1. Messages & Forums 2.7 Not What You Were Expecting Bryan Holladay (IU) Megan May – (IU) Gonzalo Silverio (UMich) June 15, 2010

2. Introduction 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. 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

18. Forums: What’s new in 2.7.0 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

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

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

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

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

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

27. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. 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: 351 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 *Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

54. 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

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

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

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