UCamp Update

Mon Nov 19 13:44:40 UTC 2007

Hi Allison

> 1) How are institutions using the Account tool?

The account tool isn't relevant to us at Cambridge as we get user info from
our central sign-on system. 

> 2) How are institutions using the Profile tool?

We actually find the Profile has a negative effect - people think they can
change their user details here which for our system they can't. We plan to
remove the Profile tool from My Workspace and allow people to put it into
Course Sites if they actually wanted it there - this was because the profile
tool is mainly used for people to give course-related profiles, such as what
their prior experience of a subject has been. Eventually we'll need to have
changes to Profile so that you can have a profile on a site by site basis,
as students studying a language are asked to write a profile in the
appropriate language to share with the rest of the class. 

> 3) Are there any technical or functional issues we should 
> consider with merging Account, Profile, and/or Preferences?

Please make sure that account and profile can still be hidden! 

Hope this is useful

Harriet

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Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies
University of Cambridge
16 Mill Lane
Cambridge
01223 765 040

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allison Bloodworth [mailto:abloodworth at berkeley.edu] 
> Sent: 16 November 2007 16:45
> To: Sakai UI UI; sakaidev Dev
> Cc: fluid-work at fluidproject.org; Barbara Glover
> Subject: Re: UCamp Update
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As Barbara mentions below, one of the potential design & 
> development projects we are considering for the Sakai 
> Conference uCamp is a revamping of the Preferences tool. We 
> are considering merging Account & Preferences into a sort of 
> overall Control Panel where all preferences and settings are 
> specified. It seems that one of the most important features 
> Account provides is the ability for the user to re- set their 
> password, which seems very much like another setting. We had 
> also considered merging the Profile tool into this control 
> panel, or just merging Account & Profile, as they seem 
> related. Account seems to specify "what does the system know 
> about me" and Profile seems to specify "what would I like the 
> community to know about me."
> 
> However, we understand that not all institutions are using 
> the Profile tool, and depending on how it is used, it may 
> make sense to keep it at a higher level to make it more 
> findable. Additionally, there may be technical issues we 
> should consider involved with combining so many tools. On the 
> other hand, there are a lot of (somewhat confusing) tools in 
> Worksite Setup and it may help users to group them a bit more.
> 
> We are still not sure that this is the project which will be 
> selected for the uCamp, but to help us decide this, and to 
> help us make good decisions about how to split these tools up 
> if we do choose this project, we'd like to know:
> 
> 1) How are institutions using the Account tool?
> 2) How are institutions using the Profile tool?
> 3) Are there any technical or functional issues we should 
> consider with merging Account, Profile, and/or Preferences?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your feedback!
> Allison
> 
> On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Barbara Glover wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > Just had a successful planning meeting for the UCamp.  
> Please sign up 
> > if you think you will be attending the UCamp.  We hope to 
> see lots of 
> > you there!
> >
> > http://issues.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/UI/UCamp+-+Newport
> > +Beach%2C+California
> >
> > Lightning Talks
> > At this year's UCamp we are going to try something different.   
> > Lightning talks are short presentations (with or without slides) 
> > lasting no more than 10 minutes.  They were a great success at the 
> > recent JA-Sig Unconference and so we are going to include 
> them in the 
> > Sakai UCamp.  If there is a topic you want to share with the group, 
> > please sign up on the wiki.  We look forward to hearing some great 
> > Lightning Talks.
> >
> > Notes from today's meeting:
> >
> > Topics
> > Several people are thinking of giving workshops at the 
> UCamp including 
> > topics on:
> > - Personas
> > - Design Patterns
> > - Accessibility and UX Walk-through
> >
> > Collaboration Topics
> > We are current considering 2 design + developer 
> collaboration project 
> > topics:
> > Idea A: Redesign the Preferences in Sakai incorporating some of the 
> > work from MoreTabs.
> >
> > Idea B: Marc suggested Improvements to the Membership Tool
> >
> >     * currently needs improvement for managing a lot of sites
> >     * needs improved searchability
> >
> > Next meeting: Monday, November 19th,
> > Possible Times:
> >
> > 11am EST/8am PST
> > 1pm EST/10am PST
> > 2pm EST/11am PST
> > 4pm EST/1pm PST
> > 5pm EST/2pm PST
> > ** If you think you can attend the planning meeting, please send me 
> > your time preference hopefully tomorrow (Friday).
> >
> > cheers
> > Barbara
> >
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> 
> Allison Bloodworth
> Senior User Interaction Designer
> Educational Technology Services
> University of California, Berkeley
> (415) 377-8243
> abloodworth at berkeley.edu
> 
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