questions 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010